Via The Copydesk, The Guardian’s commentary on Big Brother 2006 is utterly scathing and a total riot!

Alright, it’s a couple of days out of date (Shahbaz was still in the house at the time), but there’s some excellent coverage. On the subject of Shahbaz:

Shahbaz spent his first few days in the hellhouse bouncing round the linoleum shrieking, blubbing, squealing and bear-hugging anyone within grasping distance. That was disturbing enough. But when, for some mad reason, this failed to win anyone over, he really went into meltdown - deliberately provoking arguments then playing the victim

And do I detect a less-than-lukewarm review of wide-boy Sezer?

a pint-sized, pixel-eyed, monotone, priapic, hair-gelled rodent, so in love with himself he probably masturbates to videos of himself masturbating

You could just see it, couldn’t you?

The others don’t escape lightly either. Lea is a planet-boobed sometime pornstar, Lisa is described as Lucy Liu channelling the spirit of Bez and the evil Nikki as a spoiled chimpette who throws tantrums like Geoff Capes throws fenceposts. Love it!

Like the rest of the planet, Pete Bennett is the favourite to win this year, by virtue of the fact that he’s actually a genuinely nice person.