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I cannot see how she functions in real life. Surely she'd have no friends left eventually?
This is pure speculation but I reckons she functions pretty well, as long as she gets what she wants.
In the house Nikki's been forced to interact with people she wouldn't necessarily give the time of day to IRL. She's unused to the carrot/stick nature of Big Brother, which is why she feels so betrayed when BB does something against her wishes (turning on the AC for instance), again perhaps because in the outside she is used to people bending to her demands either because she turns on the bimbo* charm, or because they don't want to deal with her tantrums.
She's fascinating watching purely because she is so utterly self-absorbed. She's like the Cat from Red Dwarf unaware that consideration should matter for anyone but himself. Every party reward when she's up for eviction is intended to celebrate Nikki, no other reason.
Every now and then something tries to break through the four miles of self-obsession and she'll stumble to try and understand (or ab-sorb) something from another person's perspective (remember her tearful DR speech about Pete?). But inevitably she falls back into orbit around Planet Nikki.
* The usage of bimbo here is not intended to slur Nikki exactly. I feel it adequately describes a persona she'll project when she's turning on the charm, that of the pretty, dumb, childwoman who must be protected and shielded from the big-bad-world. I think that this part of her is the part that annoys me the most, the part that seems to think that as long as you are young and pretty you don't need to be anything else. You don't need to improve or better yourself. The part that wants to be an expensive pet for a well-paid footballer. |
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