Originally Posted by hendoll:
“That's a fair point. It's all getting a bit crazy now isn't it?
I loathe Hopkins with a passion and I have to admit that I would struggle to see anything nice in her no matter what she did. She just elicits something in me that makes me go aaggghhh!! I loathed Perez at first too - him coughing over Alex's bed was beyond the pale. I mean really, what kind of person does that shit? But somehow I've grown to prefer him to all the others in there. Thinking about it, I believe he's been blindsided by how popular Hopkins has proved to be - in the house and the rentamob cheers outside. I don't think he expected that. It was interesting to hear him say that he had imagined being good friends with Michelle. He's a trooper anyway. And for that I salute him.”
It really is getting crazy.
Imo, what blindsided him was the heavy booing he got the first time he was up for eviction. I think up to that point he believed that he really was being fun and 'zany' and entertaining and giving the audience what they wanted, and that the hostility of the other HMs up was a price well worth paying for that because he was playing a longer game - he's said several times that he was doing CBB to build his profile and audience over here. I don't watch the american BB but I've read people on here who know US tv far better than me say that the sort of stuff he got up to would have gone down much better over there. He seems to have become more frantic and more outright nasty since that night.
Part of me did feel very sorry for him that eviction night, he seemed to be really shattered by the crowd reaction in a way I've not seen on BB before, perhaps because he didn't have the support in the house that would have helped him ride it out. And also when Katie P came in, who was apparently some kind of friend of his, and who immediately banished him to the cage.
But I honestly feel he only has himself to blame for alienating the people he lives with in the house, he's behaved atrociously and even though katie H has too, she's largely focused her bad behaviour on Perez who has behaved even worse and so got away with it to a large extent from both viewers and HMs. Katie H and Perez have been the making of each other this series.
Sorry for the wall of text