~~~Snake Turned Charmer Mario's Italian Stallion~~~

You prolly have to be a cast member to actually sh ag her up the arse

Great start from Mario

Very solid start, surprised his price is holding up.

The women are going to gravitate to him.

proper ladies man, arms like arnie - c0ck like his arms

Plenty of coverage, plenty potential stories

One of my greens, value for a decent trade at least.

For all of the above reasons, great value, and I`m riding the Italian Stallion too. Even if that involves a threesome with McGiffin.

He's much smarter than the average TOWIE cast member.

CH5 will be happy, looking down the list he's perfect for some sought of deal
young
cheaper than louie would be
the rest dont appeal
perfect

cider going for double

seems ok, a lot different to his reputation but this is a sprint and needs to raise his profile fast.
tbf he's started well and can only be shown as much as CH5 want
involved a lot in decent conversations and already a bit of innocent flirting with carol could already be the main story line of the whole show.
so yeah looking good here, coz atm most are bland that spence could run away with it.
2nd fav is a nut job and carol is lethal with booze, a nice drunk for now but she is scary to me, drinks way too much and bound to do something outrageous at some point, but will it be good or bad ?

mario's relationship with carol is blossoming already, just seen new vid

Fully onboard too.
The only person from TOWIE who I've ever liked.
Seems a decent, fairly smart, articulate and self aware guy, unlike the ones I've seen previously

The latest videos look very good for him

yes same here RE towie

I can't see women voting for him, he says he's a changed man but is flirting with an engaged woman. I would say he is one of the most disliked on TOWIE, he has no personality just like that other little idiot Ricky, he tries to be like Mark Wright but fails miserably

Who would want to be like Mark Wright?
I'm glad he fails

Mark Wright is pretty damn good looking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ay012FSRc

Probably the best moment in the history of TOWIE

I refuse to look

So do I! I am inordinately proud to say I have never watched TOWIE, Geordie Wh0re or any such twaddle.

But yet I just phuckin love, love, love the twaddle that is BB/CBB!

lol me too tim

Ron thinks he'll win



Surprised he hasn't come in more but Bowers was a similar slow burner with the punters

Who wants to watch a bunch of twenty somethings getting p1ssed and screwing.

Me, but only on tubegalore

lol I'm with you on that

Things change with trends and generations. Social media has introduced a thirst for voyeurism with the late teens and early twenties, which these programmes quench. I remember Ibiza Uncovered and the like being popular when I was younger.

20/1 on HS

Inexorable climb up the ladder for Mario, next target the comedy bint.

So far so good Cider .Either he's a decent,caring fellow who plays up to his image on TOWIE,or he's playing the CBB game extremely well.Hopefully it's the former.....at this stage I think it is.

I suspect it is, too. To be able to turn around a negative public perception is an Ace card on this show.

i think the only one in there that dont like him is the sad loner twat that changed his name to something gay, and im hoping he's won him over by now.
mario looks safe as houses in the nom process, building bridges a nice fun way is the road to winnersville

Looks a please everyone type, not necessarily a bad thing in the short format

Bowers did much the same, while having his little boys club, which mario also has

pic.twitter.com/lwMNFtTof5

Single figures nearly there

Why not, no obvious winners around as yet

Not one to have red I think; seems to be more than his towie image....though that might not be saying much

I'm mostly off for now Cider, had a good run, but I think he may get trampled under Carol and Vicky in the next few days

Always possibilities for him, and I'll be poised to get back on

Going to have the male vote to himself when Ron goes, Abs is in a coma. He's going to need to show some humour and be happy to let himself look silly some tasks might help this.

Yes, Ron is a slight problem for him though. He'll get a chunk of vote and doesn't look like going anytime soon

The blokes are probably just making up the numbers in this

Still my biggest green,although I reckon his price is about right now.

Fortuitous timing that

Hit 3rd fence. Never recovered

http://twittercounter.com/Mario_Falcone

Mario had 961k followers in July 24th and 788k followers on July 29th

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXe6tUBJTuM

Completely destroyed that stupid smug look on his face

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/big-brother/335053/Mario-Falcone-s-slap-attack-rap

Yep, not shown.  They are giving him another chance

Too 'kinky' for this audience

Not a hint of him getting p1ssed and knobbish on the hl's

Ron going would be very good for Mario. hes now my biggest green! just got to sit patiently and wait for him to come in under the radar!

When does the market realise Mario is a winner waiting to happen ?

After he sh@gs Lauren?

good vid of him up, figures out dustins task very cleverly

dunno fig, he got protection so they like him. which is always a plus

I thought that vid was a negative for him

Still my biggest green though

He did something wrong apparently that was picked up on lf but not aired, his price nearly doubled, it's a bit bizarre. He looked mashed in any case. Playing a great game to my untrained eyes.

You know he hit Sophie and received a warning?

The viewers don't. She was in the diary room the next morning and asked who she gets on with in the house and her first answer was Mario. They have just gone ott with the warning confetti.

The fact that they chose not to show it on the HL show is very strong evidence of him being one of TCO`s

cider is the form animal on here

The MEMs still pick the winner, Mario has a good footing in this regard. He obviously needs to keep his nose clean. He will likely be a vote collector when the prizes are handed out, I'm pretty sure of that.

Another train ripe for derailment

Don't bet on it.

My only outright bet, been topping up consistently since the first night

One of the few with the potential to win

insane value on your boy cider compared to the price of the fav if twitter is too be believed

from my findings and what fig has unearthed he'd still be massive value at 9/1

oh god ive woken the grizzly

Morning Kevin

morning Archibald

Tarquin here. Mario going well and not just amongst TOWIE fans

Never watch Towie but loving @Mario_Falcone on #CBB I think he could win

being male it was obvious he was gonna steal a lot of GS's twitter followers
especially as hes been quite a good HM

other thing to note is, GS herself saved mario in that fake eviction last night
which ultimately means it will cost her even more of her own support by doing so

if GS likes mario - her fans will as well - some will even stitch camps coz hes so hot

mario has the massive advantage of being the only eye candy in there, which carries a sh1t load of weight

Fat bastard?

especially when hes been a decent HM and mostly nice

everyone under 21 knows it's Chazza for the win

they've been the ones lumping on in the High Street

It's been 40 year old male punters who look at her twitter following and wrongly think it makes any difference.
Mario even beats her on twitter now.

It's like the Tories leading a poll in South Shields

21 YO's lumping on

Gary and James from GS will turn up on Finals night

that will be more than enough eye candy for the girls

gary has 1.4 M followers on twitter

Jedward had nearly a million and they were lunatics.

i'm only messing boys


did i mention James has 800k followers

i've not started on the lasses

Amy Childs had over a million
Plenty of the others from TOWIE have similar numbers and I bet far more MEMs watch TOWIE

I don't

Blocker gone on Mario

CHARGE!!!!

i'd say the under 21 vote makes up less than 20% of the overall vote

And GS is getting less than a 3rd of it

yep, specials markets are so funny
short price favs that get turned over like clockwork

From what's been shown on the HLs show he seems to be a nice, decent down-to-earth guy. He's also good-looking which always helps get a few extra votes.

Yep looks like the layer has given up.

Why my money is now on Mario to win Celebrity Big Brother

ADMITTEDLY, I don't have any statistics to back this up, and I sure as hell can’t be bothered to go and find any, but I think I’m safe in saying that early Big Brother favourites, celeb or otherwise, tend not to actually win.
   
   
   
By Mike Ward/Published 4th September 2013



Which is why, a couple of hours before this latest live eviction show, I went and staked a whole mad tenner on Mario – who, at the time, had what I figured were pretty generous odds of 10/1.

OK, call me a dozy twonk – I’m well aware of the guy’s lousy reputation from TOWIE – but if you just put that minor concern aside for one moment, ideally pretending you’d never previously clapped eyes on the bloke, I think you’d have to agree he’s come across pretty well so far – and even quite unscumbag-like.

Yes, he’s been impressing on several levels for me, has Mario.

For one thing, he’s shown us he’s smart. All right, I doubt we’ll see him on University Challenge anytime soon, but remember how he saw straight through Big Brother’s first scam of the series – the one where Lauren, Louie and

Sophie were secretly sent next door for the first 24 hours, to spy on the other housemates’ every move?

When they finally swanned into the main house the following day, Mario not only figured what had really happened (been staying in a hotel, my arse) but he also correctly guessed that this late-arriving trio had made the first eviction nominations (rather than the viewers, as Big Fibbing Brother was claiming).

That’s pretty shrewd, you have to agree. Exactly the kind of shrewdness you’d develop, I suppose, by living your life on another big reality show – developing a gut instinct for how sh*t-stirring producers’ minds work.

Also, he’s a slow burner. Which, is a handy thing to be on a game like this. Obviously, no housemate wants to be so nondescript that the producers panic and send in paramedics to check for a pulse (“hello, Abz, can you hear me, er, bro…?”) but at the same time it doesn’t help to have the whole nation adoring you from day one. We’ll only start to find fault, trust me. We’re dead fickle that way.

Way better to tuck yourself in behind the front runners, and then sprint like mad for the finishing line in the closing lap – just as CBB host Emma Willis’s hubby Matt did when, having made little impact at first, he beat the odds to win I’m A Celeb in 2006 (God, I’m tragic, I actually have an encyclopaedic knowledge of this stuff – they should have me on Mastermind…).



    “With little more than a week to go, Mario, for me, is now the dark horse”

Also really important, Mario speaks his mind, which ensures he doesn't come across as just dull and pointless. But he speaks it sparingly, that’s the thing. He doesn’t pick a petty fight at every opportunity. He chooses his moment. And the points he makes whenever he does take a pop at someone, you’ll have noticed, are usually spot-on. The guy is actually showing himself to be an amazingly good judge of character. Who knew…?

What all this adds up to, I guess, is that Mario Falcone is surprising us. Surprising us big-time.

Like them or not, most of the other housemates – Charlotte, Louioe, Bruce etc. – are just acting true to form. They’re pretty much what we expected of them. Whereas Mario is showing us whole new elements to his personality, nearly all of them positive.

So yeah, forget what I was saying the other day about Charlotte. Or at least most of it. She’s still a hot contender, and perfect for the show, but she’s by no means the guaranteed winner I thought she was.

With little more than a week to go, Mario, for me, is now the dark horse. And dare I say it, the way he’s mending his image could, long-term, make him the new Mark Wright. Lucky him.

Not that I’m personally that bothered where he goes from here, career-wise. So long as he wins me my £100 next Friday night, that’s all I’m really bothered about.

And then I can stake it on the Hairy Biker fella to win Strictly.

Yep, I really know my stuff.

cheers mike

you're welcome Kev

Mike from Brighton. You never told me you lived here bear

Deliberately

but she’s by no means the guaranteed winner I thought she was.

Clueless casuals gradually waking up.

Yes stage 1 was comfortably achieved. Viewers realising you're not the character you portrayed (as Mike says most of them are) or like Louie, a disappointment.

Stage 2 is doing something positive to swing the floating voters. Plenty of time to do that now that the viewers have given him a clean slate, even on this short run.