I agree with you and he also shows genuine concern for those he does not like.

He delivers fantastic one-liners, such us 'roll on death', 'place my balls in an egg slicer',
Does not have to rely on flashing his private parts, making out he is doing things in the bathroom with another HM (Linda comes to mind).
He does not have to rely on using the C or F word to get his digs in.
Outside the house, the amount he does for charity and has been stated on the quiet and sometimes at his own expense.

I found him funny in the Seventies, did not rate him in the Eighties, owing to the media, but found myself crying with laughter when he was on Des O'Connor and his ability to laugh at himself as well as tell a good yarn.

I grew up in a time when you could laugh about anything and everything (providing it was not vicious) and it was a nice place to be. The professional victim took over and soon the thought police via the alternative comedians came and went quite quickly. The old school, whether you liked their humour or not, respected their elders and learnt a lot from them. That was replaced by resentment of your elders and as can be seen not many of them are long lasting.

As stated I found Lenny Henry funny back in the Seventies, but now he bores me rigid. Dave Allan took some beating, but above all there was respect in the humour.

With regards his demons, he has admitted that he was in the wrong and then sought treatment. His family seem close to him and he appears loyal to others, as demonstrated with the Frank Carson incidents.

I'm not so sure that he is that popular any more.

I suspect that the next polls will look rather different.

The Frank Carson thing being shown seems to have turned the tide for a lot of people. It is now pretty clear that it is Jim who goads Linda and not the other way around.

It might have been funny at first for Jim to do his miserable routine, but day after day after day most people are bored witless with it.

Last night on Twitter most #cbb Jim tweets had the word "miserable" or something similar in them. He's bored the audience now.

Facebook and the Bookies tell a different story. I would say over 90% of the comments on Facebook are for Jim to win and the Bookies, well they just rely on people placing bets and stating the odds. A lot of people are saying they enjoy him being miserable, because he still delivers comedy via his one-liners or facial expressions.

Ha ha, I am sure you might like to believe that but its wrong as far as I can see, Linda is the one provoking and now her sister Coleen is in on the act it will become even clearer.

Yes. Good post. He's learnt a lot ... that's obvious.

I wonder if he sometimes sympathises with the minorities he has lambasted over the years.

'only in fun'.

I don't understand either. In a conversation with Linda and Liz yesterday he just talked right over Liz when she was about three words into a sentence. I don't believe that Liz has a problem with him but that was just downright rude, and I have seen him do that a few times to female housemates, strangely I have not seen it done to male ones.

Seems like a lot of people have a lot more tolerance for a 60 year old man because 'he is what he is' than they do for an exuberant twenty something young woman.

I have found Liusa very entertaining particularly with her antics with Lionel Blair, however, I cannot think of a single moment of entertainment that I have got from Jim. I am not a fan of Linda either, I think they both hold a grudge and are as bad as each other at winding each other up. To be honest I don't think either of them are victims it's just that they don't like each other.

Also he isn't squirting breast milk at people or masturbating with a plaster bust or jumping on girls to rub himself against them.

Because he is

Great post

Jim is not my fav (im team luisa) but he has been a big character so if he wins fair play to him.I kind of wish all jim,luisa and dappy fans would agree to try and get rid of the bores sam and ollie.

I think Linda does tend to see offence when none is meant though. Jim seemed to be just trying to make conversation when he said to Luisa 'it's ok without a man?'

LInda had to jump on it and make a huge feminist point out of it.

It's baffling to me why he's so popular.

I don't understand his popularity either. Most of the time he is grumpy. He's made the odd amusing quip but he hasn't been very entertaining.

I object to people saying he is being bullied by Linda, that's just ridiculous as he appears to be much tougher(mentally) than her.

why is jim so popular? because people can see through the hate campaign against him.... especially from feminists

A bit harsh

You have got to be kidding? If anything, I would say support for Linda has plummeted after her "grieving widow" act. Nobody is buying it all. This is why Coleen is so desperate to clean up her mess, attempting to rake in the sympathy vote by playing the "Linda is suicidal" card. It's laughable, it really is.

I can't tell you why other people like him but to me he is a normal, flawed human being who has ups and downs, just like me and has his foibles, just like me and has the capacity to make me giggle. He is so funny. He does not have to resort to histrionics to garner votes. I voted for Julian Clary for the self same reason and will vote for Jim for the win this time.

Mine is because I can't think of a better winner



I don't recall Jim standing outside the BB house and saying that he hated Linda Nolan.

I quite like Jim being in the house, but I can't see what he's done to be so popular - unless, of course, it's because he intensely dislikes Jasmine, Luisa and Linda and gets his support from their detractors.

My enduring memory of him will be that he's a bit of a misery guts.

Why is this in quotation marks, because nowhere in the post does it say this

You don't think that Jim goads Linda? In that case, why did he make the "dressing room" comment and then lie about saying it?

Love this post - and it's interesting that you mention Julian Clary, because he had the same quality of making you want to watch and know more. And yet you couldn't find two more different characters than Jim and Julian.

Because he snapped. Linda kept pressing him about his perfectly fine question to Luisa - about her not wanting a man. She was goading him, and he bit back. She got what she deserved.

Jims a great lad and is playing a blinder in there

Loving his work

because he has a knack of píssing people of & we love it!!!!