Get Nicole Out!

BB has dropped some clangers in its time.

Letting Suzie nominate Grace and Nikki. Sending Cameron off to Africa. Letting Makosi choose Orlaith over Kinga. Charley's fake eviction. Evicting Federico AND Jon Tickle in the same night. The Halfway house. Giving Liam a hundred thousand pounds four days after entering.

But putting Nicole in the house has got to be up there with the worst of them.

I mean, why? I said yesterday it must have seemed like a good idea at the time. But be careful what you wish for. Rex said it when she was in there, and BB producers must be thinking it now.

Everything was going swimmingly on Friday night. Love him or loathe him, the house needed to settle after Luke's eviction.

Instead, half an hour later, Nicole was in. Rex has been neutered. Now he thinks he must be popular. He's also been handed another ticket to fame, on a plate. Get ready for photos of lovebirds Rex and Nicole being plastered all over the usual magazines for the next six months. Rex isn't being obnoxious now that his girlfriend's there because he isn't desperate to leave, but he isn't trying to win either, because now he cares even less than he ever did about that. It's pointless.

Nicole doesn't even want to be there! She didn't even audition. She'll probably walk the moment he's evicted, and if she's evicted first, Rex may well do the same. She isn't interracting with the others, and he isn't interacting with the others.

Meanwhile Dale and Stu, realising that Rex is being favoured over them, dream of leaving all the more. And Mohamed sleeps all day.

The girls buzz around being jolly because they know they'll get their photos taken anyway, and Mikey carries on being Mikey because that's what Mikey's like. He was never going to get the girl, and knew that.

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Then of course, there's Darnell. He's never had a girlfriend, and thinks he never will. Sara blew him out over his fairly harmless sex joke, and he's gone into the mightiest of sulks. Crossing the divide and sleeping in hell, he's now been banned from nominating.

To top that, the hellbound trio of Kat, Mikey and Nicole were also banned from nominating after failing a virtually impossible task: eat a hundred almost raw brussels sprouts.

What madness is this?

So, no Darnell, no Kat, no Mikey, no Nicole. Good news for Dale, I suppose. But trying to figure out who's nominated, and how it will pan out is futile. They started messing with nominations last week, and once they do that, they usually keep it that way.

There is one way out of this for the BB producers: punish Rachel. Bless her heart. She is still the one I want to win, but there is a thin line between putting others first and being a doormat, and she's crossed that line. She's been doing the washing up in spite of the fact that, as Head of House, she's not allowed to. Currently immune from nomination, it wouldn't surprise me if she's automatically put up for nomination as a result. But so what? I can't see her being evicted any time soon.

Put everyone up? They more or less did this last week, and that didn't cause a divide. In fact, it did the opposite. The more people up for eviction, the less paranoid they are. They all bond under common suffering, and no one feels more hated than the others.

They could make somehow conspire to make Nicole Head of House, I suppose. Crucially, though, NicoRex has to be split up. How about a chain-gang task ( as first seen in BB5 ) with Nicole joined at the hip to Dale?

They gotta do something.