Sure. Horses for courses.

You can't have it both ways it is or it aint... I think the fact that BB is a game is blurring your ability to see bullying for what it is.

Basically the same as Katie H then

Backbiting - interesting term - presumably you mean talking about somebody who isn't in the room - like we are now for example Gossiping, 'bitching' (I hate that word) ... it's the cornerstone of this show we call Big Brother. It's the very foundation of the programme, there would be no show without it. Put a bunch of people together and they will gather in groups and talk about each other. People in schools do it, offices do it, families do it. We do it.

If the housemates didn't talk about each other we'd never know what they are thinking, who they like, don't like, what they find funny, annoying, irritating, aggravating. As I said, there'd be no show! All reality shows are like this - TOWIE, The Real Housewives, Four in a Bed, The Devil's Kitchen.

I do not believe there is any bullying going on, I cannot possibly be clearer than that.

NO BULLYING IMO

I'm just interested - what would need to happen for you to class it as bullying?

welcome to american style BB. they love Fighting and backstabbing there, its in almost all their tv shows. BB , AR , survivor. Being a really good liar and monster is rewarded.

Well, to go all dictionary on it, here's an excerpt from a schools guide about bullying:

"Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose."

Yup. Bullying.

I found Helen worse.

Good. They are all silicon Munting mingers.

Everyone in the show has bullied someone at some point then.

Perez harassing all the HM's to breaking point, and Nadia defending his actions to try and wind Katie up....with Alicia playing the victim to fool people into feeling sorry for her.

Do you think that every time someone spreads a rumour, it's bullying?

That every time someone's excluded -- a disruptive child or even bully excluded from a school, for example -- that person's being bullied?

That every time someone criticises someone else ("attacking verbally"), it's bullying?

Katie looking askance at someone across the room could be characterised as bullying, and probably will be before this CBB is over. (But not reasonably characterised.)

Like Chloe said the Alicia she watched on Tv last night is always like that and what we have been seeing, she isn't like that all of the time, it's called good editing. Also Perez has pushed people mentally and emotionally to their limits, so is that bullying or abuse? or is it different because it's perez. Katie H gets slated for saying what she feels to their face, yet talking behind backs is bullying, mmmm, Nadia from day one, has told people what to feel, think, say, do, isn't that bullying? or do people only saying it's bullying when it's Katie H? and when others do stuff it isn't?

Why is it seen that BB is probably the only place in the UK that bullying doesn't exist?
If you reckon there's been a bit of bullying in the BB house you get threads full of people telling you how preposterous it is to even suggest it.

Why is it such an outlandish notion to suggest that bullying exists in BB?
It happens in just about every area of British society you can think of, yet BB is somehow an exception where it never happens?
Despite all the possible conditions you can think of which would be conducive to bullying having been laid on to make the prospect as likely as it is possible to be.

Racism? It has happened.
Homophobia? Quite probably.
Sexism? Perhaps at times.
Bullying?...Don't be ridiculous, are you an idiot or something?

I instinctively thought 'Nasty' would be a thread about Cami Li. Less in the bullying sense and more in the porn sense, or as in "cheap 'n' nasty."

NO? oh well if thats normal behaviour Ive had a sheltered life..

So your saying you've never talk behind anybody back really I know I have

As someone who has been bullied I find the fact that so many people are so dismissive of the suggestion worrying. If you are being bullied its hard sometimes to get people to believe you and many people seem to think you cannot be bullied if you are an adult. you should just stand up for yourself. You can appear to try and stand up for yourself but when on your own be very badly affected by it. There IS bullying going on in the house and a lot of playground behaviour. When you consider the ages of the people in there it's unbelievable behaviour. There is a growing culture these days of telling people the honest truth regardless of how hurtful that can be. A little tact or if you can't say anything good say nothing would not go amiss. It is not a virtue to nasty.

they see someone whos sweeter or weaker than them and it makes them feel so much bigger and better to be overpowering and nasty.. sad lot.. Michelle the leader..

She did not "ask" him, she interrogated him, and was beligerant in doing so.

Nadia, Alicia and Perez have bitched and "back bitted" about Katie H, so they have bullied her then.

The whole process in the DR encourages bullying, if we are using talking behind someone's back as an example of bullying.

We are all bullying by discussing them on a forum, where will it ever end.

Well first off, it's not my definition. And I didn't copy their entire policy on bullying. But I would take it to mean that it's an accumulation of several of those ... and repeatedly. Perpetrated by a group against an individual. Not just a one-time occurrences.

But go ahead and use that as an excuse for the Mean Girls behavior.

That is exactly .. well words to that effect .. what I was about to type. From it's inception BB hms have always gathered in groups and discussed each other sometimes immitating each other too. In fact generally BB sets a task for the hms to immitate each other. I do not see this as bullying either.

As you say what would there be to watch.

There reaches a point where America can't be blamed for everything.

Bullying and nasty behavior is a human thing, not an American thing,.. and it exists just about everywhere humans are.

People were treated horribly in a number of past UK seasons and even in a few AUS seasons, even in Canada's version.

Even beyond Big Brother, all throughout history humans have been horrible to each other... since the very beginning. It's a very sad reality that hopefully will change one day, probably not soon though.