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"Celebrity Big Brother" Recap, Day 8: Janice Dickinson Poaches An Egg, Daniel Baldwin Turns The Knife

Plus, Austin plays paparazzi and snaps James whiles he's changing trousers.

Janice Dickinson is the gift that keeps on giving—and she's earning every penny of the £300,000 ($45,000) she's reputedly being paid to appear on Celebrity Big Brother.

In the shopping task, she was appointed cook to the Royals and proceeded to take revenge for every bad meal she's had in Great Britain. Janice did things to a poached egg that would see her hanged seven-times over in France (although it might get her a job with Gordon Ramsay).

Her current strategy, apparently, is to distance herself from most of Team USA and to work her way through every scowl the muscles of her face will allow.

Even as the secret twist of the shopping task was revealed, while the rest of her countrymen burst into wide smiles, Janice just sucked in even more of her already taut skin.

This is the first twist worthy of the name, actually: the Royal servants were expected to undermine the Royal family at every opportunity.

They'll be taking secret photos and persuading the Brits to behave inappropriately. They need to get the Brits to scream and shout and behave like anything other than a noble and established dynasty stretching back for more than a thousand years.

Americans have to screw with British heads to win a luxury shopping budget. Is this doable?

Given that the Americans spent the last week doing their level best to screw over each other, it should be a carriage ride through the country estate to mess with the Brits. However, the Americans are too focused infighting. Or, more specifically, ganging up on Janice.

Jenna has appointed herself as today's nemisis-in-chief: Every time she spots Janice doing anything wrong (and, to be fair, there's a lot to spot) she pounces noisily.

Janice pulls together her every Dame Maggie Smith molecule and responds: "You can't talk to me like that." And then lets all that dignity go and finishes with a more Dame Judi Dench-style "F*** off."

Snapping at Jenna's heels in the "lets dump on Janice" game is Daniel Baldwin. Perhaps he telepathically understands he's the bookies' favourite to go home on Friday?

The fourth most famous Baldwin brother goes after the "original supermodel" at every opportunity: He conspiratorially whispered to Jenna that they should give Janice enough rope and then, "slit her f**king, scheming throat." (Apologies for his mixed-murder-metaphor.)

In the kitchen, Daniel shouted that Janice was behaving like "a f**king 10-year-old." Considering that would knock 50 years off her age, she probably took it as a compliment.

And when Janice and Jenna were dispatched to the tower in the garden—and Janice went to the bedroom to get dressed in warm clothing—he berated her for not dressing fast enough. A weary, elderly-looking Janice explained that she'd just got over pneumonia and took her health seriously, but Daniel wouldn't accept it.

So suddenly La Diva Divine Dickinson was back: "Why aren't you in some movie in Hollywood instead of some C-List reality show?" she asks.

Exeunt the homely Baldwin, not pursued by a cougar. (It's A Winter's Tale reference. Google it.)

Elsewhere, in things not directly Janice, Big Brother drafted real-life serious Royal Correspondent journalist Jennie Bond to ask James and Natasha questions ostensibly submitted by the British public (but actually written by Team USA).

Natasha was asked what it was like to be regarded by almost all her British housemates as has-been pop star. Without batting an eyelid, Natasha responded that they were all "deluded."

This is the problem the Americans face when it comes to pressing the Brits' buttons: Natasha is from Liverpool—absolutely no one in Britain bitches about a Liverpuddlian behind their back unless they're prepared for a fight.

If Natasha thought any of her Brit housemates really said that about her, they'd be brain-damaged eunuchs by now. And no court in the land would convict her. You just don't piss around with women from Liverpool. If you jump into a lion pit and the lions eat you, it's not the lions' fault.

In the shopping task, Austin managed to set up photo ops in which Ugh! Stevi was slapping Scoops tweaking ass, Austi was checking out James' naked bum while he changed, and Austin kissed a somewhat drunken Queen Sherrie.

Sherrie, BTW, has been chafing under accusations that she snores. So she resorted to extraordinary measures to keep her sinuses open. The woman rocks the comedy no matter what she does.

And so ended another episode in which Team USA stole the show but lost their MVP, as Janice Dickinson is moving more and more toward Team UK.

Once Janice takes herself out of the Team US fights, the space is clear for Jenna and Farrah to rip out each others' throats in in the pursuit of being Queen Bee.

There will be blood. There will be guts. And Austin will probably exude some royal jelly.

Come back tomorrow for the live eviction: Even though the bookies are betting on Daniel Baldwin departing (online polling suggests that Janice and Farrah are most loved by the British audience), he's been so consistently evil tonight that our money is actually on TV cop Chris Ellison being kicked out.

We Brits really, really love a good villain.

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