And, no disrespect to your profession, but they could have dispensed with ANY type of psychology, really (which would invalidate BBBB as a programme, obviously, but it IS rubbish, so no harm done) by cutting to the chase and saying "Grace was being quite nasty, really".
No offence taken; like I say, I ain't actually a psychologist as such...
I dunno. Previously, there seemed a bit more to it. This year, Blonde Psychology Woman (I'm sorry; I can't remember her name, and a Google search is turning up nothing) has consistently irritated me with her unbearable lightness of being a bit shit. The 'alpha' stuff in Week 3 (or Week 2?) was bad enough, but the supposed 'levels of bitching' thing just didn't hold together at all.
And yeah, in Grace's case, I think it would've been more interesting to hear some theories about why Grace is perceived as unpleasant. That might've stood some chance of bringing Grace a hairsbreadth closer to Selfawaria rather than smilingly reinforcing the sense that it was okay for her to behave abominably because she's clever and entertaining.
I've been thinking about the whole Grace phenomenon after reading this week's Heat (yes, I know), which trumpets "The FULL behind-the-scenes story of that INCREDIBLE eviction" and, actually, there were some interesting tidbits. Seemingly security was much higher than on previous evictions, and sniffer dogs were checking every guest (for what, I don't know). Apparently loads of banners were deemed offensive enough to be confiscated: Heat saw at least 20 ditched. As the evening wore on, Grace's mum was "taken away by security to a private area to calm down, after crowds taunt[ed] her with banners saying Grace Babe, The Only Pig In The City and chants of Get Grace Out". Grace's mother apparently ran at the crowd, screaming at them to shut their (possibly fucking, moose-like) mouths.
Heat confirms the speed with which Davina hustled Grace through the crowd, past banners and jeering, with security lining the path. Perhaps the most interesting bit, for me, concerned the studio audience:
10:09pm
Grace is led through to the studio to be interviewed by Davina. As the audience take position, the studio manager informs them, "My butt's on the line here. The chief exec has told me that you MUST NOT BOO". So that explains the cheers - we thought the crowd had softened all of a sudden.
I'm not sure how I feel about all of this. On the one hand it's good that Endemol's taking its responsibilities seriously where evicted Housemates are concerned. On the other, it's starting to seem, to me, that Grace is in danger of being overprotected from any serious sense of her actions having widespread negative consequences in terms of public opinion. It's clear that her family aren't going to sit down with her and explain, "people are angry with you because X, and it was wrong of you" but I'm genuinely unsure to what extent it's Endemol's job to try to reality-orientate.
Hmm. Perhaps it's just because I want to see Grace punished some more. Like, at all. |
