Big Brother Armageddon.

I've finally worked out what happened in the UK version of Big Brother last Friday (13/8). Jo was evicted from the house by public vote which I think was a good thing because she didn't seem to be enjoying her time in the house. The producers then revealed their big surprise. The competition part of the series would end on Tuesday August 24th with the winner being announced during a live show. The producers would then fill the house with past winners and popular contestants from previous series to give the show a last hurrah as the final series comes to an end.

In order to bring the show to an early end this week four housemates were evicted from the show and all the housemates faced the public vote. All that is except Josie who was awarded a golden ticket that guarantees her a place in the final. That golden ticket was awarded during last Friday's live show by the other housemates. This time it was Andrew who took control of the high pressure situation. The fact he chose Josie didn't come as much of a surprise because as soon as he entered the house Andrew developed an almost unhealthy infatuation with Josie that the other housemates had to put pressure on him to tone it down.

If all this wasn't dramatic enough on Tuesday night (17/8) the forces of nature seemed to conspire to wipe the Big Brother house from the face of the earth during a flash flood. The Big Brother house is a temporary, flat-roofed structure that isn't exactly up to building code. Through out the series the housemates have been entertaining themselves by playing makeshift football with balled up socks. Many of these socks ended up on the roof of the house and in the guttering. So when an intense summer thunder storm struck on Tuesday night about one and a half feet of water gathered on the roof. With the drains blocked this water had nowhere else to go other then straight down, into the house which is packed with cameras. microphones and miles of electrical cable. This forced the producers to evacuate the housemates to an office building on the site for around six hours while the house was made safe and a temporary bedroom was set up. This meant the housemates spent most of the week confined to the garden and the temporary bedroom while the production crew tried to dry out the rest of the house in between bouts of sitting quietly in the corner rocking gently.

Nervous breakdowns aside the four housemates that have been evicted tonight (20/8) were;

Steve,
Corin,
Sam,
John James.

This leaves in the final;
Josie,
Andrew,
Mario,
JJ,
Dave.

Personally I'm a bit surprised by that because I thought Steve and Corin were certainties for the final. However the voting appears to have been taking over by teenage girls.