Surely we should stop insulting her & calling her names? This woman could simply be in need of therapy.

I don't agree with all of the horrible things being said about her condition (I suffer from mental health issues too), but I do think it is low of her to use it in a paid interview as a way of keeping the interest in the ongoing situation between herself and Jim, especially since Jim is in no place to respond right now.

"So what"!!! So she should have never been allowed to take part, I really cant stand Linda but the well-being of HMs should be paramount and IF this is true, which it seems to be, then I don't know where BB can go from here. The suicidal thoughts and depression, as revealed by Coleen don't bode well for Linda in her desire to foster, and that is their own doing.

They would not allowed her on the program is when in any way mentally ill. I think she has a complex personalty and is jealous of most things and this makes her bitter as she feels as a Nolan that she should be still working, I generally think that she believes that she been hard done by people and also believes it not her fault. she cannot grasp that some of things are due to her

I wouldn't be so sure.

She could do no worse than book a course of treatments from Jim's therapist.

They have worked wonders for Jim

I thought all housemates were asset before going in the house, could be wrong, but there is no doubt in my mind that had Linda done what she claims in the house, she would of been removed. Why make a point if it as soon as she left, she must if given the interview within the 24 hrs she left. Had she if felt that low, why dud she appear to attack Jim fir no reason, surely confrontation was the last thing she needed. I think this story will run for some time, which makes it even more likely to be an attention seeking issue, I don't doubt she us depressed, but she said her sister encouraged her to go in, yet her sister has made claims of suicidal thoughts just before who going in, so why would Coleen encourage her vulnerable sister to take part in a show that she knows full well can mess with your head.

Oh dear

Why would you be so personal for money

They are given an assessment, but the Channel 4 test allowed Shabaz, Nikki and Lea through all in one series, and I can't imagine the C5 test would be any more scrupulous - I think it was Denise Welch who said herself that she probably shouldn't have been allowed in. They had Kerry Katona on too after all, with her history of bipolar disorder.

She suffers from righteous indignation

If she were to recognise that her husband was filmed stealing money...and it probably wasnt the only time...and stop blaming Jim for being annoyed about it on Frank's behalf ...then she might let go of some bitter angry feelings that are chewing her up.
(free advice Linda...take it )

I love it but it isn't righteous, it is unrighteousness, if there is such a word.

She's now making out like her arguments in the house started after the Frank Carson dressing room episode. Sadly, neither Emma nor the BBOTS presenters and panelists challenged her. She's re-writing history right before our eyes. I wonder if the proverbial gloves will come off now following her allegations in the Sunday papers.

If she does have a mental illness that would affect her during her time in the House, surely she was old enough to make the decision to go in anyway? You can't play that card if you decided to go in there anyway.

I totally agree.

Blaming him for her self-harming is disgusting. She needs to stop selling stories and see a therapist.

It was pretty obvious from the get go that she had mental health issues, the level of obsession with Jim simply was not normal.

It looks like she is in need of therapy. My concerns are that she is so wrapped up in blaming Jim for all her unhappiness in life that she doesn't realise she needs it.

She needs to seriously stop playing his victim if she wants to continue her fostering as I would certainly have concerns about a child being placed with her at the moment - after confessing to self harming in the house.

Hope her sisters insist she gets the help she needs and don't feed into her victim role.

There have been loads of housemates over the years with mental health issues of various kinds. They have as much right to compete as people with any other kind of medical issue, though obviously it might need to be born in mind.

As they cannot bring anything at all into the house that has not been checked, they obviously knew that Linda was on anti-depressants, whatever she told them when she was interviewed for the show. I do think they let her flounder and sink because they thought it made for a good story, watching her getting on so poorly with Jim; it didn't.

I posted on here a couple of times early on that she seemed properly depressed to me, and got an angry response because I was not toeing the party line that she was just evil. But as I have always said, she seemed obviously depressed and paranoid to me.

I'll agree with that but doubt it'll happen.

Imho The Lovely Linda seems to think its everyone else who has the problems.

I believe that the C5 psychiatric assessments are even less stringent than the C4 era ones. There are a couple of the CBB HMs who are rumoured to have failed being allowed into the C4 era house but have ended up in a C5 series.

I said on launch night it was too soon after Bernies death for Linda to go into the house and that was before I knew the rest of her history.

Sadly, I think C5 care more about ratings and controversy than anything else

I'm sure we can all agree with that.

I think people have forgotten about Denise Welch who has had Mental Health issues for over 30 yrs and won the show.

I'm not sure what's going on here. In the past I have seen many cases where two people are playing out an argument in public. Often one of them comes across as fair and rational, and the other comes across as emotional and unreasonable.
Sometimes the seemingly fair and rational person is the root cause of the disagreement, but uses the fact that the other person is emotional against them as a weapon. The more reasonable persons version of events is usually believed, and this leads to the more emotional one becoming even more unhinged due to the injustice of it. The reasonable person can then claim " see I told you they were mad, what more can I do or say?"


I'm not saying this is necessarily going on in this instance, but I remain open to it. Too much has been left unsaid for us to get a good handle on it. It would seem that Linda is no longer making rational judgements, but whether this is down to some previous form of mental illness, or whether she has recently been driven to it by having had her already fragile emotions manipulated is hard to say.

I do believe she is a bitter and twisted I cant put the blame on her illness if she has one,I feel before she entered the BB house she knew Jim was going in and she planned all of this upset to try and get some work after BB,and make money with the papers/mags about how much she hates Jim which she has done,sorry I have no sympathy for her she is even worse than Coleen and that is saying something

That's true, that was always said of Lauren Harries.


I certainly didn't, she's mentioned in my post.

Im mentally ill and wouldnt act like her