Big boother
What I’ve learned is that we’re all idiots at different times.
A reflective Geri Horner on our collective foolishness.
Big Brother did request that there were no boos at this year’s evictions – but clearly that message didn’t entirely get through.
Friday saw contestants Dylan and Paul evicted to a chorus of boos, after the pair rowed with fellow nominees Trish – who called him a “bully” – and Noky in the days leading up to the double eviction.
Thankfully, Paul has already had some therapy to cope with the fallout.
“I was planning to come out swinging my shirt above my head,” he laughs, having decided against the stunt when he heard the crowd’s jeers. “I just
wanted my mum,” he adds, while confirming he has been speaking to mental health professionals.
The reality star had heard some chants earlier in the evening when audience members started to arrive, and said the fear of what he was about to emerge into meant he no longer wanted to stay in the house.
Having his mum, stepdad and girlfriend waiting by the stage for him “meant the world”, he says, as they and ITV bosses talked him through the difficult situation.
“My mum was saying, ‘Don’t pay any attention to them,”’ he says.
But the boos still came as a shock – especially as he had cleared the air with his housemates following their spat, so had no idea the public would still think there was an issue.
“I was massaging Noky’s calves, it just wasn’t shown,” he laughs.
Big Brother continues on ITV2 at 9pm tonight.
This week’s charts are like a best of British music.
Not only are the Beatles on course for a No. 1, Sir Elton John is creeping into the top 10 album chart this week, which looks set to be dominated by Oasis.
The group’s 25th anniversary reissue of The Masterplan could land the top spot on Friday.
Now all we need is the Gallagher brothers to bury the hatchet – although it’s more authentic of yesteryear that they are still squabbling.
Love Island’s Maura
Higgins was reunited with her ex-Curtis Pritchard while filming Love Island Games and she can’t quite be certain, but she thinks their exchange was pleasant.
“I think I was nice... I think,” she says, uncertainly, to Capital. “I think there might have been moments where I wasn’t too... polite, but I think I made it more of a joke.”
Curtis was probably not entirely amused.
See this pic of Robbie Williams staring straight down the lens of a camera?
You won’t get your own version if you see him in a restaurant.
The singer reckons he can accurately pinpoint all the people who will take sneaky pics of him when he enters an establishment, and has methods of ducking out of shot including pretending to nuzzle his wife.
He says: “If there are a lot of people taking shots I can end up being a bit like Neo from The Matrix.
“Then the game is to avoid the shot AND not make the people I’m with think I’m being weird.
“It’s a great game for someone who doesn’t like going out for food anyway. Restaurants are for grown-ups.”
Quite.
Training for an ultra ultramarathon has forced Vernon Kay to get into shape.
His diet has been completely overhauled as he prepares for the gruelling four-day challenge for Children in Need, including banning himself from eating after 7pm.
Now he’s like an early bedtime Gremlin.
“My Achilles’ heel was crisps and the odd Wagon Wheel or Penguin of an evening,” he grumbles to Radio Times.
“Now if I’m snacking, it’s nuts, carrot sticks with hummus, something boring like that.
“No booze either – I haven’t had a drink for five weeks. My times are coming down and the waistline is slowly diminishing, so it seems to be working.
“Mind you, I could murder a Galaxy and a bag of salt and vinegar Walkers.”
18:59 must be horrible.
It might seem like the gruelling challenges on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins were the worst things the stars had to endure, but some struggled with the company they were forced to keep – and oddly, it wasn’t former Health Secretary Matt Hancock who was the problem.
Love Islander Teddy Soares reveals a flock of bats started circling the recruits’ camp on their first night.
“I thought, ‘Is someone going to come and get these?’” he recalls.
He credits that moment with helping him realise they really were going to have to fend for themselves.
...And live with Matt Hancock.