Tommy’s Last Night

By Peter Briffa, 21/01/2009

Yesterday a grey-haired former politician got kicked out of the White House. Today, a grey-haired former politician gets kicked out of the Big Brother House.

The similarities between George W. Bush and Tommy Sheridan end there. Tommy himself wouldn't like the comparison, being a leftie of the old school. Where on earth did they find this dinosaur? The sweat shirts with the slogans, the view that private property is terrible, the talk about "comrades", the way he kept calling everybody "bro". I could go on.

Anyway, that's not the half of it. Politics aside the fact is he's not been the most inspiring housemate. He's got on with the lads all right, not got on particularly well with the girls, and swanned around in his shorts and hairy back, just trying to get through the day and keep his head down.

He's ducked out of a couple of tasks, and, being the media-savvy guy that he is, has been a bit too self-conscious to qualify as a Good Housemate. To be a GH, you really have to lose yourself in the show and forget the cameras. Tommy was never going to do that.

No wonder he's doomed to be the first one out in tonight's double eviction.

But who follows him? I reckon it'll be Coolio. It's easy to exaggerate the popularity of Bad Guys. You see them as characters, remember that they they've been at the heart of many of the show's dramas, and think they somehow deserve to do well for trying.

It never works out like that. Darnell and Rex faded behind Sara in the summer BB, remember. They got into a "Bullying" row late in the series, and never recovered. Didn't matter about how well they'd behaved during Spitgate. When the chips were down they were the Bad Guys.

The same happened to Coolio over Michelle. He may have thought it was all banter, but they didn't, and neither did the viewer. Whatever your opinion of Michelle, and to what extent she played the victim in it all, he hasn't done enough since to recover.

I wonder how much the crowd will boo him. Let's face it, without Coolio, the next two days are going to be a whole lot duller.

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Exactly the show is a farce the winner a fix! no public member voted for the urika to win. SO why waste the publics money on voting when the producers rig the vote. I hope the show is scrapped. The worthy winners went out not even in the most realistic order,, latoya verne coolio they had more integrity yet an obvious fix had urika as the winner. Davina is part of the fix she is horrendous and the falseness written all over her. soon as urika came out davina went over hugging whispereing into her ear. what a Fix!! she didnt even have the audacity when latoya came out to hug her,..why is that! what is differnet about her...even in the race row davina never gave jade what for she and this patheric show is waste of time and rubbish!!!. what a fixed up show paying urika more then having to make her win do you think the public are stupid. I will never watch ths fake programme or it s pathetic unfunny davaina again!!!

By anan. Posted January 24 2009 at 12:45 PM.

I think Michelle came across very mature and gentle in her eviction with Davina. She is a very pretty girl and very natural not at all the Orange girl that the papers are always banging on about. I think she cried so much because she was in fact being bullied by Collio. I was very surprised that no one else in the house didn't point this out sooner. he kept going on and on and won't let up. If it had been the other way around and Michelle or anyone else in the house had done this to him the press and media would have declare all out war.

By Charlie. Posted January 20 2009 at 1:11 PM.

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