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Why do people dislike Rachel Rice so much?
george.millman
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Whenever people are talking about past winners (or indeed past Housemates generally) that they hated, Rachel Rice from Series 9 seems to come up a great deal. Why is this? I loved Rachel, thought she was a really nice girl and was so happy she won. Series 9 was the first series I properly followed, Rachel was my favourite right from the start and since then, it has never again happened that I have supported one person right the way through and they have ended up winning.
Why did people seem to dislike her so much? She wasn't bitchy or unpleasant, would be a great person to share a house with in my opinion.
Why did people seem to dislike her so much? She wasn't bitchy or unpleasant, would be a great person to share a house with in my opinion.
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I have only voted 3 times in BB history for the winner and she was one of them
And Davina couldn't hide the fact she just how much she hated the fact that Rachel won same as she couldn't hide how much she hated that her faves Luke and Bex were evicted
That reaction put me off so much I didn't watch at all the next year
I don't remember that, but I respect that. I like it that she doesn't judge people whom she doesn't know personally.
She didn't exactly float under the radar to the final though. She faced eviction twice (three times if you count the pre-final double eviction) and survived, and received the third highest amount of nominations for the whole series, after Rex and Mohamed. She was the last person standing because a large percentage of the viewers wanted her to win.
I've never met Rolf Harris but he wouldn't be on speed dial if I needed a baby sitter.
Who says that Saddam Hussein would be on Rachel's?
My point is that you don't need to meet everyone before forming an opinion. You can trust the opinions of those who have, or even the courts that prosecuted them for peado-fiddling or war crimes.
I have no doubt that Rachel has that in her head, but I respect the fact that she is thoroughly non-judgemental. I'm not at all like that myself, but think it's an admirable quality.
I am hating Rebecca the chavvy disrespectful moron
It's not as if she said that she agreed with the stuff that he had done. In fact, she said she didn't agree with the things he had done.
There was a recent thread on here that asked people to make a list of HMs they "genuinely detested". Someone mentioned Rachel and when I asked why, they said this: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=73304996&postcount=56
To which I said: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=73305536&postcount=59
Funnily enough I was watching a lot of clips back from BB9 a couple of weeks back and to be fair, in hindsight I completely understand how she won against her fellow HMs.
Sorry but that's plain ridiculous.
But she was nothing of the kind. She had a particularly difficult final line-up, and won by earning strong loyalty from a lot of viewers. Compare her final week challenge with the way Josie, say, or Aaron had no real competitors by the end.
I often think BB housemates are deliberately selected to be childish and immature, even when I like them. People who can be relied on to strop and whine and combust provide drama, which more grown-up people wouldn't. Rachel slipped through the net. Resilient, mature, forgiving and thoughtful, she appealed to those who like to see likeable people win, and not to those who like to see loud, attention-seeking drama queens win.
I agree Rex should have won. He was doing really well until BB screwed him over by putting his crazy girlfriend into the BB house. That totally threw him off his game and he never recovered. Rachel only got any attention because Rex kept trying to draw her out and tried to get her to react to something--anything--which she never would do. A lot of forum mates thought Rex was bullying Rachel but I didn't see it that way at all. Rex was trying to get her to show some of her real self. I think he actually really liked her. Anyway, no one would have even known Rachel was in the house if it wasn't for Rex goading her to come out of her shell. Rachel was no match for Rex, though---steally boring to the end--Rex couldn't get her to flinch--and that's why she won IMVHO. Picture Kimbot winning. Not pretty.
People are commenting in relation to Rachel as a HM, not as a neighbour, saying she is too nice and nothing more than that in an entertainment show has no reflection on a viewer whatsoever.
There are still people like that. I don't think you really can enter Big Brother for fame these days, as it gets considerably fewer ratings than it used to.