So, the boys have been nominated for eviction.  Big Brother housemates Ben, Govan, Dave & Mario face the public vote tomorrow.  The house had its first bust-up last week and the housemates haven’t really gone down the peace and love route since.   What on earth’s gone on?

Figure 1: Girls buzz volumes – 18/6 to 24/6

Well, Ben and Shabby have been at the centre of the storm all week.  The buzz among the girls was for Shabby. She was involved in an almighty row with Ben, had a special task from the Tree of Temptation to cosy up to arch-enemy Ben for a couple of hours and then won a dinner date with unrequited love Caoimhe.  Shabby’s week was topped off by saving herself from nomination and putting Mario up in her place.

Figure 2: Boys buzz volumes – 18/6 to 24/6

Ben was the most talked about boy.  On Wednesday, Big Brother revealed that Ben had discussed nominating his ‘friend’ Sunshine by using a secret code (Digital Spy 24/6).  The housemates lost their shopping budget as a result.  Mario also had a dose of unrequited love and backed Ben during the rows.

Figure 3: Topic cloud for the Big Brother conversation – 18/6 to 24/6

So, what was happening in the rest of the house?

As you can see above, John-James was still the lead topic of the week.  But, Corin has emerged as the bookies latest favourite to win at 11/4.

Back to Friday’s eviction…

Ben had the most negative mentions compared with the other three nominated housemates with 7.6 per cent.  Our system analysed 1,100 mentions in real-time, across online and social media for the most talked-about boy.  On the flipside, he also had the highest score for positive mentions with 22.8 per cent.

Mario had the fewest negative mentions at 5.1 per cent, and lowest positive mentions at 14.1 per cent.

Figure 4: Sentiment expressed towards nominated housemates – 18/6 to 24/6

The bookies favourite to go was Govan at 1/2.  If we had some Monopoly money – it would probably would have gone on Ben.