Originally Posted by SwanGirl:
“The thing I dislike about Calum is his whole 'I'm a peacemaker' spiel. When Katie was going around goading Perez and having a go at Nadia for not ignoring him, where was Calum? When Cami was letting rip at Alicia, where was Calum? He picks and chooses who he decides to play peacemaker for and that night when he was pretending to keep the peace, the last thing you do is wade into an argument and tell one person to 'Shut your mouth'. That's not going to do anything to calm a situation down and he must have known that Perez would react to it.
I think he was actually looking for a fight with Perez, he's into the final week and he knows he hasn't done all that much of note in the house so he picks a fight with one of the biggest characters knowing it would get him airtime and knowing there'd be a large amount of the public on his side because Perez, going by the crowd's reaction to him, is very unpopular. Then he gets all affronted because Perez said he didn't like him, why? Calum has said time and time again that he doesn't like Perez and he doesn't trust him so why would it matter that Perez openly admitted to not liking him?
His blow up wasn't about Perez not liking him at all, it was about the fact that Perez had worked him out and cottoned onto his gameplan. Afterwards in the garden with Michelle and Kav he was looking for reassurance because I think he'd convinced himself that he'd ruined his chances and blown his cover, luckily for him the whole fight seems to have turned a lot of people on his side as they see him as a big, brave man for daring to stand up to Perez and call him a c**t a few times.
He can dish things out but when it comes to taking any form of criticism himself, he can't handle it. He was happy to sit around with his pal Cami and call Alicia a velociraptor and make fun of how she eats yet when Chloe made a barb about his hair he storms around the house and acts like a child. He can give out the banter but if you give it back to him or if you answer back he can't handle it.
Calum is one of the biggest gameplayers within the house and I think people are willing to give him a pass because of his so called good looks, if he looked like Keith he wouldn't stand a cats chance in hell of winning.”
This is 100% spot on, and it was what i thought all along but could not put it into words
and 3,700 'others'.
