After announcing to his fellow Big Brother housemates that he intended to leave the house last night, it seems as though millionaire, Jonathan Durden has had a change of heart.

He entered the diary room this evening and declared:

“If you’ll have me, I’ll stay,”

“Big Brother will definitely have you,” he was told.

“I know that,” he confidently replied. “Thank you.”

Monday 2 July 2007 8:00pm – 8:30pm on ITV1.

Should British families get priority for council homes over economic migrants as raised by government minister Margaret Hodge? Mike Nicholson goes behind-the-scenes at a council housing department to see what pressures they face to accommodate immigrants and British families and speaks to those who will never be able to afford their own homes.

After proving to Big Brother that they were in fact telepathic, the Big Brother twins were granted a birthday party for their 19th birthday.

The party food looked great, until the partygoers took a bite that is. The housemates were disgusted to discover that the trifle had fish bits in it, a sponge cake was made out of corned beef, the marshmallows were made with curry powder and the sausage rolls were filled with gruel.

Liam, who had donned a pink tutu for the occasion said: Read more & comment »

Big Brother housemate Billi, is said to be certain to be evicted this Friday night.

Online bookmakers Coral have now refused to accept bets on the eviction after odds on Billi reached 1-50.

Tracey and Carole are also up for eviction, but William Hill said: “It’s another one horse race.”

After a trip to the diary room, millionaire, Jonathan Durden has told housemates that he wants to leave the Big Brother house.

He is expecting to leave this evening, after Big Brother asked him to stay for the day and think about his decision.

He claims to have been “reckless” in entering the house, and wants to leave so that he can get married this Saturday. Up until this point it was thought that he had scrapped his wedding plans to enter the house….obviously not!

I wonder if the twins will still get their free holiday?

After a second week of disastrous ratings, ITV bosses have decided to move new reality TV show, Tycoon to another time slot.

“Tycoon has been moved into a new slot,” confirmed a spokeswoman. “ITV1 has performed very strongly so far in 2007, with some of our best results for three years, and we have taken a commercial decision to protect that performance. Happily we have been able to return the series to a new slot.”

Tycoon replaces the reality-chat hybrid 24 Hours With…, which will now play out “in the future”, the spokeswoman added. Read more & comment »

After a heated argument in the kitchen this afternoon, Big Brother called Billi and Charley to the diary room.

The pair were then directed into a secret ‘happy’ room, through a secret door, where they were made to don ‘happy’ t-shirts and caps.

Charley read a sheet of instructions aloud:

“Welcome to the Happy Room. The Happy Room is a happy place for happy housemates,” she read. “Housemates must remain in the Happy Room remaining happy until further notice.”

“Oh, it’s not gonna be anything, is it?” Billi smiled with relief.

“We just gotta sit here and be happy,” laughed Charley. Read more & comment »

As punishment for failing their recent insomnia task, Big Brother housemates are being forced to live on slop for the rest of this week.

The housemates have each been allocated three tins of nutritious gloop each and must eat it, at the dining table, three times a day at set times. Apart from the slop, housemates are only allowed to consume water.

That alone would be enough to make me leave the house!

Carole, Billi and Tracey have found themselves up for eviction this week, and already, model Billi is the favourite to go on Friday.

Brian was one of the housemates to nominate Billi, saying:
“I don’t completely 100% trust him.

“He always talks about what being in this house could do for his profile or modelling career.

“I just think he’ll tread on anyone in this house, including myself, to get what he wants at the end of it.”

Student Chanelle Hayes added: “He stares at me and Zac whenever we are kissing. I don’t think that’s a normal thing to do.”

Celebrity Big brother’s golden couple, Chantelle Houghton and Preston have announced their split today.

The pair got married only ten months ago, and though many thought they did it just for the fame and magazine deals the pair still claim that they were madly in love.

“After much soul-searching and tearful discussions we have sadly decided to end our marriage,” a statement said.

“No one else is involved in our decision,”

“We hope we can always remain friends and still love each other, but we both think we put so much pressure on one another to make our marriage work that it has ended up destroying our relationship.”

Shrink Rap is an antidote to the conventional chat show, presented by psychologist Dr Pamela Connolly – also known as actress and writer Pamela Stephenson. In this programme Pamela talks to Sharon Osbourne.

Famous as an X Factor judge, chat show host, best-selling author and even star of her own real-life soap opera, Osbourne is one of the best-known women in Britain. But her childhood was chaotic – and violent. Here, she talks movingly about her life then and now.

Monday 2 July 2007 Channel 4

In the week Live Earth parties for the planet, Dispatches reveals how attempts to buy our way out of climate crisis may be making things worse.

Channel 4 News science correspondent Tom Clarke dissects the many ’solutions’ to global warming being marketed to consumers, from tree-planting and carbon offsetting to green energy tariffs. Jetting off on holidays and mini-breaks, we’re increasingly turning to offsetting to alleviate our environmental guilt. But what are offsets? And are they really the answer in the fight against global warming?

Monday 2nd July Channel 4

As the country stubs out its collective fag, a one-hour, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the perilous, but also, for some, the highly pleasurable pursuit of smoking. Well-known smokers talk about their first drag, ex-smokers about their last and a few defiant stars who continue to puff away muse on how the ban will effect their lives… or not.

The programme features contributions from Motorhead’s Lemmy, Johnny Vegas, Joan Bakewell, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Winner, Will Self and the late Bernard Manning

Sunday 1st July, Channel 4

Channel 4’s culinary extravaganza Come Dine with Me is back with a celebrity special. TV host Anneka Rice, Birds of a Feather actress Linda Robson, How Clean Is Your House? star Aggie MacKenzie, comedian and DJ Rowland Rivron, plus food critic and author Toby Young take it in turns to hold a dinner party for each other.

At stake is the title of best celebrity host for the chef who cooks up the highest scoring feast: plus ?1,000 for his or her favourite charity. The celebrities also get the chance to poke around each other’s homes, revealing some startling secrets.

Sunday 1 July 2007, Channel 4

There’s a major stir at Luton as the male stars of soap opera Hollyoaks are travelling through en route to Sardinia for a photo shoot. After some fun and games with passengers and staff in the airport the action really starts when they’re all on the plane. Read more & comment »