Ok, that's it. I have to vent. Every year, I say "It sucks this year", which is sort of an obvious statement. It never gets good till halfway through. But it is the one reality show I watch avidly, and have remained loyal too. Despite it's decline in quality, which is especially noticeable this year. Here starteth the rant.

5 Reasons Why It Is Dreadful This Year

5. The lack of interesting personalities. Every single intro video as the contestants went in this year was exactly the same as the last. Every single one of them did one of the following - said they weren't afraid to say what they think, weren't afraid to have a fight, would strip, thought themselves mighty sexy and better looking than anyone else who could possible enter the house, or said that they were definitely clever/talented/an unmitigated genius. There appear to be only two categories of idiot this year - Bully and Whiner. Usually, there are at least four categories, some of which overlap. I haven't provided a category in which Kathreya can reside - I don't believe that woman even realises where she actually is. She does semi-fit the Whiner category though, but you can't help but love her. All that Cookie Joy.
And don't start me on Dale. His general expression (except if smiling, when he literally has the face of James Marsden), is that of a cat when they get distracted by something you can't see, and they just kind of stare off wide-eyed into the distance with the tip of their tongue hanging gormlessly out of their mouth. Luke is a two-faced little moron, and Mikey (admittedly because he has to adjust his levels according to where he thinks someone is standing) cannot seem to control THE VOLUME of his VOIIICCCEEE.
4.The lack of psychological vetting before allowing complete SOCIOPATHS to enter the house. I don't believe a word of the baloney (that's right, I said baloney sir) that the spokespeople feed the public - they only get the contestants analysed to see who is the craziest so they can send the nutters in and provide drama. How else could some like Alex get past the testing if it were the case that they profiled them in order to weed out those unsuitable for the environment? The woman is a seriously mentally unstable woman. The worst thing is that she genuinely does not understand what was wrong with anything she said or did. I've never found a housemate so genuinely frightening to watch before. Creepy, yes. Frightening, no. And as for Dennis (aka. Perez Hilton). He should be forced to go live with camels for the rest of his life. See how he likes being spat on.
3. The injustice. What exactly is Mo supposed to have done? I'm sure he is irritating to live with, but he is a nice guy and not aggressive or rude. Yet he gets villified and bullied, and according to the housemates 'overreacted' to having his face spat in - yet Jen gets nothing but sympathy when she coats the world in a layer of snot as she wails about her ruined painting. "You wouldn't do that to a Monet!" she screams. Aww poor wubby baby, did the nasty man ruin your painting? It looked better after he defaced it, quite frankly. That girl is a prime example of an insecure, spoilt little brat with no perspective on anything. For some reason, everyone seems happy to indulge her whinging, but Kathreya dares to get upset at the tension in the house and she's called childish. Yes, she is, but she has better heart than Jen.
2. The complete lack of genuinely fantastic senses of humour. This has been a problem for years now. They go for maximum drama, no humour. What happened to the Anna Nolans of Year One (a year which they should use as the template for next year - when are they going to go back to basics, like they always promise?), or the Brian Dowlings? (Apparently, Irish contestants are only allowed be funny if they're gay too, and if they are gay that is all that is remembered about them, not their humour. Nice to know the press treats everyone equally isn't it?). And what about funny Big Brother? There is one particular Big Brother that is particularly hilarious. Remember Anthony suggested that the famous horse Big Bro was thinking of was "Sandy, the horse from Dogtanian" and there was a long pause before BB sarcastically replied, "No, Anthony. The horse BB is thinking of is not 'Sandy, the horse from Dogtanian'. Poor, Anthony. Poor. GET OUT".

1. The demise of Big Brother's Little Brother. Yeah... this is a true tragedy. I was going to include Big Mouth here too but it's picking up a bit. But BBLB....the new presenters... WHAT THE F**%#NG FU*K??!! George and Zezi? In the words of that hysterical pipecleaner Nikki - who ARE they?!!! How the flippin' HELL did the producers deem them in any way suitable to replace Dermot O'Leary, King of Yummy, and King of Funny. George looks insulted by everything anyone says ever, and doesn't react to anything the guests say. He just kind of looks like he thinks he is too cool to be there. His surname is LAMB for god's sake, and he has a random streak of dyed grey hair on his floppy indieboy fringe. He's not too cool for anything. And Zezi. She's like a horror morph of Chuckie and Shirley Temple. And her presenting method is to stare blankly at the camera until some random words pop into her head, and then just... say them. And when she is interviewing guests, she jumps every few minutes when she realises there is someone there speaking besides herself. She doesn't hear a word they say, interrupts before they finish answering, and then responds with completely unrelated questions. And the clothes... oh the clothes. It's easy enough to accept George's strange pretentious indie rockband/funky grandad look. But Zezi... it's like reliving the hideous disappointment you feel at the end of Pretty In Pink, when Molly Ringwald butchers a perfectly lovely pink prom dress into a Queen Elizabeth special...but EVERYDAY.