Chanelle infiltrates Charley's eviction week

I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but I'm actually starting  to feel sorry for Charley. Here she is, having her long-awaited eviction week, and who's right there beside her every step of the way? Chanelle. Her arch enemy. When Charley appeared on Big Brother's Big Mouth last night, Chanelle was right there beside her on the sofa. Just below Charley's eviction diary on the Channel 4 site, what do we find? Chanelle's eviction diary.

Riddle me this, though: How can Chanelle possibly have an "eviction diary" when Chanelle wasn't evicted? She quit. Surely that should mean forfeiting the right to all of the "fun" things that come with being evicted? Apparently not. In part one of her diary, Chanelle talks about getting a free haircut from David Beckham's hairdresser, and being given free clothes. She is having the time of her life, and by treating Chanelle like an evictee rather than as someone who quit the show of her own free will, Big Brother is just encouraging this culture of "going on Big Brother just to get an agent and pose in some lads mags" we've been seeing this year. And I, for one, am sick of it.

Shabnam did it. Charley did it. And now it seems that Chanelle is doing it, too - going onto the show with the intention of staying just long enough to get noticed, so that when they walk/are evicted there'll be a whole bunch of salivating agents waiting to meet them. No one is playing the game any more - in fact, they don't even seem to recognise that it is a game. None of the contestants seem to care about winning: all they're interested in is which magazines they'll pose for when they get out, and starting a career as a TV presenter. Fair enough, you might say, but it makes for a pretty boring show when the house is filled with people who don't actually care about being evicted, and who put us through day after day of "should I stay or should I go now" shenanigans.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: Big Brother needs to get tougher on quitters. Show them the door as soon as they ask to leave (to discourage the "I'm just asking to leave because I want attention" thing), don't give them the whole eviction week/ BBLB/ Big Mouth experience, and rather than filling two entire shows with someone deciding to leave and then changing their mind at the last minute, give us something interesting to watch instead.

Comments

[tido]

That's because BB select those types of contestants. I think it would be really interesting if one year they selected housemates based on how much people wanted/needed the prize money.

[Big-Blogger]

You're absolutely right - I'd quite like to see that, too.

For me, the first year of Big Brother was the most interesting, because the contestants had no idea how successful it was - for all they knew, it could be being watched by three people, or by no one at all, so they were much less focused on what they were going to get out of it.

The current crop of housemates only seem to be interested in using BB as a springboard to becoming TV personalities, so they stay in the house for a few weeks then get bored and want to leave so they can meet Dermot O'Leary and pose for the News of the World. Makes it much less interesting to watch, I think, although you're right - it's Big Brother's fault for choosing those people in the first place.