Get Rid of the Nicknames!

Okay a joke's a joke.

I wasn't exactly splitting my side when I first read about it. And I haven't yet been seen reeling in the aisles, either. Freddie is Halfwit, and Sophie is Dogface. How funny is that?

It really looks like BB is going to persist with this. I thought it would be a one night only thing, but I have recently been having dark visions of them going the entire series like this.

Can Davina resist spilling the beans on eviction night, as out comes Halfwit, and she gently reveals to them that the whole change your name by deed poll thing was a joke! No, I don't think she can. Yet they answer to their names like it's second nature. The joke isn't working within the house any more, and hasn't since the start.

In any case, Freddie isn't a halfwit, and Sophie isn't a dogface. In fact, I have now decided I like them both, warts and all.

Sophie likes being touched up a lot, and doesn't mind who's doing it. Kris, Sree, even Freddie himself, can't get their paws ( sorry ) off her. Still there are worse crimes.

Sure she knows she's sexy and funny and everything and everything. But she really is.
Of course she won't win this, good-looking girls who know it never do. But she'll be worth watching. She's cheerful, and quite a patient listener, and is very good at taking a shower.

Talking of people who won't win brings us back to Sophia. I'm afraid the old girl is toast. The betting is hardening against the little madam, who is about to join Sada, Penny, Lynne, Anouska, Vanessa, Mary, Bonnie, Shabnam, and Stephanie in the long pantheon of first evictees.

All women, note. We feminists have travelled a long way, but there is still so much work to do.

Still, they were a good bunch of nominations. I like the plain speakers, by whom I mean Freddie, Sophie, Marcus, and Lisa. Charlie I thought was particularly feeble, doing the whole "I never thought it would be this is hard" performance before spilling the names he was going to nominate like he's been rehearsing it for twenty minutes. And then he tried to go back and change it!

He's a player, that boy, just not a very good one.

And Angel? What's with the tears? It's only a game show.