Originally Posted by Miss Con Strue:
“This is very much it for me. Alex is not a bad person. Evelyn herself said he did not lead her on...neither did he reject her. He just did/said/showed nothing. There was no intent to hurt Evelyn, because there seems to be little thought process. Why BB thought Alex would make a good HM is beyond me. He has a great body, with an average face and dodgy smile. He is completely introverted and closed. He exhibits no personality, no feelings, no wit, no negative traits like temper. I know no more about Alex today than I did on launch night.”
I think Evelyn said that because a) she's a lovely girl who was humiliated and paranoid and unsure about whether Alex is considered the good guy out here, and b) she still wants him to approve of her.
Because the fact is, he DID give mixed signals. You don't pick up a girl and carry her around while asking others "is she a keeper?" (twice he asked that). You don't share a bed with them. You don't cuddle them. You don't stay silent when others are teasing you about your relationship.
What you do is either have a quiet word or you pull away. There are ways to send clear signals. He did neither because he was getting something out of it...I don't know what...airtime, attention from a beautiful girl, someone to keep on the backburner as an option outside, a quiet life because he feared unpleasantness if he DID come clean.
We've all got the bird's eye view so it's easier to see signs he wasn't interested, but Evelyn was immersed in it. Even Jackson said last night that Alex must like her. He certainly had me fooled.