Over the last Big Brother, I've been more addicted than ever. TiVo has been busy recording the house whilst I've been arguing with others on the web whether Ashleyne's bawling was really necessarily and whether Nikki should be placed on the naughty step. But now BB has come to an end, but I made some very good friends in the last 16 weeks on the forum which is due to shut down in the next couple of weeks.

So we decided to start a little non-profit msn group for our little lot, just until the next BB started and we could all post on the BB forums again after shutting down over summer. The leader of our little rebellian set up a group and left an open invite for the other forum users to join the new den he had set up for us, and off we trotted. Nothing deogeraty, nothing bad - justr a little corner to call out own. Just to keep in touch and see how everyone was doing. But the forum bosses were not happy. Not happy at all.

First, the rebellian leader was cut off from the forum for "biting the hand that fed him". And slowly but surely, every single person who had joined the new group, not matter how they behaved, how long they had been members or despite their staying within the rules for the main forum, were banned. Sign up name suspended, accounts hanging and IP address banished from even accessing the forum site.

I have never been banned from anywhere in my life - well, bar that one time in a London pub but it's been demolished now so it doesn't count. I behaved well on their site and didn't publish anything slanderous about them nor the housemates. I clicked on their ad's to raise their profits, added to threads and in all, I thought that given this free society, I could join whatever internet group I wished. But apparently that's not the case here. If you're a member of the msn group, then you can't be a member of the Big Brother forum. The ban was total surprise to me - I even emailed to forum owners asking why I had been banished into cyberspace, but alack alas, there was no reply. Maybe I shouldn't have referred to them as twetty pats.

But despite being disgruntled, I like my new little corner. The most prolific and funny posters came to our dark side and there is even a little chat room for us all to catch up. And whilst the number of posters are not as vast as the forum, as least I don't have to deal with silly text speak and 12 year olds arguing for Nikki and "making summit of it".

Plus the Welshman has the inside know on the Doctor Who set...

:o)