Big Brother 9 on Channel 4
Tim Teeman
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4077074.ece?openComment=trueAfter eight series of manipulated freakery, what possible extremity of human nature could Big Brother present to us? We've had a singing lesbian nun, a tearful transsexual and a former dental nurse who ignited an international race controversy.
Well, they've done it again. For the ninth series there's a blind cross-dresser, revelling in his collection of sexy stockings, two contestants who have fled persecution in Sierra Leone and Somalia — both of whom disavow any political identity — and to ensure conflict, another housemate who is anti-immigration. An albino called Darnell, who was "too black for white kids and too white for black kids" and who had never seen Big Brother, must have had a giant acceptance tick on his application form from the moment it landed.
