Originally Posted by
marsha_Cutiepie:
“Hi Veri! Good to see you commenting
Just out of curiousty re: Alexandra what positive traits did you see? Cause genuinely i couldn't see one thing! Apart from the I will get my mates to get you after the show, the gang threats etc she seemed completely and utterly miserable so wondering what I am missing!”
Hi, and thanks for the reply.
I think Alexandra was unusual and potentially interesting as a HM, but she was seldom pleasant viewing, and I can understand why she gets so low a ranking.
Some people thought Alexandra seemed nice on the opening night and noted such things as how she'd been with Mikey. But it didn't last, and I think she was very unsuited to life in the BB house. She was intense (which I liked), but she could become impassioned about things that didn't deserve it (as in the arguments about chips). However, I think she generally had a coherent point in her arguments, so that I could make sense of it even if I didn't agree.
She provided some memorable quotes and scenes, such as her "You'll never be ready" and "Memba I told you", and Steph's "Am I Tom or Frank?"
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“I had Nicole @ 278 which I think may have been her lowest. I think for me when she came into the house, she was so absolutely and utterly negative and miserable. She moaned constantly, made no efforts with any of the others, and completely brought Rex down into her misery with her. So for me she added absolutely nothing too the series, and also took everything that was good about Rex away (dont get me wrong he was as bad with her when she arrived but before she was there, he was interesting), she just was devoid of fun, wanthing to have a laugh, and was competely miserable and pointless, and in terms of being a villain, she didn't have the intelligence or wit to even be a likeable villain to be honest
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I agree with a lot of that about Nicole, and I don't think she was a
likeable villain. But she finished way down the list (277: 14 from the very bottom). I don't think she was
that bad. And while she was selfish and insensitive, I don't think she had the sort of nasty, malicious personality that the worst HMs have.
I said she made bb9 more interesting. and consider what you said about Rex, that she took away everything that was good about him. That happened because of something about Rex: it revealed something about him we might otherwise not have seen. Something about B-Block was revealed as well. They colluded on nominations to try to keep Nicole. Not all of them -- Rachel stayed out of it, and Darnell had a somewhat different agenda -- but seeing more of the dark side of B-Block made for a more interesting story.
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“Don't get me wrong, Shabaz was no angel and I can understand he must have been very frustrating to deal with, but I thought he was a good guy underneath it all, and i do think the HMs could have reached out to him in a much less mean way, he clearly had issues and i think what the housemates did was handle the situation very badly.”
Housemates did reach out to Shahbaz, but he was so difficult so much of the time that no one did it consistently. So George, for example, was the one HM to stay in the room one time when all the other HMs left as Shahbaz came in, but also one of the HMs who actually took Shahbaz's clothes when Shahbaz was in the pool. I think every HM gave Shahbaz a chance, or showed sympathy, or tried to help him at one point or another.
The HMs get a lot of blame for isolating Shahbaz, or trying to. For some reason, BB viewers (at least the sorts who comment in forums like this one) had started seeing isolation automatically as bullying. (It seemed to start in CBB 4 as a way to claim that Jodie Marsh had been a bully.) But in part "isolating" Shahbaz was have some respite from his behaviour. In ordinary life, you can get away from someone just by physically moving away; but they were stuck with Shahbaz in a small house.