On tonights episode when her and Janice was in the tower they got to listen in on the interview with James and Natasha.

They got to listen to the questions and answers, and also the after interview.

From my reading of the situation James and Natasha didn't target Americans.

Natasha and James just said what was on their mind. That they had a problems with Farrah and Janice. The one person they both complimented was Jenna. Yet Jenna is the first one to come out on the attack, spreading gossip and turning it in to an anti-British thing, saying to the other Americans "don't tell the British people".

This isn't the first time her paranoia and xenophobia as come out. It came out a few days ago where she told Farrah "I don't think the British people like us".

Why is she making it an anti-British thing?

Also, when Bobby made a little joke she tried to make it seem like he was being xenophobic. If she ain't xenophobic herself she is definitely taking this whole British vs U.S thing a little too seriously.

Isn't the task UK vs USA? that might have contributed, just a thought.

I don't think she's xenophobic at all. In the last episode she was telling Burrell that Americans and British are really close (clasping hands for effect).

I don't think she's xenophobic. She does, however, take herself way too seriously. And she didn't seem that bothered about how James and Natasha were towards the Americans - she only seemed interested in what James said about Farrah and how wound up Natasha got over the has-been remark.

she's not xenophobic at all. I think she's just taking the theme a bit too seriously.

"ahh we Luuurve the Brits" said Jenna to Paul. Yep right. Like a country the size of New Jersey ever mattered to the Americans!

P.s. Jenna's walk resembles my nephews when his nappy is full

I don't think she is. Blame BB - its this stupid USA v UK theme. Obviously it will cause this sort of divide.

Welcome to BB on C5. Anything to create tension and conflict.

I dunno, I have wondered about that myself. It might just be that she's incredibly competitive and wants her country to win. She did make a comment on how they were gonna 'take this home'. I do have to admire the Americans and their unwavering patriotism (though obviously not to the blind degree like with Janice). It's something that's sorely missing from our country nowadays.

Nope. No sign of it.

I've just noticed its difficult to comment on the Americans without it sounding like I'm 'doing a Jenna' lol.

I was going to say though, I have an American girlfriend that I've known for years. One thing I've noticed about Americans in general, is they like the whole American-British thing, until it comes to a British person giving their opinion that might at odds with the American position. Immediately the anti-British aspects seem to come in to the debates. I suspect this is where Jenna is coming from.

I do think its more a cultural thing, rather than one person holding all those anti views. I named Jenna as she was giving an example in this case.

"Don't tell the British people"

err because it would fail the task

Based on both the HLs and live feed, I think Jenna is easily and by far the most dysfunctional and troubling HM in there. I think xenophobia is the least of her problems.

Live feed is a better guide to who people are and she's the one HM that stood out in the live feed I've seen as exactly the same as she is on the HLs - twitchy, paranoid, constantly fiddling with some part of herself, itchy, scratchy, constantly looking for offence and finding it around every corner.

Maybe she realises that this entire show is an exercise in rousting up xenophobia from it's viewing audience, and has bowed to the inevitable that she kind of has to play the "country vs. country" angle regardless.

My guess is that most Americans would think the whole US vs. UK thing is boring as hell, and eye rollingly silly. The Blue Collar meatheads would be "f*** yeah! We beat them in the Revolution", but that's more than countered by a White Collar population in the US that are (sometimes excessively) Anglophiles, who'd be horrified at the very thought (but might even root for the Brits if it came to it, because Americans have a lot of cultural self-hatred, even if the Brits don't realise that).

BTW: If you've seen some situation where a crowd of Americans is fist-pumping and chanting "USA, USA, USA!" it's probably because Americans are suckers for that kind of mass/crowd psychology, and it's more about that crowd aspect than anything else.