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According to one of the tabloids:

there will be 2 girls - a sexy irish model and a bust "loudmouth exhibitionist" with 44F boobs. the thirs newcomer is a lad who says he is a virgin and has no pals.

One of them is half-kuwaiti and has met jennifer lopez, while another is an engineer who is learning to fly. all three are single and one of the girls describes herself as a snobbish two faced bitch.


Sounds like theyve drageed up another three normal people lol

Yes, not sure I believe that sealed.

This is the Channel 4 description although the 44FF bit has since been removed from the site.


They're all single, they're all under 30, and, between them, our new Housemates have met Jennifer Lopez, taken flying lessons, and are scared of spiders and water tanks.

One dislikes "vain, self-obsessed people," whilst another describes themselves as a being a "two-faced bitch," and one says they have "no friends." Oh dear.

Half Kuwaiti, model, exhibitionist, Atheist, engineer, snob - these are all ways the new Housemates have described themselves.

We could we have a beautiful, arrogant, Jennifer Lopez fan who is an engineer and keeps taking their clothes off despite being scared of water tanks. Well, we could...

Watch Big Brother from 9pm on Channel 4 to find out and meet the three new Housemates face to face.

Oh, and one has 44FF breasts.

Just thought we'd mention that.

Safin 2 sets down

Weather is too bad to trade here. Pitch black outside so I have had to take a back seat. Not worth the risk with the size of some of the trades I want to put in the market. Will sit out each thunderstorm.

Safin out

Ancic out in straight sets

not trading as trying to sort out new pc

No rain at Wimbledon available at 1.08 got to surely be worth a punt. If it some how avoids it today it will surely go in the next week.

"Ancic out? One set up on my scores? or are you pyschic :-)

Just made a mess of the 16:00 at Folkstone. Trying to do too many things at once!

Do traders have nine lives as well as cats?

Play suspended at Wimbledon.

I'm singing in the rain. Just hope it doesn't reach here for our mixed greensomes @ 17.00.

Shame they didn't have a market for rain at Glastonbury as well.

Lovely mover in the 17:00 just bagged a huge trade. Fantastic stuff.

Keeping an eye on the Roddick match traded at 1.01 and now back to two sets all.

Play has resumed at Wimbledon

Scrip, Thanks for pointing out the no rain bet for Wim. Grabbed a bite at 1.08.
Thanks also for sorting out other problem.

I can't believe that there are people on Betfair who were stupid enough to offer money even at 1.08 for no rain at Wim. It was a foregone conclusion that we were going to get rain throughout the country today. It was just a matter of time before it fell at Wim. As far as I'm concerned I'm more than happy to take free money of such idiots!

"Thanks for pointing out the no rain bet for Wim. Grabbed a bite at 1.08."

No prob but it really was a no brainer. I filled up with a reasonable amount but nothing huge and still people wanted to lay it so thought I just as well let others know.

Also for me with the rain moving over my house towards Wimbledon I couldn't believe people were still offering up money. Only a matter of time before Wimbledon was hit.

Still a no trading day for me - finally got the new pc up and running, from tomorrow will be able to have three screens at once, just got to sort out the router and broadband and install some software.

Kernow - if its mixed gruesomes surely you'd prefer it to rain - and heavily lol

see "any other" to win bb is now trading at 9.0/9.2

nice green position awaiting kayak!

Yes Fundy although I looked earlier and they had bounced to 13 or so! It turned out that Davina had made some comment on BBLB about them not being proper housemates, which caused a flood of speculation on Digital Spy as to whether they might be plants or housemates from foreign BBs and therefore not able to win. Ah the dangers of reality shows. Price has now come down again so I think it was all a big red herring.