Former Big Brother finalist, Imogen Thomas, has hit out at Rex Newmark’s bullying behaviour and said his tirade against Rachel has to stop.

Yesterday Rex attacked Rachel after Big brother let some of the heavenly housemates watch her audition video.

He accused her of not being real and said: “You were a sexy bitch. But in reality, I’d swap you for Scrabble.”

Imogen told The Sun: “Just because she hasn’t made herself the centre of attention doesn’t mean she’s a liar.

“Rex is just being a bully and picking on her because he’s bored and has nothing to do.

“Rach is always really bubbly, sexy and confident. I don’t care what Rex thinks, whoever you are in your audition video is who you are.” Read more & comment »

X Factor judge, Simon Cowell, has reportedly broken up with his girlfriend, Terri Seymour after a blazing row.

A friend of Simon’s told Star magazine: “He told me he is tired of Terri’s insecurities. They lead separate lives, and that’s how he likes it, but lately she has turned up unannounced at events he is at.

“Just recently, she was meant to be working on a red carpet as part of her presenting job for US TV show ‘Extra’. But instead she turned up at a party Simon was at with Ryan Seacrest. Simon wasn’t happy and felt like she was checking up on him.”

Day 53

10.15am: Most of the housemates from hell are in the bedroom. “I didn’t realise I woke you”, Kathreya says to Lisa about waking her last night. “I didn’t think we were that loud last night”, says Rachel. “You could hear everything”, says Lisa before adding that she’s happy for noise up until about 2am.

12.26pm: Luke is in the Diary Room talking to Big Brother about being bored. “I’m sick and tired of the same mundane gimmicks like singing and cooking all the time. I’m at the end of my tether with it Big Brother”, he says. “Kathreya, Rachel, Darnell, Mohamed, those four in particular”, he adds before saying that he thinks that if they have their way it won’t be long until he is evicted as they have got rid of everyone else they don’t like. He goes on to explain the reason he thinks they don’t like him is because he is a negative person and because he had a very close friendship with Rebecca. “I can’t tell you how affected I’ve been by Rebecca leaving”, he says choking back tears. “I’m not coping well at all. I honestly thought I would, and she said I would but I’m not”, he adds. “That’s why I’m so angry. I feel so robbed”, he says adding that Rebecca didn’t deserve to leave and she was the entertainment in the house. Read more & comment »

The series comes to a spectacular climax as Gordon travels to Iceland and the Sierra Nevada in Spain, and makes an emotional return to his old football club in Scotland. In the restaurant Gordon takes on the ultimate challenge: cooking one of Janet’s veal calves for 50 vegetarians who want to try meat again; in the recipe challenge Graham Norton and Gordon compete to have their roasted peach dish served to the diners for dessert; and the winning brigade from the series return to cook three luxurious dishes that everyone can prepare at home.

Tuesday 29 July 2008, Channel 4

Gordon Ramsay has revealed that he had a very close call after plunging off a 280ft high cliff in Iceland whilst filming for his TV show, ‘The F Word’.

Gordon told The Sun last night: “I thought I was a goner.

“They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.

“I remember thinking, ‘Oh f***’. My boots and my waterproofs were dragging me down.

“I’m an extremely good swimmer, but I couldn’t get to the surface. I was panicking and my lungs were filling with water.

“When I got to the top after getting my boots off I was dazed and my head was totally numb.”

When he didn’t emerge for 45 seconds the TV crew threw him a rope and pulled him to safety. Read more & comment »

Today, a nominations pod will be revealed to the housemates. The nominations pod will be situated in the heaven side of the garden. As head of house, Stuart will be asked to read a laminate to the group that will reveal that only the heavenly housemates may use the nominations pod.
To enter the nominations pod, heavenly housemates must ring the buzzer and wait for Big Brother to unlock it. Heavenly housemates must only enter the pod TWO at a time.
When they are in the pod, they may ONLY discuss nominations. If they don’t discuss nominations in the pod they may be punished. Read more & comment »

Day 51
6.07am: All the housemates are asleep. Tonight Darnell, Mohamed and Rebecca face the public vote. Rebecca and Luke are in bed kissing quietly. They pull the covers over their heads and carry on kissing.
9.30am: Housemates in the bedroom are woken by an alarm and get out of bed quickly but sleepily. Lisa offers to make tea. Sara comments that the present hell housemates are good at getting out of bed as soon as the alarm goes off. ‘My first week in hell, it took a long time to wake everyone up, but you guys are great’, she says.
Darnell goes to the kitchen and throws some clothes in the bin. Mohamed asks him what he is doing. Darnell replies that he’s sure he will be going tonight (hence why he is throwing out his clothes). Mohammed thinks ‘that kiss’ last night between himself and Rebecca may not have been that enjoyable for her.
In the bedroom, Darnell gives Kat a bag to use as a makeup bag. She is overwhelmed and tells him to stop giving his things away, as it’s too sad. Darnell ignores this and throws his trainers in the kitchen bin too. Read more & comment »

Calum Best’s new reality TV show is due to kick off this weekend on MTV (see the trailer here) and Calum has revealed why he decided to take part in the show.

“I know what people thought of me. No-one took me seriously,” Calum told the Daily Star. “Frankly, the last two years are a bit of a blur. I’d lost my way. I was on a downward spiral.

“I was lucky. I had a choice. Either I could have the kind of summer I usually have – drinking, shagging, wondering where the time went – or I could do something about it. So I decided to grab this show as a life line.”

Calum is now half way through his 50 day challenge and is already reaping the rewards. Read more & comment »

Beefcake, Mario Marconi is reported to be about to re-enter the Big brother house in a bid to spice the programme up.

When asked if he would re-enter, the Daily Star report him as saying:

“Yeah I would. To be honest it’s on the cards, it could be happening. Wait and see.”

So I was watching the Big Brother highlights last night and thought that the housemates must be in some sort of weird fancy dress in which Luke Marsden had been required to draw on a silly looking moustache. However, as the show progressed and I saw Luke waking the next morning with the same fluffy monstrosity above his lips I realised that he had actually grown that thing on purpose.

Thankfully, with the departure of Bex, Luke must have regained some of his common sense, as he went to the bathroom this morning and shaved the line of bum fluff away.

Luke had never shaved before entering the BB house, now he has shaved both his face and his toes, had his eyebrows plucked and grown a poor excuse for a moustache. What a a man!

Today’s Big Brother task will determine which housemate becomes the next head of house and who lives in heaven with them. The housemate who scores the most points in the task will become head of house, and the three housemates who are runners up, will live with them in heaven.

In the Diary Room there will be eight types of chilli peppers numbered from one to eight. The chilli peppers are set out in order of strength. Chilli number 1 is the mildest and chilli number 8, is the hottest.

Housemates will earn points by eating the chillies. Chilli number 1 is worth 1 point, chilli number 2 is worth 2 points and so on. The hotter the chilli, the more points are to be won. Read more & comment »

I’d Do Anything star Samantha Barks has managed to land the lead role in the UK tour of Cabaret.

The 17-year-old, who finished in third place on the BBC reality TV show earlier this year, will play cabaret performer Sally Bowles in the popular musical.

Barks will appear alongside dancer and former I’m A Celebrity contestant, Wayne Sleep, who is taking on the role of the Emcee.

Earlier this month we reported that Rachel Tucker, who finished in fourth place had landed the lead role in Ben Elton’s West End show, We Will Rock You.

Former Atomic Kitten, Liz McClarnon has won BBC One’s Celebrity Masterchef, even though she had never used an oven before appearing on the show.

Liz competed with Andi Peters and Holby City’s Mark Moraghan for the title.

Liz, 26, told The Sun: “I can’t believe it. I’m so proud, all that hard work has finally paid off.

“It was such a tough journey for someone who couldn’t cook.”

Food writer Gregg Wallace helped judge last night’s final.

Gregg said: “Liz is by the far the best natural cook that I’ve seen in a long, long time. Read more & comment »

The five people nominated for an ‘Reality TV Host’ Emmy this year, will have more to do than wait in the audience for the result this year, as Emmy producers have drafted them in to present the show.

“American Idol’”s Ryan Seacrest, “Survivor’”s Jeff Probst, “Dancing with the Stars’” Tom Bergeron, “Deal or No Deal’”s Howie Mandel and “Project Runway’”s Heidi Klum will all co-present this years star studded bash which will take place on September 21st at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

“It was pretty obvious,” executive producer Ken Ehrlich said. Read more & comment »

Big Brother’s Little Brother presenter, Zezi Ifore, has been given the boot from her co-presenter role on the Channel 4 show.

Zezi has proved very unpopular with readers of this blog and others and made herself unpopular with show bosses when she failed to show up for last Sunday’s show.

After a meeting on Thursday, Zezi was informed that she will now be confined to appearing in recorded segments of the show and will only be present in the BBLB studio on Sundays.

A show source told The Sun: “Zezi was just not cutting the mustard on BBLB. But the idea is that she’ll be out meeting housemates from the series and their family members. Read more & comment »