Day 40 of 71 - Attack of the killer moth...
Posted by Simon at July 6, 2004 12:59 AM
Dan has made his fear of moths quite clear since he's been in the Big Brother house, although he seems to slowly be getting over his phobia.
A huge moth has been spotted before, no doubt attracted to the garden by it's huge daylight bright floodlights that ring the garden, and tonight Dan was shocked to find a huge one fly right past him.
However where as he'd have run a mile before, he actually went close up to it, and helped direct Big Brother to point the camera at the plants at which it was hiding behind, and even moving the plants with a rake to allow Big Brother (and TV viewers) to get a "good view" of it.
Big Brother doesn't usually like to respond to housemates with the cameras, as they probably feel it's a way of Big Brother and the housemates communicating outside of the diary room - something which they usually shun, but it'd appear who ever was in control of the remote control cameras and camera shots tonight was finding the moth more exciting than the housemates...!
Eventually the moth decided that it'd make itself at home inside the house, and TV viewers were "treated" to a couple of minutes of camera angles showing various areas where they thought the moth had landed near to where the collapsable table is stored, and every grubby mark that Big Brother could see was zoomed in on just incase it was the moth... eventually they appeared to give up though and returned to the small group of housemates who hadn't gone to bed yet and were chatting on the sofa.