Originally Posted by hihopes:
“Ugh, Rachel was the worst housemate ever - let alone winner. Utterly dull.
Ashleigh is nothing like Rachel; she's proactive and opinionated and strong. No comparison.
I want her to win.”
Your opinion of Rachel being the opposite of "proactive and opinionated and strong" utterly baffles me. I can't help but think that the "Rachel did and said nothing ever" thing is a bandwagon that people just like to jump aboard nowadays, because the actual events contradict that completely. Or maybe people just choose to selectively forget things?
Take Chipgate in the first week, Rachel was one of the only housemates to speak up and try to defend Rebecca against Alexandra, despite clearly being intimidated by the situation. I even remember Mo and Rex (the guy who gets tons of adoration) getting up and silently walking out, something Rachel refused to do.
And strong? I think somebody facing a lot of unwarranted hostility purely for being nice toughing it out without losing her optimism, and who is willing to stand up to an aggressive person when almost nobody else in the room will is a strong person.
Actually, perhaps I imagined all of this. Yeah, all she did was eat grapes for 13 weeks, silly me.
(For the record, Ashleigh is one of my favourites here, too. Not sure why people always need to pit past and present hms against each other).