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Big Brother 2006

 
  

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Hattie's Kitchen
09:52 / 05.06.06
Lea is annoying me more and more. She has a lot of people fooled. I cannot warm to someone who behaves exactly like the stereotype she claims she is trying to refute. Yes, dear, we know you're a porn star, hence there's no need to constantly have your baps on display, only for you to whinge that people judge you solely on such baps. And it's pretty pointless worrying about what effect your behaviour will have on your son on the outside when you do nothing to change it yourself.

I notice the regularly-timed crying sessions, which kick in with the dual aim of attracting sympathy from viewers and warding off criticism from fellow housemates.

I notice the way she hogged Sezer's eviction with tears of relief for herself and not pity for him, and clung to him for 5 minutes giving her best "Oscar blubbing" acting. Selfish bint.

Now she's refusing to let Pete out of her sight, as she knows he's popular and it guarantees more airtime for her if she's with him constantly.

This is not the fragile, sensitive misunderstood victim everyone thinks she is. She's a professional "pity me" victim who knows exactly what she's doing, and it's done in a manner that's just as calculating and foreplanned as is Grace's scheming.
 
 
Evil Scientist
10:18 / 05.06.06
I notice the way she hogged Sezer's eviction with tears of relief for herself and not pity for him, and clung to him for 5 minutes giving her best "Oscar blubbing" acting. Selfish bint.

To be fair though, pretty much everyone was assuming that either her or Richard would go, and she was convinced that it was going to be her. So realising that Weasel-Boy was more unpopular was understandably quite nice for her. I don't really see why she'd have to instantly show pity for him before relief for herself, it's not like he was a shining example of self-less behaviour was he?

From the official site.

Lisa, Imogen, and Grace quickly marched into the kitchen and took up their bitching positions. The subject of their ire today is Aisleyne, who angered the three pals during last night's contemporary dancing.

"She had to change from jeans into shorts, what was that all about?" asked Grace accusingly.

Imogen thought she had the answer, sneering: "She was trying to dance in front of Mikey."

Sounding threatened, Grace recalled: "I said to Mikey, 'It's hilarious watching her pounce and trying to flirt', but he couldn't see it. He's a d*** if he can't see that."

And there was more... "And yesterday when I was going to put sun cream on Pete, she was like 'let me do it'."

Why, the girl is clearly pure evil...


Grace really does see the White Queen as a threat doesn't she? These bitch sessions are (as they often are in BB) basically a way of discussing who a group should nominate without getting penalised aren't they?

Pity Imogen and Lisa are rubbish at keeping to the BB rules.

Wasn't there a 3-strikes rule a few seasons back? Is that still in play?

Aisleyne'll hopefully avoid being up for eviction this week. But she'll have to be on her toes after that.

Sam however, poor naive Sam, she's been effortlessly played. She'll be one of the ones up for eviction I reckon.
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
10:26 / 05.06.06
I do admire Grace for the way she's stirring shit up in there and making the others paranoid about each other. She lights the fuse and then stands back with a satisfied grin on her face to watch the explosion hit everyone else. She's like Lady Macbeth in denim hotpants.

For the sake of even more bitchery and backstabbing, and the possibility of a Dynasty-Krystal-Alexis-bitchslapping fest between her and Aisleyne, I implore people not to vote for her!
 
 
Evil Scientist
10:38 / 05.06.06
I implore people not to vote for her!

I wouldn't worry too much HK. From the look of things she'll have deflected a large number of nominations away from her by then and won't be up for eviction anyway.
 
 
akira
10:40 / 05.06.06
I'm wondering what a housemate would have to do to get 100% of the vote. Prity easy for me, I'd just be myself.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:44 / 05.06.06
Yes, dear, we know you're a porn star, hence there's no need to constantly have your baps on display, only for you to whinge that people judge you solely on such baps.

I don't think she does have her "baps constantly on display" any more than is unavoidable given a) the constant surveilance in every room, b) the weather and c) their size - in fact when the other girls asked to see them, they all piled into a room which only had one camera in and covered up the camera. Now, obviously you can argue that c) is Lea's own responsibility in itself, but I can't help but feel some sympathy for her given the crushingly low self-esteem she demonstrates and the life of Dickensian misery she implies... Yes, she does play up to the role of victim, but so do a lot of people who've had really tough lives - it's the only role they know.

Now, her utter cluelessness and mental weakness when it comes to knowing which side her bread's buttered on (i.e. not Grace's side), that's another matter, one I find much harder to forgive.
 
 
Triplets
11:12 / 05.06.06
Housemates tested for stress. Stress? What stress? People are meant to cry constantly.
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
11:36 / 05.06.06
I really don't like Richard. He reminds me of Mani from The Apprentice with his insincerity, and also for the way he's set himself up as the grand house quarrel arbitrator and mediator, when he's been complicit in shitty backstabbing behaviour himself. Him and Lea can fuck right off.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:39 / 05.06.06
You are kidding, right? What shitty backstabbing behaviour has Richard been guilty of? Also, I really don't think he's "set himself up" as a grand mediator etc. - he just falls into that role because really, who else in there is going to do it?
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
11:43 / 05.06.06
Did you not see him in backstabby action last night?

If he's not happy with the mediator role, he's perfectly capable of refusing to do it. What I see is someone who's using that role in order to assert his authority over the rest of the housemates, to the extent that the others are now asking for Richard's approval or permission. More fool them for being saps, but he's less likable with each day.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
11:59 / 05.06.06
Hattie, is that really you?

In my mind your comments about Lea read very like someone saying that girls who don't want to be raped shouldn't wear short skirts. If you've got a problem with porn stars because of their effect on society than fine, if you find her breasts disconcerting that's fine but blaming someone for the reactions other people have to the body they chose is not fine.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:59 / 05.06.06
Are you referring to his talking about Nikki and the toilet or his (fairly mild) criticism of Lea? I think he's been fairly even-handed given the situation he's in. For the same reason, I also don't think it's realistic to say he could just abstain from being a mediator - think about who he's living with 24 hours a day.
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
12:06 / 05.06.06
In my mind your comments about Lea read very like someone saying that girls who don't want to be raped shouldn't wear short skirts. If you've got a problem with porn stars because of their effect on society than fine, if you find her breasts disconcerting that's fine but blaming someone for the reactions other people have to the body they chose is not fine.

That's a mighty big conclusion you've jumped to there. I'll not respond to your linking of porn with rape as it certainly never crossed my mind...

I have no problem with porn (I'd list my collection but...) or the people who make their living from it. My problem with Lea is that she set out to prove she's not a one-dimensional stereotype but she's accomplished just that - by conforming to the stereotype of how a porn star should dress and behave. Sezer's sex talk was iffy at best and to me, Lea's is just as offensive. Even when she did the Geek task she had to have her white coat fully open to display them in all their glory. That doesn't look like someone who's comfortable with NOT being a stereotype...
 
 
Shrug
13:05 / 05.06.06
Rather than trying to show she's contra stereotype (to me it's pretty obvious that she enjoys playing within its bounds aesthetically, at least) I'd imagine that she's also trying to show that she has many individualistic qualities. Porn/Star/Sex/Bombs/Are/Human/Too/Type/Of/Thing.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:06 / 05.06.06
I'm sure it's not just porn stars who don't button their coats up fully during summer, y'know...
 
 
Shrug
13:14 / 05.06.06
My above post is in for an edit.
I thought there was a bit of a cleavage problem in that Lea couldn't comfortably fit her breasts in the geek top provided in the case you mentioned, Hattie, (or maybe I imagined that).
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
13:23 / 05.06.06
The thing is, if Lea had gone in there with the attitude of "this is me in all my glory, I'm not ashamed, if you don't like it, tough, your problem, not mine" I'd be cheering her on. She may have presented that front before entering the house but it fell away very quickly, and I'm just finding it grating. Sure, she's probably very needy and insecure, but going on BB was a stunning slap in the face of self-awareness.

There's no shame in working in porn, and there's no shame in having had plastic surgery, but it seems to me she's falling into professional victim mode when faced with any kind of criticism. "I've had such a hard life etc.." So have millions of people yet they overcome it and move on, and certainly don't resort to bringing it up every 5 minutes. It's emotional blackmail.
 
 
Shrug
13:41 / 05.06.06
Still not sure on that one, Hattie, it seems a more fitting description of Jodie Marsh's BB experience than Lea's (which sometimes smacks more of genuine distress than narcissistic self-pity sans self-awaria). I could just be more forgiving of Lea because she contains a few nicer qualities than La Marsh, however.
 
 
Evil Scientist
13:51 / 05.06.06
Sezer's sex talk was iffy at best and to me, Lea's is just as offensive

I may have missed something, but the big difference IMO between what Sezer said and what Lea said was that Sezer was talking about other people (ie assessing the girls as though they were livestock), whereas Lea's horror stories from the world of porn were about her.

Sezer's sex talk wasn't iffy, it was downright bloody offensive mysogynistic bullsh**t.
 
 
Smoothly
14:57 / 05.06.06
Just seen a press release from ‘Million Dollar People’ – "the dating website that only admits beautiful people".

Over a hundred members have already signed up and happily pay the £5 a month a membership fee to be listed among the beautiful people.

Considering that 60 per cent of applicants get turned away for being too ugly, those that do get in are a privileged few.

"It's more than just a dating website - we think of it more as an ?exclusive members club for good-looking people. Some of our members already have partners so they aren't looking for love, they just like being in the company of people as gorgeous as themselves."


Imogen's a member, natch. Her page tells us that she’s "originally from Llanelli but I'm trying to spread my wings a bit!", an ambition she seems to be taking weirdly literally in most of the photos she’s supplied.
 
 
petunia
16:56 / 05.06.06


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Tryphena Absent
17:31 / 05.06.06
But Hattie you said this Yes, dear, we know you're a porn star, hence there's no need to constantly have your baps on display, only for you to whinge that people judge you solely on such baps.

Why shouldn't she whine about people judging her solely on one part of her body? If someone complained that everyone was judging them solely on their hair being electric pink or pinching their arse because they had tight trousers on then they would have the same right as Lea has to show parts of her breasts and not be judged for doing so. Lea has the right to complain about other people's responses to her. Frankly there's all kinds of misogyny floating around in that house, most of it isn't coming from the men, the women strike me as body purists, most of them don't have an inch of fat on them.

(By the by, I never intended to equate porn and rape. It was to equate the way that people treat women's bodies as items that are regarded as communally possessed rather than belonging to a woman. Women should be able to expect more than to be judged primarily on their bodies in social situations, whether they're allowing people to see the tops of their breasts or exposing every part of them.)
 
 
Ganesh
19:06 / 05.06.06
Good Lord, Hattie, I'm not sure wheeere to start.
 
 
h1ppychick
19:08 / 05.06.06
Please, can they change the record? This is becoming so, so tedious.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:08 / 05.06.06
So are they gona get woken up tomorrow morning with a big ol' blast of Slayer turned up to 11?
 
 
The Falcon
19:10 / 05.06.06
Oh, they should. 'Angel of Death', gooood morning.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
19:12 / 05.06.06
I'll say this for Lea, she really is one of the most credulous, susceptible, easily swayed people on God's good earth. Grace LITERALLY sidles up to her like the serpent in the garden, like Grima fucking Wormtongue x Iago x every other genius bastard Shakespeare villain and starts LITERALLY whispering poison in her ear, and she falls for it immediately and thoroughly. THINK, woman, THINK. Who benefits? Who is Grace? What happened on Friday? GAH.
 
 
h1ppychick
19:14 / 05.06.06
You said it, Mikey... "so what are you bitches bitching about now?"
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
19:16 / 05.06.06
Just LOOK at that DASTARDLY Richard, and his REASONING.

So all the bitching bitches are thoroughly hating this house because it's so bitchy, although they are the ones who continuallly perpetuate all said bitchery... I'm starting to wonder (well, continuing) if they're just really really thick.
 
 
h1ppychick
19:17 / 05.06.06
Lisa "Seriously, Sam and Aisleyne, they can just go"

Grace "And Richard and Lea"

How is that not trying to influence someone's nomination?
 
 
h1ppychick
19:23 / 05.06.06
WHY can't they work it out? Why can't they see?

Bless you Richard. You are lovely lovely.
 
 
Ganesh
19:23 / 05.06.06
Little does she know that I know that she knows
That I know she's two-timin' me
Little does she know that I know that she knows
That I know she's cheatin' on me.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:26 / 05.06.06
I'm totally baffled right now. But I'm sure Grace is to blame somehow.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
19:29 / 05.06.06
For fucks sake Lea, Sam's like 12 or something.
 
 
Ganesh
19:29 / 05.06.06
I'm totally baffled right now. But I'm sure Grace is to blame somehow.

I refer you to yesterday's attempt at a simplified version.
 
  

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