Mikey to win?

Mikey's still the favourite.

Mario said he wanted him to win, and so did Lisa. So did Stuart, and those two hardly got on at all. In fact, Mikey spent a lot of time slagging Stuart off for even being there. And Sara agreed.

When she told Darnell that Mikey should win, he immediately did that thing that people do on Big Brother that they never do in real life: he dashed off to Mikey to explain himself.

Of course, he wasn't really talking to Mikey. He was talking to us.

Darnell's argument was that people shouldn't want someone to win who they hardly spent much time with, and that they were therefore saying it for the cameras, and he didn't want us, the viewers, to think him a bitter, envious guy talking behind his back, so he went straight over to Darnell to talk it through.

I sort of know what he means. It's been thirteen weeks. You ought to want your friends to win.

But then again, why should you? Just because you don't spend time with someone doesn't mean you don't respect them. You might even like them more than the people you spend time with. You just don't have that much to say to them.

And you might want someone else to win for all sorts of reasons. They need the money. The don't need the money. Whatever. Why should Sara have to justify herself to Darnell?

I think Sara won that little battle.

Yesterday they had a rap task, which they won, and their reward was to watch an earlier episode of the series, one of the ones from the cops and robbers task. That must have been very spooky. The interesting revelation from it, which Darnell and Rex both agreed on, was that Kat didn't come across well at all. No sweetness, just neediness.

We could have told them that.

It must be so weird watching the whole series back. Apparently for some of the less popular housemates, they are actually told by the backroom psychologists not to do it as it might unnerve them. I remember something Dean from BB2 wrote about how his pal Stuart - who was the most unpopular housemates of all time for many years till Sezer left - came across as very arrogant, when he didn't think he was at all.

And Sezer himself said he couldn't watch the show because it just didn't seem to be the show he'd been in. None of them came across like he thought they were when you were there. Okay, those two very unpopular, but even so I also remember Tom from BB1 said he thought he was edited brilliantly: anything bad he did was edited out!

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Which just goes to show... something. And I think that something explains Mikey's appeal. He is the one who takes least part in the endless speculation about who is up and who is down, and who we will like and who we don't. He knows it's down to the editorial side, so there's no point in worrying.

None of the others seem quite to get that.

Hey, even Dale wants him to win. How strange is that? Mikey, after all, called Dale a "total t***er" and "boring bastard", so you could say Dale's being quite generous when he writes on his myspace site:

"Mikey: Absolutely hilarious!! I thought he was a bit of a sex pest at first but hes soo funny and just a down to Earth guy who isnt afraid to say what he thinks and that is something that a lot of the housemates now wont do".

Quite magnanimous of the old boy. He also likes Sara. But he doesn't think much of the rest.

Still, we didn't like Dale much, either, did we?