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Let's not try and excuse her appalling behaviour now!
These people are 'vetted' before they go in. They all speak to doctors and psychologists before they go in to make sure they are fit and proper. There's no excuse for the way she's conducted herself. |
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I'm not a Nolan fan...be it linda or colleen.
They always seem to be victims though whatever show they are on. Linda..husband has died....Colleen...been divorced and done all her diets. Theres always a need to keep them in the limelight. No doubt Linda will make a lot when she leaves BB and slips into Loose Women. Its the old pals act. Its the same as Emma being a pal of Lee Ryan. Its all celeb pals keeping celeb pals in a job. |
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I'm not a Nolan fan...be it linda or colleen.
They always seem to be victims though whatever show they are on. Linda..husband has died....Colleen...been divorced and done all her diets. Theres always a need to keep them in the limelight. No doubt Linda will make a lot when she leaves BB and slips into Loose Women. Its the old pals act. Its the same as Emma being a pal of Lee Ryan. Its all celeb pals keeping celeb pals in a job. |
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Can you elaborate? Why would you think that? Does she come across like that?
Her repeated cry to Jim, "why are you pretending that everything is all right, when it's not!" is key I think. Things are really not Ok for Linda. I just think she has had too many awful things at once, too many losses, and can't see her way out of them. She looked really broken in the diary room when they asked if she could see a way of enjoying her time in the house. And later in bed she looked properly ill. I think Jim was rather stricken. I was a little misty when he said, "It's hard isn't it?" and she nodded. He DOES understand her, better than any of them, for all their constant fighting. Quote:
Let's not try and excuse her appalling behaviour now!
These people are 'vetted' before they go in. They all speak to doctors and psychologists before they go in to make sure they are fit and proper. But of course she misses her husband terribly. She has just lost her sister. She hasn't managed to pick up her career since being so ill. She can put on a good public face - there are any number of pictures of her laughing and chatting at charity functions - but in between it would almost be odd if she wasn't depressed. |
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I think she does, yes.
Her repeated cry to Jim, "why are you pretending that everything is all right, when it's not!" is key I think. Things are really not Ok for Linda. I just think she has had too many awful things at once, too many losses, and can't see her way out of them. She looked really broken in the diary room when they asked if she could see a way of enjoying her time in the house. And later in bed she looked properly ill. I think Jim was rather stricken. I was a little misty when he said, "It's hard isn't it?" and she nodded. He DOES understand her, better than any of them, for all their constant fighting. You know perfectly well that they are not, or only in the most superficial way. It is obvious that they have no access to medical history or reports, from a previous housemate's statement that he had lied about his history of mental illness to get into the house. And of course Linda wanted to do this series: she seems to have had a dreadful, fun-free few years, and here they were offering her money - probably quite a lot of money - and the chance to get back into the saddle a bit. I'm sure she came over perfectly well at any pre-series interviews. But of course she misses her husband terribly. She has just lost her sister. She hasn't managed to pick up her career since being so ill. She can put on a good public face - there are any number of pictures of her laughing and chatting at charity functions - but in between it would almost be odd if she wasn't depressed. My sister had an in law years ago that she always hated yet when he died she stunned us all by grieving the most. Im looking for a stunned and who knows smilie....but there you go. I never thought for a second my sister liked him but she wept a lot even though she always hated him. |
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Well I think Lindaaaaaa........arhhh its no good I've my brains gone numb again
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I think she does, yes.
Her repeated cry to Jim, "why are you pretending that everything is all right, when it's not!" is key I think. Things are really not Ok for Linda. I just think she has had too many awful things at once, too many losses, and can't see her way out of them. She looked really broken in the diary room when they asked if she could see a way of enjoying her time in the house. And later in bed she looked properly ill. I think Jim was rather stricken. I was a little misty when he said, "It's hard isn't it?" and she nodded. He DOES understand her, better than any of them, for all their constant fighting. You know perfectly well that they are not, or only in the most superficial way. It is obvious that they have no access to medical history or reports, from a previous housemate's statement that he had lied about his history of mental illness to get into the house. And of course Linda wanted to do this series: she seems to have had a dreadful, fun-free few years, and here they were offering her money - probably quite a lot of money - and the chance to get back into the saddle a bit. I'm sure she came over perfectly well at any pre-series interviews. But of course she misses her husband terribly. She has just lost her sister. She hasn't managed to pick up her career since being so ill. She can put on a good public face - there are any number of pictures of her laughing and chatting at charity functions - but in between it would almost be odd if she wasn't depressed. First it was "give her the benefit of the doubt, she could be nice", then when she failed to show this it was "but she's had a rough life and she lives on benefits"... Now it's "she lost her husband, the poor widow "Excuses, excuses... She's just a nasty person, plain and simple. I struggle to feel sorry for a woman who constantly craves sympathy and desperately holds onto a ridiculous grudge, especially considering what she has been through in life. Unfortunately, she has come out of her dark place as a bitter and twisted woman, and that's quite sad. |
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This is awoman who cut all contact between two of her own sisters
I doubt someone commenting on something her husband actually did do would worry her unless she thought it would harm her chances of getting to the final IMO she will play the wounded widow to the full for any sympathy vote she can get |
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This is awoman who cut all contact between two of her own sisters
I doubt someone commenting on something her husband actually did do would worry her unless she thought it would harm her chances of getting to the final IMO she will play the wounded widow to the full for any sympathy vote she can get She has nothing else to offer, as I said elsewhere she is truly a waste of organs. |
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Hi Tweety lovely to see you, you are still as nice as you were on C4, I am still as call it as I see it
![]() I find Linda to be a very bitter twisted woman the kind of woman who gives the rest of us a bad name. I don't understand how she has the nerve to be so vindictive to Jim when it all stems from her and her husband. Aw that is nice of you! Hello too, how are you?Yep I totally get what you're saying. I hate to see Jim being treated like that. I'm just trying to understand why she acts that way and that was the only conclusion I came too. She seems very bitter and unforgiving which is a shame, because I'd love to be friends with someone like Jim if I were in there.
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Although none of us know the ins and outs.
I think Linda has acted horribly to Jim, before he came and said something low. She's goaded him and then sometimes it looked like they could be friends. My opinion is that she feels that if she is to forgive Jim or become friends with him, that she will feel she is betraying her husband? Jim is my favourite housemate and I feel sorry for him with the way Linda has constantly acted, but I'm trying to think of a reason why she's like a dog with a bone and that's the only conclusion I can come to and in fact think it's pretty understandable.
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This is awoman who cut all contact between two of her own sisters
I doubt someone commenting on something her husband actually did do would worry her unless she thought it would harm her chances of getting to the final IMO she will play the wounded widow to the full for any sympathy vote she can get Not sure if it was two sisters though...definitely one. Will she say that on BB....doubt it Will she say that when she appears on Loose Women ...highly doubt it. |
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Dead husband, dead sister, cancer.... She will use them all to try and gain some interest in herself.
She has nothing else to offer, as I said elsewhere she is truly a waste of organs. |
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They did cut contact.
Not sure if it was two sisters though...definitely one. Will she say that on BB....doubt it Will she say that when she appears on Loose Women ...highly doubt it. |
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But of course she misses her husband terribly. She has just lost her sister. She hasn't managed to pick up her career since being so ill. She can put on a good public face - there are any number of pictures of her laughing and chatting at charity functions - but in between it would almost be odd if she wasn't depressed.
She has harassed that poor man from the moment she entered the house. She has a vendetta against him. The public aren't daft. We can see right through her victim act and that's why she is at the very bottom of the betting and Jim is close to the top. The woman is truly vile and people need to stop trying to make excuses for her. She's one of the most vindictive and spiteful women we've ever had on the show. |
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Two sisters, Anne & Denise
I thought there was one but wasn't sure. Jaysus.....now that is cut throat. I watched a programme about the Nolans and I knew that some of them cut off a sister or more. What happened to the cut off sisters? |
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Ugh! Linda makes my blood boil!
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We have all lost loved ones. It does not excuse her appalling behaviour in the house.
She has harassed that poor man from the moment she entered the house. She has a vendetta against him. The public aren't daft. We can see right through her victim act and that's why she is at the very bottom of the betting and Jim is close to the top. The woman is truly vile and people need to stop trying to make excuses for her. She's one of the most vindictive and spiteful women we've ever had on the show. I thought then that maybe she'd decided to let bygones be bygones and would start off on a clean slate with Jim, who appeared to be the perfect gentleman as they entered the house and discovered they were the first ones in there. How wrong I was. I don't particularly like Jim (never have) and had never taken much notice of Linda in the past to have formed any particular opinion of her until now, but it's clear to see what her game is - chipping away, trying to make him flip his lid to prove he hasn't changed his bad-tempered ways at all and is still the same 'obnoxious' man he always was. Trouble is, she's trying way too hard imo and is coming across as extremely spiteful, petty and desperate in her attempts to 'out' him. |
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"Her repeated cry to Jim, "why are you pretending that everything is all right, when it's not!" is key I think"
This comment struck a chord for me, I was screaming at the tv. "Because even though you don't get on with people you can still be civil!" To me that's what adults do, don't we all have to rub along with people at work or socially who we might not get along with? I know I have!!! I seriously think Jim has been trying to do that despite there clearly being bad blood between them. I had an open mind on Jim and Linda when they went in but I have been truly appalled by Linda's attitude to Jim. The big brother house is a mix of varied people and surely by going in you accept that there may be people you don't personally get along with but for the sake of harmony for everyone you just behave like a decent human being? I don't call that being fake, fake is telling everyone you love them, friends for life and all that other rubbish some of the others keep spouting!! Of course we all have to remember our opinions can only be based on the short time we see so there is editing to allow for... Louisa refusing to cook for Jim was another example of being childish, it wasn't her food or her house and living communally you have to do things for people you don't like! One other thing, who would admit to theft to 'protect their family'? I don't buy that for a minute, but I wouldn't have judged her on her husbands behaviour either. |
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She's just a bitter delusional hypocrite. She actually said in the diary room 'I've never said to Jim I hate him'. Ummm, big brother needs to play back the HUNDREDS of times she's said to his face 'I can't stand you' 'I hate you' etc. Oh, and while they are at it play that conversation Lee had with Casey where she said 'do you want to just be friends because I'm fine with that' and Lee replied 'no - more than that' then kissed her.
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"Her repeated cry to Jim, "why are you pretending that everything is all right, when it's not!" is key I think"
This comment struck a chord for me, I was screaming at the tv. "Because even though you don't get on with people you can still be civil!" To me that's what adults do, don't we all have to rub along with people at work or socially who we might not get along with? I know I have!!! I seriously think Jim has been trying to do that despite there clearly being bad blood between them. I had an open mind on Jim and Linda when they went in but I have been truly appalled by Linda's attitude to Jim. The big brother house is a mix of varied people and surely by going in you accept that there may be people you don't personally get along with but for the sake of harmony for everyone you just behave like a decent human being? I don't call that being fake, fake is telling everyone you love them, friends for life and all that other rubbish some of the others keep spouting!! Of course we all have to remember our opinions can only be based on the short time we see so there is editing to allow for... Louisa refusing to cook for Jim was another example of being childish, it wasn't her food or her house and living communally you have to do things for people you don't like! One other thing, who would admit to theft to 'protect their family'? I don't buy that for a minute, but I wouldn't have judged her on her husbands behaviour either. I believe Jim just wanted to go in, keep his head down and take the money so to speak. Linda's agenda is so obvious. She was to goad and then become the victim, but unfortunately for her it is backfiring. I would not of judged Linda on what her husband had done in the past, but I would of gone a little (and I mean a little) way of admiring her if she had just said, yes her husband had done it and she did not agree with it but that was in the past, instead of going poor me let me lie about it and use it for yet another victim status. I do not want Jim to win I want Ollie, but I would like Jim in the top 3 though as I feel he has been through a tough time because of Linda and her scheming. His restraint is something to be admired as I would of let rip at Linda way before now. Jim knows what she is doing, I just hope his composure remains and he does not fall for what Linda is doing. |
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Let's not try and excuse her appalling behaviour now!
These people are 'vetted' before they go in. They all speak to doctors and psychologists before they go in to make sure they are fit and proper. There's no excuse for the way she's conducted herself. |
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We all know Linda had a major issue with Jim at the beginning. It seems that her inability to move on is the problem. Sometimes it's far better for the soul to just move on and start again in terms of relationships with people. When they were first chained to each other I did think they seemed to get on well, but Linda then changed towards him. She waited for any opportunity to slate him and try and turn others against him. I honestly expected to dislike Jim, almost wanted to. But I have massively changed my opinion. I guess for some people going into big brother can be a good thing, certainly from a personal point. Linda on the other has done herself no favours at all.
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I completely agree. Linda not wanting to betray her thieving husband is nonsense. She thought Jim was an easy target and had planned to pick at him so much until he exploded - this failed.
Linda knows no loyalty and would turn on her own family for a quick dollar. She really is desperate! |
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I find Linda to be a very bitter twisted woman the kind of woman who gives the rest of us a bad name. I don't understand how she has the nerve to be so vindictive to Jim when it all stems from her and her husband.
Aw that is nice of you! Hello too, how are you?