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Celebrity Big Brother

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emsiewill · 17/11/2002 09:47

Just thought I'd get the excitement going for this (starts on Wednesday). dh tells me that Les Dennis and Mark Owen (ex-Take That) are 2 of the inmates - anyone know who else?
Must admit, I have a bit of a soft spot for "little" Mark.

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Rhubarb · 21/11/2002 15:11

Hang on, is that Mark Owen from Take That?

Scatterbrain · 21/11/2002 15:16

It sure is !! His trousers are too big for him you know !

Bobbins · 21/11/2002 15:21

Scatterbrain...I see you, you ARE still addicted. I just mailed you.

I was watching CBB with a foreign person, and they kept talking all the way through it because they didn't recognise not one of the 'celebs' and just couldn't understand it. I desperately wanted to watch, because I'm sad like that.In Portugal I think the Celebs are in for 10 weeks.

i think it always takes a little while for things to hot up

leese · 21/11/2002 18:11

Can't believe I was just watching them play Connect4 .............!!!

Hilary · 21/11/2002 18:43

No, watching Anne Diamond playing connect 4 was unbelievably awful tea time television! But yet somehow I know I am going to get hooked again!

spacemonkey · 21/11/2002 19:29

I think Anne Diamond is quite sweet, and agree with all the other comments about the good work she has done. Never liked her TV persona but that was a long time ago and I'm a forgiving kinda person!

Goldie could be a real sweetie - I thought it was nice that he paired up with Anne on building the bed. At the same time he's a bit irritating tho. The jury's out on him in our house.

Like Mark Owen a lot - he just seems like a slightly off the wall little chap.

Melinda Messenger always comes across as sickly sweet and sort of "professionally friendly" to me. It'll be interesting to see if her real personality comes out more during this. And YES! She DOES look like that one out of the banana splits!!!!!! (that made me cackle whoever said it!)

Les Dennis - well I'm sure he's a nice person, but I find him so dull and as for that Holden woman, she is SO FALSE!

That leaves Sue Perkins who is funny and the most likeable of the lot.

I have a feeling Mark Owen will win tho. Most likely to do a Vanessa Feltz - erm - could it be Sue? Or maybe Melinda ...?

anais · 21/11/2002 21:11

Awww, please leave Mark alone, I love him I do

I will hang my head and confess in an embarrassed whisper that I was one of those awful screaming Take That fans, but give me a break, I am only 22.

agaazaa · 21/11/2002 22:24

I really want 2 slag AD off as a fat has-been, but she lost her baby and that just breaks my heart. She also lost her husband in a cruel way too.

So as she has had a tough time I will slag off Amanda Holden instead. I really hope she is shagging around and the press find out. She is planning to get uo 2 something - you could see it on her face last night.

Oh so exciting, where is Neil M at the moment anyhow?

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emsiewill · 21/11/2002 22:36

Anyone else think that Goldie is really annoying - I can't work out what his real accent is, he's doing so many.

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jasper · 21/11/2002 23:01

Yes Emsiewill, I do. I think he is a total prat. Didn't you just know he would barge in to do the digger task despite the fact one of the group had operated one before?

Hilary · 22/11/2002 00:11

I know Anne Diamond lost her baby several years ago but what do you all mean about her life being so difficult more recently?

Goldie is really annoying me (and I hadn't heard of him before either, whoever said that) but him picking up baskets with the digger was hilarious.

Feel sorry for Les cos Goldie is so obvious about not liking him. And I know his wife had an affair but was it with Neil Morrissey??

Ghosty · 22/11/2002 08:10

Oh, How I wish I was watching this ...

Anais ... don't worry, I am 32 and I would chuck my knickers at Take That any day ... it was a sad sad day when they split up!

megg · 22/11/2002 08:38

I'm sorry but I feel no sympathy for AD and her marital problems. After all didn't she have an affair with him while he was still married to his first(?) wife? She should hardly be surprised it all went pear shaped when he has a track record. What goes around comes around unfortunately. She just shouldn't have been surprised. I do feel sorry for her about the cot death though she didn't deserve that. And before you think I'm getting at people who have affairs etc I'm not, in a previous relationship I've hardly been an angel. I just don't think she should be surprised to get back some of what she gave out. Hopefully I've already paid for my mistake.

bells2 · 25/11/2002 16:45

Is anyone else finding it really really dull? Not sure I can justify devoting another hour to watching it tonight but worry I may miss something if I don't. I think Les Dennis's musings on showbusiness are cringe-making.

lou33 · 25/11/2002 16:50

It makes my ears bleed bells, I only saw the night they went in and that was enough. I hear Goldie was evicted though, which seems a shame because the others seem likely to spend the rest of the time drinking cups of milky tea and doing macrame.

bundle · 25/11/2002 17:11

I've only seen snippets (honest!) but must vent re: Anne Diamond. She used to present a tv show once a week where I used to work years ago (before her baby died, hubby left etc etc) and she was not very nice to work with. I was one of the (what's known euphemistically as) "support staff" back then and she used to talk to us 'through' the director (up in a gallery, miles away) through the camera to 'instruct' us, almost like she couldn't relate to anyone she deemed to be unimportant. I acknowledge her invaluable work in getting the number of cotdeaths slashed, but I think she's still pretty ***.
I agree with all the Sue Perkins supporters, she's the nicest, most normal one in there.

sobernow · 25/11/2002 18:22

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bundle · 25/11/2002 18:25

sobernow is Goldie out then?

sobernow · 25/11/2002 19:54

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janh · 25/11/2002 20:05

I actually saw the eviction last night (by accident, honest) and there were about 5 people behind the barriers. Last time I saw one there were 50,000 hysterical kids with banners. Is this demoralising or what?

BTW little Mark is quite sweet but I wish he'd tidy his hair up a bit. (And I would probably have told Goldie not to have crisps before his tea too.) And I lurve Sue Perkins. Late Lunch anyone?

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emsiewill · 25/11/2002 20:33

Ooooh Light Lunch - that started when I was on maternity leave with dd1, and I lurved it. Moved to Wales, no cable at that point, so only S4C - so no Light/Late Lunch. By the time we got "proper" C4 again, it had been taken off. But ever since, I've been a Mel & Sue fan.
Celeb BB is quite boring, I agree, but can't stop watching it. Caught a bit of the live broadcast yesterday; Anne & Sue were comparing fees they got for "Stars in Their Eyes". No figures were mentioned out loud (they seemed to be pointing at something & Sue was saying "was it that", "was it this", but it certainly seemed that Anne got a lot more than Sue - v embarassing. Glad Goldie's out - I can't bear people who set out to be "crazy".

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emsiewill · 25/11/2002 21:34

Well, I didn't know that Sue had had a relationship with Rhona Cameron. Not at all suprised to hear it was like a war..... The more I see of Mark, the more I like him, he's such a sweetie!
Anyway, back to the programme. Couldn't wait until the end to post!

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anais · 25/11/2002 21:54

I love him, I love him, I love him!!!!

Zoe · 25/11/2002 22:05

Who did Sue do in Stars in thier Eyes?

Rhubarb · 26/11/2002 15:01

Mark Owen used to go to my school, Custardo knows him better than I do. My brother was in his year and said he was an ugly t**t (his words!) who was so covered in spots that his friends' mothers wouldn't let him stay over. However he was the only one from our school who made something of himself, so good on him. Guess he'll be thrilled now that his agent will be getting calls for him to star in the Macclesfield Christmas Panto as Buttons, or opening the local Kwik-Save! Let's face it, this was a last ditch attempt by him to resurrect his non-existent career.

Also is it still for Children in Need? Only the papers have hardly mentioned the charity at all, and I doubt very much that the participants went in there for charitable reasons...