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

Big Brother 11 / 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.

Jennifer [[1.11] to get the boot on Betfair] will face the booing crowds on Friday, having committed a number of cardinal Big Brother sins.

Unfortunately for the dinky little Geordie, the voting public demands that beautiful girls on television be either a bit thick or enormously sweet - like, say, Kelly Brook, for example. From Day One, Jennifer has been far too savvy, far too opinionated (in that she had some opinions), and by bitching about her fellow tenants, she will have completely alienated the masses. Voters can't stand bitching, it makes them sad. She went into the house a ballsy single mum, but has morphed into an evil ice queen, observing the other housemates from the depths of her bathroom hideout. It's probably best that she go now - another week she'd only be seen in night vision scuttling about the kitchen foraging for snacks.

Dale and Stuart will, of course, be totally devastated. Their roles in the house will be dictated in the coming weeks. Dale would be wise to showcase a lighter side of his personality - gormlessly staring at Jennifer hasn't done a great deal for his winning chances. It will be interesting to see how the males of the house cope with the womenfolk dwindling. Stuart, the more dominant of the pair, will probably tussle with Rex and Mario for the Alpha male role.

The other inmate facing eviction, Rex [11.0], will be safe for the time being. Regardless of his immovable smirk and voice so posh that it's just one big slurring noise, he has earned all important sympathy points, as the housemates seem to enjoy ganging up on him. Paul from series two had a similar problem, and he survived five public votes.

On very thin ice is Rebecca - not so long ago threatening to be the dark horse of the show. She appears to have gone into total meltdown, her cheerful demeanor replaced with a teenage surliness. Vandalizing hapless Mohamed's favourite belt pretty much signed her death warrant. Next Friday, she could easily become the fifth girl to get the boot, leaving the house absolutely heaving with blokes, give or take the odd bodybuilder or cookie monster.

Cemented in the house for the time being are Luke - popular and back to his best during the nomination show - Kathreya, Darnell, and the world's most disturbing middle aged couple, Mario and Lisa. Somehow, literally no one knows how, the lovers have managed to win over the insiders, thanks solely to not being mean. Irritating and irksome, yes, but never cruel.

Mikey, though not half as popular as the insiders probably assume, did benefit hugely from the recent "pretend to be blind" task, so should also be safe for a time. His thrilling affliction would have been a brilliant votes magnet in years gone by, but the viewers, like the show, have become increasingly cynical. He won't win

And as for Rachel - she has done nothing to rile the viewers, even though her housemates find her sickeningly kind. Safe for a bit.

Hence, Chickendinner predicts Jennifer to be slung in front of the baying mob this week, and Bex to go next week.