I just enjoy watching the show for what it appears to be and don't particularly claim to get involved in things like "vote for xxxx if you don't want xxx to win .. ". But last night was the Jackson Show, he was more or less in every clip whilst very little was shown of Hughie, the probable winner. Put more simply perhaps, is it a better idea to keep someone out of the show as much as possible at this late stage of the game?

Yes because if he's not featured there can't be any last minute hurdles to his victory.

Why wasn't his slag-off-your-housemate question shown last night when Jason, Jackson and Andys were? Why didn't we see his reaction to being found guilty of being argumentative in the jury task?

Yeah, every time I see them all in the smoking area having a chat and he gets up to leave to swagger around doing his man dem feels bollocks, you just know it's going to cut and follow him into the bedroom.
They've never given anyone else that vacuous that kind of treatment, they always stick with the group and the conversation.
Very suspicious.

It was Alex!! Alex was the chosen winner!! Does nobody remember?! I feel like I'm in the twilight zone sometimes! There were multiple threads! He was the winner from the start! There was going to be a Alex/Vicky reality show! They wanted all the money from the teeny votes in the final!! It was obvious!! Anyone who questioned it was gullible!! "The producers must think we're stupid" etc!!! Safe as houses!!!

Does nobody remember?!

Every year, every flipping year! If nobody has the balls to ever come out and suggest they might have been wrong then this will never end!! Now it's simply Jackson?! Or Hughie instead?! Forum history erased!!

We're all nuts here. We really are.

The producers of the show play it by ear.
The editors jobs are to weave narratives each day out of 24 hours of dry footage. That's a lot easier to do when you've picked your heroes and villains beforehand.

I'm simplifying it, but you know what I mean. If someone's become synonymous with moaning, stick all their strops in the 45 minute edit, job done.

I remember the year of Glyn "I'm cooking an egg for the very first time" Wise. A lot of people were complaining that his scary, violent tantrums weren't making the edit, simply because he had been "cast" as the simple friendly and was, by that point, in the eyes of the production crew, making an irreversible sprint for the finish.

You have to remember that this is a "reality" show in name only.
If you've ever seen it live and then watched the highlights the next day, you can see how much the editing can make it seem like an alternate universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwepkVurCI

I suppose you could say Jackson is the better game player. He is aware that BB need footage to fill the main show, so he gives them something - which, on a slow night, they grab with both hands.

Thanks for link, interesting actually seeing it done.

It's been Jackson or Jason for the last week. It usually backfires though.

No, OP, we all need to know that Jackson needs to feel accepted.
A thousand and one times isn't enough to hear it, so i can understand why BB wants to show us even more.

Of course clippa, but this isn't the area I was referring to. Absolutely the editing forms a deliberate narrative, that's how all these shows have to work. At the stat it's based on what they perceive the audience will want and embrace, then after a few days it starts being based on the actual audience feedback and adjusted accordingly. Sometimes the two go hand in hand, sometimes they don't.

All that makes sense. I wouldn't expect a show of this genre to operate any other way,

But that's not what I'm talking about at all. And that's not what the 'conspiracy theories' are ever about. They wouldn't really be conspiracy theories if they were! I'm reffering to the year in, year out insistence that before the show even starts the producers have picked their winner, usually at the direction of the channel who (in the majority of theories) have a spin-off show planned for them or something - and that regardless of how the audience are reacting they continually meddle and fix it to ensure their ringer succeeds. The last one was Gemma Collins - and things got crackers on here - she said on the LF one night that she knew the producer... and from that and nothing else this suddenly became 'The producer is Gemma's BEST friend! She only agreed to go on because he promised her she would win! Channel 5 has a new reality show planned for her!' - and from that we ended up with threads about how the mask- box task was actually fake and had been rigged to ensure she won it, that they'd told her which podium to stand behind, that every day she was going into the diary room to be briefed on what to say and how to behave... and so on... and so on.. and so on...

There's no point voting, was the cry. They'll just fudge the figures anyway. There was no 'she might win' - it was the blanket statement 'she will win.' - no question... despite any evidence to the contrary outside of speculation.

And then of course she went. And it was all instantly forgotten.

This year comes Alex. Exactly the same thing - right from opening night it was decided he was the winner, no point voting, channel 5 have a reality show planned for him and Vicky etc etc... And any attempt to try and suggest there was nothing to support that was met with "lol! I've got a bridge for sale if you want to buy it? " sarcasm.

Now he's gone. And again, an immediate wall of silence as though the conspiracy theory had never even been suggested.

And on Wednesday it'll begin again - a new 'chosen one' will be discovered, a new 'planned channel 5 show' will be dreamed up... people will once more start laughing and saying 'do the producers think we're that gullibile?' - therefore implying presumably that anyone who doesn't think it's happening IS gullible...

...and in the years I've been on here I have yet to see one person after-the-event say, "Oh I was wrong then. Fair enough." Not one. It's as if, despite all the complaining, people actually prefer to think there is a conspiracy. And I genuinely don't know why.

Absolutely - I'd rather not have seen or heard him at all,
he's a snivelling creep. Seeing him naked parading round the garden was the final straw, total attention seeker. He's been really nasty at times.

Yeah is was so annoying.
We didn't see much of Hughie and Ev.
Andy and Jackson always talk "deep" and they feel like they have to show it.

Agree. Hopefully such obvious playing to camera will backfire on him.