Daily Star 21/11/03 - page 33.

This years "hideous" white, furry Big Brother diary room has been voted the seventh most tackiest room on TV.

Only the living rooms of Les Battersby, Hilda Ogden, Del Boy and the Royal Family, as well as Eastenders B&B are worse according to survey of 3,000 people.

(funny pic of Federico in camp man outfit and monkey thong sat in DR chair)

I thought it looked like an inside-out polar bear this year!

I'd be interested to know how FM's would decorate the diary room if they had the chance?

How about the inside of a safe?
As all Endemall is bothered about is revenue.

The BB5 house and diary room should look as tacky as possible. The show will probably be a load of tat so why not? It's what Endemol's good at after all.

A white rubber room please so they can bounce off the walls as they descend into madness with the sheer effort of suppressing any element of personality .....

How about a shoestring-budget minor cable TV channel studio set . Just to get them used to it

It's a dog eat dog world out there, might as well give them a head start

I'd like to see a bed in the diary room, not a chair

Witha big, fluffy duvet. And cushions. You never know - exciting things may actually happen in the diary room if it had a bed instead of a chair.

Here's a link to an article about this in the Scotsman last week. It gives a few more details.

How come the subject is

Yet in the post

is it both?

Well spotted typo by me I've just gone back and checked the origional article and the diary room IS the 6th most tackiest, not the 7th.

emzi