What Cheryl said wasn't that bad. She said she'd picked Katie cos Simon was banging on about choosing finalists for "good TV", and that she was quirky, determined, etc. Everyone already knew this though....There was a great singer that year who didn't get through.

Katie tweeted a benign slur at Cheryl,about feeling betrayed. Then last year it kicked off big time. Don't know what triggered it, I've only seen Katie's comments about Cheryl and they were brutal.

The Katie backlash happened during the show. Katie seemed so cocky and pretentious back then, but also very tearful and dramatic. Not likeable, which she has been in cbb.

Hey, don't talk bad about my home city

Some people on here also need a reality check .

Who are the 'public' ? There is no such thing as the 'public'.
There are some sad internet trolls who seek gratification in trying to humiliate anyone who performs on tv .

Did anyone see that programme recently presented by Frankie Bridge where she tried to find and confront some of the worst of those trolls ?

And the irony is, he got his head around her fake friendships straight away, and recognized how she treated Ricky before she nommed him was how she was starting to treat Frankie.

I agree. Probably worse.

It was on last night's show where it suddenly dawned on me what a sad figure Sam looked.
All mayhem was breaking loose in the house and in the background you could see Sam fannying about putting makeup on. It occurred to me that she does this a lot. We become used to it with young female housemates but it seems odd for a female housemate of Sam's age to be attending to her makeup so often.
I don't mean this to be harsh to her, it's just an observation about how her image seems to be the most important thing to her and all sorts can be going on and she's completely oblivious.

On its own it means little, but it does seem significant when you consider her own comments about her 'fans' and how many records she's sold. I can't help thinking that ship has sailed past a long time ago now. It all feels a bit 'Norma Desmond'.
This wasn't as obvious in the first couple of weeks. But now Sam seems to be such an irrelevant figure in there and casts a sad shadow of herself. Like she hasn't moved on over the years and still sees herself as the Sam Fox of the 1980s.

I honestly don't intend to come across as mean, but I acknowledge that it's very difficult to make this point without it appearing so.
I think that it may have transpired this way because housemates she may have had more in common with are no longer in the house and she strikes me as a more lonely forlorn figure now who doesn't connect with anyone and seems to be so very detached from the others.

He told her the truth, she was an X Factor reject from 6 years ago, and she couldn't handle the truth because of her fragile ego. She'll be OK though. She's happily married in America so she'll just go back to obscurity