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Big Brother 12 Updates 2:00 am BBT Monday, August 30, 2010 – Talking about reality shows; DR leak

HOH: Talking about Real World. Britney says Big Brother is network programming, Real World is just cable. Enzo talks about how it has alliances and mafias…. Britney says Big Brother is way bigger than Real World. Lane says he DVR’s all Real World shows. Enzo says I don’t even know what channel RW is on. He talks about Jersey Shore. Britney thinks BB is the number two reality show behind Survivor.

Palm Room: Hayden is sitting on the bed using the dominos to study.

HOH: Enzo and Lane talking about partying and touring. Enzo wants to know if they get paid in buffalo wings. Britney says my hometown is 1097. There are no bars.

Enzo is talking about how Ragan says he wants to just enjoy the house. He feels bad for bitching about all the stuff you know. That’s why I asked him to come up for some dominos but he just wanted to go to bed. Britney says I felt bad for Matt, I put him on the block and he just walked around like a zombie. Enzo says the block does that to you man, you think everyone is talking about you even when you are safe.

Lane says we have a lot of TV times. This is like a series. Britney says and we get a Thursday night! Lane says and if you count Showtime…. Britney says I bet we are over 200 hours of TV time.

Britney is talking about how CBS won’t show the homophobic remarks by Rachel against Ragan, but the live feeders know. Lane is worried he may have said things that people will hold against him. Britney says you won’t get blasted, none of that stuff ever makes it onto the show. Like Ronnie and Kevin in their big fight never made it on the show. Lane is still worrying that things may get on YouTube.

Lane talks about getting twitter when he leaves. Says he has already done his twitter. He says he didn’t have any idea how to do it…. he says I did it so many times, it cut me off thinking I was a scam. He says I’m definitely gonna get it to tell people where I’m gonna be.

Britney is paged to the DR. Lane says tell them I’m going to bed. Britney says I’m going to bed after this too. Lane says dude, there is a shitload of fans. They told me people were crazy about the Brigade.

DR: Britney says what (inaudible) got called to the DR it’s freaking 2:30. Door opens and she says what… (whining). BB: I want to ask you a question, do you guys still have the sock puppets in the house? Lane says yes… Britney says who is that? Lane continues why do you want to know? (Sounds like the DR had speakers on in the house and Lane was responding – weird!) (Flashback 2:08 am)

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All feed Palm room: Britney tells Hayden that Enzo thinks he is a huge celebrity. Hayden says he probably is. She talks about how much TV time they have had. We have TV time of 3 hours an week… really crazy.

A PREVIOUSLY unknown account of fighting with Lawrence of Arabia on top-secret missions 92 years ago emerged yesterday – thanks to a pensioner’s chat with his cousin.

James Hynes, 80, was speaking to cousin Ellen when she revealed that she had a typed journal of her father George Hynes’s experiences with the enigmatic British Army officer Lt Col T E Lawrence during the First World War.

The diary features stories of espionage and air bombing campaigns known as “X Flights” which were led by Lawrence across the Turkish Ottoman empire.

In his sorties in 1918 against the Turks, Lawrence was accompanied by a hand-picked team of colleagues including the sixth Earl of Winterton, then a sitting MP.

One excerpt tells how Lawrence’s aristocratic team burnt breakfast for the squadron after being ordered to cook a full English fry-up in the desert. The secret missions helped Lawrence to capture Damascus, where he became instrumental in setting up an Arab government.

But the flights were so sensitive that the RAF was said to have known nothing of them – and they remained a secret. They were not even known by researchers for the 1962 David Lean film starring Peter O’Toole as Lawrence.

The diaries reveal their author, who died in 1973 aged 78, as one of Lawrence’s closest aides during the Arab revolts and will be a must-read for experts.

In one entry, Hynes, a flight sergeant, wrote: “All who took part in the Desert Operations had a great respect for Lawrence the amateur soldier.”

Yesterday James Hynes, a retired English lecturer in Mold, North Wales, who has written a book based on his uncle’s diaries, said: “Ellen had 220 pages from Uncle George. He had typed them in the 1930s from his original notes.

“It was amazing to see details of the X Flights. The only people that knew were the people conducting the war in the desert. It was so secret in fact that after George had been demobbed in 1919 he tried unsuccessfully for two years to get back-pay for taking part in the flights. But they didn’t get it because the RAF knew nothing about it.”