More than fifty thousand people had auditioned for the show across the United Kingdom and Ireland and Olive has managed to beat hundreds to end up in the list of 800 hopefuls. In a few weeks from now, a team will come down to Dublin to further narrow down the list. Chances of Olive ending up as one of the final 10 candidates for the reality show are uncertain. However, she does stand a good chance of packing her travel rucksack and setting out to the BB house. Presently, she is on cloud nine and would obviously be thrilled to move into the house.

Olive Reid is an excellent badminton player and she opines that she would fit admirably into the role of housemother in the show if she does get lucky and finds a place in the Big Brother house. The end of May is the time set for the new season of the show and if Olive is lucky enough, we may all get to see her then. She is confident she will empower the younger people to become the mother of the house as she herself has raised nine kids of her own and knows how to handle them.

As the reality show moved on to its final episode, bookies had placed their bets on Verne Troyer to scoop all the prizes with Ladbrokes offering an odds-on of 2-7. More surprises and shocks unfolded when housemates and the crowd watching the show were left dumbfounded with the announcement made by Davina McCall about his intended departure from the show. Davina McCall the star of Austin Powers Movie who left the show amidst screams by fans asking he be put back.

The crowd opined that there was conspiracy in the exit of Verne Troyer. Perhaps, someone arranged to pay off Verne to exit and win big by betting on Ulrika. This is obviously a stretch, and betting on CBB has never been a good a reliable means to raise enough cash for a new giant LCD like the Samsung LE52A656A 52 incher. Former ex-weather girl Ulrika, the eventual winner, was also stunned at the sudden voluntarily exit of Verne. Davina McCall described Troyer as a star par excellence and that he was the bookies favourite contestant to win the title. Verne Troyer, on the other hand, remarks that though he was left feeling great with all these positive reactions of fans, he did not have any regrets. He was happy that he got to participate in such a great show.

She had since been threatening to walk out if she was not selected. Public voting however went against this actress who received only 39% of the votes. Beuna was one of the people who faced the ire along with Malone, Michelle Heaton the Liberty X singer and Ulrika Jonsson, the TV presenter.

When news of Malone’s eviction reached Buena, she said she was going to return home no matter what happens and that she was prepared to face the consequences. Of course, one of these consequences could be that the singer forfeits the £78,000 she was supposed to be paid for doing the show. That is quite a lot of money to forgo, as it could easily buy her a new Mercedes, multiple Sony KDL-70X3500 70 inch giant LCD televisions, or a few ponies for her daughter. The mother of a three year old daughter named Tahlia-Maya, nonetheless refused to stay for another day. She also said she was contemplating leaving for several days now. She thanked them profusely for all the experience and also for making her realize what exactly was important. She said she was prepared for a fight if necessary.

Malone was ecstatic when her name was announced. She features in the Channel 4 drama as Mimi Maguire. She described her experience in the drama as cathartic to Davina McCall, the presenter. This 46 year old said she was relieved to be out of the house and acknowledged the fact that she was one of those who used strong language.

According to Heaton, Tina Malone was too vociferous, intimidating and strong in her language. She created a bad atmosphere in the house.

Michelle called the singer a little cow, and said that she couldn’t still believe that the singer has finally gone away from her life, and for the better.

When asked to comment on the reasons for her being evicted ahead of Ulrika, she was quite forthright in saying that maybe she was more annoying. To this the crowd present at the conference voiced their disagreement prompting her to question the crowd then what led them to vote against her on their mobile phones. Meanwhile, she claimed that Ulrika doesn’t mind being voted out from the show and that she is ready to accept Terry as the winner of the show. She also said that she terribly loved Terry Christian, and that he was to smart for her to understand what he was up to most of the time. ‘He is just too clever for me’, she said.

She though doesn’t have the same feeling towards the rapper Coolio, who according to her is playing an unfair game to win the competition, and at times even intimidating other contestants.

The participants of this year’s event, who include television presenter Ulrika Jonsson and diminutive Austin Powers actor Verne Troyer, have been advised to watch the last series of the reality show so that they can have a better idea of things to avoid when they are residing in the Celebrity Big Brother house. Moreover, it is also expected to help them to behave in a proper manner with the other contestants, most of whom belong to different backgrounds, communities and have different upbringings.

Miss Goody, for her part, had the audacity to call her co-star Shilpa Shetty “Shilpa Poppadom”, apart from hurling many third degree comments that led to wide protests all over, especially in India where her effigy was burnt in many places of the country. The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown also strongly condemned the incident and described that the comments were totally uncalled for. That’s not all as protests reached a feverish pitch and the situation quickly spiralled out of control prompting the Channel 4 bosses to render a quick apology and disown Miss Goody from the show.

Miss Goody particularly turned out to be the villain number one of the country, with many names hurled at her leaving her totally traumatized. Though she asked for an unconditional apology to the Indian people and Shilpa Shetty, in particular, the incident has left an impregnable impact and highlighted the deep rooted racial discrimination that still exists in the country.

The Channel is yet to reveal the final list of contestants, but it is very likely that Mr Sheridan’s ten housemates would be made up of former weather presenter Ulrika Jonsson, the dwarf actor Verne Troyer and the American rapper Coolio, among others.

Mr. Sheridan is, however, not the first to get a taste of the reality series, for that record is held by George Galloway, the Respect MP and fellow left-wing diehard, who created a stir some two years ago. Mr. Galloway is much renowned for donning a red leotard and for performing a robotic dance. The gentleman also showed great competitive juice as he lasted the grueling competition for a respectable 22 days and was fourth to be evicted.

But to expect such excellence of Mr Sheridan is pretty unrealistic, since, according to bookies and the who and who of the game show world, he lacks the charisma and presence to appeal the traditionally young viewers of the reality television show. Indeed, the ratings for political shows are not nearly as high as for Big Brother, and, I for one, would rather watch something other than MPs debating on my Samsung HTTZ315R home cinema. Moreover, Sheridan’s strident opinions and no-nonsense attitude can create too much discord with the audience for his own good.

Rupert Adams, from William Hill, picked Troyer as the one to look out for and ranked him at 7-2, while Mr Sheridan found himself as a rank outsider paired alongside the likes of singers Mutya Buena and Michelle Heaton at odds of 14-1.

The Channel has though stayed from making an official comment as of yet, instead preferring to maintain a dignified silence over the matter. We can only take the silence as an admission of truth, so it appears BB fans, myself included, will no longer be able to watch the show live from the convenience of their Dell Studio laptop, or any other laptop for that matter. The development, which was first reported by The Sun, is widely believed to have emanated from the Channel 4 bosses concerning the ambiguity surrounding the show’s editorial policies, which for the record took a beating last year when the infamous racism row threatened to shake the very fabric of the channel.

A source close to the channel is reported to as saying to The Sun that fans loyalty will be short-changed, and that the Channel’s recent antics have really brought shame to the show and has turned it into a shameful circus. The scrapping of the live feed clearly lacks in taste, and his pretext for scrapping the live feed show, among others, is invariably to increase his authority and control.

He further added that the latest development has transformed what has been one of the most anticipated and sought for events to a mere entertainment show where audience now have to bear with celebrities doing silly tasks. Moreover, if the show doesn’t run the stipulated 24 hours then it may act as another repellent for the audience. He went on and stated that he show is now more of a watered version of ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’ than anything else.