Big Brother 9 Eviction Market: Week 7

Big Brother 11 / 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.

At [1.31] to go on Betfair, Rebecca is the huge favourite to meet the baying mob on Friday evening, and since Stephanie expired with 48 per cent on the votes in the very first eviction, the rest have been relatively straight forward. The only thing that could realistically have saved Bex was her budding surrealist romance with skinny in-house comedian, Luke, but even that hasn't been enough. Her biggest downfall has been her lack of empathy with her fellow insiders - she comes across as spoilt at best, just downright mean at worst - and Luke fans will probably be eager to see how he copes on his own two feet. After all, Jennifer's exit served as a renaissance for Dale's fortunes - might the same thing happen for a scrawny politics student from Wigan?

Although Mohamed [[5.8] to go] looked in grave danger at the beginning of the week, few people expected Bex to be nominated, which is a real lucky break for Mo. Although he loves to roam the house eating or randomly accusing people of hating him, Mohamed is dull, and when the louder housemates go head-to-head with the quieter ones, the noisy ones tend to go. The voters are far more tolerant of calm people. Darnell [[17.0] to go] will also survive, because he's more popular and a potential winner. He needs to be careful though - his bizarre mood swings have put the other housemates on edge, and he is in danger of finding himself regularly facing eviction. He needs to get back to being that gentle disadvantaged minority representative that the nation was falling in love with. He's got all the right winning qualities - an enthralling back story, an affliction, a smooth singing voice.

As for those who are safe for the time being, rocky roads lie ahead. Bex looks set to become the last of the loud grating voices to go - following Jennifer, Alexandra, Dennis, Sylvia and Mario - so the axe will soon start to teeter above the heads of the duller housemates. That means in the coming weeks, expect a clear out including Mohamed, Maysoon [[70.0] to win on Betfair], Stuart [20.0], Sara [85.0], Lisa [60.0], and, of course, the world's most restrained woman, Rachel [23.0] - unless toilet-cam is streaming images of her mumbling like a madwoman, she must surely be the planet's most agreeable human being. It's disgusting. All of the above have brought little to the house by way of entertainment, and the three who were supposed to supply the all-important sex appeal - Stu, Sara, May - should be ashamed of themselves, they have all been hopelessly one-dimensional.

One man treading a very fine line, however, is Rex [17.0]. His endless bragging has started to creep ever more into the highlights shows, and without Bex on hand to dance toplessly around the garden, the producers might shift focus to his unbelievable arrogance. Hence, he could be the next to go.

Safe for now are Dale, Luke, Mikey and Kat. Dale [11.0] will have picked up enough of the hormonal teenie vote to last for some time yet, Luke [6.2] is providing most of the sound bites, and Kathreya [2.94] is impossible to dislike. As for Mikey [14.5], until they start to nominate him en masse, his survival is guaranteed. And unfairly so, being that he's a whiny little oik, eyesight or no eyesight.

Chickendinner predicts: Rebecca to go, Dale to win