My pleasure, I would quote Selena in this aswell but I have no idea how too

I asked Luke what he meant by his early tweet saying 'people act different outside of the house, he replied..

Luke Anderson ‏@LukeA_BB
@Liam_Main people have their old lives to go back to and it's very busy for us atm that's all

Thanks, it's nice to see that they haven't fallen out. It was strange that he didn't include Deana is his favorite five, perhaps he forgot to write her name . I've noticed that he's changed his display pic to the one where he is posing with Deana and Adam and he's retweeted a few replies which mention that the soliders should stick together, so hopefully this means that they are still on good terms .

What was it that Jay bought for himself WD? I'm like you - I like a bit of a bargain when I buy a car. I have a cheap 6yr old hyundai hatchback which serves me very well. My next door neighbours on the other hand currently have a bentley saloon, a brand new range rover, a land rover discovery, a porsche and a mercedes hatchback - and there are only 3 of them living there! They've got more money than sense.

I remember the Nikki and Pete stuff too and I believe there were a couple different of photo shoots where they were modelling clothes, plus numerous articles from them, their friends and family about their romance/break up.

Yet here we have a lovely winner who has a worthwhile story to tell and no-one seems interested.

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Lovely, isn't it? You are lucky - my neighbours have three transit vans, which makes them ultra-popular with everyone else. (they are lovely people I have to say, but three transit vans outside our little houses is a bit much).

I think there are three separate things that have damaged BB's press:

1. CBB5 - the one with Shilpa Shetty - was the worst. People who had never watched BB in their lives queued up to say what an awful programme it was, and several papers - The Mirror in particular - just stopped featuring it completely.

2. Chanelle and Ziggy. They were the last housemates to get a lot of media attention (apart from Josie, who lucked into winning at the time when Ch 5 needed to promote their new programme). It was so obvious that Chanelle and ziggy had never been a couple at all outside the house but had held it together just long enough to sell their 'story'. (They sold it, after a bidding war, to the Daily Express, which has never shown any interest in BB stories since; I think they were royally pissed off.)

3. The ultra-hyped, sentimental goodbye on Ch 4 which made Ch 5 feel like an after-thought. Heat notably stopped featuring BB after that, and they used to actually have a banner on the cover saying 'official magazine of Big Brother'.

It is all a real shame imo, because the housemates actually got better after BB8, not worse, the tasks got more creative, there was far less focus on vacuous 'romances' (Kris and Sophie in particular were barely shown) and we have just had the two most articulate, presentable winners since Brian Dowling.

At least the housemates do more or less know the score now. They realize that the kind of unofficial (and sadly generally unpaid) fame that Luke is experiencing at the moment is as good as it gets. Still, most of us will never have nearly 30,000 twitter followers or get mobbed at nightclubs or have our own facebook fansite.

I have just sold my 15 year old car (which I loved) and moved onto something newer: my mum's 10 year old car! I think that as you get older, new shiney cars become less important. I had a porsche when I was a student

Its like a Christmas tree on wheels and it suits Jay down to the ground - vulgar and trashy.

I bet the vans cause more than a little aggravation! Sadly my neighbours are horrible people - if anyone parks in one of their spaces she's out in 5 seconds berating them at the top of her voice. They run a successful company and have loads of money, but despite this are hicking over the cost of repairing/replacing a soakaway we share with them. It runs mainly over our land and we get the problems with back up and smell.

You are right. In my younger, single days when I was earning decent money I treated myself to a new Toyota MR2GT and loved it. It had to go when offspring number two came along and I kept the next car I bought for 12 years.

If I was in Conor's position I certainly wouldn't splash the cash the way he is doing. He thinks it's a fortune but it will be gone before he realises. Luke is being far more sensible.

That's a great summary! The last mainstream BB celebrity who's lasted the course is Imogen Thomas and that was hardly for the right reasons!

Interestingly, Luke clicked Like on a couple of my FB comments when we were discussing what we'd like to see him do next. That told me a lot about where his head seems to be at right now and I think he's ambitious but realistic.

I'll quote the one comment in full because I know you're not all on there:


The other comment he liked was when I was the first to suggest he write a book. Whether that's an autobiography, a general guide to being transgendered or maybe even a novel, I'm sure Luke's introverted brain would give him a talent for writing if he had a go at it. Being a BB winner, in itself, won't be so much of a selling point but he just has a fascinating human interest story to tell somehow.

He has and I reckon it would be a damn good read. I would buy it.

Me too .

me three. You are being asked to resubmit your all time best housemate list againt btw: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...1704132&page=5

Aww thank you, I made a few mistakes last time .

I've done it, I noticed that we have chosen the same housemate for number 1 .

I agree that it's a shame the media have largely ignored BB in recent times, especially when BB13 produced such an interesting and articulate winner in Luke.

I used to spend a fortune on the various papers and mags featuring BB articles but not nowadays. I still think a week's gap between normal BB and Celeb BB would have been fairer on the 5 finalists who had surely earned a week in the spotlight after 10 weeks inside the house. They had less airtime than earlier evictees who got to do sketches for bbots. Was expecting at least one or two little sketches featuring the soldiers. At least Luke got his go on the panel - and very entertaining he was too which served to reinforce the fact that it would have been nice to see a bit more of him outside of the house.

I remember they used to do a 9 out of 10 cats BB special as well and it's so disappointing that they don't do that anymore.

How can this unbelievable coincidence have happened?

Yes, true. I haven't seen a word about Adam, and he did come a close second.

Meta Magazine have done an interview with Lewis from 'My Transsexual Summer' about representing the trans community, I hope they interview Luke as well .

Luke just tweeted this


She is the editor of Mega magazine, so it looks like he will be doing something with them soon .

Just about to swop my 6 year old car for a shiny new ford. Get it on 1st, problem is, I am soooo scared for some reason. Love my car, so will be sad to see it go. Keep thinking I have made a mistake.

Good, hope so, even though it has changed from Meta magazine to Mega magazine in the space of a couple of paragraphs. Have now tracked down Meta magazine, one issue of which has the baffling strapline "I have an irrational fear of raisins". Actually one of my daughters once said that her three worst fears were raisins, Rolf Harris and paper cuts. I seem to be gettng a bit random and perhaps should go to bed....

Opps excuse my typo, . I noticed that strapline too, it was a bit random. I also didn't realise that Julie Bindel had such strong views against trans people.

She should have a little more compassion being a member of a minority herself.

I presumed that she would be a bit more understanding, considering that she's probably been subjected to prejudice herself because of her sexuality.

Ooh that looks interesting. It's only just launched and feels a bit radical and political-with-a-small-P. The only problem is it's digital-only and I don't have a suitable device to read it on.

Oh my god. Weeks ago- it feels like another lifetime - I promised on here to send £50 to Stonewall if becky was evicted and Luke stayed in the house because I thought their campaign against homophobic bullying was vaguely relevant. Now I find that they have given an award to someone who actually campaigns against gender reassignment. (I didn't send them £50 in the end but set up a £5 per month standing order). Now I feel like cancelling the standing order. What are they thinking of? What on earth does this woman think she is doing, criticising the life choices of other people that in no imaginable way affect her? I feel properly upset.