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July 2008

Big Brother, Eviction Market, Week 8: Mo gets ready to go

Chicken Dinner / 30 July 2008 / 1 Comments

After the clash of the joker and the hunk was scuppered, Mohamed looks the most likely to meet Davina on Friday, says Chicken Dinner....Read more »

Big Brother 9 Betting: The winner market in week 8 - who will be this year's Jason?

Chicken Dinner / 28 July 2008 / Leave a comment

The top end of the Big Brother ladder is starting to wobble, and almost all of the favourites are suffering - thank goodness for that! All the latest from Chicken Dinner on the winner market....Read more »

Big Brother 9 Betting: Rebecca pays the price for complacency

Feizal Rahman / 28 July 2008 / Leave a comment

We all know the Betfair markets are a good indicator of public opinion, so watching the prices last week it seemed that everyone knew Rebecca was the next to be shown the door... everyone outside the house that is......Read more »

Big Brother 9 Betting: How will Luke survive without his sweetheart? By winning?

Mike Norman / 26 July 2008 / Leave a comment

Rex might avoid eviction this week but he should still be very afraid, says Mike Norman....Read more »

Big Brother 9 Eviction Market: Week 7

Chicken Dinner / 24 July 2008 / Leave a comment

If Bex goes, Luke might enjoy a bit of a renaissance and there could be rocky roads ahead for the dullards, says Chicken Dinner....Read more »

Mercury Music Prize 2008 Betting: In Rainbows heads the market

Maxliu / 23 July 2008 / Leave a comment

Thom Yorke and the boys are the early favourites in the volatile Mercury Music Prize market. About time too, says Max Liu....Read more »

Big Brother 9 Winners Market, Week 7: Godless dullness

Chicken Dinner / 21 July 2008 / Leave a comment

"She stares off alone into the night with the eyes of one who hates for just being born," sang Bruce Springsteen. If only, sigh Chicken Dinner, as a humungous-eyed Angelina Jolie wannabee swinging from a tyre becomes a frightening symbol...Read more »

No bark, no bite, just a jive-talking Napoleon and a bitchy bag of bones

Feizal Rahman / 21 July 2008 / Leave a comment

The absence of Bulldogs in the house reflects a lack of spirit in the nation. And things will only get worse if entertainers continue to be punished, says Feizal Rahman....Read more »

Big Brother 9 Betting: Pack your bags, Belinda

Chicken Dinner / 16 July 2008 / Leave a comment

Toff Rex will be sticking around for another week but it won't be long before he meets his public. Meanwhile, night is falling fast for the jazz singer....Read more »

Big Brother 9 Betting: Like watching your dad trying to bodypop

Chicken Dinner / 14 July 2008 / Leave a comment

A reverse personality by-pass, new romantic cruelty and crashing bores leave the way open for unlikely Dale....Read more »

Big Brother 9 Betting: nocturnal jazzer in a funk

Feizal Rahman / 14 July 2008 / Leave a comment

Unfunny Bex pulled off the oldest trick in the book as Mario's antics sealed his fate. Now it could be curtains for the am-dram diva from Devon....Read more »

Big Brother Betting: Mario is out, Dale is in with a chance

Mike Norman / 12 July 2008 / Leave a comment

"Mystical" Mike Norman wasn't surprised to see Mario depart the house, nor is he surprised to see Dale's price come in. Here's the latest news from the house and in particular how the weekly task has shaken things up....Read more »

Big Brother 09 Betting: Week 5 Eviction market: Could Bex pull off a great escape?

Chicken Dinner / 09 July 2008 / Leave a comment

Coventry's squawkiest is enjoying a well-timed renaissance and that's bad news for Mario....Read more »

Big Brother 9 Betting: Luke's wit lifts him above back-stabbers

Chicken Dinner / 07 July 2008 / Leave a comment

If the Big Brother house represents a realistic cross-section of society then be warned, absolutely everyone you know is judging your every move behind your back. Even members of your own family. Shame, because they could be concentrating on making...Read more »

Big Brother Betting: Feizal's Thoughts - New contestants, new lease of life for the house

Feizal Rahman / 07 July 2008 / Leave a comment

It's been an eventful week in the house, not less because it's been a case of one out, three in through the front door. Here's what Feizal has made of it all....Read more »

Big Brother Betting: Life in the animal house analysed by our resident psychologist* Mike Norman

Mike Norman / 05 July 2008 / Leave a comment

* Ok, not quite a psychologist but he's glued to the box watching the action, so read his thoughts on the madness that is BB9 here...Read more »

Big Brother Eviction Market Week 4: Time to say goodbye to an evil ice queen

Chicken Dinner / 02 July 2008 / Leave a comment

The Big Brother house might yet be a model for tolerant society. Because you can be as irritating, irksome and weird as you like. Just don't be cruel....Read more »