Ex-O

Last night Billy and Travis were evicted from the Big Brother House. Boring Billy’s eviction didn’t surprise me too much, but frankly I thought Travis was in there for the long haul.

I’m happy enough for both Aleisha and Zach to still be in there (particularly Zach), but thought it would have been better if Billy had been evicted alongside Aleisha (awwwwww), and Zach was left to run the hours down with his new hetero bestie, Trucker Travo.

But really – as long as Billy’s gone, any of the others could win this thing and I’d be happy enough (but that doesn’t mean I won’t be voting for my favourite tonight: Zach).

Still, back to the boys …

Billy had a remarkable run in the House, for someone who was pretty much entirely unremarkable. He started out as Hayley’s ex, and played a great part in the first week of the show. Then he was summarily forgotten by BB, and allowed to ‘float’ in his non-Housemate status for a few weeks, and yet was not evicted, until he was finally granted Housemate status and allowed to stay.

By this point, Billy had started getting friendly with Aleisha, and as the weeks went on, their romance (of sorts) blossomed (of sorts). The pair became inseparable, and the voting public clearly liked having a romance in the House – for it meant that they were both ultimately safe until the final throes of the show.


Billy, with the girly-man hair.

Billy was also interesting in that he and Andrew seemed to develop a genuine friendship in the House, even though they were effectively ‘spit brothers’, as Andrew is Hayley’s current flame. But that didn’t appear to bother either of them (nor Hayley, it must be said), and the two guys got along like a house on fire. Which would be fine, because Andrew’s a fireman.

Moving on to Travis, this love-him-or-hate-him husband and father was undoubtedly the most ‘ocker’ contestant we’ve ever had on the show; even more so than stupid airhead Reggie Bird, who won $25,000 on series three and blew it all within a couple of months (with nothing to show for it at the end, the moronic idiot). Trav’s imitable way of adding ‘o’ to end of most words or shortening them to his own version of slang or nicknames (sometimes utilising common nicknames or rhyming slang, but sometimes coming up with his own mystifying style of calling things by anything other than their actual name.

‘Bummos’ is one of my least favourite examples. It’s what he calls eggs, because they come out of a chicken’s bum (a startling mishmash of facts if ever I heard one). The idea that the Housemates all had a lengthy debate about exactly where on a chicken’s anatomy the eggs were produced, and if they’d all hatch into baby chicks if left in the hen’s nest was simply mind-boggling. But enough of their stupidity.


Travo came thirdo ...
and that's goodo-nough for meo.

I liked Travis, and I made no bones about it. I certainly don’t believe that he was “putting it on” – clearly the lad hasn’t got the intelligence for that (some people will see controversy and conspiracy wherever they look for it), but he was obviously a very genuine and caring bloke with a wife and son he adores and a heart as big as his ludicrously-sized pectorals.

He would have made better use of the prize money, had he won it, but that’s clearly not going to happen.

Will the eventual winner throw the money away on beer and Skittles like Reggie did? Only time will tell ...


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