Is it the World Cup soon?

It may come as a surprise to you that I am a fan of the world cup. Well it's hard not to be when you live in a country that is so proud of where it is from. Yes, at this time of year football is all we eat, drink and breath. So why do I like the world cup? Because it isn't really for the football (obviously).

The most blatant reason is the drink. It's a time when everyone gets pissed. I watched the England match on Saturday. Do I remember it? Not really, it's all one big green blur. Needless to say whether we win or lose there is always a chance to get drunk when the match is on. Plus, if it makes the match go quicker then you can't blame me can you?

Then there is the food. Whether its an easy greasy take away or you are going all out and having a huge BBQ for you and the neighbours. The footie, the booze and the grub seem to go hand in hand. It's hardly a help to your 'beach bod' diet but it's compulsory.

There is no way of getting around this without sounding like a stereotypical gay. So I'm just going to go for it. The main reason I watch it? It's the football players themselves. 70% of them are fit and then there is 10%, like Cristiano Ronaldo (a firm favourite of mine) pictured, who are just godly buff. Even Vanity bloody Fair have realised that instead of there usual classy outlook on things they've just decided to strip the players off and shoot them in their undies. Kudos to you VF.

Now, football on this level of adoration has it's downsides. On July 2nd it is the Quarterfinals in which we will most likely be playing in. It is also my mums wedding day meaning that after the 3 course meal we've got plasma screens being delivered to the room in which everyone can then watch the match. For the fear that otherwise people will leave to watch it elsewhere. There is no problem with this but it doesn't half make the whole thing seem a bit tacky doesn't it? Is it wrong that I'm secretly hoping we don't get that far?

Oh well, I don't really have the mental capacity to think about the football for that long and the dilemmas that it may.. oh god Ronaldo really is amazing...

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!

To put it simply, I'm back!

Good afternoon everyone.
I have many things to say but I think seen as this is my first ever post on the new website I'll try keep it concise. Speaking of concise, this new website look is, putting it simple, simple. Over the year and a half of using DamianLove.co.uk as a celebrity gossip site it got to the point where the content was too big to handle and I was writing close to 25 articles a day (3469 in total). Eventually something had to give, and that was me.

So I've taken a couple months off, done some work, had some fun and suddenly I've become really eager to come back into this weird blogging business. Using 'Blogger' or 'Blogspot' (I'm not quite sure what I'm using) was the quickest way to get back into the game. Plus the idea of a community is kind of welcoming after spending many months in the cold lands of Cutenews. I can imagine you non-technological people not understanding a word I'm saying. Don't worry, neither do I.

In terms of content I don't have the foggiest what I'm going to be posting. Every cloud has a silver lining though, I'll try not to bore you to death with blogs about the new character in Hollyoaks etc. I could be talking shit but I feel a little more highbrow. But then of course I will be posting YouTube videos, 'funny' pictures and what I got up to at the weekend. So maybe nothings changed at all...