Save Steven Baldwin.

Are the great British public cute/perverse/malevolent enough to ‘not’ vote Steven Baldwin out of the Big Brother house? Would we really like to see a rabid Christian melt like a Barbie doll in the fires of hell? Well hard to tell, hard to tell. I enjoyed the first half hour as their celebrity status fell from them by the mere fact they mostly didn’t know who each other was. “So you’re famous for what exactly?” That dispensed with they fell back on who they believe themselves to be as we all do. But right from the start Steven was different. He was on a mission. He had a plan. He would use the platform of BB to spread the message, with the help of his Bible, which, as books aren’t allowed, must be considered as a non-book by BB. Even Vinie Jones plumped for re-reading the BB handbook three times a day rather than open its pages. Maybe Steven has a cunning plot, a bomb concealed in it knowing no one would ever open it but him. But luckily, or not, there’s enough left for him to quote from at every opportunity. He’s the sort of guy who will sit beside you on the tube and ask if you’ve read Leviticus, chapter 3, verse 7. If you say no he will pity you and if you voice no interest he will open his book and, BOOM. Heaven and hell get one extra person, which kind of cancel each other out in the second leg replay. Anyway Steven is finding it difficult. He’s in a carriage of non-believers. He has tried his best and failed the Lord. Last night, with a strange look of sinister glee he glared at one of his fellow passengers and said, “The joke is on you my friend, the joke is on you”, as he no doubt considered the contents of his bible. Ah, book learning. I once suggested to a university lecturer that students should not go there to learn but rather object. Objecting is what turns beliefs into knowings. Read it, learn it, believe it, is the work of an idle mind, it gives rise to idols. So either keep Steven in and watch his idol's plinth collapse or you may find him sitting next to you on the tube. Which is it? Personally I prefer Nicola's approach, "I love them all, but Steven not so much." I doubt she has a bomb concealed about her person.