So it’s refreshing to see then, a male orientated bingo site being launched! Nothing pink, fluffy or sparkly going on here – just good old bingo games.

If this is sounding tempting to all you male bingo players out there then no doubt you will also be pleased to hear that when you sign up you’ll also get £5 absolutely free to get you started.

Once you deposit there’s also a rather lovely 100% welcome bonus of up to £250 so you’re making money before you even start playing.

There are of course some great bingo games on offer and some brilliant bingo prizes up for grabs. With the Bingo Linx game giving away a whopping £8,000 every week, you can play every day in the 90 ball bingo rooms and also the Bingo Studio Live. Tickets for the game cost just 50p so it’s also great value for money.

There’s also the Bingo Linx game that is held on the last Sunday of every month, where you can win a brilliant £10,000. There’s also the Cash Cow progressive jackpot which has totted up to almost £34,000 at the last count, so that’s well worth a shot to get your hands on some life changing money! To be in with a chance of winning you need to call a full house in 30 numbers or less, in the 90 ball bingo room.

You can also break open the Piggy Bank and win £1,000 if you manage to call bingo in 40 numbers or less in the Piggy Bank game.

So for all you guys who love bingo just as much as us girls, why not try out Bloke Bingo and see if you can do without the prizes of spa days and pink toasters and get your hands on some cold, hard cash instead.

A total of six online retailers were shortlisted for the Littlewoods Bingo award for the having the best party dresses… but it was Very.co.uk that came out on top with over 50% of the votes. Clearly the site is very much on the minds of bingo players following the recent TV campaign which sees Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby promoting the Very.co.uk website.

Trailing behind Very were the likes of ASOS and BooHoo. High-street giant Debenhams could only attract 10% of the votes.

The Littlewoods Bingo is constantly updating their community section with new polls and great competitions. If you haven’t yet played at Littlewoods Bingo, you can sign up today and claim £20 free!

To help players even further, Giggle Bingo is also offering all newcomers to its site a free ten pounds to play with, helping them get a feel for the web site before they have to make a deposit. Once a first deposit has been made, each newcomer will receive a 200% bonus, which will mean that the player can have up to one hundred pounds to begin playing with.

With quite a lot of bingo sites already offering a minimum deposit of ten pounds, with some sites offering as low as a five pound deposit, this is a very smart move for Giggle Bingo and will help them to gain more players on their site, especially as the current economy is not at its best at the moment.

This website is still new to the bingo market as it has not long opened. At the moment they offer bingo games in two formats, 90 ball bingo and 75 ball bingo. Giggle Bingo is powered by Microgaming and offers a high quality web site with great quality games.

The advert highlights Virgin Bingo’s 3-hour long free games which take place daily. The free bingo rooms will be open from 1pm to 2pm, and again at 5pm until 7pm. Players are, however, required to have made a deposit of at least £5 prior to taking part in the free games.

Here at UK bingo news, we’ve been wondering where the phrase ‘bingo wings’ comes from. Logically, ladies who play bingo are probably less likely to have bingo wings than most women in general, simply because of all that dabbing action. Speed-dabbing is a brilliant way to tone those upper arms and those annoying flappy bits that have been dubbed bingo wings!

Well anyway ladies, none of us can avoid getting them, not even the skinniest minnies amongst us, so you should be proud of your wings! Biggins has got the right idea; he’s featured on a new single and video called Bingo Wings which instructs ladies across the land to ‘shake those bingo wings!’ So whatever age you are and whether you’re female or male, get those wings out and give them a shake!

View the bingo video here.

Ricky Tomlinson, aka Jim Royle, has been voicing his support for the greatest game on Earth, Bingo! This celebrity-endorsed bingo song isn’t exactly high budget, but you can’t fault Ricky’s enthusiasm.

We must admit, we were a little disappointed that Ricky didn’t pull out his banjo and show us his skills, but whether you love it or hate it, his Bingo Song will be stuck in your head for ages. Whether that’s a good thing or not we’ll leave up to you.

We can see this catching on in bingo halls up and down the UK, so keep an eye (or an ear) out for it in the near future. If you’ve got any of your own bingo song videos, be sure to send them in to UK Bingo News. We’ll post the best ones online so even if you haven’t struck gold yet, you can still have your 15 minutes of fame right here.

Anyone who’s ever played bingo (and let’s face it, it’d be hard to find someone over the age of 5 who hasn’t played it in some form) will have experienced this: you’ve been listening carefully to the caller, you’ve got one or maybe two lines where you only need one more number before you’re in the money, you’re on the edge of your seat, and clear through the tension of the air someone else yells “BINGO!” Oh the frustration, oh the agony!

Certainly, to some of us Lady Luck bares her pearly white gnashers in a smile. To the rest of us, the only reason we’d see her teeth would be because she’d be about to bite us. On good days, most players when confronted with a loss would shrug and shake their heads with a chuckle. “That’s the way the cookie crumbles,” say the good losers, and play on in search of a less crumbly cookie.

Unfortunately, not all of us are good losers, and the annoyingly cheerful phrase, “It’s only a game!” could earn you a few broken teeth around some people. In a skit performed for Joe Bodolai’s show “After Hours” aired on the Comedy Network in Canada, comediennes Martina Gail and Nikki Payne demonstrate exactly how not to lose gracefully, and how not to win gracefully either, for that matter.

For those who don’t mind strong language and hair-pulling, and aren’t easily offended by 80’s hair and high-waisted shorts, you can view the clip above: