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Big Brother 9 Eviction Betting: Desperate Sara hoovers up sympathy points

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The final eviction - if Channel 4 are to be believed - finds Sara up against Lisa, which means that serial bores like Rachel and Mo have made it to the final.

Mohamed is lucky to be immune from eviction, and must surely be one of the most fortunate housemates in the history of the show - he looked destined for the chop from the get-go. While also safe are Kathreya and Mikey. Both will be popular with the viewers - her for being a zany little cartoon woman whom no one could hate, him for his blindness. The Scotsman has his condition to thank for his popularity, as without it he'd simply come across as a massive moaner with an eating disorder - in that he seems completely incapable of locating his mouth with his hands. The hours spent watching Mikey smear food around his face are some of the more unpleasant spent this year. Either way, a certain finalist.

Of those with a dark cloud looming above, Sara [1.85 to go on Betfair] is probably in the gravest danger. As a new arrival and an Australian she was never going to win the thing, and her inability to snaffle the crown should make her a popular eviction choice. If only Darnell hadn't gone into a total meltdown, that is. As the albino singer began laying into her for no apparent reason, she was busily hoovering up all-important sympathy points, and he may have inadvertently handed her a life raft. Before she became the victim of in-house bullying, Shilpa Shetty didn't look like a Celebrity Big Brother winner, so Sara could yet make the final. She won't win, however, her voice is way too appalling - like a Moog gone wild.

As for Lisa [2.04] to go, she is still the dark horse to win the show should she make it past Friday. Since Mario oozed from the house she has morphed into one of the finest contestants ever. Clearly bananas, she has grown more important to the house as a mother hen, and by agreeing to marry Mario on telly, she will have won over the voters looking for a romantic journey to coo over. It's going to be a tight one though, and much depends on how far Sara's sympathy vote can carry her. A hunch suggests that Lisa should be safe.

Both Darnell and Rex have unraveled somewhat in the closing weeks of the programme. Rex's long slurring poshness was considered Bond-like and sophisticated by swathes of early voters, until his oik of a girlfriend turned up forming the most hideous couple seen on television since Jade took her thick boyfriend onto Celebrity Big Brother. Plus the bullying debacle hasn't helped either. And Darnell, who by all accounts should be preparing his winning speech, but keeps butchering himself in the foot, has thrown it all away. Picking on Kat and Sara in the same week has proven fatal, and now he won't win it.
What an idiot.