She told that girl to shut up

Sweet Sam, s=xy Sam, sad, tearful Sam: Sam Heuston --- enigmatic, quirky, a bikini-loving beauty with an expressive face. She's been called "the shining light in a dark, dark TV show" and "a geometric, revolving world of shadow and light". She's been thought to be everything "from snidey b****, to s=x-mad maniac, to twitching nutcase, to giggly airhead, to sweet, generous girl, to strong, opinionated young woman." (I thank various posters to internet forums for those kind and unkind words.)

For her first two weeks in Big Brother 6, Samantha Heuston was best known for wearing bikinis in all weather, for oddly-timed, sometimes derisive laughter, for sitting in thought "while expressions passed over her face like cloud shadows on a summer day", for quick (but quickly fading) smiles, and for saying "shut up" and "f off" to her tormenters.

In her eviction interview, she called that her "'shut up' phase", and that was the inspiration for this blog.

I'll use it to post news about Sam, comments on Big Brother, and - why stop there? - my reactions to Britain's celebrity obsession and its distrust of beauty, to media bias and spin, to the hates of Heat, and to anything else that makes me want to enter a "shut up" phase of my own.