I put this interview up on the main threads, but I think it would be more appreciated here

From 40 mins to 55 mins he is describing his 'old self' .....I some of it relates to Katie H today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwn_...ature=youtu.be

Thank you so much wonderful.

You're welcome

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Thanks for posting that interview; it's much appreciated! I'm looking forward to watching that over the weekend.

Perez is now leading the poll at http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/polls/

Perhaps people are finally starting to see through Hopkins and it is reflecting well on Perez. That plus he's acted with nothing but total class and dignity since CBB. They should have listened when he told them he knew how media and public perception worked and tried to give them helpful advice. Instead of throwing childish, self-righteous tantrums at him and then forcing HIM to apologise.

I'd be interested to know if had any inkling at all about how popular he was and how much love and support was going in his direction when all the immediate messages, from HMs, the crowd, the guests etc, were that the world loathed him. I hope he does another interview one day. He must have known something was up when they wouldn't let him leave and when he learned he was the most talked about housemate ever. Obviously that much buzz can't sustain itself if it consists of only positive feeling or only negative feeling; it needs both sides to activate and feed the other side and he'd be aware of this. Or maybe he really, truly didn't care if the world liked him at that point!

Hello - if you are about today we have a + and - game going in the main forum and Perez could do with some support. He's in the final 3 with Alex (!) and Keith.
All you have to do is add a plus to Perez score eg 39 +1 = 40 and take one off Keith or Alex.
You can vote as many times as you like, but there must be 5 people between you and your next vote.

I've just looked through all the www.thisisbigbrother.com polls for the first time. Perez has gone from being being the overwhelmingly least favourite housemate in the early polls to being the overall favourite housemate of the series in the final poll. That's some journey he took us on!

LOL Mr. Buns

Wow! I've just finished listening the interview, the first one where I've heard him talk properly, besides Loose Women, and he's just awesome! He really is. I had no idea why I came back to being interested in Perez yesterday but I've just found out why. He could have been a religious nut or a Sarah Palin supporter but fortunately my instinct was right. Perez Hilton is incredibly smart and talented and multifaceted. He has something really special. No wonder he went crazy being locked up with those people.

I just had a bit of think about it and after listening to him being interviewed, I think it's a bit insulting to compare him to Katie Hopkins, past or present. It would be a bit like comparing Jon Stewart (DEAD TO ME NOW (working through phase)) to Tucker Carlson. It's not even nearly close.

Superficially, to some, their roles might appear quite similar but the underlying raison d'etre is different, I think. Hopkins works within the established media and delivers content attempting to shock and influence within a very narrow, prescribed and predictable agenda. Hilton, like Jon Stewart has an outsider role making those within a particular cultural arena accountable. When Perez Hilton spoke about the difficulty in having celebrity friendships it reminded me of when Rep. Anthony Weiner tweeted a picture of his willy to a girl on the internet then denied it. His good friend Jon Stewart couldn't overlook the comedy gold in this and still maintain his integrity as a fake news man.

Hypocrisy couldn't damage the integrity of Hopkin's work because it really doesn't have any to begin with. Her apparent dislike of children named after geographical locations when her own daughter is called 'India', for example. She is so pointless and irrelevant. I don't really have much knowledge of what Perez was like previously but I also suspect that his character would never tweet his annoyance at being made late for work by a man's suicide, like she did recently. They are on a completely different level, emotionally and intellectually.

I'm a bit slow on the uptake sometimes and have really only just understood why Perez Hilton became so important and successful. For good or bad, celebrity culture is where lots of people take their lead which gives celebrities a huge responsibility and they should be called out if they mess up or be made to laugh at themselves or whatever.

That's just my thought for the day, anyway. Hope you all have a lovely day.

That should definitely read Glenn Beck and not Tucker Carlson. Carlson apparently stopped being a kn*b after Crossfire. And Hopkins is definitely the Glenn Beck of newspaper columnists.

He is way ahead of the winner of CBB and of course KH yeAH.

Superb post. Applause.

[quote=TwoDeadFlies;76960576]Wow! I've just finished listening the interview, the first one where I've heard him talk properly, besides Loose Women, and he's just awesome! He really is. I had no idea why I came back to being interested in Perez yesterday but I've just found out why. He could have been a religious nut or a Sarah Palin supporter but fortunately my instinct was right. Perez Hilton is incredibly smart and talented and multifaceted. He has something really special. No wonder he went crazy being locked up with those people.

I just had a bit of think about it and after listening to him being interviewed, I think it's a bit insulting to compare him to Katie Hopkins, past or present. It would be a bit like comparing Jon Stewart (DEAD TO ME NOW (working through phase)) to Tucker Carlson. It's not even nearly close.

Superficially, to some, their roles might appear quite similar but the underlying raison d'etre is different, I think. Hopkins works within the established media and delivers content attempting to shock and influence within a very narrow, prescribed and predictable agenda. Hilton, like Jon Stewart has an outsider role making those within a particular cultural arena accountable. When Perez Hilton spoke about the difficulty in having celebrity friendships it reminded me of when Rep. Anthony Weiner tweeted a picture of his willy to a girl on the internet then denied it. His good friend Jon Stewart couldn't overlook the comedy gold in this and still maintain his integrity as a fake news man.

Hypocrisy couldn't damage the integrity of Hopkin's work because it really doesn't have any to begin with. Her apparent dislike of children named after geographical locations when her own daughter is called 'India', for example. She is so pointless and irrelevant. I don't really have much knowledge of what Perez was like previously but I also suspect that his character would never tweet his annoyance at being made late for work by a man's suicide, like she did recently. They are on a completely different level, emotionally and intellectually.

I'm a bit slow on the uptake sometimes and have really only just understood why Perez Hilton became so important and successful. For good or bad, celebrity culture is where lots of people take their lead which gives celebrities a huge responsibility and they should be called out if they mess up or be made to laugh at themselves or whatever.

Great post

I'm glad you liked the inteview

To clarify....the only part I was comparing to Katie H was the bit Perez identified about himself at that time where he was being 'the mean guy' because he knew it was getting popularity and more importantly, how he looked back now and saw how wrong it was and how he would never be cruel again for those purposes.

Obviously on every other level he is very different

I agree with you totally! He even said himself that he used to be like Hopkins so maybe there was a crossover at some point. But I now think the whole 'two sides of the same coin' thing is really wrong. Hopkins is irredeemably rotten in so many ways whereas Perez is a really beautiful person.

Thanks

Good interview...im surprised to hear he suffered so badly from depression Looking at all the photos of him now with him and his kid, he seems like a different person, much happier in himself...and I'm pleased he made peace with Will.i.am, I did wonder!

I found a completely different type of interview today with him on the Howard Stern show last year, VERY rude and VERY crude! All I can say is OMG ...Hilarious!

Its great, I remember it being the same on here too, I remember thinking 'oh my favourite is one of the least popular', soon changed though.

Good to see KH finishing in second place again! ...and poor Kav only has 3 votes

That must have restored your faith in human nature - when people started to see what you saw!

I started watching it a bit late and the only one I'd previously heard of and actually liked was Nadia. I remember her from when I watched EastEnders as a kid and when she was on Celebrity MasterChef. I think she's just amazing now. If you'd asked me what I thought of the likes of Perez Hilton and Katie P six weeks ago, I cynically would have said that they represent everything that is wrong with the world. Perez had me wallowing in a state of cognitive dissonance for a while which is probably why I think he's so interesting. Seriously, by the end of the series he only had to appear on screen and I would start laughing. He was having a tough time but his spirit was never broken and he was still hilarious. Definitely changed my opinion of Katie P too!

Yes, poor Kav though. He's clearly not a bad person but he never came across as being very bright and he made it worse for himself by drinking too much. The bit when he's trying to advise Perez, when they were sat down after the leaving party, about how Perez would be perceived by the public made me totally cringe for him. It must be really interesting to appear on BB and then to watch yourself back and see yourself as others see you. Like, I wonder if Michelle's jaw dropped as much as ours did at the ever growing gap between everything she said and how she acted! I guess if you don't like what you see though, you can always blame it on the editing.

Hmmm, just realised how silly that sounds. Good and evil - two sides of the same coin.

Yes I was very pleased when the popularity polls went up in his favour. But I was expecting they probably would. I think i'm quite a good judge of character, I saw him as quite a fun, entertaining, emotional character but not a nasty person, and I do like people who can be a bit nuts I think sometimes you can tell the nature of someone's personality by the company they keep, and the main people that seemed to have any time for Perez were Nadia, Alicia, Keith, Katie P...the people I found to be nice and most down to earth...and I think he got on with Calum too, but I don't know what happened towards the end. I think pressure and stress got to that friendship.

Nadia was my second favourite, closely followed by Alicia....though on the launch night I thought Nadia had been in Absolutely Fabulous, I didn't realise that was her sister! Mind you, I had no idea who Perez was either, I just recognised the name.

Oh don't get me started on Michelle, I don't know how she can go on about fighting for the gay community constantly, but completely going against one of them, saying he's set the community back just because she didn't like his personality, its like saying 'James Jordan is an embarrassment to straight people coz he's a complete t*sspot', no...james Jordan is just a complete t*sspot...and if she didn't like Perez, she should just say she cant stand him, not that he is going to set the gay community back 50 years....one mans slightly odd personality is not going to set anything back.......sorry I'm in rant mode tonight.

I really went off Kav after hearing the feedback from 2 different people who were at the finale night. They said the same thing that Kav, Chloe and 'b*tch please' were mouthing off at Perez to the point they made him cry. Totally unnecessary and nasty. Kav really should steer clear of the vodka! ....but speaking of drink, i did really like Perez's drunken night/sick in the bath tub story

I'm not really sure how I knew he was. I think I'd just seen him in pictures with some terrible people and written him off as one of those people. I held him responsible for embarrassing me in 2007 by announcing that Fidel Castro was dead so maybe it was then he first flickered into my consciousness. The only thing I knew of Hopkins was that she wanted to bomb Palestinians so I was never going to like her, really.

I loved Nadia too! She's so real but beautiful. I'm at a loss why people have said horrible things. Everything she did was for other people. She was the least self-absorbed person in there and she didn't give a damn what anyone thought of her. She was so sure her heart was telling her the truth and didn't question it. I think that's amazing.

Alicia is obviously a beautiful person and she found the light in the end but she couldn't work out what was going on through all the static. I wish Alicia had stayed in longer.

Michelle, I know! WTF? When she was shouting and crying that Perez didn't represent her community, I assumed she was gay. And I thought it was patronising then! What did him running round the garden being rude have to do with the community? Is there a code of conduct or something? By accident rather than design, my closest friends are gay, I live with gay people and I hang out on a largely gay scene but I would never assume that I was part of the community. Or go around saying I was a voice for the community. And they occasionally make reference to my heterosexual privilege to keep me in my place.

So I watched most of it thinking she was a part of the community she was being a voice for, which didn't seem unreasonable at the time. When the whole husband thing came up it had me scratching my head wondering what was going on. So I then thought maybe she was transgender. When that didn't pan out I really starting reaching. I asked my friend if a straight drag queen is part of the LGBT community and he told to stop being a ****ing idiot. So I had a real WTF?! moment when I realised she was straight.

When I watched it all again and she came across as a very different person.Everything annoyed me about her. She never laughed or ever looked like she was enjoying herself and pulled mean faces when other people tried to enjoy themselves. She wore stupid Union Jack earnings, because we love that, us Brits. She took herself far too seriously. She thought the baying mob outside actually represented popular opinion and thought she was going to win. How could anyone like that over Perez telling us all to go and **** ourselves!?

When Perez came back into the house in such spectacular fashion, she got really upset about it. The bit when she's in tears talking to Hopkins in the bedroom about how upset she is that she might lose out 'to that' and that she honestly wasn't worried about not winning but that 'this voice' wouldn't be heard had me literally face-palming and shaking my head in disbelief at the screen. Maybe they forget that they're being filmed or something? I just don't understand why someone would behave like that. The first time I saw the series I thought she had been manipulated by Hopkins and was trapped on the misery train. The second time I thought she was calculating, devious, self-serving and cynical. There was nothing nice about her. And she took hypocritical to a new level.

I wasn't that keen on Calum on second watching because of the Perez situation, obviously. There was lots of game playing and all that rubbish. But I had a look on his twitter feed and he had lots of charitable causes popping up so it made me think again. And he did come across really well in the interviews afterwards. Although Jimmy Savile would probably have come across well sat next to Hopkins that night.

The night of the final was awful to watch, beside KP winning and Hopkins losing. And Hopkins making a complete prat of herself on live TV. I couldn't bear it. Keith Chegwin doing what he did was a disgrace, really. To throw Perez under the bus just because he thought public opinion would allow it, when Perez had defended him and said nothing but nice things, it wasn't very nice. He's obviously a nice person but he cared more about what people thought of him than he did about someone else's feelings.

I read something about more arguing breaking out afterwards. These forums are still at it too! Do they usually go on for this long? I can see other appreciation threads still going strong. The whole dress thing made me realise that people just see things in different ways and it's as true to them as it is to me. Even though it's obviously blue and black. I know the dress was sooo Friday just gone but are you really seeing blue and dark green?

Oh dear, I didn't mean the post to be this long. I think I out ranted you! I'm so glad I learned to touch type, saves masses of time!

Thanks for this link. I've just voted and Perez is way out in the lead

I liked Perez from the get go. On the first night he was really kind to Ken when everyone else was ignoring him. You could see he had a good heart and I don't think he let himself down once.

He was naturally funny and charming and sweet and naturally clever with words Also he has provided more lol moments than any previous contestant I can think of. I will never, ever forget his sex tape in the garden

He said in this interview he played chess but he kinda forgot to mention how totally brilliant he is at it:

http://chess-db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=3302539

He's really, really good. For an amateur, he's outstanding. I love playing chess when I can but I'm completely rubbish at it so I'm in awe of people who play at this level.

My interest just turned into a full-blown, teenage style crush. I wish I had been born a gay man, just for the possibility. *sigh*

Chess is really cool now, btw

I know! It was adorable when he was kind to Ken. Perez probably didn't like people being excluded which was already happening to Ken on the first night.

Perez said himself that he was bullied a lot when he was a kid which explains why he acted how he did sometimes. They are hardwired responses to being picked on and isolated. It's so obvious to any kind, nice person that Perez is a funny, charming, kind and nice person! The people who don't like him seem to be nasty, full-of-themselves blokes like Jim Davidson or that Jordon James character or Katie Hopkins.

I really hope he does Strictly! I've never seen it before but it would be so brilliant to see him be his lovely self without Hopkins spitting poison at him.

Yes you've definitely out-ranted me! Good job you're a fast typer, and im a quick reader.

I knew a little of Katie H before she went in and I didn't like her, but then she went in the house and entertained us all, and showed a different side to herself...an even worse side, and I still didn't like her! She really does take moron to a new level...I've just read her latest twitter rant to Danny Dyer...you don't mess with Dyer!

I also genuinely thought Michelle was gay aswell at first, I just assumed, obviously I was wrong. I don't remember her wearing the union Jack earrings, but I do remember her saying "I love my gays and my UK's"!
I didn't like the fact that all she wanted to do was to stay in longer than one of her gays and then she'd be happy. She should have just tried to lighten up and have some fun and go throw some beans at the wall or something.

I really didn't understand why Keith suddenly turned on Perez in his interview. He doesn't normally even use language like that. It was very odd. He seemed to get on ok with him in the house. At least he apologised for It after.

I don't normally stay in this forum after BB has finished so I don't know how long the debates (arguments) go on for. I have to really like someone to be bothered enough to talk about them when the show's over. There's been constant debating about who bullied who throughout the series. I thought it was pretty obvious myself. One particular day stands out for me when Alexander left. Katie H went marching into the bedroom calling Perez an a**ehole. Perez, Nadia and Patsy were all in their beds not saying a word, and she went on and on and on throwing out her insults and left him in tears and the girls sitting in the toilet....how can anyone say that's not bullying?

Like you were saying about Perez, I was bullied at school, and I now have OTT reactions to people being rude to me. I mean its obviously not the case for everyone, but I can definitely see where Perez is coming from with his reactions.

Yes I do think the dress is blue and dark green


Trevor Tiger, I hope that sex tape isn't leaked...it would be very embarrassing for Perez if millions of people were to watch it!