Big Brother 11 / Dan Fitch / 29 July 2009 /

It's eviction time again and Dan 'The Betting Man' Fitch thinks that the international playboy Kenneth, will soon be jetting his way back to Scotland and Karly.

As is the way with so many of my opening sentences, I start with an apology. For the last few weeks I have been leading you to believe that Kris was the most odious man in Britain. It turns out that I was wrong. Sorry Kris. Your banter was indeed 'mint'.

The reason for my drastic change of mind is Kenneth, one of five new housemates that entered the show on Friday and the boyfriend of Karly.

For weeks now, our nations newspapers have been in agreement over the fact that Karly was being bulldozed by some Scottish footballer. So it was something of a surprise that when her boyfriend actually turned out to be a geeky looking Chinese bloke, who looks like Penfold from Dangermouse.

If you're shocked that shallow Karly would go out with someone who's not that good looking, there might be an explanation. Apparently Kenneth has a £100m fortune. Don't tell me that Karly 'dinnae ken' that Ken is absolutely loaded.

So now that we're patting ourselves on the back for being right about Karly's character, what of her other half? Well I can only say this. Not since Sezer in Big Brother 7, has a housemate become so unpopular, so quickly.

In just a few days, Kenneth has heavily flirted with Noirin and Sophie, belittled Karly, boasted about his wealth and made a comment that sounded very like he was claiming that he could get another housemate whacked.

The good news is that Kenneth is up for eviction and is trading at just [1.09] to go. This is quite a feat in a week in which eleven housemates, find themselves up for the chop.

The reason that so many people are up, is entirely down to the Big Brother producers. To coincide with the new housemates entering on Friday, they had a secret task planned for them.

They would call one of the newbies into the diary room. They would then tell them that all five of the new housemates would be put up for eviction, unless they could influence the nominations, so that two randomly selected existing housemates received the most votes. They would then make the new housemate leave the diary room with a hamper of goodies, so that no one was suspicious. What could go wrong?

What went wrong is that the incredibly thick Hira, made it to the diary room first. She selected Freddie and Noirin from the hat, but failed to get her head round the secret task and somehow couldn't find the hamper in the four-foot square diary room, even though I could see it from my vantage point at home.

Hira eventually communicated to the new housemates what their task entailed, in a style similar to when Lassie had to communicate that there was a boy stuck down a well. Kenneth was predictably at one with the duplicitous nature of the task, as were fellow new housemates Tom (posh bloke that the girls are meant to fancy, but don't really) and David (gay bloke that looks like Donkey Kong).

The only person that had the sense to not introduce herself to the general public, by scheming behind people's backs, was Bea (handpicked Halfwit love interest).

This is why Bea at [12.5] is the only new housemate with a chance of winning, while Tom trades at [23.0], David is [28.0], Hira is [80.0] and Kenneth languishes at [510.0].

Bea's reluctance to get involved saw the new housemates fail in the their task, as Lisa and Charlie got the most votes. However, a protest, which saw the housemates wilfully talk about nominations, resulted in Charlie, Freddie, Marcus, Noirin, Siavash and Sophie join the new housemates in the eviction vote.

The only people to not get involved in the protest and therefore avoid possible eviction, were Rodrigo, who trades at [12.0] and Lisa. Although Lisa looks as though she should be on a protest march somewhere, she never breaks the rules. She's my pick to leave next week.

Of the main contenders, Sophie is at [13.0], Charlie is [7.6], Siavash is [5.7] and Freddie remains the favourite at [3.3].

The producers were obviously hoping to create a romance, when they selected hippy Bea to join Freddie in the house. If it comes off, their prices could tumble.

Still, I'd say there was a bigger chance of Freddie copping off, if they hadn't selected a hippy that was half a foot taller than him. Who says that size doesn't matter?

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