He's self conscious about scarring on his shoulders, I think he said he got them falling out of a tree as a child. They must be feint, John James had to get really close to inspect them.

Yeah I think I remember hearing something about that actually, and he has scaring on his mouth as well doesn't he?

I know that Ben will see Rachel at the final and also the wrap party but I have a feeling that he may take her on a date while she's still in London.

As for Laura, Ben did say that he saw her as a little sister and also she had a boyfriend. Whether she still has that boyfriend isn't known but I don't think that Laura is Ben's type. They did bond very quickly though and am sure they will be good friends.

He doesn't go for blondes
I know Rachel gave Ben a hard time about Mr Tickle but I liked her

I like her to in the beginning and in fact I thought the idea of a romance between them was kind of cute. But then we saw her being quite calculating and telling John James she wants a romance in the house, sometimes she fancies Ben, sometimes she doesn't and that she thinks he's gay. Then she nominates him the day after saying this for what I thought was such a daft reason. You don't nominate people you fancy. I always thought she was looking for a showmance to give her airtime, and I still think I'm right.

The way she acted over Laura was just ridiculous. Proper bunny boiler stuff. There had been nothing more between them than a hug, but the way Rachel went on you'd swear they'd been snogging and groping each other. It was all very odd.

Yes, I agree, she didn't have much choice if she wanted a romance but I think she did grow to like Ben, maybe I'm just an old romantic


Yes, Rachel seemed very immature about that and she did go on and on and on about it. Ben spent a lot of time and effort trying to explain himself and reassure her so I think he must have liked her

Hmm.... while the news is slow, did anyone ever post this?

Remember when Ben was on BBLB and Marcus and Mario were battling it out with their pugil sticks?

From Mario's twitter:


And there be a most lovely piccy of Benji with Lisa and Mario here!

Awww, at least one Mario likes him.

Nope, not having the Rachel, Laura, whatever thing. Not buying the Andrew/Mario stuff either.

I've been reading old threads and Ben and Mario love each other. I'm convinced. They may feel they don't want to for whatever reasons, but I do believe it's real. Don't go breaking my slashy heart boys.

Damn it, why couldn't Dave have gone that week.

I quite liked Rachel too - I just didn't like how she treated Ben in the house, which I thought was kind of mean. Especially when she and Jo purposely tried to goad him into losing his temper

I don't think she has a bed heart, maybe just very immature.


That's a great pic! Has Ben's hair GROWN?! LOL, he's only just had it cut, but it looks super fluffy. Imagine if he was still in the house. Would his hair have reached the ceiling by now?

I don't think any of exHMs from another series or this one has said a bad word about Ben yet, they've said how charming and lovely he is!

The editing of the BBLB dinner-party skit was really bad! And you could tell it was all scripted

Would have preferred seeing them more natural, rather than the bad jokes and cardboard acting!

Thank you.


I thought it was her too - unless Mario/Dave were influencing her on LF?

It was awful, hardly worth doing for the amount of time we saw him too

That's the trouble with BB, the cameras pan in to what they want us to see, so we wouldn't know all that goes on, so maybe that's why Ben wasn't too off with Rachel, if she was being goaded off camera, so we didn't see what might really have gone on?

I was disappointed too. I was hoping for more Ben and more relaxed conversation - not the scripted bit we saw

I`m finding BB increasingly tedious now. The majority of HMs are boring & the tasks are pathetic. I was enjoying it when Ben was in there, I found Sam amusing for a short while but he`s boring & lacks any redeeming features. I now want Corin to win but the tweenies are taking over completely, they`re all planning their tactics to keep Sam in this week. JJ2 is soo boring, all he does is brown nose JJ1 & Sam has served his purpose & needs to go. All the HMs talk about now is nominations, who nominated who. :yawn: JJ1 was talking in the nest trying to influence future nominations. He also said that he was going to nominate Corin every week until she was evicted. His punishment = nothing. BB is a complete joke now. I don`t watch LF as much as I did earlier in the series, it`s usually JJJ.

To the first bit - Mario was on BBLB on the Sunday when Ben got his hair cut so this apparently would have been taken before he was shorn . It is a lovely pic 'aint it .

To the second bit - yes - 'tis lovely isn't it.

To the dinner party, aww... yeah, would have preferred just a normal dinner party where we could be flies on the wall (BB AU as you described) but I guess that wouldn't suit the segment, eh, sigh !

As for Rachel - this idea of "Ben the player" came from her. But I will concede that the others picked it up and ran with it (in fact especially Dave and [surprisingly in my view] Jo as I recall). To be fair to Rachel, a number of times she said how she thought she was going to look bad over her reaction to Ben, but when everyone kept going on about Ben the player she convinced herself more and more in a serious manner. And the housemates also appeared to convince themselves likewise and it became more serious. Well lets face it, any ammunition to tease Ben is good ammunition, eh !

Sometimes I think perhaps Dave doesn't realise what he's doing half the time with his *humour*/ways in which he goes on and on and on picking away. I can see how he'd be very successful at converting people if he so chose to though (I mean this in a bit of a jokey way... but you know... the seriousness is in there with it ).

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Did you all hear George Lamb saying Ben and Sunshine had been partying till 3am this morning? Or did I imagine that?

He did imply such, although Sunshine's twitter seems to suggest it was just her, Shabby and Laura that went out.

PS I am hanging around on LF hoping to see this silly Ben & Ife thing (?????????) and now I realise it's going to be tomorrow. Surely when I am out. The one bit of Ben we have left? If it even is Ben. I am suspicious. Ho hum. I suppose I will be doing better things, but still - I'm annoyed that I bothered hanging around on boring LF!

Yeah I did wonder. We all know how much Ben values his kip. I can't see him out till 3am personally

Someone had to be taking the pictures

Hee, no I think it was just Shabby, Laura and Sunshine too. I think Ben was probably tucked up in bed by then and fast sleep.

If Ben was at the club Sunshine would have said so and taken some pics of him there.

Mind you she did say they had a better time at Ben's place after the cameras had left

Wish I could have been a fly on the wall there

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