Big Brother 11 / Eliot Pollak / 17 June 2010 /

Eliot Pollak fancies the earliest of exits for Shabby, the market leader for the first eviction on Big Brother XI

A sub-standard first week. That awful, incessant droning noise. And a lack of any real scoring. No kids, not the old four week football tournament that Blatter has managed to ruin - we're talking Big Brother XI.

This Friday night will see the first eviction, or 'first evictee' as those crazy guys at Betfair have decided to call it. The markets tell us it looks like a two-horse race right now between Shabby and Rachael, with Sunshine an outsider at 5.1.

Our money is on Shabinho. Cast your mind back to last year's BB (I know, I know, you've only just managed to cleanse your brain and forget them all), but she is quite similar to that series' first official evictee, Sofia - brash, opinionated, sexually confusing (although not sexually appealing). She also took being nominated very badly, which tends to egg viewers on to see just how badly she will take being thrown out the house itself.

Rachael is [3.1] to be the first booted out. This column has often written about the troubles fitties have in the Big Brother jungle. But I think she should survive this weekend, as the public will be sympathetic that she wasn't actually nominated. If being British is about anything these days, its about being sticklers to rules.

In addition, the bitter Bridget Jones types watching, may be enjoying Rachael struggling to come to terms with the fact that no one in the house has any interest in having it off with her. It's a good storyline - she'll stay.

If you fancy an upset, cast your mind back to the early years of Big Brother, which often saw the weird outsider shown outside on Week One. Think Sada in BB1 or Penny in BB2. If we have come full circle in this last series, expect the skies to cloud over for Sunshine in a shock result.

Whilst the front-runner to win unsurprisingly remains Steve at [6.2], the three big movers are Mario, Corin and John James. Corin will appeal for her brainlessness (people love that!), whilst Mario could come good after a fine start during his mole task.

Yet the early money of this column is on John James, currently flying in the face of Australian stereotypes by being a very serious young man. He's probably the easiest to like at the moment, and has a clear appeal to the ladies too. He also has the edge for me over another early front-runner, [8.6] Nathan, who one suspects isn't quite metrosexual enough for the hordes of gasping lunatics who vote in these things. Which reminds me - anyone got the number to vote Shabby out?

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