Similar, but not the same.

One is proper fans who haven't been paid/hired and are voting due to a passionate fervour for trying to evict someone
a) they don't like
b) who's a friend of someone (or part of a group) they don't like
c) in order to save their fave

The other is people who probably don't even watch the show who've been paid/hired to sway the voting results.

All hypothetical, of course....

Didn't you hear? Steven's had a mysterious illness and went to the hospital

Big Brother fixes the show through the edit - they promote Housemates in a certain way to get the result they want. But at the same time they have to second guess how people read the edit - it's not always clearcut.

I laughed when everyone on the BOTS panel said Pav was going tonight, Emma turned to the audience and asked if they agreed, I saw several shaking their heads and Emma turned to the camera and said "there you go! Everyone agrees!"

Does anyone find it odd that they put Steven on the losing blue team for the task? The public love an underdog (see previous winners) and the whole of that team are liked more by the public. It seemed like they were trying to make him likeable by association and alse garner sympathy.
At the same time they stuck Ashleigh on the cool kids team which could go against her because they had to win and be obnoxious about it.
BTW I dislike Ashleigh with a passion so not a pro Ashleigh conspiracy post here, I just found it odd how both teams were usual friendship groups apart from those two.

I don't think Steven will go tonight.....but I would like to be wrong.....

I will actually cry if he stays he HAS to go (if only to get a Vicks inhaler for that blocked nose)

Even if people vote for Pav because they think he's boring I can't see anyone getting worked up enough about it to place multiple votes to get him out in the same way people do when they really, really dislike someone..

I'm more worried about how much Steven's mum will throw at it to save him than regular voters!

If Steven doesn't go I will dig out an old woolly hat and eat it with yogurt.

And of course no one would ever break the law where money is to be made... it is possible that voting figures are fixed to get out who they want...I.e. Mathew not Ash to keep ratings up and therefore sponsors happy. Or to keep people watching and therefore voting so money keeps coming in......but of course they would not break the law to do it. No one has ever done that before .... much!!

Well, if the public don't get him out tonight, it is probably the only chance we will have to get the loon out. I don't think he will come up again and he will then cruise along to the final with the 'chosen' one. We will have zilch choice then I'm afraid.

You are thinking wayyy too much into it. Fixing voting lines wouldn't be just a slap on the wrist. Besides, voting will be handled by a third party. The one thing you can be sure on is that the voting is genuine. Unless, of course, C5 are buying votes for themselves, but that's a different kettle of fish. The voting results are genuine.

They could get all the folk hiding behind that grassy knoll to vote, right?

You really think they give a flying ****?

I was going to vote him out, but that is such a tempting offer that I now have to vote Pav.

Enjoy your hat!

Get the self centred twit out tonight... So he can gorge himself on food (noisily), arrange his mag deals with his sweet girlfriend and pick his nose without us having to watch him.
Oh and of course talk constantly about himself, without having HMs interrupting him.

We might be in for a shock!

<Makes a note of this post ....... just in case>

What's he wiping off his face I wonder?

He's had someone wank over his face. Someone has shit on his face. My bet is that it's going to come full circle tonight - someone shall piss on his face.

It's all been fixed from day one !