Originally Posted by An Thropologist:
“. But so far all I am seeing is a quiet, well mannered woman who seems fairly humble and appears to have palled up with possibly the meekest person in the house.
So far she seems to be keeping her head down and is giving me nothing to dislike”
I think I might have been wrong at early doors when I said to another poster the last thing Katie would want would be to rewrite her public persona via Big Brother. It is after all how she pays her mortgage. But it must be pretty exhausting emotionally and perhaps she's had enough of it. However, those "exaggerated" views she has to a deadline do seem to come very easily to her. It's like Clarkson, for example. I don't think you can spit bile professonally if you're not generously endowed with it. What else can she do? Maybe something nice, who knows. This all seemed to come about for her because viewers of the Apprentice told her she was a nightmare Thatcher knock-off, so she ran with that.
"Meek" is precisely the right word for Alicia isn't it. You're just thinking "Aww, sweetie, what happened" all the time. I do think there are probably things Katie has in common with her, and she isn't just a human shield. Things to do with faces, on the surface, and things underlying that.