Celebrity Big Brother: hyper-sexualised link bait, and bloody entertaining

Big BrotherShoot me now – but I’m loving this year’s Celebrity Big Brother. The last rites have been said over the format many times, but it’s almost as good as when Galloway became a cat or when Vanessa Feltz went mental.

I caught the end of it on Tuesday, and soon found myself cackling at the sight of reality no-marks from TOWIE and Luisa from The Apprentice hob-nobbing with the light entertainment legend that is Lionel Blair. What was columnist Liz Jones doing there, nervously twisting her mane of dark hair? Or boxer Evander Holyfield, or the strangely angry Linda Nolan? Or Jim Davidson? Or the idiot savant rapper Dappy. They had some bloody good bookings. Continue reading