Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Kenzie Watch: Day 4
The housemates awoke this morning to discover that their abode had been transformed into an entirely accurate recreation of a medieval castle. Well, a suit of armour had been stuck in the corner and some stocks where in the back garden, but at least they tried. This was clearly the essential maintenance which caused the Kenzie/McCririck rift last night, but it seems the chance to sleep on it has given John time to think over his actions as upon waking he went over to Kenzie and apologised for his behaviour, having presumably realised that accusing someone of acting like a kid when you're currently in the middle of a massive hissy fit because you've not been given your fizzy pop doesn't exactly leave you standing on hugely solid ground.
The reason for the 'transformation' the house went under was for the start of the Court of Big Brother task. At lunchtime a fat bloke dressed in green fired an arrow at an archery target in the garden, which lead Kenzie to declare "Aww, that Robin Hood was well cool", demonstrating that he has a quite unique definition of coolness. Attatched to the arrow was a message and, when Lisa went out to get it, she discovered that this made her Queen of the house and all the others now had to serve her. As part of this, she had to pick different housemates to fulfill certain roles. When it came to the position of Minstrel she naturally gravitated towards the most musically talented member of the household. Unfortunately though, she'd already made Bez a footman, along with Jeremy, so was stuck with Kenzie in that role.
Amongst the various tasks which the housemates had to carry out for their new Queen, the main one was to create a Coat of Arms for her, with each courtier being given one section to paint with a design representing an aspect of her personality. Kenzie decided to go with 'music', presumably because "Getting sacked for going on a bender and missing your show when Radio 1 was in Ibiza" had been assigned to John, who left his blank due to his still being in a massive strop regarding his diet coke. Kenzie chose to represent this aspect with a picture of a ghetto blaster pumping out "Flip Reverse", showing a remarkable grasp of irony in one so young.
There was little to add flesh to the Jeremy/Kenzie coupling, alas, although when Kenzie was asked by his Queen - that's Lisa, just to clarify - to provide some entertainment, he began rapping, the sound of which left Jeremy unable to control his body and he found himself standing up and performing pelvic thrusts to the rhythm and sound of Kenzie's MCing. The also did find themselves plucking together in the evening, although they were both plucking birds side by side. Kenzie's technique was not perhaps the most experienced in the world, as he managed to split his, much to the disgust of the other housemates, but Jeremy still encouraged to finish off the job, perhaps because he understands better than most how upsetting it is to be left half-cocked by Kenzie.
