Big Brother 13 Launch Night- Why Bother With Surprise Twists?

Well, well, well what have we got here? 16 (SIXTEEN) housemates went into the BB house last night. All of them looked a bit weird and gobby, may we just have a decent series on our hands?

Eye, eye. 

To be honest I've not watched a BB series properly since the days of Brian Belo. I try to always catch the opening show just to see if there are any housemates to truly love/hate. And my goodness there are definitely some housemates you can form an opinion on very quickly this year. I don't want to talk too soon as it can descend into a dull love-in very quickly. If you want a rundown of the housemates why not check out Digital Spy.

But on to the actual launch!

Lydia- not fame hungry at all.

One person who immediately got every body's backs up (well at least on Twitter) is Lydia. Girlfriend to Andy Scott-Lee (she wasn't sure if she was going to tell anyone that, I'm not sure any of them would know who he is anyway), kiss-and-tell-er and professional dancer (she was in Mamma Mia! and Pierce Brosnan gave her some birthday cake once) she's not exactly working on a checkout in Aldi is she? In a "secret surprise twist kinda task" Deana had to nominate 3 housemates straight away in front of everybody and had to give proper reasons for putting them up for nomination. She told Brian Dowling that she'd weed out the boring ones but when push came to shove she really didn't want to do it.

She nominated Conor because he didn't make the effort to speak to her. BB tried to make her give another reason but seeing that it took her an age to come up with that gem I think they just wanted her to name any 3 housemates. She then picked Victoria for her "evil eyes." Brilliant. Lastly she chose Lydia, I think just because she looked at her. Lydia then kicked off saying "I wouldn't have chosen you." Way to make yourself look like a spoilt brat who can't handle nominations.  She's definitely going unless one of the others does something amazingly offensive in the next couple of days.

The twists are what make BB a little bit annoying sometimes. The amount of times Brian explained what Deana had to do become ridiculous. And there is no way I can remember all 16 names or an interesting fact about them all. But if an ex-Playboy bunny, a farmer girl, a couple of Made In Chelsea rejects, a squeaky-voiced bouncer, a gang member and a porn star don't make good TV, then there's no hope for the future of "normal" BB.

It may not be vintage TV any more but this lot might just be entertaining enough to give this series a go.   ANOTHER housemate goes in on Friday when one of these 3 leave.

Other points...

• Caroline is going to get very annoying very fast.
• That thing Conor can do with his wrist? Let's never mention that again.
• There are a LOT of models in there.
• People don't seem to like Brian as a presenter all that much.
• I like Ashleigh because she swears a lot and calls herself a psycho. 
• They've decided against old people this year, unless you can call them a cougar. 

Let the games begin!