Popular on this forum?

She certainly didn't start off popular. this thread asks why she is the least popular (second to least as it turned out) housemate; there were loads and loads of posts at the time about her 'looking like a man'. I get the impression that the jungle cats were by far the more popular group on here.

That's interesting. Particularly the post which claimed Brian Dowling won because the public were willing to 'forgive' him being gay, but Nadia wouldn't win because Joe Public would not 'forgive' her. To quote Michael Moore 'Who the hell are we??

Oh dear. But rather true. I always think that a BB housemate can EITHER be eccentric and odd OR be part of a minority group - sexual orientation, gender, race - but not both. (Someone will now hit me over the head with some obvious exception). So Brian Dowling, charming, sweet (mostly) and funny could 'overcome' being gay at a time when there had not been that many openly gay people on tv. Brian Belo was all right being properly African black because he was absolutely mainstream Essex and a cheerful, friendly, open person. Nadia could overcome the double disadvantage of being transgender and foreign for the same kind of reasons - I wasn't her biggest fan, but she was a highly sociable person and invariably part of a group. Sree, culturally Indian AND socially awkward had no chance. Nor did BB7 Sam - who knows whether it is appropriate to describe her as transgender since she has reverted to being male since, but at the time she presented as a transgender girl AND did not have the social skills, in a difficult, divided house, to make people like her.

I haven't seen BB5, so I can't really answer the question but I always wondered who was popular with the public and at what time in the series?

Can anyone help?

OK,I'll stick my neck on the block ... Nadia was a nightmare in BB5.
I can't recall anything that she did that was endearing to me.

In those days I was still on the C4 forum.

Hard to believe now but I considered this place a bit stuffy back then.

It was all about Victor and Michelle in that series, for better or worse.

I still can't believe the tantrum Nadia took over having no cigerettes only for BB to give her some because she was threatening to leave...

Basically I think it's fair to say that we like warm, sociable, honest, amusing/funny housemates regardless or in spite of race, gender, sexual orientation or cultutal differences. I think these traits overide anything else.

BIB - I agree. BB5 was all about those 2 for me. I still think had Vic not had champagne rather than food for breakfast the day of the wedding task, he would have pushed Nadia very close in the final

Same here ........I was gobsmacked when she won.

Yep and if Michelle had just tamed her Chicken Stu obsession during the wedding task, I think she may have been a challenge too, she was the fav at the bookies for a while.

even though I don't smoke I always carry around a pack of ciggies in case I meet Nadia on a dark night

Michelle was extremely popular. If you look back at the "Judas Kiss", it was her peak popularity, says it all, Becki nominate her by doing that kiss, and she was HATED. It was actually the first time there was a chant to get someone out, people think it started with Grace, but that was the "Get Grace Out", during the announcement, the crowd in BB5 were chanting "Becki Out, Becki Out" which proved how popular Michelle was, because it was the only "bad" thing Becki did.

Nadia was unpopular at the start.

Victor would have been 2nd or even have won if he didn't have the row with Shell during the wedding task. Jason was hot fave to go that week, Victor then pushed past him and was evicted. Proves how 1 bad edit in an evict vote can damage you.

Thanks

I'll watch BB5 soon but as it is considered one of the best I'm saving it

I've seen one eviction interview ad everyone except Dan, Michelle and possibly Nadia seemed to be disliked and I noticed the percentage Michelle got when she was evicted was huge so I'll see what happened with her when I watch.

Well said, i am the same, still cant understand her popularity with the voters !

She was popular throughout most of the series. At one point she even overtook Nadia as favourite to win. By the time she left though her popularity had dwindled. She was evicted with a whopping 67% in a six way eviction and received mainly boos when Davina called her name. When she actually left the house though she got cheered so I think people could appreciate what a good housemate she was, but had just seen enough of her by the time she left. Wasn't it the wedding task that lost it for her too? If I remember correctly she threw some kind of strop because her and Stuart weren't picked as the ones to get married and viewers turned on her after that.

I'm surprised to hear people were shocked Nadia won!? Whatever your personal opinion of her she was hugely popular and it seemed really obvious she'd walk away with 1st place by the time finale night rolled around. Victor definitely would have gotten more votes than Jason in the final if he stayed but he still wouldn't have won over Nadia.

I loved the Jungle Cats, couldn't stand the other lot or Brian, Nadia was awful.

I always felt that the final week everyone up vote to evict was to get michelle evicted.

They realised that if she was in the final week vote to win there was a real chance she would have beaten nadia. That wasnt in the script as a lot of early bbs were box ticking excercises in choosing the winners.

Michelle was still the best housemate they have ever had for me.

and me

For me as well.

Michelle shouting at Ahmed, tits out, not a care in the world is my favourite argument in BB ever.

Also when she took the DR cam and was gonna set fire to it because BB took Stu's cowboy hat.

Ah, memories....

That was brilliant but then the army task was one the best bb has ever done imo because it pushed the housemates mentally and physically.

Why does the OP never comment in his own threads?

Me too.

I Couldn't stand her and didn't find her funny and/or endearing either.