Big Brother B-Day Tomorrow: pictures of Room 101 revealed
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Endemol conjure an affront to taste and proper geometry
We all knew that this time round Big Brother was going to come down hard on those who broke the rules (clue: don’t be a massive racist) but this is taking the michael just a little.
Pictures of the new garden area have just been posted up on msn.com a day before the ninth British series of the genre-defining reality TV show is unleashed on Channel 4 and it looks like Endemol let the design team who came up with the 2012 London Olympic logo loose on the set. In short, it looks horrible – jaunty, colliding angles and various shades of sick-inducing green, with an oversized Dali-esque ashtray placed in the middle. So the housemates, and by extension the viewers, have already been punished by this aesthetic offence before having committed any sin.
Those who do will find themselves locked up in the BB chokey – the ‘jail’ is also incorporated into the garden area of the house, so that those incarcerated will have to suffer the added humiliation of watching the other housemates having a good time, enjoying the weather and cooling off in the pool – given that the sun will be shining directly into the cramped cell at some point in the day, we reckon its going to get pretty hot in there.
The interior of the cell is also decorated with pictures of Chucky from Childsplay-style eyeless doll’s heads intended to creep the inmates out, and features a two-way mirror reflecting the endless heads and ensuring no privacy for the captives. It’s a given that all housemates will undergo proper psychological profiling before entering to prevent any full on claustrophobia induced wig-outs, but is this too much? Maybe. We’ve not yet met any of the housemates, and some of them are bound to be excruciatingly annoying wastes of matter.
Say what you like about Big Brother, but the show certainly has a knack for extracting the inner misanthrope from pretty much everyone.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Bring on the carnage!
Let the games begin….
June 4th, 2008 at 10:48 am
The BB prison looks like a cheap version of the Paris Catacombs!
June 4th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
The colours are horrible… I feel sick just looking at those pics! The new house is going to drive the housemates mad!!!
June 4th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
That’s pretty messed up! From those pics it looks a bad acid trip in there! Clearly it will quickly make no difference to the behaviour of the house mates, in fact I bet through some kind of negative reinforcement someone will end up putting themselves in there more often than not.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
It’s not big enough for Jade Goody.