Every so often someone starts a charming 'say something nice about someone you don't like' thread; if we are lucky it gets four posts in before someone posts "It is nice that they are no longer on my telly" or "it is nice that they are not Hitler". This is even harder: put the case for the defence for the housemate you like LEAST. Can anyone do it, and earn the respect and admiration of their peers? Or at least of me?
The case for Jack Tweed.
This would be Jack Tweed who called a polite Indian girl a c*** and suggested that she might pick stuff out of the toilet with her teeth, who appeared in CBB to communicate in prehensile grunts, who was sent to prison for braining a younger boy with a golf club and again for helping to beat up a taxi driver, who got out of prison early to marry a girl he had split up with, who refused to stay with her when she was dying and was then photographed by the press posing on her grave with a Bible. Yes, that Jack Tweed.
1. He was pretty young when he did CBB - only 19 - and early fame is probably the worst possible thing for spoilt, hormonal, volatile teenage boys. There have been adorable teenage contestants in BB, but he is not the only one - Lesley Saunderson was another one - to have what one might call poor impulse control. That doesn't mean that in time he won't learn to control himself.
2. There is reason to believe he was poorly edited in CBB. We hardly saw him talk, and when he did it was disagreeable. But Cleo (admittedly a loon) said he must be the favourite to win because he was 'lovely'. And I found this post:
3. Jade, herself a volatile and even violent person always described him as being great with her children, as immature young men often are.
4. He may or may not have enjoyed the fame (or even to have been given money) when he married Jade, but she was desperate for a big white wedding, he was the only possible candidate, and in his way he did the right thing on the day.
5. There was nothing in his level of maturity or strength of personality that enabled him to watch Jade die. I can confirm that far older people than Jack have run away much earlier in the proceedings than he did, declaring piously that they 'want to remember her as she was'.
6. The whole experience of being in and out of prison, a boyfriend and stepfather, a husband and stepfather, no longer any kind of stepfather, a widower hardly out of his teens, a favourite of every paparazzi photographer, a step up into the limelight for any desperate young girl who needs a media boost, and (undoubtedly) the butt of any drunk idiot who fancies having a go must be massively destabilizing. But (low praise I know) the level of trouble he gets in has gradually diminished. Perhaps very slowly he is doing what the last judge he faced ordered him to do, and growing up a bit. Baby steps.
The case for Jack Tweed.
This would be Jack Tweed who called a polite Indian girl a c*** and suggested that she might pick stuff out of the toilet with her teeth, who appeared in CBB to communicate in prehensile grunts, who was sent to prison for braining a younger boy with a golf club and again for helping to beat up a taxi driver, who got out of prison early to marry a girl he had split up with, who refused to stay with her when she was dying and was then photographed by the press posing on her grave with a Bible. Yes, that Jack Tweed.
1. He was pretty young when he did CBB - only 19 - and early fame is probably the worst possible thing for spoilt, hormonal, volatile teenage boys. There have been adorable teenage contestants in BB, but he is not the only one - Lesley Saunderson was another one - to have what one might call poor impulse control. That doesn't mean that in time he won't learn to control himself.
2. There is reason to believe he was poorly edited in CBB. We hardly saw him talk, and when he did it was disagreeable. But Cleo (admittedly a loon) said he must be the favourite to win because he was 'lovely'. And I found this post:
Quote:
“i've noticed this with jack he has had two pillow fights dressed as cilla and probably more but they dont put it on and i think jack does talk more than they let on because when i watch on the live feed he can be sat with someone whos talking then when he opens his mouth to speak they cut to another room then when they go back to jack its silent like he never spoke”
“i've noticed this with jack he has had two pillow fights dressed as cilla and probably more but they dont put it on and i think jack does talk more than they let on because when i watch on the live feed he can be sat with someone whos talking then when he opens his mouth to speak they cut to another room then when they go back to jack its silent like he never spoke”
3. Jade, herself a volatile and even violent person always described him as being great with her children, as immature young men often are.
4. He may or may not have enjoyed the fame (or even to have been given money) when he married Jade, but she was desperate for a big white wedding, he was the only possible candidate, and in his way he did the right thing on the day.
5. There was nothing in his level of maturity or strength of personality that enabled him to watch Jade die. I can confirm that far older people than Jack have run away much earlier in the proceedings than he did, declaring piously that they 'want to remember her as she was'.
6. The whole experience of being in and out of prison, a boyfriend and stepfather, a husband and stepfather, no longer any kind of stepfather, a widower hardly out of his teens, a favourite of every paparazzi photographer, a step up into the limelight for any desperate young girl who needs a media boost, and (undoubtedly) the butt of any drunk idiot who fancies having a go must be massively destabilizing. But (low praise I know) the level of trouble he gets in has gradually diminished. Perhaps very slowly he is doing what the last judge he faced ordered him to do, and growing up a bit. Baby steps.
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You have quite genuinely touched me.
