I hope it flops and this is the final death of this awful show.

EPIC FAIL!!!  Nuff said!

I have updated the first post with the BB9 Logo. Here are the two new presenters for BBLB


George Lamb is announced as one of the new presenters of Big Brothers Little Brother



Zezi is announced as the other! (Anyone know who Zezi is?)

I think I recognize the bloke form T4 or atleast something on Channel 4 anyway. I'm more intrested in seeing who is Davina's replacement...

Thing is its impossible to escape it since the media always have huge coverage of the crap in newspapers and such.Its sad that was once a pretty intresting experiment has turned into a freakshow.

Yes it was an interesting psychological experiment first time around (even though I didn't watch it) but like most things it get diluted by TV producers in order to lengthen it's life span and thus lost the plot - literally.

I'm still hoping a bomb will be aimed at the BB house to do us all a favour.

Well thats one bit of good news then.

That's another good reason NOT to watch the show. Davina is as much a turn off as the show is.

EPIC FAIL!

Id describe myself as a former fan of the show...the trouble with the show is that its too manipulated now, and too predictable. Each year the producers shape and edit the highlights show to fit their priorities not to reflect the days events. So villains are created early, and from then on we are only shown negative clips of them. Similarly, the good guys, normally an apparantly innocent, loveable sort, will have only positive clips shown. Its put together like a Soap Opera.

The winners, like Pete and Brian, are becoming more obvious, even in the first few days of a show. Bearing in mind it still has 12 weeks to run, this is a flaw!

My fave contestants have been the refreshingly normal Steph...and the fiery, but misunderstood Lisa (of Chinese background)

The celebrity version is more intetesting, and dramatic.

Big Brother housemates will have to grow their own food this year, the show's producers have said.

The 16 contestants will have to cultivate their own potatoes and carrots and season their food with herbs from the garden.

This year's "green" Big Brother house will also feature a large recycling bin in the kitchen.

The ninth series of the show, which will run for 13 weeks, begins on Thursday night at 2100BST on Channel 4.

Pictures released by producers show that the house boasts a luxury bedroom as well as a dormitory-style room with short beds and scratchy blankets.

The luxury room features eight double beds complete with velvet cushions, a walk-in closet and burgundy and gold drapes.

The two bedrooms are intended to divide the contestants competing for the £100,000 prize.

'Zero tolerance'

Other changes announced include two staircases leading to the outside world.

And the diary room has been built under the stairs to cut off the housemates from the rest of the house.


The luxury bedroom features eight double beds

A "jail", in the form of a tiny claustrophobic area enclosed by metal bars in the garden, is also ready for use if any housemates need to be punished.

Show bosses have refused to confirm reports that the new series will feature a blind housemate.

Executive producer Phil Edgar-Jones said there was still great demand for the show.

"Certainly in the build up, there's much more excitement about it this year than last year," he said.

"Ratings are not my main concern while I'm making it."

Another executive producer, Sharon Powers, emphasised a zero tolerance policy towards housemates this year.

"We are sick and tired of housemates coming to the diary room asking to leave and talking to each other about nominations," she said.

"We're not going to tolerate rule breaking. If housemates break the rules, you have to spend the night in jail."

Channel 4 has also announced that teen comic Jack Whitehall will front the opening Big Brother's Big Mouth shows on digital station E4.

BBC Radio 1 breakfast host Chris Moyles will take the debate programme's reins for the following week.

What a COLOSSAL waste of money!

i will dip in and out of the series but they need to re-capture the essence of BB 1 then they will get back to the BB we want.

The I wanna be famous for 15 secs people should go on a different prog.

Im watching tonight to see which ones will be worth looking out for in NUTS and ZOO magazines over the coming months...

Well, we are off... The token camp dancer bloke has to go first on first impressions, closely followed by that idiot Dale. How exactly is the blind guy going to do the tasks?

The first show of the ninth series of Big Brother has pulled in an audience of 5.4 million people.

Last year's launch show drew 6.2 million viewers. Thursday night's figures also included those watching the time-delayed Channel 4+1 service.

The opening show saw a record 16 contestants enter the house, including a blind comic and a "secret" couple.

The series' first twist will see one half of the couple "married" to another female contestant on Sunday night.

First into the house were couple Mario Marconi and Lisa Appleton, followed by students Luke Marsden and Stephanie McMichael.

The four were called into the diary room and told Stephanie, 19, and Mario, 42, had to act as a couple, and keep the truth secret, or face eviction.

The housemates, who also include a blind part-time comedian, are competing to win the show's £100,000 top prize.

'Bizarre' arrival

Mario, whose real name is Shaun, and Lisa, 40, from Warrington, are the first non-celebrity couple to appear in the Big Brother house.

They were greeted with a mixture of cheers and boos as they entered the house.
Mario, it was revealed, once sold a Rolex watch to pay for breast enlargement surgery for Lisa.

Luke, 20, of Wigan, the third housemate to enter, was also booed by the waiting crowd.

Student Luke, who says his friends think he looks like Justin Timberlake, told Mario and Lisa on his arrival in the house that his entrance had been "bizarre" and "a blur".

Next in, wearing a short, black dress, was Stephanie, from Liverpool, who says she wants to be the most famous Big Brother contestant of all time.

First task

The first four contestants were immediately called into the diary room by Big Brother and given the first task of the new series.

They were told that Mario and Stephanie had to pretend that they were a couple.

Big Brother said that if any other contestants found out that Mario and Lisa were in fact the real couple, the first four housemates would all face eviction.

The four were then told they had a few minutes to concoct a story before the next contestants entered the house.

In a twist at the end of the show, presenter Davina McCall said Mario and Stephanie would be told they must get married on air.

What they would not be told was that the wedding would actually be a sham and not binding, she added.

The fifth person in the house was actress Rachel Rice, 24, of Torfaen, also wearing a black dress, who appeared in a film with Hugh Grant as a child.

She was followed in by Dale Howard, 21, a PE teaching student from Liverpool.

Big Brother viewers watched as he said he would "stab anyone in the back" to win the £100,000 prize money.

Christian sales assistant Sylvia Barrie, 21, from south London, was next in, followed by dance student Dennis McHugh, 23, from Edinburgh.

Opinionated model

Blind radio producer Mikey Hughes, 33, from Ayrshire, was the ninth contestant to enter the house.

As he entered, he told fellow Scottish contestant Dennis: "The west is the best."

Single mother Alexandra De-Gale, 23, an accounts executive from Croydon, south London, was greeted by a chorus of boos.

She was followed into the house by executive chef Rex Newmark, 24, from London, who says he is "secretly shy but very confident".

Mohamed Mohamed, 23, who was born in Somalia but is now a toy demonstrator in London, whooped and hopped down the staircase as he entered the house before telling housemates he was shaking with nerves.

Vicky Pollard sound-alike Rebecca Shiner, 21, a kindergarten nurse, repeatedly shouted the name of her hometown Coventry to the crowd before she entered the house.

Ipswich-born Darnell Swallow, a 26-year-old albino who was raised in the US, was next into the house, ahead of part-time model Jennifer Clark, 22, from Durham.

The final contestant in the house was Kathreya Kasisopa, a 30-year-old massage therapist originally from Thailand but now living in Kent.

Metal bars

This year's Big Brother house boasts a luxury bedroom, as well as a dormitory-style room with short beds and scratchy blankets.

The luxury room features eight double beds, complete with velvet cushions, a walk-in wardrobe and burgundy and gold curtains.

The two bedrooms are intended to divide the contestants competing for the £100,000 prize.

A theme in this year's show is "zero tolerance".

A "jail", in the form of a tiny claustrophobic area enclosed by metal bars in the garden, is ready for use if any housemates need to be punished.

And persistent rule breakers could end up in a padded white "solitary confinement" room.

I am saying the Blonde one will got his week, then hopefully they will all get together and nominate that bane on humanity Alexandra and get her out too. It's like she's this years Charlie.

Mario looks like Sylvestor Stallone after having his face rubbed over with an iron..luke looks like a slim wayne Rooney..and the girls..meh.

Any of you fancy a BB Sig???

What that Alexandra needs is a swift back-hander, just one swift back-hander right across her sweary, argumentative, chip-hating face!

Seriously though, that display the other night was absolutely ridiculous, and the worst thing was that she didn't think she'd done anything wrong!

On the eviction note, I'm gutted the four of them failed thier mini-task. Luke is one of my picks to win it, the producers will be hoping Mario and Lisa stay in (so they might finally get definate on-screen sex) and Stephanie seems a lot less annoying now she's actually allowed to be herself. I think Lisa will go, but I could be wrong.

I agree, but lets be fair, you wouldn't wanna get stuck in a lift with her!

Looks like The BB researchers have done their job well again.....

BULLYING Alexandra de-Gale has been warned she will be kicked out of the house if she continues abusing other housemates.

She turned on nursery nurse Rebecca Shiner, 21, after she accidentally burnt the chips she had been cooking for the groups tea. Alex yelled: Im gonna make you feel like a d****head because you act like one.

BB ordered Alex who also abused other housemates and made Rachel cry to go to the diary room. She was told: Big Brother takes unacceptable behaviour very seriously.

Alex is a serial troublemaker who has been arrested several times, The Sun can reveal.

The Croydon single mum, 23, is well known by local cops who lifted her TWICE last year in connection with robbery.

She was arrested once over an incident on February 16 and again in connection with a second robbery and damage to property on July 19.

No further action was taken by the police in either case. Alex also narrowly escaped arrest when she reportedly flew into a rage when the deputy headteacher at Parish Infants School, in Waddon, said her daughter could not have school lunches if she didn't pay into the schools lunch club fund.

Meanwhile the mouthy wannabes neighbours last night blasted her as a nightmare.

Ian Mills, 47, said: I think she has got all the ingredients to be this years Big Brother baddie. I dont think she is a particularly good neighbour, she is noisy and not very considerate."

Ian said Alex, who has lived opposite him for four years, would play loud music late into the night. She also recently had her black BMW clamped because the tax had expired.

Alex has already started winding up her fellow housemates and was slammed by Big Brother for her aggressive behaviour.

When she turned on Rebecca after she accidentally burned the chips she also called her a b**** and called Stephanie, 19, a p****. Rachel ended up running into the garden crying.

Last night sulking Alex defended her actions in the diary room.

She said: It wasnt a one-way argument. Like, whats with the big attack on Alexandra? I felt my need to defend myself. If Ive got somebody like Steph calling me a d***head, then I call her a d***head back. Who does she think shes talking to?

Meanwhile Darnell and Jennifer clashed over his habit of eating alone. Darnell defended himself, saying he did it for reasons you dont know about.

Jennifer, the 22-year-old model and mother from Chester-le-Street, Co Durham, said songwriter Darnell had persistently avoided eating with the group since entering the house.

Were all hungry, we all want a snack, we all want to eat our own thing, but we cant, because at the end of the day were a group, she said.

She treated Dale to a spot of grooming later, plucking his monobrow after a conversation about physical imperfections.


So maybe a pre emptive eviction this week?

For someone who has been incredibly vocal against this show Totty, you seem remarkably interested and way too active in this thread.....

Outside of Kat, Luke is off-beat and interesting, like a character in a Dickens novel. He could be a dark horse to win.

Well that was a surprise on the eviction last night. Mario had been favorite to go prettymuch all week and then Stephanie goes? SHocker. Couldn't believe it when on big mouth they showed a clip of Mario saying that the reason he and Lisa didn't go to Mikey is because they are 'popular' he just bought his ticket out after Alexandra...

from what i have seen ( which is just seconds due to channel hopping) they all should be out.

of these two the bloke should go.

more than that i dont care enough.