Celeb Big Brother: Was Pantsgate one of the greatest episodes ever?

Published Tuesday, Jan 24 2012, 12:59 GMT | By Alex Fletcher

Reality Bites made the hasty claim on Twitter last night that yesterday's Pantsgate episode of Celebrity Big Brother was one of the best ever episodes.

After a long sleep and some serious contemplation about the glory days and golden era of the Jungle Cats, everything in Big Brother 2 and 3, Ben Duncan's hair, Science, Spiral's rap and the Aisleyne vs Nikki forum wars, we stand by the claim. Last night's Big Brother on Channel 5 wasn't just the best episode since it moved from Channel 4, it was one of the finest in the show's history.

It all started fairly innocuously with Frankie Cocozza dressed as a bee and failing to spell 'pansy'. But a load of beer and one burst of 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' later and the whole episode exploded into a flurry of legal threats, tears, screams and one of the greatest Big Brother quotes of all time courtesy of women's rights activist Nicola McLean.

For 30 minutes, Channel 5 had unmissable television.

Denise Welch prowling the house, bleary-eyed, glugging from a bottle of beer, all wild hair and smudged eyeliner.

Playboy she-devils the Shannon twins, firing out barbs about Frankie Cocozza's "puny little d**k" and shooting deliciously evil stares and legal threats at anyone who crossed their path.

A haggard Nicola McLean screeching for her freedom, hurling herself to the floor and proclaiming herself a "secret feminist" who can't possibly bear another second in the same house with Mad Hatter Welch. "We're not whores!" screamed McLean, Nuts magazine's Face of Feminism 2012.

Frankie Cocozza, who has spent the majority of his time on the show trying to keep his genitals in his pants and gurning to the cameras about how much he loves girls (phwoar!) and sex (getinthere!) and stuff (more phwoar!), suddenly looks like the voice of reason, calmly adjusting his shaggy moptop and watching the madness ensue from the sofas.

Poor old Romeo Dunn sat on a garden bench with his head in his hands, wondering why he opted for Celebrity Big Brother rather than a So Solid Crew reunion.

Gareth Thomas stalking the house bare-chested, wondering why he can tackle 18 stone monsters who want to chew his ears off on a rugby pitch, but finds himself behaving wetter than an otter's pocket when confronted by a bazzoka-boobed glamour model.

Meanwhile, the bloke from Free Willy is curled up in the corner somewhere smoking a fag and wondering how it all came to this.

It might not have matched the infamous Big Brother 5 'Fight Night' (but then what can), but last night's episode was about as gripping and thrilling as Big Brother gets. After three weeks together, the celebrities are not just frayed at the edges, they're beaten, ripped and shredded to bits.

There is no acting anymore. Nicola McLean and Denise Welch went in the house with preconceived ideas of who they were and how they wanted to present themselves. After 20 days locked up with Michael Madsen, the gameplaying twins and loads of booze, there is nothing left to unravel.

Too often Celebrity Big Brother suffers from the fact that it doesn't run for long enough. A normal non-Celeb series usually only warms up around the fourth to fifth week when the boredom creeps in and the cracks in the relationships over 'who ate all the cornflakes' evolve into giant craters of 'I want to stab her eyes out' hatred.

The fact that Nicola and Denise have clearly been covering up resentment and smothering their internal desire to bicker and rip each other's hair out for the past fortnight, the twins' open admission about "playing the game" and desire to win, everything to do with Michael Madsen, the cheeky grin on the sidelines from Cocozza, all combined to make for platinum standard Big Brother.

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Ouf! Les jumelles ont survécu à l'élimination d'hier. C'est Nicola et Romeo qui ont dû quitter.

Si jamais il fallait que les jumelles gagnent vendredi, ça risque d'être malade comme finale. Je prédis encore plus de huées que pour Aaron.

En finale : Les jumelles, Michael, Denise, Frankie et Gareth.

Personnellement, je trouve que c'est une très bonne finale. Ce sont les jumelles, Michael, Denise et Frankie qui ont fait le show, alors c'est super qu'ils soient tous là.

Frankie est présentement le favori pour gagner.

'We can win Celebrity Big Brother!' Deluded Playboy twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon brag that they will be victorious

By J J Anisiobi
25th January 2012
Daily Mail

Some very stranger characters have been in the Big Brother house over the years but the twins may just be the most conceited housemates ever. After becoming public enemy number one with viewers after yesterday's fight night with Denise Welch and Nicola McLean, Karissa and Kristina Shannon admitted that they believe they can win the show.

The Playboy twins seemed unaware that they were not favourites in the house and were way behind retired Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas and X Factor reject Frankie Cocozza.

After Frankie stood up to the twins last night his chances of winning the show went up according to Boylesports and he has even chances of 1/1 to win on Friday. Behind him, former favourite Gareth has odds of 13/8 and Denise was at 13/2 while the twins were only at odds of 22/1.

The way the Playboy models behaved towards Denise yesterday and their constant plotting for votes has worked against them with viewers growing increasingly frustrated with them.

The twins showed just how unaware they are of their declining popularity on tonight's show when they spoke to Big Brother about staying in the house. When Karissa was asked if she was happy that she decided to remain in the house after demanding to leave the night before she admitted that she is because she thinks they can win. She said: 'I think that I would have been upset if I had gone and left my sister here and I have a feeling that we have a good chance of winning and that's what we intend to do.'

Karissa, who accused Frankie of sexually harassing her, may have also come across as arrogant when she earlier told Big Brother that she is certain the 18-year-old wants to sleep with her and her sister. 'He’s got the hugest crush on us, obviously he wants to bang us,' she said before adding, 'he’s disgusting.'

Frankie wasn't the only housemate to be put down by the glamour model as Romeo was on the receiving end of a Denise aimed rant. While sitting in the garden, Romeo tried to mediate with the twins and explained to them Denise wasn't a bad person. Karissa replied: 'To me she’s toxic. When I leave here, there’s nothing between us.'

C'est vraiment comique de suivre les théories des anti-twins pour expliquer pourquoi les jumelles sont toujours là.

1) Hugh Hefner vote massivement pour les sauver.

2) D'après une amie de Denise sur Twitter, les jumelles auraient engagé une équipe pour voter pour elles.

3) Les Américains votent massivement via Facebook.


En plus, Brian Belo (gagnant de BBUK8) a pété une coche hier à Bit On The Side, affirmant que c'est la faute des membres du forum Digital Spy puisqu'ils sont pro-twins.

Finale ce soir. Déjà.

Bien hâte de voir le résultat. D'après moi, Frankie va gagner. Il est en tête de quelques sondages, sauf sur le forum de Digital Spy où ce sont les jumelles qui sont en tête. Ça sera malade si elles gagnent.

En tout cas, j'espère seulement que les jumelles vont finir devant Denise. Toute la semaine, depuis la grosse chicane de lundi soir, la gang de Bit On The Side a tout fait pour remonter l'image de Denise et en faire la victime incomprise. Par conséquent, ils ont passé toute la semaine à basher les jumelles. Ça serait donc pas mal drôle de voir les jumelles battre Denise.

Les derniers sondages des principaux sites...

Digital Spy
Twins = 32.54%
Michael = 29.09%
Frankie = 16.07%
Denise = 12.72%
Gareth = 9.57%

Thisisbigbrother
Frankie = 27.8%
Twins = 25.8%
Denise = 18.8%
Michael = 15.2%
Gareth = 12.5%

BBSpy
Frankie = 32%
Twins = 26%
Denise = 19%
Michael = 12%
Gareth = 11%

Tellymix
Frankie = 31%
Gareth = 23%
Denise = 21%
Twins = 13%
Michael = 12%

Ça passe vite comme saison

willdoo a écrit : Ça passe vite comme saison

Ça ne dure que 3 semaines. J'imagine que sinon c'est trop difficile de trouver une douzaine de personnalités connues pour vivre longtemps dans la maison.

Si tu te cherches quelque chose à regarder avant que les télé-réalités américaines recommencent, je te le recommande. Si je ne me trompe pas, c'était seulement 24 épisodes. Ça se regarde bien et c'était très divertissant.

C'était la première fois que je regardais la version "celebrity", mais d'après les commentaires que j'ai lus ailleurs, plusieurs s'entendent pour dire que c'était une excellente saison.

Voici le résultat final (je mets en spoiler au cas...) :
5e place = les jumelles

4e place = Michael

3e place = Gareth

2e place = Frankie

Gagnante = Denise