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They tried this move in "Boring" BB3 (Year of Cameron), when Jon Tickle - most annoying but also most watchable housemate, was voted out by his detractors and promptly voted back in by his admirers when Endemol realised that the second he left, the show went into a flat spin of unwatchable tediousness.
However, it didn't work because in the interim he had effectively been castrated, as entertainment, in two ways.
1) The usual moratorium on talking about the outside world meant that he had loads to tell the others, but wasn't allowed to. Being a man familiar with the rulebook and unwilling to get booted out again, he was as forthcoming as a Trappist in a sulk, and about as watchable.
2) His head had grown about eight sizes bigger since he'd come out of the house and seen how popular he was. As with Glyn, much of his appeal was based on the "clueless sweet geek" factor, which depended in a large part on the natural humility imposed by his knowing that he wasn't a popular man (he was repeatedly nominated by the housemates and kept in by the public, Dickie stylee).
I think if that Nikki comes back, she'll have been irredeemably spoiled by the limelight. Her underlying insecurity and unintentional hilarity were, IMO, the main things that made her mad princess act on the whole slightly more charming than it was infuriating.
Bringing a housemate back = pushing the red button: even in cases of dire emergency, don't do it. Send in an elephant or something. Make them all play Big Brother's Big Blitz, I don't care; but don't bring back the "dead". They've done it before, and it sucks. |
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