UH-OH, there's trouble in Tommyland… Tommy and "Eulrika" (after two weeks trapped in a house together, Tommy seems unable to grasp that the woman's name is Ulrika, not Eulrika), are not getting on. This is a shame. I'd harboured high hopes for these two – of similar ages, with similar tans and similar sneers. But it is not to be.
The housemates are set a music task that involves writing a song about their Big Brother experiences. Tommy isn't keen. He declares the venture, with his characteristic eloquence, to be "pish". He then goes for a "run", panting his way round the gar
den in his Scotland strip. OK, Tommy, we get it. You like football. You like Scotland. I'm sure George Burley's got your number on speed dial.
While Tommy runs his laps, Ulrika is getting annoyed. She fizzes with irritation, announces that she's "slightly peeved" with him for not joining in, before moaning to Big Brother that either he's being stubborn or committing an act of defiance. An act of defiance? From a socialist politician? Surely not.
Tommy, meanwhile, fresh from his run and then an inexplicable mid-afternoon shave (really, Tommy, if it's body hair you're worried about, your face is the last area that should be concerning you) lounges around petulantly in a grey velvet dressing gown, a disturbing vision of how that body hair is going to look 20 years from now.
I'm not clear when exactly it happened, but Tommy has gone from not minding Ulrika to positively loathing her. As soon as the music task is over and Ulrika leaves the room, he lets rip, telling Coolio, "She's a pain in the f***ing arse."
I'm not sure why he's so angry with her. Because she's getting paid more? Because she answers back? Because she can carry off a pair of shorts better than he can?
Terry takes a more sanguine approach to what he perceives as Ulrika's dislike of him. "I'm not bothered," he says. "It's no big deal to me, but it is a big deal to her." Listen and learn, Tommy.
By the time you read this someone else will be out, following yesterday's surprise eviction – rumoured to be between Coolio or Ulrika. Shame, really. The house will be a quieter, duller place without either one of them. Something tells me, however, that Tommy may not see it that way.
