Sound & Vision - Celebrity Big Brother starts tonight

On c4 tonight at 9pm, thereafter E4... all the housemates are 'gifted' in some way :rolleyes

and 'celebrities' including Joan Rivers are playing the role of BB. Which won't fool me, I like my Big B anonymous, stern, understanding, occasionally humorous, and totally omniscient - it will totally destroy the mystique if I know He's actually some ex-famous person needing to earn a bit of cash on the side.

But the contestants sound a bit more interesting than the usual load of breast-enhanced thickos:

Times Online

Well I'm quite pleased to say I haven't got into this one at all - still have lots of Xmas dvds/recordings to watch, which probably helps.

I haven't got into this one at all

Me neither.

It's been quite interesting this year, it feels a lot like BB1/BB2. I'm hoping they're using this as a test run for BB9 to see if people would still be interested if they use normal people again, and that they'll go back to that if this is a success.

Well Celebrity Big Brother is back for 2010.

I didn't even know any of the celebrities apart from that woman on the barge boat that Ken Barlow didn't sail off and live happily ever after with.

I watched a bit of the launch but it was very dispiriting

didnt know a single one of them - didn't even recognise Corrie-woman as she must have been in it when I was having a corrie-free period in the summer!

But I expect I will watch the high(?)lights tonight... never been the same since the one with Shilpa and Jade in... now that was a right good ruck-up that was... this lot look dull and stupid.

I haven't been watching it this year.

It is on channel 5 this year for anyone interested (don't all shout at once) reading this years after the original post.

I looked just now for who is up for eviction and only know of two of the celebrities , the others are just names to me I never even heard of them.

I know Denise Welch from the Loose Women TV and she was in Waterloo Road and on Corrie going back a bit.
Natalie Cassidy played a part in Eastenders but isn't in it any more and I never heard of her since.

It has been very good this year.

The biggest surprise probably has been the 'playboy' twins who ornament the house of Hugh Hefner for Ł1000 'pocket-money' a week. They are as far from Samanda or the airhead blonde stereotype as you can get - smart, funny, clever girls who know how to Play The Game.

Michael Madsen is apparently very famous but I had never heard of him. He is a grumpy, sarky, plain-speaking sod. My favourite.

Denise was intially my favourite but has a 'thing' for Michael, embarrassingly obvious, and she keeps getting drunk and pestering him. Wince.

Natalie was a conniving stirrer. She is fond of disingenuously telling everyone that she is a 'really nice person'. She isn't and she was voted out last night, much to her surprise.

Kirk was a rapey sexist pig. Luckily the GBP spotted this and he was the other evictee last night. His first words were 'Was my phoneline [to vote for him] working', his second 'I know I said I was single in the house [when I was coming on hard to everything in knickers] but I've just this minute realised I really love my girlfriend, sob sniffle.' His third words - 'when a girl says No, she really means Yes doesn't she.' There are no words, really.

Frankie Cococzza (from the X-factor apparently) is a mini-Kirk in the making but with more humour and some hope he may turn out to be a decent cheeky-chappie type rather than merely a hormone fuelled sexist pig like his hero Kirkie.

Nicola - I don't know Nicola at all but she should be given an Oscar for her dribbling, blubbing, snotting performance over 'missing me kids!' and 'needin' to get me letter from home, I need to know that me kids are all right!' (like she wouldn't have been told if a big bag wolf had huffed their house down?)

Gareth Thomas - rugby player - widely tipped to win by his fellow HMs (they always pick someone really Blah as their apparent 'favourite to win', while never picking the one they really suspect is going to win, because they hate them for it.) He is dull, plain, and rarely speaks.

Romeo - a rapper - seems a nice guy - but you have to be watching closely to ever see him or hear him. Numbingly dull.

I can't remember any of the others, if others there be. But the mix this year has been sparky and interesting.

Oh and they have treated us to some Live Feed, for an hour after Evictions. This is the best time really as they are all stunned, unguarded, and usually worried trying to work out whether their best mate being evicted means they're next.

The BEST moment was making them do live nominations while we all watched. This usually goes wrong as people chicken out of voting for who they sneakily meant to stab in the back once it's public and go for someone who won't complain. This time Big B played a blinding trump card and put up everyone with a vote - in effect this meant they were all up bar Gareth (whom they had all forgotten was there) - the smuggery on their faces as they all congratulated themselves on getting Michael and the Twins up - then it being wiped off in shock was one of the best BB moments - ever.

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