Celebrity Big Brother is BACK - First Poll Results!
Welcome back to a new year and a new series of Celebrity Big Brother!Here's the first blush on the public's views of the ropey group of slebs that have found themselves in the CBB house this year. This...
View ArticleFirst CBB Departure As Donny Tourette Quits The House - Who's Next?!
Well well well! Who would have thought it! Shortly before midnight last night Patrick Brannan AKA Donny Tourette keeps it punk rock and jumps over the CBB house wall and out of the show.Its been a...
View ArticleLeo, Donny, Donatella, Peter and Maggot!
The Sunday Mirror today carries the bizzarre story of former CBB housemate Donny Tourette "bedding" Leo Sayer's "girl" Donatellabut this is not Leo's first link with Reality TV.A reader emailed us to...
View ArticleCBB Polls Update: Cleo and Shilpa Step Up.
For six whole days we have been anxiously waiting for one (or some) of the housemates to stake a convincing early claim for the increasingly oxymoronic title of Celebrity Big Brother Winner 2007.With...
View ArticleEviction Wednesday - Jack or Jackiey to go?
Tonight's Celebrity Big Brother eviction is a surprise to the housemates. They've not even nominated one another in the normal fashion. A nominal group of the Goody "family" - Jade Goody, Jackiey...
View ArticleLeo Goes, Carole Exposed.
Fans of permed hair will be devastated to hear the news that Leo Sayer has succumbed to the voices in his head and has fled the house.What happens now?Well, in an attempt by the producers of the show...
View ArticleCBB Polls Update: The Vultures Begin To Circle..
Before "mum" Carole had even finished her eviction interview on Friday night, the kids back in the house were already playing up. We're not really sure what the fracas was about, and neither were the...
View ArticleThe Shilpa Shetty Survey
The escalation of this series to the international stage and the front pages of broadsheet newspapers has had a dramatic effect on Celebrity Big Brother's potential voting demographics.5.8m people...
View ArticleTonight's Double Eviction - Clear As Mud.
Tonight's not as straightforward as we first thought, due to more meddling by the producers.Earlier on we would have told you that Jo O'Meara would be the next person to be evicted and we think that...
View ArticleShilpa's Still Sitting Pretty, But Who's The Runner Up?
Shilpa Shetty's popularity is looking almost as firm as it was when we updated you on the 18th of Jan in our Shilpa Shetty survey . Her latest odds of course reflect this entirely so if you've not...
View ArticleCelebrity Big Brother: Finals Night - Our Thoughts;
Happy Finals Night to you all.We have been conducting a final poll on the remaining housemates to establish the likely finishing order this evening. Here are the results at time of writing:The momentum...
View ArticleSpecialbets.com Is Looking For Contributors
Statman and myself, the admin of specialbets.com decided we're bored of just the sound of our own voices on this blog. We'd like to open the site up to other voices and views.Specialbets has been...
View Article** French Presidential Election Results Special **
PRESIDENTIELLE: INFOS EN DIRECTWe're getting some good information on the French Election from our Paris contacts, there will be a live feed running here throughout the day.... jeanmarieJean-Marie...
View ArticleBig Brother 8 - Coverage
To all Big Brother Fans, gossippers, pollsters, gamblers and bawdeeps.Special Bets will shortly resume service for BB8, with a focus on bikinis.Go directly to the Betfair Betting Exchange. Click here
View ArticleChanelle, Single White Female.
It is widely known that Big Brother contestant Chanelle Hayes' image for the show is of a Victoria Beckham Wannabe - we just didn't realise the extent of Chantelle's Posh obsession until we saw her...
View ArticleBig Brother 8 - Enter Rylan Clark?
The Daily Star today went out with a story brewing in the forums for some time, that Rylan Clark - hairdresser, barman, celebrity wannabee and friend of dorothy is poised to enter the house to "shake...
View ArticleEmily Versus Shabnam - Who Goes?
As you'll most likely be aware, young Ziggy showed some excellent selection sense and nominated Indie Music's newest convert - Emily Parr and "I'd do anything for fame" gobshite Shabnam.Shabnam joining...
View ArticleThis Is Special Bet's Archive!
All future content will appear solely on http://www.specialbets.com - feel free to roam this archive of the last 2 years!
View ArticleThe X Factor Final 12 Acts - Leaked By The BBC!
In an apparently inadvertent error (or perhaps something more sinister given competition between the channels), the Radio Times' TV guide has leaked what is supposed to be the secret, yet to be...
View ArticleWill The Betting Heat Turn Up Tonight For Andy Coulson?
Tonight's Dispatches will further examine allegations that during Andy Coulson's time as editor of News of the World, phone hacking was a routine practice at the paper and carried out with his...
View ArticleX Factor's Gamu is Illegal Immigrant - The Real Reason Cheryl Cole Rejected her.
In a story similar to that of Big Brother's Makosi some years back. X Factor's Gamu Ngazana had been told by the Home Office she must leave the country by the Home Office. It has also been confirmed...
View ArticleKatie Waisell - Unhappy X Factor Fans Allege She Was Jedward's "Rock DJ" on X...
Why don't X Factor Viewers vote for Katie Waissel? Is there just something about her that viewers find well - fake and a little desperate?We already knew about Katie's previous links with Sony BMG who...
View ArticleIs Johnson Beharry Topping The Dancing On Ice Vote?
While we wait to hear further about the ongoing negotiations between Endemol and Channel 5's Richard Desmond, the story of the week in Special Bets land has to be Tom Savage of The Daily Star's...
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