This year I feel that we are being manipulated by BB, my reasons are :-
1st eviction, Marco was featured heavily for the first 10 days, he gets evicted,
2nd eviction Natalie gets featured heavily and all they show is arguments etc no fun stuff she gets evicted,
3rd eviction Georgina gets featured heavily, all they show is arguments yet Andy nominates her because she is to happy, his words not mine, looks like she will be evicted, I think we are all being p,aged xx

Yes. We're the ones who get our two minutes of hate on a Friday night.

The viewers and voters (in particular) have always been manipulated, part and parcel of the show. Nothing new.

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Absolutely. It's always been heavily edited.

Absolutely, and it's been the main purpose from the show since day one imo.

It's not just in the edit. It's the selection of HMs, the design of the house, everything.

Some elements may be more obvious this year, and have been made even more extreme, but in general it's always been the pattern of the show.

Without live feed it's complete manipulation. It's the use them up and throw them away vote to evict style. I've never wasted my money voting anyway.

A lot of what is most interesting, eye-opening and informative about Big Brother is how the audience reacts.

And reactions have causes...they don't arise out of the ether.

Yes, it is all about how many of us BB diehards they can possibly piss off in a single season. For me I don't like the constant arguments and the baiting of HM's with vt reveals and tasks just to cause friction and arguments. What is wrong with watching HM's having fun, clever tasks, enjoying the experience so us viewers actually enjoy watching it!

It's as predictable as clockwork.

This. Why waste your money on voting when it's all manipulated? I have voted in previous years when we had live feed and I could form a properly informed opinion based on way more unedited footage. But how can anyone actually like or dislike any housemate enough to vote now when we don't see 90% of what goes on?

They were just taking the piss when they arranged for Helen Wood to win.

I'm not sure they arranged for her to win, but I don't blame anyone for thinking so They certainly gave her a(n un)fair crack at it! It was a blatant fix to keep a nasty individual in all series who'd attract headlines and viewers during the World Cup because of the Rooney connection, for me.


So that if the doom and gloom they create like all the wars, the failure of the NHS, our collapsing economy, constant terrorist attacks etc don't get us down and depressed and feeling helpless enough, they'll make us suffer through our 'entertainment' too.