Posted by I.A.

I'm cautiously optimistic about the female coterie on BB10, as I will freely admit that is the gender of particular interest for me. On the face of it, there's not as much eye candy as some past seasons, but with exceptions like last season's Jen, the eye candy doesn't always bring it gamewise.

Angie seems as though she has been genetically engineered to be an entertaining reality show contestant. For starters, she's a pharmaceutical sales rep, meaning that there are now just 7 of those in the world who have never once been on a reality show. She's cute, and that never hurts, but also has some maturity at age 29. She's a championship chugger of Guinness, and few things can be more attractive to men. She's newly divorced, which means me might see a wold oat or two sown in there. She's a fan of the Florida Gators...OK, nobody's perfect. She comes across as headstrong with a forceful personality, meaning she's going to out of there real early or survive real late. I don't see Angie as someone who is just going to squeak her way onto the jury.

The most interesting thing I can find about April, other than the fact that she's the second 30 year-old blonde woman named April to do BB in the last 3 years, is that she is obsessive-compulsive. If that's true and she's not just OCD in a pop culture sense, then she's probably in one of the worst environments imaginable. Some of the rest of the stuff in her CBS bio, I can just throw out there without comment, as it speaks for itself: "she reads Cosmo and particularly likes to read gossip magazines;" one of her favorite movies is Dumb and Dumber; and she lists having sex as one of her favorite activities. I think men have done that before, but not a woman. April will be there, in all likelihood, as long as some guy carries her and not one minute further. We've seen this type before and surely will again.

Speaking of OCD, I can't get it out of my head that the CBS bio for Keesha says that "her proudest accomplishment is leaving home, moving to California by herself not knowing a sole." But did she know any halibut, any shad? An odd cod or two? "Not knowing a sole;" are you kidding me?

I'm sorry, but as a writer this sort of thing just bugs me. And yeah, I make mistakes too, but I do most of my writing late at night. So be quiet.

OK, back to Keesha. She's this season's Hooters girl, although it's hard to believe she'll reach the R-rated heights of last season's bikini barista. Keesha is from Sterling, Ohio, which you'll be shocked to learn does not have a Hooters (I can't believe she had that voice in Ohio; it sounds pure California). There could be some drama regarding her status as a vegetarian (although she has to serve a lot of chicken wings on the job), and the fact that she's going to have a 30th birthday in the house if she survives the first couple of evictions. If she wins, no one will be more surprised than Keesha.

The preseason promos for Libra have concentrated almost exclusively on her status as a major supporter of Barack Obama, which is fine as far as it goes but doesn't do much else to flesh out her personality or tell us what type of game she might have. I hope she shows some other aspects to her personality in that house fast, because I fear that the Obama thing is going to make her extremely controversial in some parts of the BBosphere. There seems to be a little spark of personality with this one, which is not always the case with married BB contestants. She has an academic background a little bit like my own, and that's good. Among the men she finds attractive are Matthew McConaughey and Nick from last season, which is questionable. If she can soft-pedal the politics, a good idea for any contestant really, she might go a little ways. One red flag is that she left behind a pair of 4-month-old babies, and it's for me to imagine her not stressing out at some point--and that kind of homesickness isn't going to improve with time.

Portuguese-Americans from Rhode island are not a well-represented reality demo, but Michelle will probably remind viewers of numerous existing Noo England stereotypes. She says people will be surprised to find out how aggressive she is, but a problem I see Michelle having in there is that her voice just connotes aggression; in fact, I suspect that's the reason she was cast. Unless she's a really good actress, I think she could have trouble fitting under the radar. Other than that, I'm having trouble getting a fix on her. It seems like every season, there's someone you tend to forget is in the house until you see them on the feeds (the Jameka Award). This season, it might be Michelle.

I think Renny is going to be a big hit with almost everyone, assuming she can stick around (like Jerry, I think she's going to be deemed too dangerous to go to the end). A ridiculously youthful-looking 53, she's had an unusual amount of life experience for a Big Brother contestant, including travel, operating a business, and surviving Katrina. There's very little precedent on the show for a middle aged so we don't have much to compare her to, but I think feedwatchers will love her because she seems as if she loves to talk and will have much to talk about. Again, the producers' decision to step this little bit outside the box should pay off for them. Hardbodies in the sun are fine, but you don't need only that, especially since the show (as opposed to the feeds) doesn't pay any attention to sex anyway.

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