In my previous post on the subject I mentioned that the atmosphere in
the Celebrity Big Brother house had become quite poisonous following a
brutal argument between Jim Davidson and Linda Nolan on Wednesday
(15/1/14) night through to Thursday (16/1/14) morning. Since then Big
Brother has been using a series of special tasks to lighten the mood.
The first of these which had probably already been scheduled took place
and centred around Liz Jones. A career journalist and columnist Liz
Jones is highly neurotic and slightly deaf which makes it difficult for
her to keep up with the goings on in the house. As a result rather then
being a participant in the show Liz has acted more as a ghostly
apparition hovering in the back ground. So on Thursday (broadcast Friday
- 17/1/14) Big Brother set Liz the task of formally interview some of
the other housemates in order to write an article about the show which
was then presented to the group. This obviously put Liz into her comfort
zone in an effort to bring her out of her shell. This seems to have had
some success with Liz now showing an interest in what is going on
around her and is occasionally joining in with group discussions. The
task also had the effect of bringing the group together by allowing Liz
to tell everybody what everybody else has been saying about the two big
sources of tension - the fight between Jim and Liz and the saga between
Lee Ryan, Jasmine Waltz, Casey Batchelor and Luisa Zissman. Although it
wasn't mentioned as part of the task Linda did separately tell Lee a
version of what the "Frank Carson's dressing room" incident was all
about so that mystery is slowly being solved throughout the group.
Next to come up for the attentions of a special task was Luisa. You may
remember she had her confidence badly knocked by the resumption of Lee
and Jasmine's relationship and a big argument with Dappy which seemed to
focus on who was the most intelligent. So Big Brother called both Luisa
and Dappy into the diary room for a special intelligence test/general
knowledge quiz. The average score amongst people (in the production
office) who'd taken this test was 65%. Luisa scored 69% whilst Dappy
scored just 6% labelling him not only as stupid but actually mentally
retarded in the medical sense of the term. This obviously boosted
Luisa's confidence by declaring her the winner of the argument with
Dappy in the eyes of the group. It did though make Dappy very angry with
him threatening to walk out of the show if the test task was broadcast.
As the task was broadcast and with Dappy not leaving the show it goes
with out saying that he ended up backing. That has probably got
something to do with the fact that if he'd quit Dappy wouldn't have got
paid and he is currently so poor that last week bailiffs threatened to
force entry into the house to serve him with repossession notices.
On Friday (17/1/13) which was broadcast on Saturday (18/1/13) Lee was
told that one of his superfans had won a competition so would get to
spend some asking him questions. This was all fake with the superfan
being an actress and her questions being set by other housemates who
were watching the whole thing live via videofeed. This task of course
got the group to agree with each other that Lee is in fact an idiot and
have a good laugh at his expense. As Lee didn't realise the who task was
fake the housemates were all rewarded with a morale boosting takeaway
dinner and lots and lots of alcohol. This led to a very riotous party
in which the female housemates divulged secrets about their sex lives
(Liz apparently lost her virginity at 30 whilst Casey has apparently
never experienced an orgasm with a man) to each other and multiple
renditions of a very rude song about Lionel Blair. Later Luisa and Dappy
ended up in the shower together but the relationship between the two
was rather summed up when Dappy said; "I don't want to be the first to
have sex in the house" to which Luisa curtly replied; "We're not going
to have sex" highlighting that Dappy really isn't bright enough to work
out when Luisa's mucking about and playing things for laughs.
With all this going on it is quite hard to assess how the argument with
Jim has affected Linda. However the upside of them having a showbiz feud
that has been going on for the best part of 40 years is that it means
they've both been in show business for 40 years. That gives them the
experience and professionalism to know that sometimes they've got to put
their personal differences aside for the good of the show and that
seems to be largely what is happening. Plus after 40 years of arguing I
doubt there's much new they can say to offend each other. This putting a
brave face on things does come at an emotional cost though and I am
somewhat worried that Linda will have to pay a higher price by being
forced to re-live the grief at the death of her husband and on Thursday
and Friday in her quieter moments Linda did appear to be visibly
depressed. However in Friday night's drinking session Linda had cheered
up noticeably cracking dirty jokes and laughing loudly.
The big winner from the twin arguments has been Luisa who has shot from
being a whipped dog to being the house's alpha female in the space of a
few days. Obviously with Jasmine's eviction on Wednesday the competition
between Luisa and Lee for Jasmine's affections ended. Also successfully
setting Jim up to get wiped out by Linda has helped to boost Luisa's
confidence. The main difference though seems to be the way in which Lee
and Dappy have both made fools of themselves to the extent that Luisa no
longer sees them as potential suitors or rivals but as young children
who need mothering. As the mother of - I believe a 5 year old daughter -
this is obviously a role in Luisa is extremely comfortable with. So
great is the extent of the mothering that Lee and Dappy require Luisa's
breasts have once again started lactating milk preparing her to
breast-feed a baby once again. This is a fact that Luisa happily shared
with Lee and Dappy on Friday and will no doubt provide an interesting
talking point for bio-psychologists.
Lionel Blair was of course evicted on Friday. Rather then being a sign
of disapproval this seems more a case of Lionel's fans choosing not to
vote to support him so he could leave a show which must have been a sort
of nightmare for the 82 year old. Being a consummate professional and
something of a national treasure Lionel did seem to set this in motion
himself when during the week he had a long, late night conversation with
Jim. In that conversation Lionel confessed that he had been alive for
more years then he had left to live and pointed out that he wanted to
spend those remaining years in the company of friends he'd already made
rather then meeting new people. Also if you want a good laugh try and
track down a copy of a live panel discussion Lionel did with Jasmine on
Saturday's companion show "Big Brother's Bit on the Psych." Basically
Jasmine challenged Lionel to tell her exactly what he though of her to
her face. So he did and the phrase; "I can't stand the f'cking sight of
you" might have been used. This was not the reaction Jasmine had been
expecting.
(Originally Posted) 16:30 on 19/1/14 (UK date).
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