On Monday nights live feed about 10.30pm Rex used this information he got about Rachel in a bitching session with Luke and Dale.  He said some real nasty things about Rachel and made Luke's night.  Rachel opened up to Rex and trusted him and he then went and started bitching about her with the whisper club.  Rex was also slating Kathreya on last nights live feed behind her back with the whisper club. Rex is clearly a selfish person with no feelings for anyone else in the house.

It was a pleasant change to see Rachel's nominations last night and her reasons just summed up exactly the people she nominated.  I would much rather watch an adult conversation rather than Beccy stripping off and Luke and co bitching around the clock so hopefully the director lets us see more of Rachel.

I just hope that when beccy goes tonight Darnell takes something from it.  He will hopefully realise that people think that he is generally a decent guy and he has no reason to be down on himself.  When he is not in self pitying mode he is a fun housemate and also an honourable one who will do what he thinks is the right thing and not just the popular thing.

If Luke is genuine about Beccy and she goes then I have no sympathy for him.  It will just be Karma for the way he behaves and thinks about the other housemates.  When he was chanting "we need to push her" about Rachel he seemed to be really enjoying himself and it was sickening to watch Dale, Beccy and Stu joining in.  Luke is very near the top of my all time dislike list of BB contestants so anything that upsets him is fine with me.

Julian - 26/7/2008 00:38

premierscfc - 25/7/2008 22:59 I am beginning to think Davina draws a wage under false pretences. Telling Beccy everyone loves her and finds her entertaining when she got twice the vote of the other 2 put together. She just can not interview people as her BBC chat show proved.

I don't think Davina said everyone loves her she just said that a lot of people found her entertaining which I think is true. She was my most disliked housemate since Dennis went but I still have to concede that she was entertaining. I did find the interview a little light on reasons for her eviction. It's almost like the production team didn't know why people disliked her so didn't have anything prepared. If anything, the only time she got to get any kind of hint about why people might dislike her is when they showed her her best bits VT Having said that, I don't really have a problem with Davina's interview technique. I certainly don't want to see the evictees subjected to any kind of an aggressive public grilling. It would either upset them or turn them defensive and either way it would make for uncomfortable viewing, as far as I'm concerned. I think Davina sees it as her role to try to rehabilitate the public's view of each evictee to try to soften the blow and lessen any potential repercussions that being on the program might have caused them. Personally, I think that's the right approach. Regards Julian

Davina does give some housemates and "Aggressive public grilling" though.  Stephanie, Susie and kara Louise immediately spring to mind.  Why did she give them a hard time?  I think that if BB was just starting as a new program and the Davina we have now went for an audition as a presenter I doubt she would get the job. I think she is a lazy interviewer.

I don't buy the fact that the production team did not realise Rebecca was unpopular, if they didn't then maybe they are in the wrong job.  Rebecca was a long odds on favourite to be evicted as soon as the results of the nominations were announced and her eviction was no surprise to anyone outside the BB house.  If Rebecca got 65% out of a 3 way vote how can Davina say that a lot of people found her entertaining.  65% of a 3 way split is a huge number of people who did not find her entertaining but their views were ignored in the interview.  The fact that the best bits video may have shown the reasons she was evicted just goes to show that she was not an entertaining housemate yet Davina was fawning all over her.  I am not after a pound of flesh but I would just like the interview to reflect what we have been watching on our screen.

News of the World Blogger Peter Briffa finds parallels between last night's treatment of Rachel by BB, and the way Aisleyne was treated

http://blogs.notw.co.uk/bb9/2008/07/rachel-in-tears.html

I thought Rex was really nasty to Rachel last night and went on at her for at least 2 hours without letting Rachel get a word in edgeways.  However it does look like it has not affected the way nominations have gone today.  The people who will nominate Rachel will nominate her regardless and the ones who would not have nominated her before the VT was shown will nominate someone else.  Despite Dale getting off lightly last night when Rachel got the stick it looks like he is paying for it today and looks certain to be up on Friday.

Rachel will probably get nominated by Stu, Dale, Lisa, Sara and Luke so will still probably be up unless Darnell's crew all manage to nominate Luke. 

Looks like BB9 has just lost all credibility. Luke and Dale had received the most nominations and were up for eviction on Friday. BB in their wisdom have decided to crackdown on nominations talk all of a sudden and have decided to add Darnell, Mo, Rex, Kat, Maysoon, Rachel and Stu to the list up for eviction for supposedly using codewords to discuss nominations.

I wonder why they have chosen this week to clampdown on nomination talk. Luke and the rest of the whisper club have been talking nominations for weeks using the word Chickpea and Happy house for Kat and Rachel. Mario, Lisa and Mikey were talking about stars and stripes when they were talking about Darnell. All this went unpunished for weeks apart from the odd spell in jail but this week they decide to mess with the nomination process. I can see a lot of viewers being unhappy with this.

All they need to do now is make it a vote to save and it's job done.  Operation save Luke, succeeded. 

I voted for a couple of others to be evicted in BB7 as well as 1 person to win and was not disappointed at the results. I have not voted since and have no intention of voting again.

Julian - 29/7/2008 20:23

premierscfc - 29/7/2008 19:36 I wonder why they have chosen this week to clampdown on nomination talk. Luke and the rest of the whisper club have been talking nominations for weeks using the word Chickpea and Happy house for Kat and Rachel. Mario, Lisa and Mikey were talking about stars and stripes when they were talking about Darnell. All this went unpunished for weeks apart from the odd spell in jail but this week they decide to mess with the nomination process. I can see a lot of viewers being unhappy with this.

To be fair, I was listening all afternoon and the nomination talk was completely out of hand. I was convinced that BB would have no choice but to crack down on it. It was basically because of the nomination booth. It puit the idea of chatting openly into everybody's head and all the codewords they used were completely fooling nobody. BB would have lost all credibility if they'd let it continue, in my opinion. I do think they were a bit harsh on Stuart (taking away his head of house) as I never heard him participate and he swears adamantly that he never did anything wrong. In any case, I like the idea that so many are up. It gives Dale and Stuart the chance to face a vote like they wanted and puts Rex up again and will hopefully mean that all the "trying to get nominated" antics will stop. I'm even glad that Rachel's up since being up is all part of the experience. Big votes are much more unpredictable than head to heads but I reckon there are two ways to go. Either the public will try to get rid of the boring ones (in which case Mohammed or Maysoon are the most likely) or they'll go for the bigger characters like Darnell, Luke or Rex. Personally, I'd most like to get rid of Luke, Dale or Mohammed. In fact, I might just vote for all three Regards Julian

Todays chat was no worse than the which housemate would you push off a cliff or who would be in your final 5 games we have had for weeks.  Luke has done more nomination chat than the other housemates put together.  The timing stinks.  They could have decided to clamp down anyday of the week as there has been so much nomination chat but instead they wait till after nominations.  They could have left this weeks nominations alone and then wait till the nomination chat rule was broken again, probably tomorrow knowing this lot, and put everybody up next week.

I would not be surprised to see them changing the vote to being a vote to save as well just as it was in BB7 when they wanted to save Pete. There have been too many coincidences in BB over the last few series for them all to be coincidences.  They have their golden rule that BB reserves the right to change the rules at anytime but they only seem to change the rules when it suits their agenda.  Luke has been used in trailers for BBBM, Nikki had her show with Endemol and both benefited from a twist.  Call me a cynic but if Luke was not up I think there would not be any punishment today.