Big Brother Blog - Graze Anatomy

By rights, the last few days of 'Big Brother' should be the most exciting. If last night's show was anything to go by, it'll be a slow trudge to Friday.

It would've been a big ask to get a decent half-hour out of Sunday's programme - 70 minutes was torture. We got the housemates ordering Chinese and Charlie saying, "We've got £50" so much that you'd think his chances of winning the show depended on it, loads of sitting around (and less interesting than usual), Sophie and Rodrigo tipsy and irritating and a non-task which was the funniest thing of the evening. That, however, wasn't saying much. I'm just sorry that Marcus isn't there for the last few days to liven things up and I'm still shocked that he went on Friday.

For me, Siavash blew his showman credentials weeks back at the time of the Noirín fiasco and with Freddie now back in the family pile, Marcus was the most entertaining of the lot of them - granted part of it was because he took himself so seriously, but there was always the expectation of what would emerge from his little Gizmo from 'Gremlins' face next. What Marcus would've brought to the last few days was a sense of perspective: that the housemates are, in fact, competing on a gameshow.

There's a huge amount of sentimentality in there now; Marcus would've had no time for that and probably caused a few arguments about it. We can expect plenty more 'next week we'll be...' talk and people getting all dewy-eyed about their relationships with each other. I wonder has the blubbering got anything do with the fact that they think the prize money has been 'slashed' and would they have their game faces on more if it hadn't?

Of course the winner will still get the full amount because surely there's something in the contract each of them signed with the makers of the show about the prize money? Why haven't they copped this?! Then again, some of you might say that after seeing them with the Pass-Fail meter last night, you're not surprised.

 Harry Guerin