End of an Era

launch night thread BB9 - didn't last long

Was DJ trying to back or lay?

I thought Eugene took the 50K.

ha squares, that launch night thread was incredibly busy, then ate itself!

Recent one, losing money on Marcus vs Freddie despite being reassured by "Mr. Paparazzi" that Marcus has JUST LEFT the BB house!

DJ was backing, Henry.

His banter with Ace Rothstein and Da Boss were legendary that series

yeah, marcus v freddie for me, best accidental result.

chanelle walk in/walk out sunday mental!

Happiest moment by a mile ...Bez's win.

An us against the world moment and it's the only time the specials forum ever managed to cause the whole betfair forum to crash

Hang the D.J. and he blamed me

* and sorry about the earlier typo, Eugene took the 50K....thanks for reminding me Henry

And who else here remembers the small-hours "Northern Lights" phenomenon
on Shilpa Shetty's odds, that year?

I DA BOSS says hello.

I remember the chaos caused by Sam and Amanda becoming Samanda...

Samanda v Belo caused some quite lively debate on the forum iirc

For me the greatest eviction battle was between Alex and Spencer in BB3. Not only was Big Brother then still a national pastime, but in my view BB3 was the best, most innovative and strongest of any Big Brother and contained the most under rated winner - Kate Lawler - the first female to win, a winner that appealed equally to men and women and someone who got 3.1 million votes out of over 8.5 million votes cast in the final against Jade, Alex and Johnny).
One of the reasons that I believe that the Alex v Spencer eviction battle was so momentous was that Spencer was good looking and popular. When the betting opened Alex was a short price to go. However, the producers realised on about the Tuesday that Alex had more 'legs' than Spencer and in the most under hand and subtle way, they crucified Spencer in the edits (as Alex himself freely admits).
In my view, this was the first time that the edit was used so blatantly (in BB3 the edit was later used even more blatantly to save Jade at the expense of Adele - when shamefully, to my mind at least, the producers played the race card in order to turn voters against Adele).

Big Brother 3 - we'll never see its like again, even if Channel 5 pick up the franchise.

Thanks for the reminder LG.  Probably my favourite year too, and shamefully ignored for the purpose of UBB.

not so much a moment

but i always enjoyed the eviction market on a tuesday afternoon when the market used to be open before the announcement on BBLB

the ingenuity of the dummy runs/red herrings on here trying to spook the market never ceased to amaze [:D]

Spencer going was great yep, I was sad that Alex could only manage 3rd

I think these days, him and Jade would have been 1 - 2, without the casuals piling in so much on the boring ones that actually won

Kate was a good winner - a girl of the time.  As for Johnny

Tedious drunken oik like her Geordie mate.   Still would have I suppose

Spencer was a total kn0b as well.  Saw him doing the big "don't you know who I am" thing with aviator shades on at the July Course.

I didn't mind him so much. Just thought it was a triumph when he went. His face was a picture iirc?

"big bwudder, please don take any moh o' my fwends"  = a night never to be forgotten.

All the booze in that series was some of the reason I sided with Alex. They really overdid it

The kebab game with Jade was one of the funniest moments.

PJ was a brilliant foil,setting up the punchline for Jade time after time.

Betting moment

The panic here on finals night of BB8 when all the regulars were reasuring each other that the Twins still had the thing in the bag. They were all the time being drowned out by huge 'Brian, Brian, Brian' chants that would probs have been heard 10 miles from Elsetree

On the other hand when Davina read out the Twins name it got the same reaction as the Kara Louise's, Andrew Edmonds and Jennie Corner's off this world. Complete scilence.


BB moment - during BB1 when we realised it was becoming a pop culture defining show, BB2 - that series in general. In fact on the whole I have enjoyed almost every series, apart from 11 which I didnt see much o.f and BB4 which I hated

"Happiest moment by a mile ...Bez's win.

An us against the world moment and it's the only time the specials forum ever managed to cause the whole betfair forum to crash"

Totally agree aa...........only to be rivalled by Science beating Maxwell.

Well for me nothing rivalled Science beating Maxwell.

Max's face was beautiful, probably the only time it has ever been described that way..

As for the girls, I can't and won't split the Church of Ais and Amanda Rose for their wonderful action.

A decidedly mixed bag of a decade (brilliant in the middle, decidedly patchy in the final three years) but one thing is for sure:- I'd have been a lot happier if all those who came second had ended up coming first...

even Jason JM??

Definitely Jason for me

Never mind BB4. That Derren Brown thing was possibly the worst hour of TV C4 have ever produced

The twinning was one of my favourite nights on BB and it saved us Brian layers from getting a hiding
Rachel's win also stands out, as it was the last exciting final and one of the closest ever with 4 HM's finishing very close to each other....and of course the correct winner

Only been on here for the last few Big Brother's but Kat's eviciton in BB9 was one of my all-time favourite moments.

BB6 was my one of my favourites too aa, also the year I made the decision never to be swayed again by the "logic" of the majority or the Housemate's odds of winning.
Backed Nadia mid 40s near the start and allowed myself to listen to the logic that she had no chance, then turned my book around and had her as a loser.

Can you remember the names I was called when I started a thread about Anthony winning when he was about 16.0 - 18.0 range? Would love to be able to read it and see a lot of the "group think" at that stage of the competition.
The icing on the cake was when Eugene was backed at decent prices and on a few occasions we could just lay either him or Anthony every time one of them went odds on.
I think that by default of the see sawing prices stopping, I actually had Eugene as my biggest green.
I had forgotten just how much I enjoyed that series aa, and I'm now feeling very nostalgic.
Great thread aa

Ref to Nadia was obvisiosuly about previous year, and effect it had on me and my betting.

I'd have probably have been calling all the names under the sun Pakes, but I didn't bother with the forum then.

Where Nadia's concerned I still would

I almost had a breakdown after Nadia won George. I had her for decent money at huge prices and turned it into a loss. Don't know why I let them as I didn't let anybody talk me out of Cameron the previous year.

I'm used to being called names now George, me skin is like teflon.

attitude adjuster Joined: 13 Sep 04
Happiest moment by a mile ...Bez's win.

That was probably my worst moment!  Fortunately it was in the days when you had to be awful at this not to be all green by the end of the series, so I still won, but Kenzie was a much bigger winner and I had mentally banked my winnings - as had my wife!  I absolutely didn't see that coming, and a big lesson was learnt. 

Anyone remember doing text counts back in BB5?  During BBBM and the live feed they used to scroll texts they had received during the show.  Towards the end Nadia was getting more than half of the positive ones and I was heading for my first big win ever.  Happy days. 

Nadia one of only two BB losses here, though I missed a few series.

Usually my massive green finished third

Text counting those were the days Anthony and Kerry McFadden good wins for me on the back of them.

Every finals night ....the invasion of the morons 

but also the generous help from all those lads who just happened to work for British Telecom,C4,Pricefixersrus,