Thank goodness that's over..........

That was exhausting just watching.

The level of manipulation, cover-up and deceit by Channel 4 leave a nasty taste in the mouth.

I don't intend to write much more on the subject of CBB apart from to applaud anyone in there I feel deserves applause.

For anyone who wants better and more comprehensive CBB blog coverage, the best I've found is the Times blogs.

See link http://timesonline.typepad.com/big_brother/

Back with comments on real life rather than "reality TV" in the near future.

However it is interesting that when writing on as something as generally vapid as CBB, I get far more readers than normal ?!

Dirk lives to Face another day

Dirk in his younger days.......

I now feel obliged to follow this series of Celebrity Big Brother to the end. As a committed fan and supporter of Dirk Benedict I took some satisfaction that he survived his eviction vote yesterday. In fact, "the Face", obviously has a lot of supporters out there as the only other candidate left for eviction, Carole Malone got over 77% of the vote to be evicted. Therefore Dirk was easily safe, even if he was not really too bothered anyway. Nonetheless, Carole Malone seemed a pleasant and intelligent character so it was disappointing she had to go rather than one of the air heads.

Sadly a "coalition of the talentless" showed some signs of forming with those of no-discernible talent aligning themselves with the remnants of shortlived manufactured bands. Those of real talent (Dirk, Jermaine and Shilpa) are in a minority and may suffer for this and face further nominations by the talentless majority.

As a Big Brother novice I am not certain how all this works. Can Dirk be nominated again straight away ? If so, he should build a tank out of kitchen utensils and other household objects, to smash his way out of the Elstree based prison. Probably he would like to take Shilpa with him.......