Intensive Heat

More swearing chefs were in order of this afternoon where by this point of the series Gordon was acknowledging that this was a very tight business and had asked some of his own kitchen staff to come in in the early hours and make early preparations.

He didn't want the celebrities to think he was taking the piss but they saw it as more of a relief with regards to their workload.

Around this time all of the chefs signature dishes were now on the menu but Edwina unhappy with the standards of her guinea fowl decided at the last minute that she couldn't be arsed to make the dish much to Gordon's irritation.

This resulted in possibly one of the best lines of the series; "I mean one minute you're shagging our Prime Minister, and now you're trying to shag me from behind".

I presume that when Edwina joined the show, her weekend late night show on 5 Live had been dropped but she showed at any cost that she could still be a pain wherever.

I tend to forget that like fellow contestant Jennifer Ellison, Edwina was also from Liverpool and has tiny hints of a Scouse accent in her voice.

In addition to this was the fact that Gordon had asked three food critics from the biggest newspapers to attend one morning to try their signature dishes and would later return that evening to attend the restaurant itself.
One of them being Charles Campion from the London Evening Standard whom Angus made several jokes about his weight in his links.

This ended up in a rather unfortunate line from Gordon in one of his on screen interviews where he said; "none of them are messing about, or jerking off"

In addition to the critics was an appearance by Gordon's old boss
Michel Roux who was rumoured to be Gordon's replacement for
the second series.

Other celebrity diners included Sian Lloyd and Lembit Opik, Patsy Kensit, and former contestant Dwain Chambers.

And Lee Latchford-Evans.

Another sacking took place and this time Al Murray got the lowest number of viewers votes. To be honest though he was starting to get a bit too big for his boots and was actually rather bitter about being voted out when it happened.

From a presentation perspective, it's weird seeing the LWT endcap (with purple Granada branding) at the end of each programme as LWT had been long gone as an on-air brand in the London region, although by the end of 2004 it had disapeared all together.

Only two more episodes to go thank goodness although there's still plenty of other stuff I may look through tonight from around the same time and possibly even further.

You could say it was a wasted life of some sorts but I know I'm not the worst.
It all comes down to the fact that barely any of my VHS's have episodes of Big Brother on them.