Gail will get the sympathey vote and win its so obvious

Clearly, she was the winner from day 1 anyway with her sob stories and poor me attitude.

She should wear a wig. Joan Collins does and nobody shouts "hello baldy" at her.

Its not her lack of hair that disturbs me, its her lack of a supportive bra.

All of the posters in this thread really are lovely!

NOT!

Dear God, I hope not. But it would be just like the GBP to give that sobbing, moody, miserable mess the win.

She's in with a chance but I wouldn't say it's guaranteed...and to be honest I'd say the lack of competition combined with a strong regional vote from Scotland....will help her more than any sympathy vote.

It's not like any of the housemates (UK or US) have 'winner' written all over them.

That's was pretty apparent as soon as her video came out on launch

Some of the women in that house are enough to turn a man gay.

She's going to get her heart broken.

Gail, Austin, James or Bobby could win this

What about Mr Blobby?

Gails bald story is a bit old now. There's not a lot of sympathy votes left in it.

You sound nice, I bet your a looker And no, she's not my favourite, but there's no need to be nasty.

I'm assuming your obsession with Marc has ended as you now seem obsessed with Gail?

I think Gail's all right and she has my sympathy. To go from a blonde bombshell as your schtick to having alopecia must be extremely tough and she's not dealing with it nearly as well as she thinks she is.

However, I do find her very passive aggressive and she has a real issue with Chloe, for some reason. She's also got this streak of martyrdom that drives me loopy. Reminds me of my mother. Does everything for everyone and never, ever shuts up about it; then cries if she's not getting the slavering respect she deserves. Projection - I know!

It's no nasty, it's reality. She's been bald enough for long enough for people not be that bothered about her story anymore. It's not life threatening, she's had years to get a wig or get over it but letting people shave their heads for her is weird.

She's made quite a good living out of her story of being bald.

It's ok to not be strong all the time but I just find Gail's behaviour contradictory.

I don't mind Gail, she seems an open book with her feelings showing all the time which I would guess can be difficult to live with. If it was a choice between her and some of the other nastier HMs I would hope she would win. I am waiting to see more of Sherrie really as we are not seeing enough of her to know what she is about.

That would be fine with me.

I don't think she will win,I think she's playing the sympathy vote too much,in fact that's all she's doing tbh.

After last night many people on the forum were expressing sympathy for Gail, which is fair enough, and then gushing praise for other housemates who were complimenting her.
It was fine to a point, but then it very quickly leapt over into sentimentality and mawkish nonsense, and definitely emotionally affected forum posters on here.

But if we retrace the steps of how this all came about, (a transcript would help), it all started off with Gail being jealous of Jenna.
That's right.
Gail started all this because she was jealous of Jenna. is that really 'brave'? Everyone was enjoying each others company, then James joked that he was jealous of Gail getting a kiss off Jenna Jameson. Which was the point the mood turned.
Gail snapped at James asking him why not her (Gail). James was a bit flummoxed and didn't know what to say.
Then Gail went on to say how she hated that sort of thing because of how it made her feel. She then went on to tell a story revolving around her having no hair.

Everyone was looking at her as though they were scared because they didn't know what to say. Then somebody complimented her, I think it was James out of embarrassment for starting her off, and then they all started piling in with the compliments saying how wonderful Gail is.

Gail at one point said that she "doesn't give a f**k about having no hair".
No? Then why is she always bringing it up as a subject when nobody else is?
Why bring up the story about the truck driver being abusive to her about her baldness if she doesn't give a f**k about having no hair?

Then somebody, might have been Gail herself, mentioned that other things are more important than the superficial stuff.
Sorry, but I think they must have forgotten why they were having this talk in the first place. It was because Gail got jealous of Jenna because James told her that he wished he got kissed by Jenna, and Gail wanted to be seen as attractive to him too. Which in my opinion is superficial.

Gail says she doesn't give a f**k about having no hair. But she is the one who brings up these tales of woe. I'm not heartless, I do empathise to a degree, but she appears to want to milk sympathy from other people and then tell them that she's not bothered, and get credit for being brave.

In the same talk Gail brings up the fact that she has worked for several charities, which appeared to have zero relevance to the situation, and felt like it was slipped in there to fish for more compliments from the others.

I feel as though I'm obliged to treat Gail as a sympathy case. It appears that her fellow housemates do as well.
I shouldn't feel guilty for writing this post, but I sort of do a bit because I know that people will judge me for being too harsh and unfeeling.

The problem is that what should you do and how should you react when Gail names her favourites in there and asks people to not do things just because she doesn't like it?
It feels very very awkward when I watch her in some situations, and no doubt it will for the housemates in there too. I got the sense last night that several of the housemates around her felt awkward and the only way they could react was to shower her with compliments to a ridiculous degree.

The whole situation came about simply because she was jealous of another woman in there, yet nobody around her seemed to try to put things into context for her, instead they felt obliged to make out that she was Joan of Arc, which I fear won't help her in the long term. I really don't think that's what she needs, although to those complimenting her it might offload some of their guilt for not having her problems.
I think out of all of them around her Sherrie was the only housemate who came across as relatively rational and grounded, while the others patronised her like she was a pet.

I don't think it was nasty.
Look, I wouldn't describe myself as a looker, as I'm sure many here would confess that about themselves too. In fact I'd say that Gail is better looking than I am.
There will be lots of ugly people on here, but who just get on with things.

Gail's real problem probably isn't really physical, it seems to be more of a mental one.
I genuinely do hope that she develops some strength, but I get the feeling that this is the wrong show for her to be on because despite all the showering of compliments showered on her by other housemates I don't think that's as helpful as some may think it would seem. It's more than likely to make her think that to feel better she needs constant reassurement by being complimented by others. In this show that's pretty dangerous. She keeps telling other people that 'it's just a game', but she needs to understand that too when other housemates use her to make themselves look good in an effort to put themselves in a better position to win the game.

I'd say Scoop rather than Bobby. James hasn't put a foot wrong yet, though.

There's some chilling depiction on this thread.
Nobody is perfect in that house, certainly not Gail but there is something very wrong with the way people are reacting IMO.
A person like Gail is berated for her frailty and flaws, Jenna and Farrah are admired and praised for theirs.
This forum may reflect what I have begun to despise about how we value others.