Day 2 on the Big Blogger site.

It has been toying with my mind whether to write something about the final series of the phenomenon, and failing show, Big Brother. It's a show that has split opinion three ways; either people love it, hate it or don't give a shit about it. Well last night was it's last ever launch (technically not, but I'll go into that later) and around 5 million people according to the early figures did care. Or just despised other programs, such as Junior Apprentice, on the other channels. Either way, both of the programs involve young people making idiots of themselves.

So the 13 week final series seems to have a lot of twists up it's wizard sleeves (that's not a crude joke, the theme actually is carnival) with 81 hopefuls standing outside the house and the 14 housemates finding out there and then who has got into their summer hell hole. It mixed things up a bit but things felt rather unorganised with little mistakes such as leaving housemate microphones on during VTs having big consequences as viewers realise annually that the launch show is always rather sloppy. Also, did anyone notice the music they played when they all went in was actually a snippet from the The Sims Makin' Magic? Nope, well I did.

The second big twist is that the series will actually run for 11 weeks, the winner will stay in the house and the 'Ultimate Housemates', we're guessing ones such as Nadia, Brian (x2!), Nikki etc, will go back in for two weeks with a final vote at the end to crown 'Ultimate Champion'. We love the idea. Although it really should have been a mini series on its own. But without a doubt it means Big Brother will end on a high, which is rather comforting for a show that I really have kept close to my heart for many a year.

Right, let's discuss some of the housemates. Not all of them though, we do have a life. When curvy Josie was first called into the house we were buzzing with delight as we thought that they might have finally decided to put normal people in the house for a change! Oh how wrong I was, we ended up with someone known as 'Sunshine', an alcoholic monk, a man who is nothing but a monobrow and a posh twat who really isn't going to last 5 minutes.

I'm not disappointed however, as there is some gems in their also. Such as Steve, a bomb surviver who lost both his legs and one of his eyes, he looks a scary sight but you can tell that his heart is in the right place and I really do think he is a potential winner. There is John, who once changed his names to Achilles and is really nothing more than something nice to look at. Hopefully a personality will develop! Others we love is Ife (pronounced Iffy) who despite having hair on the launch show is bald and looks a lot like a model from ANTM (can my ANTM obsessed friend please help me out with which one?), Caoimhe (pronounced Kee-va) who we think is possibly the coolest housemate, Shabby the lesbian squatter who looks a lot like the artful dodger (or todger dodger *chortle*) and Govan the closeted gay who we really think could do our heads in, in a good way.

There also seems to be a lot of lookalikes in the house with a the Katie Price/Lorraine Chase double, the girl who actually works as a Beyonce lookalike and the posh guy Ben, who bizarrely looks like Victoria Beckham. That is if you squint with watery eyes. The final housemate to enter was chosen at random from the 68 housemates left. It turned out to be Mario, who is a Big Brother fanatic and even owns the BB7 chair, which makes him cool in my rule book/welcome pack. He was set the task of been a mole in which he must follow orders from the Tree of Temptation (or what I now call it, the Drawers of Desire), at the end of a couple of days the housemates must decide who is the 'mole' in the house. So with Mario entering the house dressed as a mole and having to sleep in a 'Mole Hole' he was set the impossible task. Which makes us love him even more to see how he gets over this mountain of a molehill.

There is nothing else to say really. I don't know if I will be talking about Big Brother as often as I'd like for fear that you'll get sick of it, but I'm undecided. Along with many other things to do with this blog. Thank you reader, you may now leave the diary room.

Update: Thank you George (his fierce blog is here) for finding out that Ife looks the double of Bianca from cycle 13 of ANTM! She even poses like her!