Agreed.

Calum was awful. On the verge of crazy, embarrassing, cringey and yes, completely transparent in his pathetic and creepy attempts to protect Charlie and take down his imaginary nemesis.

Nothing at all. It was what you might call a no-fault accident. A mistake doesn't have to be stupid to be a mistake.

It's been so long that I can't remember but was Eugene favourite to win BB when BB asked one of them to come to the diary room? I know it was pretty close to win the other £50k but I think if he'd left the money, they were gonna double it to £200,000.

But you said "utterly failing to register" which makes it seem there was something that should have clued them in, but they failed to notice it.

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I felt really sorry for Callum, I think he was a lovely guy that got a lot of stick just for being a bit awkward.

Absolutely . That horrid woman would probably have been first out if not for the stupidity of Pauline .

Of course those idiot BB producers are too blame for making HMs choose other HMs so early, when they have no idea what sort of character they are . Nick said he would never have nominated Adjoa if he had had more time to get to know her .

Who knows... Jacks decision turning down the BMW might belong in this thread in the near future! LOL

I have a feeling Jack is going to be shafted by BB

Yes, true. I should have said 'utterly failing to imagine that Aisleyne might be popular'. Though Lea, Grace, Nikki and Mikey HAD been out of the house before they returned to the HND; I think they had just misjudged the public mood, perhaps looking at (and being interviewed by) Heat, which clearly didn't like her. Aisleyne as a public favourite kind of crept out of the shadows. When Grace Dent wrote her "I rather like Aisleyne" column, it felt like a minority view - the way she wrote it was certainly pitched as someone standing up for an underdog.

I thought he was a decent person, and I never found him creepy or inappropriate. I never understood why Dexter was adored on here and Callum vilified: I thought Dexter WAS a bit creepy, with his fake back-story, and Callum seemed like a nice straightforward person.

I never got the Dexter love on this forum either.

He was regularly credited with qualities that he just did not possess.

I saw posts proclaiming him as a master gameplayer & stating that he was better than Nick Bateman, despite the fact that he was as transparent as cling film & could not even convince Charlie or the viewers that he really loved her.

I thought he was a big wuss & was largely harmless & that's why I never understood Calum's desire to perpetuate a phony war with him.

Calum was obviously hurt because Charlie didn't want a relationship with him, but he did not need to make such a fool of himself.

How can you call Pauline stupid for that?

She didn't really know Helen at the time & was put on the spot to make decision quickly.

Yeah, I don't blame Pauline for her decision. She only had their entrance videos to go on. To be fair Helen had the best vt so it stands to reason that Pauline would reward her.

As if Pauline had any say in it

I don't think Helen had the best VT or that Pauline went by her VT anyway. Pauline said she recognised Helen and thought that, because of what had been in the media about her, she wouldn't get a fair deal from the viewers.

I wonder how much of a public favourite Aisleyne ever was. It seemed to be mostly an online forum thing. Do you remember that Special Bets predicted that she would win and then had to explain why they got it wrong? They blamed such things as

* Inadvertent push-polling because they way the "presented the ongoing poll updates created a self-fulfilling push-poll effect that led to respondents over-emphasising support for Aisleyne."

* The underdog effect, followed by the bandwagon effect.

* "media campaigns, and internet fan campaigns, that particpated in (their) poll as a vehicle for promoting their chosen favourite."

* A Sun article and "the Welsh factor".

* More mundane matters such as a ignoring a "useful piece of (their) own analysis that showed that Aisleyne needed 42% of the initial vote to win."

* The dreaded casual viewers.

Those pesky casual viewers are probably a better reflection of what the public thought than the 2000 "committed Big Brother fans" who formed their database.


I'm not sure about creepy, as such, but I found Callum more cringe-making than Dexter, though better in other ways.

Sheivonne's week long meltdown when she was up for nomination with Connor.
She was an early favourite in bb13, often very funny without being vicious or cruel, and quite self deprecating.
Wow, that week ruined things for her, and left the rest of the series very different and left us all wondering what might have been.

Was there a cash prize for Ultimate? Going out early and promoting her love story was the best move for her, tbf

What I meant was I thought Helen had the best vt, and at the time I assumed Pauline did too.

I forgot that Pauline had recognised her.

Shabby from BB11 walking - I think she could've been a great housemate if she had stayed longer.

Also I disagree about Josie. I think she was tired and fed up of being isolated. I think she just wanted to get out of there. I don't think she even wanted to go back in in the first place, but felt she was obliged to.

Very much agree with this post! Jack should have taken the bloody car, he won't win.

I don't remember it, but fair suggestions. I'm sure there was never a day when Aisleyne was a threat to Pete. Her fans were very passionate though, which seemed to me to emerge as a factor some weeks after she came into the house. My heart sank when she was first unwrapped as I thought the last thing the show needed was a blonde air-head model, and I'm sure a lot of people felt the same. She did have a good 'story' though as the series went on. Shame she seems to have disappeared into zeleb-land now.



Yes, true, though if she had that element to her personality I guess it would have come out in time. She really did look like a potential winner at first, and would have certainly broken the long run of black women doing badly. No idea why she went so nuts with Adam, even if she was annoyed by him. Adam, Luke and Lauren really stuck by her when she was given the worst birthday party; without them she would have spent a humiliating evening sitting by herself.

BB9 - Rex's decision to constantly try & wind-up Rachel Rice backfired on him.

It just increased the sympathy vote for her.

Also, all his braying about how wonderful & gorgeous his girlfriend was & when she was eventually brought into the house, she proved to be anything but.

Spoilt, stroppy & plain were more like it & she got a lot of flak because of Rex bigging her up constantly.

Corin continuing to run up the wall as Incey Wincey spider whilst one of her HMs (Can't remember her name) Had actually fallen and fractured her ankle and was being attended to by the rest of the HMs.
BB had to tell Corin to stop!
Corin was pretty popular up to that point, but her determination to win and carry on regardless I believe was a very very bad decision on her part!

I don't think Luke was ever going to be able to press that button as Connor had his hands hovering over it whilst the money was rising and as soon as Luke made his choice to go for it, hey presto, Connor, went for it !

Ziggy scanning the ladies of BB8 and deciding Chanelle looked the one for him.

Makosi and anything to do with a Night In The a Pool.

Anyone who has ever come down on the side of 'I will' in the decision to turn up to Launch Night in fancy dress. This usually means they won't see their suitcase for at least a couple of days and will be forced into cadging whatever cast offs they can off other reluctant HM's.

Anyone who has ever paired off early in the series and sealed it with a kiss. As far as the viewers are concerned, a kiss in BB equals paired for life - or at least until the series ends - and means that one half being evicted early leaves the other one rattling around minus a storyline and having to pine mournfully over a photo.