Two Big Characters Were Evicted From The Big Brother House Last Night (... and Claire & Krystal were also evicted)

Wifey and I were out last night, and unfortunately the tape we left running to record Big Brother's double eviction ran out just as the first evictee, Claire, finished walking down that catwalk-thing and met Gretel on stage. At that point, Chris, Max and Krystal were all still waiting in the Exit Room for find out who the second evictee was going to be.

This means we saw nothing of the Housemates' reactions to the second evictee's name being read out, the prizes the two evictees received (was it more prizes than last week?), their reunions (if any) with family and friends, and their answers to Gretel's probing questions. Although it was a little annoying to miss all of these things, we knew we could at least jump online and immediately find out who the second evictee was.

Imagine our surprise/delight, then, when we were greeted by this picture on the official Big Brother website:



It looks like Claire's thinking: "Great. So now I have to spend the next seven days touring the country doing interviews with this waste of space??" ... while Krystal's thinking: "Teeheehee, I'm purrdy! People like me! Yay for my big fake boobies that made all this possible!"

Frankly, I thought new Housemates Chris and Max would be the ones to go, although I did predict to Wifey during the week (and referred to my theory here, in both of my replies to Enny in the comments section) that I thought Claire might suffer from the same fate Gaelan did; that being that the public might resent the Housemate in question for feeling too 'safe', when in reality we haven't had an opportunity to evict them for so many weeks. In other words, the Australian public likes to send a message to such people that just because they manage to avoid nomination for a long stretch, doesn't necessarily equate to their popularity on the outside. Meanwhile, Wifey has been chomping at the bit for Krystal to get off our TV screens, and I can't say I have a problem with that scenario either. The woman is insipid*.

* Krystal, that is. Not Wifey.

More disappointingly (for me), was that we also missed out on anything Gretel said at the end of the show concerning this final week of BB06. Any word on the eviction schedule? I was expecting to hear something before the credits rolled.

I guess I'll find out tonight (if no one reading this wants to fill me in beforehand). But first I'd better say a few words about our evicted Housemates.



I thought Claire was pleasant enough, although Wifey hated her boring nature and monotonous, monotone voice. It was also amusing to keep track of how she put Gretel's name into each answer she ever gave the host when asked a direct question (which actually shows she was raised to speak very properly, even if she wasn't taught to speak with any inflection). I thought she might sneak through 'til the end, but it seems that, as Bart Simpson once said, "the mob has spoken".



It's a good thing this vain and stupid woman is out of the House at last. I'm not a woman-hater (in fact, despite her recent repulsive behaviour -- which I hope will be curbed somewhat now that she hasn't got her gossip buddy Krystal in the House anymore -- I think Camilla will [and deserves to] win). In fact, it's because I care about the women (and young impressionable girls) of this country that I felt Krystal couldn't be evicted fast enough. She epitomises the regretfully-cemented idealogy in this world that girls have to be pretty and shapely and constantly made-up to be accepted and liked and worthy of anyone's time. I detest that she underlines this -- and worse, that everyone else seems to accept and confirm it for her (and for the teenage girls watching). Begone, you plastic-chested, rouge-cheeked, Egyptian-Mummy-eyed, she-mullet-haired, poor-women's-lib-representative, you!

One final point. In reading through the online BB Diary to see what happened after the two girls were evicted, I was quite amused by the following quote from Jamie, which I include here complete with the BB staff member's original typos:

"There are more twists in this show that a 500g packet of twisties," says Jamie, "there is a lot of twists in this show and a lot of twists in a packet that large."

Beautiful analogy. And I especially love how he went to so much trouble to be certain we understood that both the show and the packet of Twisties contain so many twists! Thank you, Jamie.


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