10,000BC - Episode 4 Intervention

10,000 BC Episode 4

*For a brief background to the show and a who's who please scroll to the bottom.

Only one day of rations left ......

Day 8 & 9

Steve has decided to abandon hunting and forging and just concentrate to on the lake, so he takes 9 of the tribe out with him to the lake (Tom, Paul W, Rachel, Kam, Bobby, Emily, Jodie, Mel and Mike). Smart Lad Tom has carried embers in a horseshoe mushroom, so that they can have a fire down by the lake. Steve has a lot of respect for Tom because he' not shy of hard work but he also brings some great thinking to the group.

JP is left in charge of camp, by Steve, in an effort to get him more involved and prove that he is a team player. Unfortunately it seems that whilst Paul B is moving the fire wood under a tree (to protect it from rain) and Josie is preparing the remaining acorns, JP is just surveying his manor for the time being and washing his feet. 

The rest arrive at the lake, after a 2km trek and find that the traps have only caught 2 Crayfish. So Steve and Paul W set about trying the fishing lines again, whilst the rest of the group make more fishing traps. 

Bobby isn't bothered about doing any work and instead goes to admire his surroundings. This results in him getting stuck in the sinking sand mud, yes you guessed it "I'm gonna die out here", luckily there is fireman (Mike) in the group that is used to saving plonkers that insist on walking in mud. 

Funniest of all though is as soon as Bobby is out he runs over to Steve to ask if they can go back to camp now, like he's on a boring family trip to the seaside and wants to get back to his XBOX. 

Paul B is complaining about JP's managerial skills, fair enough he doesn't seem to be pulling his weight but complaining he's bossy is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. 

With still no sign of fish at the lake, using the fishing lines, the group have a lunch of Crab apples and Rose hips. Not happy with the lines, Steve has made a weighted fish trap but it only catches one. Never one to not try, try, try again he goes into the lake with his bare hands and catches 7 more. Probably would have been a good idea to get the rest of the group to have a quick go seeing as that seems to be the most effective method yet; but who am I to talk as I sit cosy drinking a nice cuppa.

Mike fully engages with his hunter gatherer self and catches a mouse for his tea. I'm sure he would have happily shared but the tribe let him skin, cook and eat it himself. 

Josie, the vegetarian, has only eaten Crab apples & Leafs and ironically is the one to get food poisoning.

Despite having 10 crayfish it still isn't enough and moral is very low, so low that even Tom is thinking of walking. 

The production team medics have been monitoring the tribe and they are concerned that they are all starting to get dangerously ill. They attend the camp to check everyone out and find that they are all Malnourished and tell production that the tribe are too ill to continue.

The experiment is put on hold temporarily and the production team provide the tribe with  Isotonic drinks, Honey, Jerky and Meat. They are told to rest until the medics are happy that they are well enough to continue.

The camp is divided about the production teams intervention. Tom is not happy because he is fed up with carrying people and feels that the intervention has only reinforced that idea some peoples minds, that there will always be someone to help them out if it gets too difficult. 


Mike and Paul B are thinking along the same lines as Tom and express disappointment that some of the tribe are not viewing this as a second chance to start the experiment and get it right. Instead some of them are now viewing it more as a camping trip. 

Good old Bobby then proves them right by saying he will only stay if the production team will feed them once a week and they get one phone call a week. 

Day 10 & 11

The next morning the tribe are given the OK to continue with the experiment. 

Over night, however, It's got much colder again and now it's raining heavily too. The tribe are stuck in the shelters but some of them still put their time to good use. Jodie, Kam and the Harding Girls are making cording. Mike, Paul B and Steve are carving wooden spoons. 

Not everyone is finished with the medics though, Tom has to be taken to an emergency clinic as he has a swelling down the side of his neck and face. and poor Josie has to removed from camp because her nausea and vomiting has continued. The production doctors have said that she will only be allowed to return to camp if she makes a full recovery. In the meantime she is hooked up to a drip in the production camp, which to be honest isn't much more glamorous than the Stone Age one but at least the bed is off the floor. 

Bobby has been slumped in the corner of the shelter, watching the girls make the cording, and that's when I realise his spirit animal must be the Sloth. Suddenly he's up and out the shelter .... Bobby has had enough and is walking. 

Later on Tom comes back with bad news that he has a swollen gland from eating leaves and it's going to take at least 6 days to get better. He chooses that the best way to get better is to leave the experiment. As he does he quite honestly comments that he can understand how stone age man coped but sadly he is a 21st Century man and no amount of experiment is going to change that.

Steve says what everyone is thinking, another strong member of the team with excellent skills has left. 

And it doesn't stop there, Kam is now talking to the production team and says that although she knew it would be really hard she is finding it much harder. She agrees to sleep on it and make a decision in the morning.

There is a definite split in the tribe now, those who want to fully participate in the stone age experience and the other that want constant 21st century intervention.Steve talks to Paul B about whether they should continue helping the tribe as a whole and hope that the slackers start to pitch in. Talk comes back round to JP and they agree to give him one last chance to be a team player.

With a break in rain the tribe are able to come out and start improving their shelters, to protect better from the rain and cold. Suddenly row breaks out between Mike and JP over hay usage and the age old saying 'Theres no I in team".  Paul W takes JP to one side and says he needs to do something about it if he wants to prove to everyone wrong. JP says he just needs some direction in what needs doing and admits that, that's what might be missing in his on the outside. 

All the younger lads seem to not be coping well in this experience and it all seems to come round to not having enough direction in their real lives. Be it parental guidance that's missing perhaps or too much too soon.

Steve and Mel have been out on hunting but they can't have caught anything because there are no 'Hurrahs' from the tribe, on their return.

Whilst JP is contemplating walking after today's bust up with Mike, Kam calls a tribe meeting to tell them she is walking after all.

Only 12 people left in the tribe and the decline in people, specially the strong ones, is worrying the remainder.  Rachel voices the main worry that so many people have left, because there are still just as many jobs to be done but only half of the amount of people left to do them.

I tell you what, we all thought Celebrity Big Brother was mad this year. With people walking so early and the crazy stuff that was going on from the start but I think 10,000BC is going to give it a run for it's money in the 'Craziest Reality TV Series' title.

What is 10,000BC about?

20 volunteers, from a cross section of people of the 21st Century, were sent into  a Bulgarian hunting reserve, similar to prehistoric Britain, to survive 8 weeks in the Stone age, without any help from 2014 (Filmed through October & November 2014)

The chosen ones for the experiment, from a cross section of modern day Britain are: 

Rachel Harding - Education Assessor (Mother of the Camp / Organised)
Paul Wilshurst - Fence Contractor (Stubborn But Hard Worker)

Emily Harding - Graphic Designer                                                      > The Harding Family

Mary Harding - Student
Alice - Restaurant Maitre D' (Willing to help out every day)

Paul Barnes - Lorry Driver  (Wanna be Bear Grylls and someone that clearly lives on his    
                                            own for a reason) 

Mike Soumelides - Simms  - Firefighter (All round handy guy to have around and always                 
                                                                 positive. Has a degree is hugs)

Josie & Jodie O'Rourke - Bookmaker / Event Manager ( Mother & Daughter )

Steve Nicholson - Archer (Amateur survivalist / Tribe Leader / Strategist)

John Paul Mullen (JP) - Club Promoter (Looked like he might walk to begin with but has           
                                                                knuckled down and getting on with it / Chatterbox)

Melissa Selling - Prop Maker

Perry Brookes - Landscape Gardener (Geezer) - WALKED

Kym Hall - Marketing Manager (Strong, Organised, Natural Leader) - WALKED

Oliver Farr - Electrician (Terris's Boyfriend / Survivalist Skills / Keen to Try Anything and        
                                     Embrace Stone Age Life) - WALKED
 Terri Perry - Florist (Oliver's Girlfriend/ Positive Person / Kind & Caring) - WALKED 

Caroline Mortimer - Retired Secretary (Stone Age enthusiast) - UNABLE TO CONTINUE 
                                                             POOR HEALTH

Aamer 'Bobby' Hussein - Council Duty Manager ("We're gonna die out here" / Self  
                                                                               Proclaimed Lazy) - WALKED

Tom Reader - Digital Content Creator (Keen team member/ not shy of hard word work/        
                                                            Nature Lover) - WALKED

Kam Khaira - Housewife & Shopkeeper  - WALKED

CBB Live Eviction Results - Fri 30th

CBB 2015 - Fri 30th Episode 

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It's Friday's live eviction and up for the public vote is Nadia, Perez, Katie H and Cheggars but before we find out who goes and who stays, let's see what happened yesterday in the house. 

Two faced Katie H is talking crap to Cheggars about how if Perez hadn't been awarded eternal nomination, Cheggars wouldn't have even been up eviction. No Katie H he wouldn't have been up for nomination if you hadn't planted the seed in the house. 

Katie H and Katie P have barney about what Pricey said during face to face nominations. Katie P doesn't back down and goes straight for the jugular and Katie H is very offended that Pricey said she hogs the limelight and then does the very same thing that she accuses Perez of doing.... walks out the room because she's not winning the argument. 

BB throws a party for the Nominees and the first things I noticed was that Katie H has yet another sparkly dress, there must be a national shortage of sequins now, and that Calum didn't seem to dance once. Everyone had a lovely time and got on for once. 

Nadia has a moment about missing her family, surprisingly it's Cami that gives her a hug and drunk Kav gets stuck with Perez and his Perez show 'How great am I" spiel. Then whilst the ladies are applying their fake tan, Kav comes into the bedroom to repeat back the conversation and cause up roar before bedtime. 

So the vote lines are closed and we find out who is safe and who is going home.  Nadia is out and for a couple of secs she's not sure if she's saved or going, because they changed the announcement format. Perez is crying like a bitch and when the doors open Nadia has mad moment screaming at the top of her lungs that she loves her family.

The first question that Emma asked was "How does it feel to go into cheers and leave to boos" and Nadia very matter of factually says she has always been a very like able person and people know that. 

Nadia agrees that Katie H is getting very tactical in the house. She says that the public need to get Perez out so that everyone can see what Katie H really is like. She also thinks that a lot of the housemates are scared of her because she has a Sun column.

Monday will be a live two hour special with Emma & Rylan, when one of the housemates will be leaving the house when Emma goes into the house to physically pull them out. 

Sonikmummy

CBB - Same Old, Same Old Wed 28th

CBB 2015 - Wed 28th Episode 

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Katie H has stress and storms out because Keith is telling people about his ingrowing bum hair hole, after Katie P mentions her boob hole. Yeah I don't understand it either but apparently he's always talking about himself and that pisses Katie H off. 

In the snug Katie H & Michelle are bitching about Katie P, more so Katie H who thinks it's all 'Pricey' act. Michelle is more diplomatic in saying she expected a big loud diva but instead she's very much a girl next door. Meanwhile unbeknown to them she is telling Nadia that she is a very boring person, she just sits at home eating and watching telly until she has to go out and work. 

So Patsy left in the live eviction, which meant Perez went back into the house. Nadia could not believe her eyes, as she was the only one that believed that he had actually walked. Katie H couldn't be any more fucked off PMSL and just keeps repeating "Will everyone just get their head out of Perez' arse". 

Cami gets all Ghetto in the diary room, mainly because we are seeing 'Night time' Cami but also because she is talking about Perez.

Michelle is crying in the bedroom, because she feels Perez is giving a false view of the LGBT community but then it comes down to what it's really about and that's that she could be up against him in the final 3 and lose out to him. Yes, that's right, Michelle think she is going right through to the final and has done so since the beginning. I can't tell if that's a ballsy task to set yourself or plain old narcissism. 

Kav has had a little bit too much to drink and is all argumentative in Nadia's face, and then is shocked  when she argues back. He then continues to shout "Left Wing" in her direction for the rest of tonight.

Perez then tells Nadia what Callum said about her 'Heavy' cooking, which then leads to an argument with Callum but it doesn't stop there. She has a go at Katie H too, for being two faced. This is the Nadia that Patsy stopped us from seeing (because she was looking after her friend) but I think it's the housemate the housemate needs. The other housemates are shocked at her behaviour though and that is in part because when they confront Perez what he has said about them, Perez sugarcoats it so it looks like she is over reacting. 

Perez and Katie H fall into their old familiar groove, shouting over each over and it's tedious already. He'd be better suited to confronting other people and admitting what he has already told others he has said. 

It's gone midnight and Perez is doing his 'Perez show' dance in his pants for the mirrors. Katie P and Cheggars are hiding out in the diary room, because of all the argument madness, they don't dare look at anyone in case they get drawn into it.  

Sonikmummy