A problem with the OP's conjectures, imo, is that they assume that Linda's attitude towards Jim in CBB is completely out of line with how he's been in CBB, so that a big explanation from the past is needed: something like "she sees him as the embodiment of her darkest times".

I don't think that's so. Jim Davidson's been nasty enough for long enough that disliking him is not something that needs a big explanation. Linda has more reasons to dislike him than most, and some of them are personal, but that doesn't mean she sees him in such grand, symbolic terms. (The past would, however, make it easier for him to push her buttons and wind her up.)

So a conjecture like in the OP also needs Jim to have behaved well in CBB, so that Linda's reactions can be so unreasonable as to need the big explanation. I don't think he has. Linda and Jim were getting along at first, and then (she said) "the comments started". I find that very credible, given what I've seen of him and his tactics in CBB.

Jim plays the put upon man and paints Linda as a shrew. He had a lot of help from the BB producers.

Here is an example of ....the tea towel horror. @ about 3 minutes


Linda: "You again?"
Jim: "Sorry darling, I've been doing the washing up. What do you expect me to do, it was the only thing we had."
Linda: "Is there no more?"
Jim: "One more"
Linda: "Oh bless you. I'll see if there's any in that bathroom"

Jim waits here for Linda to leave the room. She goes into the bathroom to fetch another towel, then Jim starts the poor, poor Jim routine.

Jim : "I got the tea towel wet cause I've washed up all the pots and pans and plates. What a bad boy am I"

The reason that she doesn't like Jim DAVIDSON is obvious - he knows too much about her and her lot

They went from variety to disco to rival another group going in this direction at the time

Ruthless - they hounded all that dared to dare in the business

Usually, getting others to do their dirty work so their reputation was not a good one

They turned up at rivals gigs on a regular basis to interrogate - ask Buck's Fizz!

The business ( and jim Davidson) would know the real story

Simples!

I could never stand the Nolans music. But there is no getting round the fact that Linda went on to have a very long and successful solo career, so that really can't be true.



I thought that was an interesting comment; we never saw anything of why they first fell out in the house, and wonder what 'the comments' were.

Having said that, I thought Jim's apology after the Frank Carson comment was sincere, and there is something dismaying about her implacable insistence that apologies cannot undo what has been said. Which brings me back to the issue of depression; since it is very characteristic of people with depression that they can become fixated on highly negative incidents from their past, even from their childhood or schooldays.

I did think BB was deliberately unkind on Friday in deliberately, and knowing perfectly well that Linda was emotionally fragile and about to have an awful eviction, setting up a task in which Jim was the star and everyone else put under his control. I don't blame her for a second for refusing to sit cosily on the sofa and confide her personal problems to him.

Jim's behaviour seems to follow a pattern:

* Make a provoking, unkind, patronising, or sarcastic remark.

* When the person reacts, act like he can't imagine what could have caused it (he even tried that re the dressing room comment), or try to put the person on the back foot by making they say exactly what he did. (We saw Lee try the same sort of move with Jasmine.)

* Withdraw: throw up his hands, leave the room, say he's sick of it, whatever.

* Apologise, do/say something nice, offer advice or "therapy".

If the apologies are genuine, which is doubtful, they're not genuine in a way that means he stops doing it.


I agree and don't blame her either.

(I wish neither of them had been in this CBB though.)

Solo career?

I believe she left encouraged by her husband

Next she was in the tabloids topless with pause) her hubby topless too

Sadly they all turned on each other - with her being referred to as 'the other girl' when they were asked why she left

Shame when that happens

What they done to the oldest sisters ( not including them in a reunion tour ) was ruthless but not surprising

The sisters could have been doing with the money

Again, when asked why the two older sisters were not included one referred to them as 'the other girls' not sisters - declaring that they were 'too old'

I guess it meant less money if the others were included

One had a cleaning job at the time and was struggling

So you see declaring that jim Davidson was vile BEFORE going into the house and saying ' listen I don't want to influence you girls but jim is vile' on WEEK ONE was a piece of cake

Sigh - to be a housemate you have got to be Of dubious origin

Goodness, what a skewed version of actual events. Are you sure you are watching the same show as the rest of us. (Isn't it amazing how people's dislike of a certain person blinds them to actual events - and they then twist the facts to suit their agenda.)

It's certainly amazing that what people's dislike of Linda blinds them too.

It's also amazing what people's like of Jim blinds them too as well.

Well it's funny cos that's exactly how I saw it too.

yes i noticed that with dappy. he had no reason to apologise as entitled to nominate who he wants. yet was been nice. and she said ''well, sorry just doesnt cut it''!

and wen luisa was talking about playing with her daughter being a single mum, and jim asked does she miss having a bloke in her life... then linda totally interrupted the conversation (which was none of her business) and said... why do u have to say that.. she was talking about playing with her daughter blah blah. i bet jim felt he couldnt ask a question without her jumping down his throat

he was in no way perfect niggling at her but it was generally always linda who snapped back. she should have ignored it.

i found it quite disturbing her obsession and hatred towards jim. very unhealthy

maybe he turned her down years ago or had a fling ha ha

lol. ha ha re ''hit list''. but you are right.

colleen nolan droaned on about shane ritchie for years.

also i have a friend who works in the tv business who has met colleen nolan and she is a nasty piece of work

Linda said "in front of my 16 year old sister," if the in front of my 16 year old sister was Coleen, Shane was only 17 and not famous then.

Linda let the Jim thing completely consume her. I am amazed at how bitter she is as a person. It happened over 20 years ago ffs. How can she not just let it go and remain civil at least or even try and build a bridge.

It always looked like Jim was trying to build the bridge with her. She was so focused on hating him as she thought that is what the people watching would want.

If any plan has backfired big time, it is the Linda Nolan plan of CBB 2014. Would never just let it go and kept at it right to the end, even her interview was fiery and full of hatred for Jim.

ETA: Just read a bit of Bernie Nolan's book, Coleen started going out with Shane 1986, Coleen would have been 21

Linda's husband was her manager, money that had been collected for charity had been going missing, the Police were called and they set up a camera in Frank Carson's dressing room. Linda's husband was caught on film taking money out of FC's wallet, and subsequetly arrested and charged.

Yeh, she's like a bulldog and won't let go of her pain with that one.
Doesn't help calling your son Shane Richie Junior though LOL


Yeh, she's such a sour faced one.


They have no shame selling their stories to the gutter press either.

Very low family.

I've just had a terrible case of deja vue

It was actually charity money he stole?

My goodness, just how low can you go...

I agree with Veri. I've noticed that pattern in Jim's behaviour too.

I guess anybody that doesn't agree with your point of view is watching a different show

Also, very interesting post by OP. Enjoyed reading it

If a camera had been set up to catch whoever it was, then It wasn't "Only twenty quid".

What did Linda's husband steal and from whom? I have just seen the answer!

He stole charity money. The lowest of the low.

Great post and I think you have it spot on. There is some deep rooted hatred in there which she needs to get rid of or it will destroy her. I think there may be some issue around children and the fact that she is going to foster children in emergency situations. I hope she does get help from somewhere as it's not nice to see a woman of a certain age behaving in such a venomous way. What's gone is gone and can't be changed but the future can!

I'm looking at her wikipedia page and I see no evidence of this very long and successful solo career.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Nolan


The first sign of Linda having issues with Jim was in her VT. She said she didn't like him during that. She also apparently did an interview outside the house where she said she held a grudge against Jim because of an incident which happened between Jim and her husband over 20 years ago. We are led to believe the incident was related to the theft in Frank Carson's dressing room.

The first sign of her bittnerness towards Jim whilst in the house was when she was sitting in the bedroom, surrounded by several housemates, and she maliciously shouted Jim over to tell him she doesn't like him, in front of everyone. Her attacks on Jim became even more prevalent and malicious from then onwards.


I think Jim was quite right to bring up Frank Carson's dressing room as it explains the hatred she has for him. The public and the housemates needed to know exactly why she was so hateful towards him. There's no doubt in my mind that her issues with Jim go right back to that incident.

Her husband was caught stealing charity money from Frank Carson's dressing room. Jim and Frank were very close friends. Their paths would have regularly crossed through their line of work and I suspect Jim was probably present when this was going on.


You must be joking, after everything Jim had to suffer. That woman did everything in her power to ostracize Jim throughout the series.

Big Brother set up a task the day before when they knew Sam and Ollie would side with Linda over Jim due to the influence she had over them. At one moment it looked as if Ollie would side with Jim but Linda gave him a stare and made a comment and he quickly jumped over to the other side of the fence.

Interesting that since she's left, the house has never been happier and a few of them have commented on that. Luisa has now been more complimentary towards Jim and has said she was influenced by Linda when she was in the house.

Ollie has also said something along those lines. It's like a weight has been lifted off their shoulders. Linda had such a negative influence in that house. She is a horrible and malicious woman. A nasty piece of work.