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Saw as much of the ruck as was shown live on C4 last night. Fucking. Hell. That was something else, and not a very fun something else either. Felt slight nausea myself afterwards, that shaky feeling you get after watching a real fight (almost) kick off... Suddenly a lot of jokes made over the last few weeks or so seemed a lot less funny.
What was really terrifying was the lack of intervention - call me crazy but when you have enormous meathead Jason yelling "You won't see it coming! It's not a threat, I'll fucking take your head off!" at Marco and Nadia (and Emma?), maybe you should start calling people to the diary room then? And once it becomes incredibly obvious that Emma and Victor are both this close to throwing a punch, you need to do MORE than just call one of them to the Diary Room... I suspect the behind-the-scenes people were as surprised by anybody at how quickly it all kicked off and turned nasty, but still - I have this vision of that bespectacled ginger-bearded guy in the wooly hat, sleep-deprived, probably a bit stoned, sitting staring in horror at a display screening thinking "what the fuck am I supposed to be doing now?". And what was really disturbing was the way they cut to an external view of the house during the worst of it, whilst at the same time you could hear smashing crockery, screams and shouts... It's like someone realised they couldn't actually show a physical fight live but hadn't twigged that they should intervene to stop it...
Best coverage so far has been on ILX (scroll to the bottom and go back up a bit). It's claimed there that what Emma said to Victor was "A joker like you trying to act like a black man?", which is appallingly fascinating if what she meant was "You are all mouth, I am calling not only your masculinity into question but also your sense of racial identity which is probably bound into that" - which I actually think is more likely than a simpler, more obviously racist meaning.
Stuff I've not seen mentioned: last night Emma was claiming Victor pushed her in addition to throwing the wine; Shell said something like "if he hits you once, he'll hit you again" - okay, I feel worst for Shell, because apart from anything else I think the ground got pulled out from under her when she saw the hulking men supposedly on 'her side' look ready to start punching women in the name of the cause.
Dan demonstrated that he's one of the few people in there who has any idea in the slightest how to handle it when things kick off. Okay, I'm sticking to my opinion that he can have a bitchy side now and again, but since the Bedsitters came back I think he's behaved well - not only calming Emma down whilst being sympathetic to her, but earlier, trying to reason with Vanessa about the (2nd so far) food-fight by pointing out what kind of situation the Bedsitters have been in and that everyone has different ways of letting off steam. It fell on deaf ears though:
Dan: "They've been cooped up without fresh air for days..."
Vanessa: "Well if they like fresh air so much why not respect nature (rispict nigh-chur) a bit more?"
My emnity for Vanessa has only increased: "I'm too good for this programme!" I cannot wait to hear her try to spin last night's events into something that makes Jason look like a White Knight rather than an enormous twart, and puts the blame squarely and solely on the Harem.
Michelle and Stu are suddenly back ON with more enthusiasm on his part than previously seen, 'cos that's one of things people do in a crisis...
I will be so unbelievably fucked off if Emma is gone but Jason and Victor remain in the house. But that raises a huge problem: if those two are made to leave and Emma, Nadia and Marco are left in, there'll be a whole other outcry; if they kick out more than just Jason and Victor we're talking a serious depletion of housemates and possibly viewers; if they keep everyone in... well, surely they couldn't just stick 'em all back in with severe warnings, tell Victor and Jason they're on yellow cards, and hope for the best?
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