Author: Padraig Fahy

  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 37 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 37 Notes

    • Nathan goes into the DR – A lot has been thrown at him in the last 5 weeks, but last night with BP being evicted happened so fast. He doesn’t believe Segun’s reasoning for choosing BP and Ali.
    • Marcello cleaned up the kitchen… again.
    • Marcello is in the DR – Nasty, Ungrateful, Dirty kids. He is complaining about people not cleaning. Only him, Emma, Ali clean.
    • Segun in the DR – He is giving his side of the story as to why he chose Ali and BP (To prevent them from getting boos)
    • Ali is talking with Segun talking about the difficult decision that he had to make yesterday.
    • Emma, Marcello and Sarah talking about fleshlights…
    • Segun and Hanah talking about their parents. Hanah’s parents wanted her to be a lawyer.
    • Marcello has been called to the DR – BB has a secret task. Housemates will be getting fan mail. But Marcello will be creating the fan mail. Housemates must not find out that he created the fan mail. If he is successful, he and the rest of the house will get a reward.
    • All housemates to gather to the sofa to read out the “Fan” mail. Sarah reads out Emma’s notice. Thomas’ fan mail gets read out by Ali. Hanah’s is read out by Segun. Emma reads out Nathan’s.
    • Nathan reads out Marcello’s fan mail. Thomas reads out Ali’s. Emma reads out Sarah’s. Marcello reads out Segun’s fan mail.
    • Ali is in the DR – She liked receiving fan mail and is very happy that someone outside the house likes them.
    • BB reveals that the fan mail was fake. BB reveal that Marcello wrote the letters. He passed the secret task. The house wins a prize. BB play Marcello’s music in the house.
    • BB gathers everyone to the sofa. 4 will enter the vault. Nathan, Sarah, Segun and Thomas stand up. Only 2 of them will return. They say goodbye to the rest of the housemates.
    • The 4 in the Vault get to see the housemates, but the housemates can’t see them.
    • £10000 from the prize fund. They must predict who is going to be evicted. Both predictions must be correct. Emma stands and declares that Thomas and Sarah would be evicted from the house. If they predict correctly, they win the money.
    • The 9th housemate to be evicted is: Sarah
    • The 10th housemate to be evicted is: Thomas
    • The £10K goes back into the prize pool. Prize pool is now: £90,000
    • Nathan can’t understand why he is still in the house.
    • Nathan is in the DR – He has had the 2 worst nights in a row. He doesn’t believe Segun is being true to himself. He is doubting Marcello. If either Ali, Emma or Nathan wins, Authenticity wins.
    • Hanah is in the DR – She is not a fan of backdoor evictions, but if that is what gets her to the final, She will win.
    • Voting is back open and will freeze on Friday during the final.


  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 36 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 36 Notes

    • In the cold open, Segun has to take 3 housemates into the Vault. One of them will not be returning to the house.
    • Marcello in the DR – Can’t imagine winning the £100K. Mood in the house is good.
    • Nathan would prefer to go out in front of a crowd rather than a back door eviction.
    • BP is mischievous. She stands outside the bedroom door. She can hear Nathan at the other side. Nathan opens the door and BP throws some sort of powder in Nathan’s face.
    • Ali denies that she and Lily were talking about Emma.
    • Ali is in the DR – She claims that they were talking about BP. And had some reservations about the boos that BP received on Friday from the crowd.
    • The housemates are playing a game. It was all a ploy for Nathan to get back at Baked Potato for throwing the power earlier.
    • BP goes to the DR covered in flour – She is giving out being targeted…even though she started it.
    • BB has gathered the housemates on the sofa. BB congratulates everyone on making to the final week. Marcello is no longer the HoH.
    • It’s time for Big Brother’s Vault. There are game changing decisions. One person will be awarded up to £10K. There are golden envelopes.
    • Housemates pick an envelope. There is a lucky £ sign in one of them. Each housemate in turn picks an envelope.
    • They open the envelopes. Segun opens his and has the £ sign. Everyone else are blank.
    • Segun goes to the DR – He will not be entering the vault alone. He must choose 3 people to join him in the Vault.
    • Out of the 3 people he chooses, whoever has the least amount of votes (from the public that voted between Friday night and Sunday midday) will be evicted.
    • The rest of the house has been told what Segun was told in the DR.
    • Segun stands to reveal the people he has chosen. He chooses Ali, Nathan and Baked Potato.
    • They hug as they 4 make their way to the bedroom. There is a room behind the mirror in the bedroom that leads them into The Vault.
    • The vault is shown to the housemates. Segun has 2 stacks of £5000 in front of him.
    • If the money is placed in front of the housemate, and they remove them, they will be evicted, taking the money with them and deducted from the prize pool.
    • Segun places both stacks of money on Ali’s podium.
    • BB reveals one housemate who is safe. The housemate that is safe is: Nathan
    • Either Ali or Baked Potato will be evicted. If the money is on the podium of the person who is NOT evicted, Segun wins the money.
    • The 8th housemate to be evicted is: Baked Potato
    • Segun wins £10,000.
    • Nathan in the DR – He is upset about BP’s eviction. He realised that BP has been evicted with eggs and flour over her.
    • Ali speaking with Thomas. She has been up for nomination 4 times and has been saved 4 times. She thought that she was gone.
    • Ali in the DR – Segun’s reason for choosing Ali is a cop-out and is playing a game.
    • Nathan and Ali talking about Marcello and Segun. They think that they are going to win.
    • Emma in the DR – She is sad that Baked Potato is gone. She believes that Ali doesn’t believe that she has friends in the house.
    • Segun, Hanah and Marcello talking about Ali. They believe that everything that they say towards her is overanalysed by Ali.
    • Marcello in the DR – He would have preferred to see Ali go today instead of BP. He is happy that Segun is the one that won the £10K. He is happy that BP is gone. Now we’re playing the games. There are no more vibes in the house.
    • Voting to win has re-opened. Voting closes during BB: Late & Live. The two Housemates with the fewest votes will be EVICTED via Big Brother’s Vault.


  • Gaming News – 10th November 2024

    Gaming News – 10th November 2024

    • 9 employees at NetEase (Marvel Rivals, Once Human, Diablo Immortal) have been arrested for alleged bribery and money laundering up to $139 million USD. They have also been fired from the company.
    • It has been revealed that Macaulay Culkin will be in Season 2 of the Fallout TV Show.
    • Amplitude Studios (Endless Space, Endless Legend, Humankind) has been sold by SEGA and are now once again an independent studio..
    • The E3 Demo for Halo 2 has been modded into Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Steam which looks and feels like the actual demo from 2003. Steam
    • The Pokémon Company & Nintendo are demanding 10 Million Yen (USD$66,000) from Pocketpair (Palworld) for infringing on patents.

  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 34 & 35 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 34 & 35 Notes

    Friday

    • Back to Friday’s double eviction. Lily asks Ali if BP and Nathan’s relationship will last? She says “no”.
    • Lily and Khaled are evicted.
    • Ali is tears with the eviction of Lily.
    • Ali says that Marcello is going to win.
    • Hanah and Segun are sitting upstairs holding hands.
    • Ali in the DR – Surprised that she is still here. Shocked that Lily is gone. Lily will be her friend for life. Marcello is “desperate” to win the show.
    • Marcello in the DR – Didn’t see Khaled going. Was not surprised at Lily’s eviction.

    Saturday

    • Marcello makes a coffee for Ali. Very sus!
    • Ali is still not happy about Lily.
    • Segun is gonna miss Khaled.
    • Emma admits to BP that there are some boos for her last night.
    • The housemates are taking in the silence now that Lily is out.
    • Hanah believes she heard “Get Hanah out” last night.
    • BP is upset about being booed last night. She goes to the DR – First time since entering the house that she has been upset. BB gives her some words of encouragement.
    • Marcello are Segun are renting
    • The phone rings. Thomas answers. He must stay on hold until instructed in order to win prizes. He cannot pass the phone to anyone else.
    • Thomas was on the phone for 35 mins. He wins ice cream!!
    • The phone ring and Emma answers. They say “Stay on the line for a glass of wine” – She hangs up the phone as she doesn’t want wine.
    • BB asks housemates to return the weights to the storeroom.
    • The phone rings. Nathan answers. He has to pretend to be on a hold. Instead, he gets to hear Sarah in the DR talking about him.
    • Sarah in the DR (while Nathan is listening) talking about Nathan and BP.
    • Nathan gets Tea and scones for staying on hold.
    • Segun in the DR – He flexes his muscles and BB tells him to hold the position.
    • Nathan fills in BP on what he heard about Sarah in the DR.
    • Ali & Thomas are speaking with Segun. They believe that Hanah and Segun are flirty (60/40 Hanah being more flirty than Segun)
    • Segun is in the DR – Talking about Hanah being flirty with him.
    • In the sitting room, Ali, Thomas, Nathan and Hanah are talking about Segun being flirty. Nathan says its obvious that Hanah likes Segun.
    • Segun asks BP, Ali and Nathan – He asks if Segun being around Hanah is flirtatious. Without hesitation, Nathan says yes and the others agree
    • Ali in the DR – She is discussing that there is flirting within the house. But either Segun and Hanah don’t want to admit it (They can’t get married for religious reasons)
    • The housemates are talking about Martha. Marcello pushes the conversation about ‘what defines an influencer’. Sarah argues with him. Marcello then lays into Sarah about correcting his statements over the last couple of week.
    • It seems like a pointless argument. They eventually hug it out.
    • BB is opening the “Vault” tomorrow. Some people will enter, some will not leave.


  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 33 – Live Eviction Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 33 – Live Eviction Notes

    • Emma and BP talking about Lily – They can only deal with her for about an hour a day.
    • Khaled is getting his toes waxed.
    • Lily is in the DR – She regrets her rule break. She might apologise to Sarah.
    • Hanah and Sarah are talking about “Stop the gloats” comment. Hanah is not offended or have any anger towards Sarah.
    • Emma in the DR talking about the eviction. She is a bit worried, but not too worried. She can’t wait to not spend 24/7 with Lily.
    • Lily apologises to Sarah, for her comment and the rule break.
    • BP in the DR talking about the eviction. She is slightly worried about the eviction tomorrow, even though she was up for nomination on Week 1.
    • Marcello and Lily talking about potential future jobs for certain housemates. They say that Khaled could become a stunt double. Khaled thinks that Marcello is triggered when there is some pushback about what he is saying.
    • Emma and BP asks Nathan what would happen if both of them were evicted, he would cry. Sarah could look after him.
    • Khaled in the DR talking about Marcello – He doesn’t like that he is being instructed to shut up and sit down and if someone tells him something negative, he will throw it back to them.
    • Ali in the DR – She is not phased about eviction, she has been up 3 times. She is worried about Lily if she gets evicted.
    • Khaled is talking to Nathan about the “Fake Vanity Bitches” – Nathan clarifies that Khaled addresses his answers. Khaled is conscious about the camera and what he is saying in case his family hears what he is saying.
    • BB has gathered everyone to the sofa. 01:30am – Lily said that if she went, she would nominate Sarah. As punishment, everyone is being enlisted into Big Brother’s Bootcamp. And the luxury shopping budget has been taken away.
    • HoH Marcello is the drill sergeant. Everyone else is a cadet. Everyone must respond with “Sir, yes sir”
    • 1st training course is an assault course. They must continuously go hopscotch through tyres, crawl under some nets and do a lap of garden and repeat it.
    • For the 2nd and final training session. They must line up in order of number of people that have rule breaks. Next, they line up who is most annoying. Next, they line up as to who is going to win.
    • Lily must do 10 push-ups as punishment.
    • Big Brother will reward the luxury shopping budget, BUT Lily cannot have any input into the shopping list.
    • Housemates are working on their luxury shopping budget.
    • Lily is singing “Give me Tangfastics” and shouts it.
    • Hanah and Emma are talking about Segun. Hanah likes Segun, but they can never date due to Segun having being in a relationship, and then they have different religions.
    • Ali, Nathan, BP, Lily and Sarah are talking about Ali being ‘boring’. To Sarah, it felt that Dean was holding Ali back. And that she is coming out of her shell in the last week.
    • Housemates are having dinner and tells the person to their left 3 qualities about them.
    • LIVE: Voting is now closed.
    • LIVE: Time for the 1st eviction of the night – The 6th housemate to be evicted is: Lily
    • LIVE: Time for the 2nd eviction of the night – The 7th housemate to be evicted is: Khaled


  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 32 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 32 Notes

    • The house has been transformed into a “Gangster’s Paradise”
    • It is the last shopping task.
    • Ali, Hanah and Nathan are The Biker Bandits
    • Emma, Segun and Thomas are The Moustache Mob!
    • Khaled, Sarah and Baked Potato are The Grifters Geezers
    • Marcello is the big boss and right-hand woman Lily
    • 1 group are saboteurs.
    • Marcello & Lily must find out who the saboteurs are to win the luxury shopping budget.
    • There are 3 envelopes. The Biker Bandits open one of them and they are the saboteurs.
    • The entire shopping tasks falls on them – If they sabotage tasks, and go undetected, they will win the shopping task for the entire house.
    • The moustache gangers are Loyal. The grifters are Loyal.
    • Marcello and Lily are observing the gangs.
    • 1 person from each gang. Segun, Nathan and Baked Potato. They must get vases while avoiding the lasers.
    • Nathan is intentionally causing them to lose time by triggering the alarm.
    • They only get 1 out of 3 vases.
    • Marcello and Lily must interrogate BP, Nathan and Segun to find out who the saboteurs are.
    • Marcello is “Mystic Marcello” as he reads a pot.
    • Baked Potato has worked out who the saboteurs. She tells Marcello and Lily, but they think it’s the geezers.
    • Grifter Geezer, Sarah in the DR – Morale at the all-time low. She has had no food, no treats. She is angry at BB for not getting anything nice.
    • Emma, Khaled and Emma has been called to the art museum.
    • They must crack the codes to unlock the art piece. Each art piece have 3 questions and the answers must be pushed into a keypad to unlock
    • They get 1 out of 3 correct. Neither of them suspect that one of them is the saboteur.
    • Marcello and Lily interrogate Hanah, Emma and Khaled.
    • Marcello and Lily are saying that the Geezers are the saboteurs.
    • Marcello has to choose who the saboteurs are.
    • Marcello collects a red envelope. He writes down a gang name on a piece of paper and puts it into the envelope.
    • The gangs are having a meal (pizza).
    • BB reveals that the saboteurs had to sabotage the shopping tasks.
    • Marcello and Lily choose the Geezers. The Bandits revealed themselves. They won a luxury shopping budget.
    • BP found out that Nathan broke the laser’s and screams.
    • Lily in the DR – She wants to be in charge of the shopping list.
    • Lily in the bedroom joking with Sarah. Lily says that if she stays on Friday, she is going to nominate Sarah. RULE BREAK!
    • Hanah is in the DR – She is not happy with Sarah making a non-PC joke (Changing “Stop the Boats” to “Stop the Gloats”)
    • BB has called Sarah to the DR – BB explains that her language about her chanting “Stop the Gloats” being in reference to “Stop the Boats” and confirming it with Hanah and Emma that that is what the chant was in reference to may have caused offence to not only housemates but the viewing public.