Ignorant as I am, what do you mean by 'unreliable narrator'?

I have to agree. I would be more inclined to believe KH's chooses not to demonstrate her empathy. Empathy is a choice to a certain extent. You have to choose to put yourself in the position to empathise. And then you must choose how you react to that empathy.
The fact she is so 'right' with her controversy choices makes me think she has a good idea of what other people think and feel, she wouldn't be so famous if she couldn't predict what would cause most upset.

Just what I was going to say. I have no love (not even like) for Katie H but I saw her facial expressions as someone trying to control themselves and not let the emotion of the situation sway them.

yes.
i think she does have a choice in what she chooses to say and how rude and offensive she chooses to be, she knows she is doing it, she is doing it for effect......there has been enough evidence for me to come to this conclusion.....even if i leave out everything except her behaviour in the house for example we have seen her say i will do x to perez in ten minutes etc that's not a spontaneous action beyond her control that is her making a plan and executing a plan for a desired effect.

you seem to be saying that you believe her behaviours are beyond her control yet she hasn't attacked michelle or Cami in the same way she has others because she knows the response will be different, she wouldn't win in an argument with either of them.

a narrator who cannot be trusted.

Excuse me for chipping in here but I find this exchange really interesting. It's like listening to two therapists from different disciplines. Anyway.... surely saying 'a narrator who cannot be trusted' means nothing except 'I don't believe them' ??

I give up, I must be inadvertently typing in some strange code or something.

An unreliable narrator is a literary technique, where in the narrator either through lying, ignorance and/or self interest gives an unreliable account, they can lie, make mistakes in the narrative, have a campaign of misinformation or deliberately manipulate the narrative with bias. So their version of events cannot be trusted. In novels, for example, there are usually clues to pick up along the way to work out whether the narrator is being truthful, just as you get red flags in life from people that put you on your guard, then you start to keep your eye out for inconsistencies until you have enough evidence to say this is a lie here is the proof.
Does that help?

Yes it does, very much. Thank you. In terms of BB and just going on instinct, I would then say that Alicia was/is a reliable narrator, Katie Hopkins is not and Katie Price is....other? Not taking the piss, by the way, appreciate your thoughtful response.

Just the usual Katie Hopkins then - I've no idea why she's so popular..

Now you're asking me to explain the mind of someone else with regards to how they behave. I could give it a try, but she may say I'm way off base. I was talking about the fundamentals. I could speculate and talk about why Katie does this and that but we'd be here all night and I might get things wrong.

Bottom line is, you're suggesting she's in control of her behaviour and I'm saying that's open to debate.
I'm inclined to agree with you by the way, but I'm also inclined to see there's something happening that isn't in her full control.
I may see differently tomorrow.

i feel sorry for her children. They say strong domineering mothers are often found to be a partial cause of problem adult males. it ruins their psyche

I was sitting here watching it and was really surprised he was crying over Alicia. I hadn't seen a tremendously close relationship to her, but I think he's a good guy and was worried about her. I still was surprised by the tears.

As far as Katie was concerned I saw her trying to console him and I also saw her genuinely saying some very nice things about Alicia. It's so funny how some posters on here can make something out of nothing!

Katie H for the win!!!

That is, by far, the funniest post I have EVER read on ANY forum!

I have no idea if KH experiences empathy or not.

However, unless she had brain surgery (or massive head trauma) I do not believe that she has a "missing chunk of brain". From the information in this thread, it sounds like she was "normal" as a child (i.e., no missing chunk of brain) and later developed epilepsy. So did part of her brain just disappear or vanish? Her choice of words, "missing", implies either it was there and is no longer there or it was never there (but the later isn't the case since she was ok as a child). This choice of wording is just one of many reasons I do not find her to be a reliable narrator*. She isn't credible.

I don't see a correlation or causation between her being an epileptic and her behavior in the house. She is in control of her behavior, as much as anyone can control their behavior, in the house and to imply that she is not in control of her behavior then one is saying she shouldn't be accountable for her actions. It's not like she is in status epilepticus (non-stop seizure). Behavior during a seizure is not controllable but she is not having a seizure when she is taunting Perez.

She may or may not have antisocial personality tendencies/traits/disorder however it can't be diagnosed by watching a brief edited show. I am finding incredibly difficult to decipher genuine empathy from acting in this highly edited show.

*unreliable narrator: the narrator is not credible
Some of my favorite movies have unreliable narrators:

Well said totally agree. KH has absolutely no empathy whatsoever. In fact she doesn't appear to cope at all normally with another person's either. Her face said it all. She imo is a really damaged person. Maybe she was "locked in a small cupboard as a child" and not Perez as she suggested.

I think she's very cold and doesn't value emotions or feelings. Having sympathy for someone or showing feelings she sees as a weakness.

When she used Alicia as a means to an end to create a victim in the hope that Alicia would be saved over Perez, she didn't care about Alicia's feelings. She saw Alicia's lack of intelligence as a weakness which was there to be exploited. I doesn't matter to her that Alicia is now known as a dumb bint or any embarrassment or humiliation it has caused her.

All the time she is looking for weaknesses in her opponents so that she can exploit them. Now she has seen Keith get emotional she will be looking for ways to turn this to her advantage. She's seen that Patsy doesn't like being questioned or cornered into giving straight answers - she'll exploit this.

Didn't KH attend Sandhurst? Seems to me she's treating it all like a military campaign. Lots of tactics to take out the enemy. Poor Perez!!!