Guest Author - Lauren Evans
Hurrah BB fans! Following the departure of Granddad Luke, things in the BB house have finally taken a turn for the interesting.
The position of Head of House would test any housemate, and for Rachel it was a real challenge – an opportunity to get off the fence and make some decisions. As a leader this week, Rachel showed real strength of character and proved that her Mrs Nice reputation is not born of a fiendish plan to avoid nomination, but a genuine reflection of her personality – the girl just loves to wash dishes!
After weeks of Rex nagging Rachel, telling her that he has no respect for her nice girl ways, she has finally taken a stand. This week as Head of House, Rachel did the washing up pretty much constantly, despite dark warnings from BB suggesting that she did so at her peril. Making a stand for equality, and letting her inner punk out along the way, Rachel rebelled the only way she knew how. She cleaned everything. If it were an Olympic sport, Rachel would win Gold medals for Great Britain left, right and centre.
And that’s not all! Not at all fazed by the BB mind games, she gave up her own letter from home (after 12 weeks away from loved ones) so that the housemates from Hell could receive theirs. What a sterling gal! Possibly best of all her decisions as Head Honcho, she chose the housemates from Hell as winners of the ‘Bake a London landmark’ challenge, despite the fact that they had made an uncooked cakey blob with sticks on top (The Milennium Dome, apparently). She did this to ensure that last week’s housemates from Hell, Kathreya, Mikey and Nicole, who spent all of last week cleaning up after others, will occupy Heaven for the coming week, with Mikey as Head of House. So now poor lovely Rachel’s doomed to a week in hell, with all her fellow hellmates hating her, but I think Kat’s finally got some serious competition for the BB crown!
Dale and Stu were up for eviction this week, after they spent a few days wandering around the house, begging people to nominate them (Stu because he misses his daughter, Dale because he’s an alpha male and wanted to beat Stu at something to prove a point). Unfortunately, two beautiful men boil down to one pretty boring eviction. Dale went on Friday, and the house just hasn’t changed that much. It was great to see Dale being taken down a peg or two (yes you, smug old Mr “I don’t want to get to the final without going up for eviction at least once”) on eviction night, and since Stu has realised he’s staying, it’s created a whole new hornets nest for our viewing delight.
Darnell had been relentlessly pursuing Ozzie hottie Sarah, but she’ s just not up for it, and has been as clear about this as only an Australian can be, which is fairly blunt. Now Stu has worked out that she’s his only female prospect for love, so he spent most of Dale’s eviction night charming his way straight into Sarah’s pants. Unfortunately for Darnell, this seems to have awakened his inner misogynist, and he now spends his days rotating between the following declarations: he doesn’t fancy Sarah, then that he “might not not fancy Sarah” (I kid you not) and third and most twisted of all, Sarah is a terrible person for fancying the hot guy who likes her, because she should fancy me because I’m an albino and I don’t get many girls. Hmm. I fear that Darnell needs a few lessons in the art of love, and it’s my belief that he will only understand the true situation when Sarah gets completely jiggy with Stu. I told you it would get physical this week, I just hope it happens before Darnell embarrasses himself any more!
