Tash on tours goes international, Made in Chelsea hits New York and the Americans take over the big brother house!

With the madness and fast pace of life I haven’t had the opportunity to blog about some of my favourite shows that I’ve been watching recently, so I thought I’d take the time out and write a quick post of some of the latest reality shows that have me hooked.

The Geordies were back in town to go wild, party and show everyone how it’s done in the Toon. Garry brought along his best pal Aaron and soon into the show Marnie’s best friend Kyle also joined the crew. From the original gang the remaining ones are now Garry, James, Vicky, Charlotte, Holly and Scott.

Aaron and Kyle managed to settle in quite well with the others once the relationship dynamics had been established. The girls tried to keep Kyle to themselves but the boys fast took him under their wing and showed him how to pull a few birds. He has taken a liking to Holly and is showing more of an interest in her than the club girls, but I very much doubt that a relationship will form at the end of show.

This time round Anna, the boss, realised these lot are not good at anything apart from Tashing on so she made this their main job. To go out, entertain groups and get everyone to ‘neck’ on with one another. The ‘Tash on Tours’ theme was taken to Iceland where friction in the group did occur, but it was all forgotten once they got tashing on with everyone.

 

The MIC gang have flown out to New York for the summer and we’ve seen quite a few new faces on the show, including Bille, who has both Spencer and Stevie fighting to win her over, Alik who has shown a keen interest in Louise, and Jules who has outdone Spencer in the dating game.  

Jules claims he is in a polyamorous relationship, which basically means he can have a girlfriend and sleep around with other girls too, with the approval of his girlfriend. Up until recently Jules and Rosie were getting to know each other, until she found out about his lifestyle choice and kicked him to the kerb.

Apart from the newbie’s some of the Chelsea drama did follow the crew to New York as Binky turned up without Alex. He then followed her to New York but she told him she wanted nothing to do with him. When the news came out that he had hooked up with Jamie’s ex Tara nobody had anything nice to say to or about him, so he grabbed his passport and quickly flew back to England.

MIC NY is not shaping out to be what I had quite expected it to be. They have lived up to the glamorous lifestyle however the drama just doesn’t seem to be as interesting as it was back in Knightsbridge, but perhaps it will get better.

Big Brother 2014 was a fiery season with more fights and arguments than we have ever witnessed before. The theme was all about Big Brothers power trip, in which each week a housemate or housemates were given the power to make powerful decisions in the house. The power did get to many people’s minds but the most shocking thing to have happened was Helen Wood winning this year, despite being the most hated, argumentative and controversial housemate.

Some other housemates who stood out were Mark Byron; the sassiest and funniest one in the group, Ashleigh Coyle; the innocent bee who turned into the Ice queen half way through the season, and the only one to properly stand up to Helen, Chris Wright; the most sarcastic yet smartest and fair housemate and not to forget Winston and Ash who brought eye candy yet a great bromance to the house.

 

I didn’t think Celebrity Big Brother could top this year’s original Big Brother yet it is managing to do a pretty good job. Big Brother has managed to find the most wackiest and outrageous housemates for CBB2014, such as playgirl Frency who is from France yet lives in LA, Kellie Maloney; who happened to be former boxing promoter Frank Maloney before taking on a sex change, strictly come dancing’s James Jordan, Geroge Gillbey from Channel 4’s Google Box, former TOWIE and Geordie Shore stars Lauren Goodger and Ricci Guarnaccio, former The Hills star Stephanie Pratt and White Dee from the documentary Benefits Street. 

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We are already seeing small romances blossom between Lauren and Ricci and Stephanie and George as well as major arguments between many other housemates, so it definitely oozes great entertainment. Frency was also booted out of the house yesterday much to my happiness as I could not stand her crazy, unpredictable behaviour.

So much more is and has happened with these shows but I guess I just can’t squeeze it all in so that’s my brief recap of my reality TV fix.

Jim Davidson is crowned the winner of CBB 2014

Last night was the final of Celebrity Big Brother 2014 and Jim Davidson was crowned the winner; I wasn’t too excited about that although it was slightly expected, as throughout the entire series Jim managed to survive every eviction with the highest votes, despite being up for eviction every week. 

Casey Bachelor came sixth place. She spoke about the love triangle to Emma Willis and revealed that she no longer has feelings for Lee Ryan, awkwardly enough jasmine and Lee were sat together along with all the other evictees. Casey stated that when her mum came into the house, through the grandfather clock, and warned her to stay away from Lee that’s when it ticked in her mind; although she did say that “It’s my weak point – I go back to people that hurt me. I do it in real life.” Despite the love triangle Casey expressed her happiness of being the first ever model to enter the final of big brother and being able to change the perception of glamour models; not too sure as to what extent she’s managed to do that. 

Sam Faiers came in fifth place..GUTTED! I really wanted Sam to be in the top three at-least, although I can understand her lack of presence didn’t allow that to happen. Despite Sam being labelled as a boring housemate I really loved her and everyone was able to see how lovely, nice and down to earth she is. The relationship she shared with Ollie Lock was amazingggg and I really hope that they get together now that they’re out of the house. When Emma questioned Sam on Ollie Sam didn’t give much away but did say she was open to having  date with him “‘Me and Ollie haven’t even had a conversation. He said where he would like to take me on a first date and if he asked me again I’d want to go.” Let’s hope this turns into a ‘Made in Essex’ or a ‘The Only Way is Chelsea’ romance. 

In fourth place came Luisa Zissman. The feisty Apprentice runner-up was one of the most entertaining celebrities to have ever entered the big brother house, and in her words you either love her or hate her. Luisa didn’t hold back in the house; whether it was in an argument, during a task, raunchy playfulness with her fellow celebrities or making her opinion known to everyone. Luisa was truly shocked to have made the final of CBB and delightfully expressed to Emma “Can you believe it?” She was also the last girl standing and was described by Emma as a “fire cracker.” When Luisa entered the house and was so explicit and sexual I really didn’t like her, especially when her and moody Linda would gang up on Jim. But as soon as Linda left we got to see a nicer side to Luisa and it was lovely to be able to see her being so nice, calm and relaxed. In agreement with Jim, I also think that although Luisa states that she doesn’t care what the public think of her, deep down she does have a desire to be liked or even accepted by everyone. 

In third place came Ollie lock. I can’t believe it as I reallyyyyy wanted Ollie to win, he was a fantastic housemate and genuinely so nice and funny. I’ve always loved Ollie on Made in Chelsea, just as much as I loved Sam on TOWIE, and it was a breath of fresh air to be able to watch these two on CBB amongst all the crazy, outrageous housemates. Ollie’s quirky, fun loving and true liking for Sam made him the best housemate in my eyes. The way he was smitten over Sam made it so mushy, yet cute to watch and I have high hopes that they will have a future together. When Ollie had an argument with Luisa I felt so sorry for him as he was standing up for himself for the first time, and I love the morals and values that he holds in not getting involved in other people’s arguments. Ollie spoke about Sam to Emma; “My beautiful Sam. I adore her. I like her more than a friend. I very much want to take her out to dinner and have a South Bank walk in London.” Awwww 🙂

The runner up was Dappy. That tiny little man brought so much fun, craziness and shock to our screens. Some of his antics left us with our jaws hanging and then at times his words towards housemates such as Jim, made us see how caring and kind-hearted he is. Dappy formed a special relationship with winner Jim, and told Emma that he saw him as a father figure; “I haven’t grieved about the loss of my father and when he came into my life, he took that place all of a sudden. He taught me a lot in such a short space of time. I’ll call him dad for the rest of my life. Me and him have this very strong bond.” Dappy said that the reason he went into CBB was to change the perception people have of him and he feels that he has now managed to do that, and is able to separate Costas from Dappy.  

And finally much to Linda’s annoyance I’m sure; Jim Davidson was made the winner. I am happy for Jim, even though I didn’t want him to win, as he said it would mean a lot to him if he won and “It would round up a shit year.” On his relationship with Linda, Jim told Emma “She’s a strong-willed woman, I admire her, we did clash a little bit… Outside we’ll be fine and I can’t wait for her to buy me a pint of Guinness – probably be waiting a long time.”

Celebrity big brother 2014 has been amazing, I stopped watching the show for a long time but this series has got me back into it and I’m sure I’ll be watching Big Brother in the coming summer.