Originally Posted by hownwbrowncow:
“How did the producers actively encourage bullying of Ashleigh? Ashleigh wasn't even bullied in my opinion. She herself could be quite bitchy and held her own in conflicts. And the producers had no say in Danielle's eviction. Yes, it was a horrendous twist but he producers didn't decide the result.”
They constantly set Ashleigh up - showing VTs to Helen and co. of her slagging them off and just generally feeding them info via tasks, really pushing Ash vs. Matthew but giving Ashleigh a ridiculous edit so that viewers would save the appalling Ash just so her plan would backfire, branding Chris 'creepy' and making sure Danielle was evicted by telling Kim to fake a pregnancy, you're never going to win anyway, so come out now, create some headlines and cash in with a mag deal.
The fact is there was a nasty little clique in the house and instead of stepping back and letting them be nasty on there own terms, Big Brother constantly added fuel to the fire and encouraged them to go at one another. To be fair, sometimes Big Brother did give Ashleigh and co. ammo to use against Helen and co. but often didn't take the bait, but you only had to give Helen a nudge and she'd be off on one, and the producers took advantage of that.
I'm actually more disgusted at the producers and their behaviour far more than Helen's or her scummy mates.
One thing's for sure, though, never again will I ever moan about a boring winner. Give me boring over vile any time.
Not that I'll get the opportunity to moan about upcoming winners, because BB lost me as soon as Emma said Helen's name on finale night.