The Final Five

By Peter Briffa, 22/01/2009

Another eviction, and another wrong prediction.

At least I got Tommy right. But my heart was beating badly by the time he got kicked out. How much humble pie was I going to have to eat today? Fortunately, only a mouthful.

I did get it right about Tommy. But La Toya? No way. And the order they left in was all wrong too.

La Toya got 6.5% of the public vote, and Tommy got 9.2. 9.2? Are there that many radical socialists in Scotland? I can't imagine who else voted for him.

Still, they both came across pretty well in the interviews. Tommy had even predicted La Toya being out first, which is more than I did, but he didn't predict his own. In fact, when Davina told him, he actually looked pretty gutted.

Did he actually think he could win? Or had he just set his heart on being in the final?

He handled it well, though. Seemed pleased to be back to normality, and I liked the fact that he said he did it because it was a "well-paid job". That's not something celebs often say. At least he didn't say he did it for the experience. And he said he'd enjoyed it.

Same with La Toya. She was pretty polite about everyone, though she did go down still arguing that Ben and Michelle fancy the pants off each other. Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but given that they've both got partners, I think we've probably heard the last of that one. Until Ben's interview, when Davina will talk of little else.

So there it is - two days to go. Can Ben win? He's now 33-1 in the betting, which means, basically, no. But bookies have been wrong before. Like last night, for example when Tommy was hot favourite to be first out, and Ben was due to be next.

Of course, so much depends on the editing. Last night Ben hardly featured, whereas Tommy, for once, got a lot of airtime. This must have helped him creep into sixth. Coolio's crying at Obama's inauguration would also have kept him in the game as well.

As ever, the winner of Big Brother isn't really decided by the voters, it's up to the producers. But considering how little Ben featured on yesterday's highlights, he's doing pretty well. All he needs is a good show tonight...

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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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