Of course it's not a bloody fix.
The winner ultimately lies in the hand of the voting public.
However, they have bent over backwards this series to ensure Bear's been constantly at the forefront of the show. They've manipulated it so he dominates every single highlight episode, every episode of BOTS, by changing their mind how many housemates will face eviction week after week .... You would think they would be a little more subtle about it.
No doubt the remainder of this week will continue to focus on the odious prats 'redemption' story a la Helen Wood.
But if the majority of the voting public will fall for it .....
It's hard to vote for a winner or feel passionate about any of the other housemates when we've not been permitted to get to know them. We barely know of their existence.
Still ..... it's up to the voting public. They can vote for the one who's been spoon fed to us night after night, or they can push forward the anti vote and give BB another great big 'Up Yours' a la Jason Burrell.
I can't see this happening this time around. I think too many viewers have given up and no longer give a tuppenny hoot, resigned to the inevitable.

Yeah, I'd say fix is the wrong word. Fix is tampering the votes and they wouldn't be that blatant with Ofcom about. But it's definitely blatant manipulation. They're making it look like pretty much all the others don' deserve votes at all. The recurring theme is that all the others this series were boring, and whilst that was the case with some, it's certainly not all of them. Even with limited airtime, Aubrey for example is far from boring. We haven't seen enough of some of them even now to say theyr'e boring. What it really is is Bear getting a vast majority of airtime so that it lookss like Bear is saving the series and deserves to win. Especially with this redemption arc thing, and them not showing him "blinding Samantha". Whether she was exaggerating or not he still did something purposefully that made her need medical attention.

Having said all that, I'd prefer him to Ricky as a winner, who genuinely is hideously boring. But equally I really don't want Channel 5 to have their way yet again, engineering another winner by not giving anyone else a chance.

I think Bear has received a lot more than 4 warnings

Ahhhh the sound of barrels being scraped.

That explains it all. The direction the show has taken etc. It's a bit like your favourite sweets or your preferred washing powder. They tell you it's "new and improved and even better" except it isn't and you stop buying it. That's how BB feels now

I think they've been on this road for a while now but this is the worst it's ever been

Its a shame such a good show has been spoilt be just one man Bear and the BB producers and after BB protecting him for so long " how many Final Warnings does he get " and showing who they want to win , BB will lose a lot of fans and this could be the end of BB http://www.dailystar.co.uk/.../Celebrity-Big-Brother..

Do BB really think that the public and stupid enough not to know what they are doing i hope Bear is the first one out Friday

it is a fix, it's so obvious they want precious Bear to win

they've been fixing it for him since day 1

"See what they've done? They knew we were wise to them so they've fixed it for him to go first to try and cover their tracks. Blatant. Obvious. This is the end of BB."

Agree with you and Aubrey was right, enjoy your 15 minutes of fame.