Well put it this way, there already aren't enough housemates to have five in the final week, so I suspect several people will be joining the house at various points of the show let alone the golden ticket winner. As to exactly when Shahbaz will get replaced, who knows?
It's a moan for later in the year, but I hope they cut it back to four for the final week. Five is too many - the group just doesn't feel like it's getting smaller like it used too!
Anyhow - thank god Shahbaz has gone! It's set up the show well now and be interesting to see what happens next - and there is enough happening without Shahbaz!
Also, a comment made on one or two of the spin-off shows which I think is quite true - the situation Shahbaz put the other HMs in has made them show their true characters quite early on really.
P.S. Still loving Nikki - her "sensitive" solution to Dawn's B.O. was hilarious!
The KitKat Golden Ticket thing is causing massive confusion because nobody knows which batches of stock have potentially got the tickets in them. The actual KitKats don't have any mention of the competition on the wrapper. Neither the retailers nor the public have been told what batch codes or best before dates are affected. The official line from Channel 4 and Nestlé is that KitKats on sale in the big yellow point of sale containers are the ones to look out for.
But the shops have received the point of sale material in separate deliveries to the actual KitKats, so they don't know which batches they're supposed to put in the point of sale containers. Shops haven't been given any instruction by Nestlé to put newer stock out first, and anyway, why should they? As anyone who's ever worked in retail will know, the only concern of the shops is effective stock rotation, which means putting older batches of KitKats on display first - and this will mean the majority of Golden Tickets will probably be discovered long after 2nd June, which is a ridiculously short deadline for a product that normally sits in stockrooms and on the shelves for several months.
To add to the confusion further, some of the Golden Ticket KitKats have a football shirt competition on the wrapper, and some don't. What a mess.
As much as I'd love to believe this confusion is all a big con by Nestlé to shift truckloads of KitKats, I genuinely think this was a badly thought out competition which was hurriedly cobbled together at the last minute. I think it could have been far
more
successful in terms of sales figures if it had been executed properly, with BB flashes actually printed on the wrappers, a couple of months before BB started.
As much as I'd love to believe this confusion is all a big con by Nestlé to shift truckloads of KitKats, I genuinely think this was a badly thought out competition which was hurriedly cobbled together at the last minute. I think it could have been far
more
successful in terms of sales figures if it had been executed properly, with BB flashes actually printed on the wrappers, a couple of months before BB started.
I had just assumed they'd have the logo on the wrappers!
They could have got them out a bit earlier - the HMs had been in lockdown for two weeks so I don't think they really needed to wait for the series to begin - especially as the competition had been announced.
It's rating really well so far this year - usually the early episodes hover around the 4m mark.
Competition from The X Factor will be tougher next week - but although I think realistically The X Factor will win the head to head battle, I think it'll lose more viewers than Big Brother. (If that makes sense - what I'm saying if 3.5m viewers for BB is better than 6m viewers for The X Factor!)
P.S. Anyone know which presenter has pulled the short straw and gets to interview Shahbaz?
Usually quitters are just featured on BBLB - but occassionally Davina is bought in (she interviewed Emma in BB5) - and I'm thinking if they did a live show tonight they could also reveal the final members of the Brotherhood and get the lines open immediately.
And god, Endemol must have lost a fortune in potential revenue once Shahbaz left the house!
Thats a good point about having a live show -it is Wednesday ofcourse, and it would i guess a huge amount would tune into to see THEE interview...never thought of that before.
The KitKat Golden Ticket thing is causing massive confusion because nobody knows which batches of stock have potentially got the tickets in them. The actual KitKats don't have any mention of the competition on the wrapper. Neither the retailers nor the public have been told what batch codes or best before dates are affected. The official line from Channel 4 and Nestlé is that KitKats on sale in the big yellow point of sale containers are the ones to look out for.
But the shops have received the point of sale material in separate deliveries to the actual KitKats, so they don't know which batches they're supposed to put in the point of sale containers. Shops haven't been given any instruction by Nestlé to put newer stock out first, and anyway, why should they? As anyone who's ever worked in retail will know, the only concern of the shops is effective stock rotation, which means putting older batches of KitKats on display first - and this will mean the majority of Golden Tickets will probably be discovered long after 2nd June, which is a ridiculously short deadline for a product that normally sits in stockrooms and on the shelves for several months.
To add to the confusion further, some of the Golden Ticket KitKats have a football shirt competition on the wrapper, and some don't. What a mess.
As much as I'd love to believe this confusion is all a big con by Nestlé to shift truckloads of KitKats, I genuinely think this was a badly thought out competition which was hurriedly cobbled together at the last minute. I think it could have been far
more
successful in terms of sales figures if it had been executed properly, with BB flashes actually printed on the wrappers, a couple of months before BB started.
I'd hardly agree seen as tickets have already been found. Remember there are only 100 of these tickets and around 40,000 places to be sold in. The chances of finding one are slim.
From what you can gather from the BB site is that only KitKat & KitKat Chunky with the plain wrappers could have the tickets - the other KitKash thing doesn't.
I bought a KitKat the other day and there was a sign saying Big Brother Golden ticket blah blah blah - personally I just wanted a KitKat and I think there's a lot of people out there that think because they're buying a KitKat they should get a ticket but it's just not likely to happen. 100 into millions of bars. Just doesn't add up.