What a week.  Shabby legged it and on Monday left the Big Brother house by the back door.  It was no surprise she was the most talked about girl.

Figure 1: Girls buzz volumes – 30/6 to 6/7

Ben showed no signs of becoming a wallflower, stayed in the limelight and was the most talked about housemate with the highest number of mentions.  Much of the buzz was around his defiance of the Tree of Temptation when he refused to take place in a secret task.  He then decided that he couldn’t be bothered to do an army exercise session as punishment and let Dave do it instead – nice.  Ben also did a stand-up routine in front of the live audience on Friday when Sunshine was evicted.

Figure 2: Boys buzz volumes – 30/6 to 6/7

Ife was the least talked about girl and Nathan was the least talked about boy.

Meanwhile, Josie, who has put her love interest – John-James – on a slow simmer, has become the bookies favourite to win at 3/1.  Rupert Adams from William Hill explained: “The last 48 hours have been all about Josie and I have a feeling she could go on to be the most unusual of Big Brother winners,” (This is Local London 4/7).  But, don’t write off Steve, Ben and Corin just yet.

Figure 3: Topic cloud for the Big Brother conversation – 30/6 to 6/7

Across the Big Brother conversation, John-James was again the lead topic.  There was also talk that a celebrity would enter the house – maybe Jodie Marsh – which sent a few reverberations across Twitter.

As always, everybody has been talking about the nominations.  Caoimhe and John-James were put up by the house.  Caoimhe then saved herself by winning a task and put up Nathan up instead.

Figure 4: Sentiment expressed towards nominated housemates – 30/6 to 6/7

Nathan is the bookies favourite to go at 2/7 and after a quick look at the sentiment scores for both – we’re with them this week.