[Mrluvaluva]

From The Daily Star (waits for comments )

This year’s Big Brother could sensationally be declared a draw as the twins run neck and neck with Brian Belo.

Votes for Sam and Amanda Marchant, 19, and the 20-year-old Essex boy cannot be separated, leaving Big Brother bosses and bookies in a flap.

Producers like to have an idea who will clinch the title but with two days to go, the outcome is unclear.

And bookies are struggling to cash in because most of the contestants are outsiders.

At 7-2, Brian is the only housemate with a prayer of catching the girls, who are still ahead at 1-6 favourites.

Even sexy pop favourites Girls Aloud are undecided.

On BBLB last night Cheryl Cole, 24, said she wanted the twins to win “because they are really genuine girls who have kept the show positive”.

But Kimberley Walsh, 25, backed Brian, describing him as “a super bloke”.

A TV insider said: “It sounds unthinkable but it is almost shaping up to be a dead heat.

“There have been some amazing twists over the last eight years but a draw would beat the lot.”

To take their minds off Friday’s final, Big Brother told the gang to film a movie based on their experiences in the house.

The lads donned short skirts, bras and wigs as they pretended to be the twins and Charley Uchea.

Ziggy, 26, and Liam, 23, ran round the house screaming “Pink!” while Brian put on a black wig to impersonate Charley.

Amanda and Liam then hopped into bed, posing as lovers Ziggy and Chanelle.

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[bananarama]

I think the bookies might be laughing at the dead heat suggestion.

Assuming it is true the chances of two winners having exactly the same number of votes to cause a dead heat draw must be astronomical.......They could always do a task to settle it...

[Stu]

Originally posted by bananarama
I think the bookies might be laughing at the dead heat suggestion.

Assuming it is true the chances of two winners having exactly the same number of votes to cause a dead heat draw must be astronomical.......They could always do a task to settle it...

Or if their smart , a final 5 minuet vote take. People would be falling off their couches to phone the numbers!!!

[dupin]

How is that possible? Surely one of them would be ahead by at least ONE vote. Idiots.

[bananarama]

Originally posted by Stu

Or if their smart , a final 5 minuet vote take. People would be falling off their couches to phone the numbers!!!

What happens if that is a dead heat also..

[Stu]

Originally posted by bananarama

What happens if that is a dead heat also..

Now you have me...

Well , if that happens , they both deserve to win .

[bananarama]

Originally posted by Stu

Now you have me...

Well , if that happens , they both deserve to win .

Nooooooo. That would make the daily star right........The end of civilisation must be imminent.....

[Stu]

Originally posted by bananarama

Nooooooo. That would make the daily star right........The end of civilisation must be imminent.....

Their bound to get SOMETHING right eventually if they keep spasming off hundreds upon hundreds of bullshit stories.

[bananarama]

Originally posted by Stu

Their bound to get SOMETHING right eventually if they keep spasming off hundreds upon hundreds of bullshit stories.

Depressing. I think we should vote on it and risk another dead heat....

[Sam]

Will NEVER EVER be a draw. I think its unberlievably close but I don't think that it would be a draw.

[Barbie]

i think its close but one but theres going to be at lease one votes difference

[SairBabi92]

That would be cool if that happened! It would be fun to watch what BB would do!

[Terpsichore]

What the Star means by "the twins run neck and neck with Brian Belo" is explained a little further down the article: "At 7-2, Brian is the only housemate with a prayer of catching the girls, who are still ahead at 1-6 favourites".

1-6 and 7-2 are the kind of odds you get when Man U or Chelsea play Scunthorpe or Kidderminster. It's neck and neck in that sense. Or, to look at it another way, in the sense that Tony Walton, the Daily Star hack who wrote this article, is neck and neck with George Orwell for insightful journalism.

[CassetteFinger]

Samanda must win.

[bonnie43uk]

Originally posted by Terpsichore
What the Star means by "the twins run neck and neck with Brian Belo" is explained a little further down the article: "At 7-2, Brian is the only housemate with a prayer of catching the girls, who are still ahead at 1-6 favourites".

1-6 and 7-2 are the kind of odds you get when Man U or Chelsea play Scunthorpe or Kidderminster. It's neck and neck in that sense. Or, to look at it another way, in the sense that Tony Walton, the Daily Star hack who wrote this article, is neck and neck with George Orwell for insightful journalism.

Damn you Terpsicore, you stole my thunder!! .. i was just about to say this for the benefit of those who dont follow betting odds ... there is a WORLD of difference between 7/2 & 1/6 ..( hardly neck and neck) .. for the uninitiated, as Terpsicore stated, its like having a bet on who will be the first to score for England, .. Peter Crouch, or Emma Bunton.

[XxShortyxX]

Well this is the Darily Star, I don't believe it, I think they are only saying that so more people vote. If that was true Brian would have better odds which he hasn't, his odds keep drifting out, where's the Twins keep shorting, I personaly think the Twins are miles ahead of the vote. Just to be sure I think us Twins fans need to keep voting, I will vote like crazy on the final night

[iem]

it might be close but, i feel it's unlikely that there wouldn't be at least one vote or more separating the twins and brian.

[Jackie]

They only want more people to keep voting and our money we only have their word its so close.

[XxShortyxX]

Someone just said on another forum that Betfair bookies is the one to watch, as it stands the Twins are at 2.3, whilst brian has gone out to 8.6 and as that is where the endermol money goes, it suggests Brian is way behind the twins on current voting. But, keep voting Twins fans, just to make sure.

[Terpsichore]

Originally posted by XxShortyxX
Someone just said on another forum that Betfair bookies is the one to watch, as it stands the Twins are at 2.3, whilst brian has gone out to 8.6 and as that is where the endermol money goes, it suggests Brian is way behind the twins on current voting. But, keep voting Twins fans, just to make sure.

The Betfair odds are a bit of a scam. Bets are offered on the twins individually, not as a combined pair. What they don't tell you is that a win for the twins will be treated as a dead heat, following dead heat rules. What that means is that your winnings will be effectively halved.

I'd say the Betfair market is not "the one to watch". It's the least reliable, and the one most in danger of getting disconnected from reality. Betfair is not a bookmaker. It's a middle-man for bets offered by individuals. You're betting against other punters.

[sXcLiLMiNx]

what a load of trash seriously,they are just trying to get people to vote more to make more money

[Psychonaut]

Even if the extremely improbable happens and both draw, BB will announce the twins anyway.

Post above mine; Yeah, yer probably right there.

[Ollie!]

This is just anattempt by BB to get ore votes and the Daily Star gets a good story out of it.

The twins are a bit ahead at the moment, I think they'll manage to edge Brain out in the end. It'a certainly not as close as suggested.