Big Brother UK Winner Revealed!!

If you are watching this season and haven’t seen the winner yet, stop reading now!!  There will be major spoilers.

It’s no secret that I’m a Reality TV junky, so it will come as no surprise that I’ve been following Big Brother UK for the past few years.   I enjoy it far better than the US version for a number of reasons:

• The housemates are much more real.  It’s not a house full of Kens and Barbies with the odd old or ugly person thrown in.  They are real people with real lives.  They even go to the opposite extreme sometimes by throwing in people who have issues that people don’t get to see every day.  Like Darnell (albino black man), Mikey (blind) and my favorite of all and winner of BB7 in the UK (also my favorite season BY FAR, download it here), Pete Bennett.  He has Tourettes and was the best and most interesting housemate ever.  He deserves a video. Here are his best bits.

• The housemates are not allowed to scheme and discuss nominations like in the US version.  While I admit it does add an extra level of bitchiness and fun to BBUS, I prefer the UK style because then housemates really have to get by on how they portray themselves to the other housemates.  There are still alliances and obvious groups of friends but there is no planned group nominating, no veto and no back-dooring.   The housemates nominate, those with the most nominations are put up for eviction and the public votes to eliminate.   So what they do behind the scenes and their attitudes in the diary room and such DO matter because the public sees it all.
• There is a large crowd there for all the evictions and the housemates get a true feeling of how the public feels about them.  It’s not his ‘studio’ audience crap like on BBUS.
• DAVINAAAA!!!  Davina McCall is the best, funniest, most entertaining television presenter ever.  That is a fact.  So needless to say, she kicks the robotic Julie Chen’s ass to hell in back in pretty much every way possible.   I watch the eviction episodes more to see her than to see who gets evicted sometimes.
• Swearing, boobs, dicks, sex, alcohol, fights… you get it all on BBUK!!

Now, having said that, this season of BBUK was DREADFUL!! It falls 100% on the shoulders of whomever was responsible for choosing the housemates.   I have never seen such a sour, pissy, boring and completely irritating group of people ever.   With the exception of a few (VERY FEW) I was sickened to think of any of them winning.   If it weren’t for previous seasons being so highly entertaining I’d never watch it again.

So who won this season?

RACHEL!!

You know what that means?  It means that Rex, the vile, spoiled, man-child DIDN’T!! HOORAY!!

If Rachel had been in any of the other seasons I’d seen I probably wouldn’t have been rooting for her to win.  She would have paled in comparison with some of the fantastic housemates of the past.   In this season though, she was the lesser of all the evils.  In fact, she was not evil at all, something Rex and others continuously gave her grief about.

Lets face it.  The girl deserves the money.  She was stuck in a house with a group of idiots and was pretty much the only person to not complain.   Even her sickeningly sweet best friend  HAPPY HAPPY HOUSE Kathreya pitched a fit every now and then and ran off crying.

She stuck to her guns, didn’t let anyone drag her down or feel bad about herself, in spite of all their efforts.  Well done Rachel!

Note to Channel 4:  Please choose better housemates next season or I’m afraid our relationship isn’t going to work out.