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Originally Posted by Beetlejuice

It was a totally unneccessary twist that brought in 4 housemates nobody cared about. I liked Aisleyne, but I'd rather she had stayed in over Suzie and that was that. In that time they lost Lea and then Nikki, lost half a million viewers as they saw off Jayne, Spiral and Michael and then in an effort to get viewers back up, they got Nikki back in.

It was little more than the latest attempt to recreate the bedsit. They did the same the year before with Orlaith, Eugene and Kinga, and that didn't really work. By the time they did in in BB7 it was just stupid. And by BB8, with the half way house, it was so absurd it was insulting.

No it wasn't, it was a well thought out and clever twist that had been planned months in advance of the series even starting, which is something we never ever get on C5 anymore. Granted the new housemates weren't all that great, but that wasn't really the best part or the point of the twist. It was the falsehood of having Aisleyne 'evict' four of them, only to then lead up to the live Tuesday episode where she had to evict either Jonathan or Spiral live to both houses and the viewers, and produced one of the best twist reactions ever in the process.

The whole thing was slick, exciting and tense and was executed to absolute perfection and is the kind of thing that's missing from Big Brother today. I agree that there are too many twists these days, but when they are done sporadically and right as in the C4 days, they can be amazing. As the House Next Door was.

I wouldn't really call it a Bedsit remake either as the point wasn't to watch the housemates in the main house which is all secret rooms consist of these days. And The Secret Garden was totally different as well, another well thought out twist that revolved around them having to sneak around the main house, which was both hilarious and exciting.

And the ex-housemates returning HND may have caused controversy but who cares, the series needed a bit of life injecting into it and it worked. It was great to see them four again (even if they weren't my ideal choices), and Nikki deserved her place in the final week.