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  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 5 Notes – Live Eviction

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 5 Notes – Live Eviction

    • Emma hasn’t pooped since entering the house.
    • Lily’s personal picture is of her rat.
    • Baked Potato in the DR – “Nervy” about the eviction tomorrow.
    • Lily’s wardrobe is a mess, and she can’t find her dry shampoo
    • Dean in the DR – Worried about tomorrow’s eviction. Wants to be live into the BB house after the show is over. BB says “No”
    • Nathan in the DR – Thinks he is in most danger of being evicted tomorrow. BP is so likeable, Dean is likeable. Ryan and Nathan in the bottom 2.
    • Marcello being very flirty with Sarah and Baked Potato.
    • Ryan in the DR – Would be gutted if he went first but would be very pleased if he stayed.
    • Sarah does BDSM. Pass it on.
    • Regarding the shopping task from yesterday: 51 fails across the task. Therefore, they failed the shopping task. They get an economy shopping budget!
    • Ali in DR – She feels that she in the house with 15 extroverts, and she is not as extrovert. Doesn’t like Khalid and is trying to get to know Emma better.
    • Hanah in the DR – They are currently £46 over budget. She removes 1 of Halal foods.
    • Today’s task. “The Circuit” – Statements that will connect 2 housemates together. If they complete the chain correctly, it will release a reward.
    • Sarah is the connector. Everyone had been shuffled around. They won their task. They win a Chinese takeaway.
    • As they are on an economy shopping budget, only 5 people can take have the Chinese takeaway. Khaled, Hanah, Lily, Sarah and Marcello are chosen. Lily “rings in” the order to BB.
    • Baked Potato gets bullied for being thin, and Martha gets bullied for being big.
    • Lily is eating the Chinese meal before it goes out to the dining room.
    • “You have been kicked through a charity shop” – Ryan to Martha’s drag.
    • Ali and Marcello “vape kissed” (Swapped vapes) in the smoking area.
    • Lily and Daze in the hot tub. Lily is scared of eviction. Daze said that they are in the hot tub baking like chickens.
    • Ali thinks that Marcello thinks that they kissed, when they actually haven’t.
    • Marcello joins Ali, Segun and Thomas in the sitting room – He hasn’t outright apologised and thinks he has a wedge in with Ali. He doesn’t appear to realise that Ali has a girlfriend.
    • Emma is having a ‘moment’ with Baked Potato. Ali came in. She asked what did Emma think of Ali? She didn’t think she would like her.
    • Ali and Lily thinks Khaled is being too nice.
    • Ali, Lily and Nathan are going to form an alliance.
    • LIVE EVICTION TIME!!! Please do not sweeeaarrrrr!
    • Baked Potato, Ryan, Dean, Nathan up for eviction
    • The viewers have spoken. The 1st housemates to be evicted from the Big Brother house is… Ryan

  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 4 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 4 Notes

    • The house has been turned into “Coconut Eye Land Resort” for this week’s shopping task.
    • Appointed by Big Brother: Dean is the resort manager. Other staff members will be Lily, Khalid, Sarah, Marcello, Hanah. The rest are guests.
    • 5 all-inclusive wristbands. Dean must decide which guests get upgraded to all-inclusive.
    • Ryan, Daze, Izaaz, Nathan, and Emma are half-board.
    • Ali, Thomas, Martha, Baked Potato, Segun are all-inclusive.
    • Lily in the DR – Very hoarse. She feels that she is going to help win the task.
    • Brunch is being served. Half-board get a small buffet. All-inclusive, get a high quality spread.
    • Guests who are half-board cannot eat food from the all-inclusive and vice versa.
    • Ryan (Half-board) eats a sausage (big no)
    • Staff has to be polite to the guests at all times.
    • Manager Dean in the DR – Khalad, Marcello, Hanah are the strongest team players. Lily is very weak. Sarah just needs to have a break whenever it gets stressful.
    • Half-board guest Ryan had another sausage.
    • Half-board guest Emma in the DR saying that she had a ‘peasant’ wristband. Thinks that the resort is shit.
    • Nathan and Daze talking about housemate dynamics. Daze thinks that Sarah is at breaking point and that Ryan is a troublemaker.
    • Dean is debriefing his ‘staff’ – Marcello, Khaled and Hanah are very good. Sarah could do with a bit of de-stressing. Lily needs to improve.
    • Sarah is leading an aquatic exercise class for Baked Potato and Martha in the hot tub.
    • Ali and Daze are talking about therapy. Lily is sitting beside them, absolutely bored.
    • Dean back in the DR – He has been assigned a secret task. One of his staff must make one of the guests submit a complaint. He chose Hanah.
    • Hanah made Ryan a real shit cup of coffee. Spilled it over him. Made him another shit cup of coffee. Ryan was annoyed and went to Dean to submit a complaint.
    • Hanah doesn’t get anything for completing the secret task.
    • Sarah is a vegetarian and ate a cheese sandwich which she thought had tomato in it, but it was salami. Immediately ran to DR and was upset about being an embarrassment. Thought people would think that she is being a vegetarian for the show.
    • Baked Potato and Izaaz are talking about Baked Potato not needing much makeup. [She is gorgeous]
    • All-inclusive guests are having a 5-star Indian banquet and half-board guests get rice, a singular poppadom and a small amount of a dipping sauce.
    • Hanah is a bit upset at some of the wording that Khalid said earlier when they were talking about relationships. They hash things out and leave the storage room hugging.
    • The staff are putting on a performance. There is a conga line, Sarah aka. “Lil Bo Peep” performs a rap. Marcello is dressed as Peter Andre and is singing “Mysterious Girl” and dancing. The girls are oiling him up.
    • Lily is laying on the kitchen counter playing with a wooden spoon.
    • Nathan, Ali and Hanah are being mysterious about which housemates are going to be ‘trouble’. Nathan mentions Daze and Sarah, but Ali disagrees about Daze.
    • Ryan knows that people will be ‘targeting’ him for sabotaging the task. He knew what he was doing, but he is just having a bit of fun.

    Tomorrow night. First eviction!
    Nathan, Dean, Ryan and Baked Potato are up for eviction this week.

  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 3 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 3 Notes

    • Lily was electrocuted as a kid and that is the way she is.
    • Lily done a Journalism course for 1 year and then dropped out.
    • Rosie Baked Potato is flirting with Marcello
    • Ali in the DR saying that it can be overwhelming, especially with the boys group having “lad” chat.
    • Khalad and Izaaz in the DR – Izaaz couldn’t hold their hand up as long because of his “meat” in his shoulder.
    • Segun and Daze are discussing capitalism and climate change. They are having a very vocal debate. They disagree with their viewpoints but they agree that they are entitled to their viewpoints.
    • Baked Potato no longer needs to blend their food and Thomas no longer needs to wear the bucket on his head. So now Thomas only has 1 arm, 1 leg and now 1 eyebrow.
    • Martha, Dean and Lily talking about Taylor Swift. Lily is only on Big Brother cause her ex liked Big Brother and he was cheating with another girl when they were dating.
    • Sarah and Daze are talking. Sarah is a mayoress. Daze had a row boat. Lily is not the centre of attention here, so she is laying on the floor, yawning.
    • Marcello in the DR – Hoping to make connections. Learn more about himself. He likes Emma and Baked Potato.
    • Emma had 4 boob jobs. 32B, went to a D, had another 2 boob jobs. Emma used to be a Page 3 model. The guy who did Emma’s 3rd boob job is in jail for using the wrong kind of silicon.
    • Ryan in the DR – He ‘likes’ most of the people so far. Not concerned about being nominated.
    • Nathan is gay but he doesn’t know what label to use.
    • Daze in the DR – She wishes she didn’t know the stuff that she knows about the world. Wishes she could be someone like Lily who is oblivious.
    • Big Brother is throwing the house a party for being together for the first full day.
    • Hanah in the DR – Some people are tense and need to calm down, especially with people up for eviction.
    • Ali, Emma, Lily, Tom and Daze in the hot tub. Lily once again being the centre of attention.
    • Lily in the DR – Lily is upset and thinks everyone thought she would be annoying.
    • Lily crying in the sitting room with Martha and Ali. “Myself is weird to everyone”, she gets a hug from both girls.
    • Dean in the DR reflecting on the day. He enjoyed himself. Things (People and attitudes) will change in the next few days.

  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 2 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 2 Notes

    See Day 0 and 1 here.

    Big Brother UK – Season 21 – Day 2

    • Lily starts the morning by screeching!
    • Another head-to-head challenge – Non-housemate must decide who is the most loveable.
    • Daze is selected as the non-housemate. She selects Housemate Segun as the least loveable person.
    • Daze & Segun are in the garden standing on a marker.
    • Rosie will take Max (a dog) out to the garden. Max will choose between Daze and Segun.
    • Max chose Housemate Segun and he is the winner. He stays in the house and Daze goes back into Storage.
    • Emma wants Lily to shut the fuck up.
    • Ali is discussing her ADHD diagnosis. Opening up about her family. Her brother committed suicide.
    • Lily in the DR. Thinks Marcello is “swotty” by being topless all the time. Thinks Sarah doesn’t like her. Likes Nathan. Thinks he is cute.
    • Final head-to-head challenge. Non-housemate has to choose someone who is the most competitive
    • Non-Housemate Thomas has been selected. He chooses Housemate Rosie as the least competitive.
    • Both of them have a series of dares that they must complete. If they refuse to carry out their dare, their opponent wins.
    • Dare 1 for Tom is that he must wear a bucket on his head until further notice. The bucket has eye holes.
    • Dare 1 for Rosie is change her name to “Baked Potato”. She signs a certificate to make it official. Throughout the rest of the series, she will be called Baked Potato
    • Dare 2 for Tom is to wear Big Brother’s stench scarf which is covered in filth. He is to wear the scarf until further notice.
    • Dare 2 for Rosie Baked Potato is to blend a cheese sandwich and drink it. She does it.
    • Dare 3 for Tom is to shave off one eyebrow. He shaves his left eyebrow.
    • Dare 3 for Rosie Baked Potato is to smush chewing gum into her hair. She chews the gum and puts it into her hair.
    • Dare 4 for Tom to shred 3 personal photos belonging to non-housemates. He chooses Ryan, Daze and Marcello. Their photos get shredded.
    • Tom completes his dares.
    • Dare 4 for Rosie Baked Potato is to have all of their nominations throughout the series be done Face-to-Face. She refuses to do so.
    • Tom wins. Tom will take 2 people out of storage along with him. He choose Sarah and Marcello.
    • Tom, Sarah and Marcello has gone into the house and are no longer up for eviction. Rosie Baked Potato is now in storage and is up for eviction.
    • Tom is in DR. He asked BB how long eyebrows would take to grow back. BB said “7 to 10 years”
    • Non-housemates have 1 final chance to go into the house. They put their hand up. Whoever keeps their hand up the longest will go into the house. The rest will be up for eviction.
    • Ryan, Nathan and Dean put their hands down after 5 minutes.
    • Rosie Baked Potato and Emma put their arms down after 36 minutes
    • Lily and Daze are left. They have had their hand up for nearly 2 and a half hours.
    • Daze promises Lily to help her in the future if she puts her arm down. Lily agrees and puts her arm down.
    • Daze wins. She is now a housemate. She gets to choose 2 more people to join her in the house. She chooses Emma and Lily. They are no longer up for eviction.
    • Nathan, Dean, Ryan and Rosie and Baked Potato are up for eviction this week.
    • The storage task has ended and everyone will go back into the house.
    • Lily comes into the house screaming. Segun is stunned.
    • Lily is still screaming after about 20 minutes.
    • Nathan is in the DR. During the hands-up challenge, he thought that Daze is not all that she seems and that her “Climate Activist” is more of a gimmick and not her actual self.

  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 0 and 1 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 0 and 1 Notes

    I stopped watching Big Brother towards the end of the Channel 4 run and didn’t watch any of the Channel 5 run. I have been watching the ITV’s run of Big Brother since it started last year. This year, since I am posting these notes in a couple of Discord servers, I will post them here too.

    Big Brother UK – Season 21 – Day 0 – The Live Launch

    • The 16 housemates are in.
    • Each one had to choose a side, once they entered. Red or Blue. Initially no reason as to why they were choosing a side.
    • Results of that were 11 Red and 5 Blue.
    • Big Brother then announced that one team would go into ‘Storage’ and become ‘non-housemates’
    • It was predetermined via a sign hanging above the sides.
    • Blue are housemates. Red are non-housemates.
    • The 11 people on Red will now be in storage until further notice and will be up for eviction this week.

    Big Brother UK – Series 21 – Day 1 (Between 11pm and 4am)

    • Replaying the end of the last nights live show
    • Props in the storage are from previous series of Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother.
    • Lily in DR says “Storage is hell on Earth”. Doesn’t like Sarah – likes the look of Thomas… made some weird growling noise
    • Non-housemates will go head-to-head with housemates. Whoever wins, go into the house, the loser goes into storage.
    • Non-housemate Martha vs Housemate Ryan in a 1v1.
    • There is a cake in the middle of the table. There is also a red button beside each person.
    • If Martha wins, she gets to take 2 people with her into the house. If Ryan wins, he goes back to the house and nothing changes.
    • The cake explodes.
    • Housemate Ali has been chosen as a judge. She must work out who pressed the button.
    • Martha and Ryan have to convince Ali that the other person pressed the button.
    • Ali chose Ryan therefore Ryan lost. Martha now goes into the house. Ryan goes into storage and is now up for eviction.
    • Martha has chosen Hanah and Rosie to join her in the house.
    • “This whole situation [being in Storage] is not ethical at all” ~Lily
    • THE BEDROOM IS OPEN! Only one big bed at one end of the room this year instead of 2.
    • Lily is very loud and a lot of housemates seem to be already done with her.
    • Non-housemate Sarah in the diary room. “Lily is sensory overload”
    • Everyone in Storage is bedding down for the night on camping beds and Lily is still popping off.