Celebrity Big Brother stars Louis Walsh and Lauren Simon are facing a frosty punishment for breaking the show's rules just four days in.The X Factor judge Louis and Real Housewives of Cheshire's Lauren are caught out discussing nominations, a big no-no for any contestant on the ITV show as they are supposed to decide who to put up for eviction on their own, and will be sent out to the chilly garden for their bad behaviour. But Lauren, 51, who is up against Gary Goldsmith for the first eviction tonight, was unable to resist gossiping with Louis, 71, in Thursday night's episode where they talked about how surprised they were that Zeze Millz is not up for eviction too and Louis questioned "what exactly she's done in her life".The pair then started whispering about their views on some of the other housemates, but awkwardly, Big Brother will reveal to the group what they had said, with a clip of them being dropped in it previewed on last night's Late & Live ITV2 spin-off.
‘The Visitor’ Review: Bruce LaBruce Is Back with a Spunky Call-to-Arms Loosely Inspired by ‘Teorema’
17.02.2024 - 23:21 / variety.com
Catherine Bray A low-budget romp set in contemporary London against a curdled cultural backdrop of racist politics, Bruce LaBruce’s “The Visitor” pays explicit homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s sexually provocative last feature, “Teorema.” The cheeky Canadian director’s graphic reimagining sees various mysterious suitcases appearing here and there, each of which turns out to contain an identical naked man, all played by performance artist Bishop Black. The rest of the film follows one of these guys, the “Visitor” of the film’s title, as he inveigles his way into the home of a wealthy family, proceeding to seduce each family member in turn.
The production has managed to wangle an imposing location for the Visitor’s antics to unfold: one of those huge London statement homes made almost entirely of glass, like a sort of gigantic Cubist fishbowl. In other respects, the production values are somewhat DIY.
This is Pasolini via early John Waters, including a lengthy scene of joyous coprophagia in which chocolate brownies stand in for the real thing (sparing the cast what Divine went through on “Pink Flamingos”). Not to imply the cast aren’t generally game for whatever LaBruce’s imagination can conjure up for them.
Together with Black as the Visitor, the ensemble — consisting of the Father (Macklin Kowal), the Mother (Amy Kingsmill), the Son (Kurtis Lincoln), the Daughter (Ray Filar) and the Maid (Luca Federici) — seems prepared to go where most actors would not, outside of adult movies. Shit-eating aside, the sex acts are unsimulated, with a Christ-shaped dildo memorably venturing where angels fear to tread, and plenty of bondage and threesomes and so on.
So, is it all just high-concept pornography? Well, yes and no. The
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