Day 14

Govan got kicked out on Friday night with 72% of the vote. A real landslide and one I wasn’t expecting at all. This blindness to the hatred towards him may be due to the point that I don’t watch any of the peripheral shows.

I don’t watch Big Mouth and I don’t watch Little Brother. Partly because I like making my own mind up about the housemates so I don’t like hearing what a Hollyoaks actor thinks about them and partly because they keep giving out information of what will be on the next show. I know the idea of spoilers on a reality TV show is a strange one, but they manage to do it anyway.

It’s possible that if I had watched these sister shows to Big Brother I might have seen this coming but I’m still shocked that it wasn’t Dave or Ben going. Especially Dave after he aired his opinions that gay marriage is immoral. Maybe it was naive of me to think that this and his all round boringness was enough to oust him but either way I was wrong. The same with Ben, he has been pinned as the bad guy a few times in the week leading up to the eviction but it seems (and I’m glad) that the public managed to see through that. Shabby and Govan were on a mission to deflect anger towards Ben and it’s only fair that their efforts failed, and backfired in the case of Govan.

I was as shocked as you, Ben

It was hard not to feel some sympathy towards Govan though as he panicked about the outside world’s treatment of himself and his family now that it was pretty obvious that he is gay. It can be easy to forget that despite often thinking that the world is a more tolerant and understanding place that there is still a large amount of homophobia out in the world. Saying that, it was stupid of Govan to only realize this problem two weeks into being on Big Brother. You’d think he would have understood this months ago or at the very least gave it a thought. I guess it’s that kind of lack of forethought that got Govan evicted in the first place.

He constantly ratted people out and I guess that winds people up more than a schemer. It’s like prison rules. You can do anything except snitch!

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Not much has happened since Govan’s eviction but I did feel sorry for Sunshine which is a miracle in itself. The food got taken away during the week due to Shabby’s constant meddling and discussion of nominations. But, on eviction day the housemates got given some pizzas. Considering Sunshine is a vegan they gave her two small vegan pizzas and a packet of crisps. You’d swear by the housemates’ reaction she was given a four course meal.

It was all pretty pathetic and spiraled down fast. The long and short of it was they moaned at her because she didn’t give her crisps to everyone else despite the fact that she shared her pizza with the housemates. I thought this was selfish on their parts and not Sunshine’s but I’ve been told by my girlfriend that I’m in the minority on that one. It seems I have found a soulmate in the food stakes. It’s mine and you can’t have it!

Bonkers

– Aaron Poole
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