It’s been a very long week this week and I decided to take a well-earned night off from rowing in my gym and took time out to relax, read a book (Deadlock by Sean Black) and watch the very last big brother on Channel 4. Over the last few years, after being an avid Big Brother viewer I’ve been watching less and less – frustrated by an ever increasing amount of producer manipulation and the silly antics from Davina McCall.
With that in mind and the fact I’d given myself the night off I thought I had to watch at least some of the finale as it had at one time or another given me a few hours of entertainment over the years, especially Big Brother 5. I enjoyed it to a certain degree. It hadn’t changed, still contrived and predictable but in fairness the British public got it right – Brian Dowling was and is the ultimate housemate.
I woke up early this morning and I was out of the door by 7:05 am and on my way to the shops to collect a few essentials I couldn’t be bothered getting last night in the torrential rain and low level fog hanging over the mountain.
Now I’ve never been one to get sucked in to subliminal or clever marketing ploys, I am my own man. I know what I want and don’t need multi-million dollar commercials to tell me what that is. However, over the last few weeks a new Tropicana commercial has been airing, you know the one, set in the great city of San Francisco.
“Good Morning San Francisco, it’s 7am and it’s a beautiful morning”
If the Video fails to load then please visit the direct link to the Tropicana Video …
Oh dear, it only took eight days before racism reared its ugly head once again in the Big brother house. It happened late last night during a conversation between Emily and Charley. Emily with only 19 years of wisdom behind her deemed it necessary and ok to call Charley a nigger. With the UK version under so much scrutiny following the Shilpa Shetty row with chav Jade Goody it was inevitable that the producers would not take her comments lightly.
Although I said I wouldn’t …. I did !!! 
The two lookers are the Victoria Beckham look alike (when she dresses up like her) and Charley with the most …
My favourite is still Hayley, she appears grounded and has a good heart. I’m loving the twists and turns this season and the housemates have no idea what is going on – mind you the same could be said for the viewers !!! TJ is one to watch, another of those I can’t work out and one I’m sure will get on people’s nerves before too long. The look in her eyes when attacking Thomas was pure evil and it wouldn’t surprise me if I heard she was on therapy and was in fact crazy !!!! One thing is clear, you should never lead her on if you have no intention of going through with it !!!!!
Meanwhile in the main house, Andrew and Hayley manage to hide their relationship from the majority of the house although Jamie’s detection was something out of a Sherlock Holmes novel – both had the same photographic background paper ? .I didn’t think of that but that was bloody clever! So there we have it, the house pass the first weekly task thanks to Andrew and Hayley and the prize money has grown from nothing to $AU50k – well done.
Fiji hasn’t known anything quite like it, apart from last year that is ! Love Island has come to an end for another year and given the viewers ratings , unlikely to return for a third year. You never know though. I’ve really enjoyed it, a lot more than Big Brother to be fair, but that wasn’t hard given the bunch of weirdos on BB and the constant meddling by the production team.
The fact that Chris chose Colleen must have been the last straw as she couldn’t face a week on her own as the singleton. She then confessed to everyone her time was up and she realised her heart belonged to someone back home, go figure! Is it me or has she said that because Shane did the exact same thing ? Maybe I’m being unfair, but I don’t think so! 
