Originally Posted by Petemitch (Post 8085285)

I've kind of forgotten most of BB16 especially the pre Marq stuff so I only recall Amy/Sally looking red faced and screaming at someone 'she's got a ****ing boyfriend' during the debate task which was funny and all but I don't think they are the greatest housemates that have ever entered BB

Originally Posted by MB. (Post 8085297)

I know but in a round where Stephanie was saved

Originally Posted by Jake. (Post 8085339)

because shahbaz deserved to be scrapped over belinda, who really is top tier material

-writes up a puffy paragraph exaggerating that time she farted-

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot (Post 8085252)

Amy and Sally hold a special place in my hearts for being the first people to be completely over the cretin known as Joel <3

Originally Posted by MB. (Post 8084465)

Shahbaz Chaudhry (BB7)

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Shahbaz is the reason people are never really that keen to re-watch BB7, because you have to get through that in order to get to any of the good bits (i.e. week four). Week one of BB7 is probably one of the most uncomfortable weeks of non-CBB5 BB, and Shahbaz was a huge part of it. And while there’s definitely an appeal to him (see: his VT, and don’t watch anything else of the series), there’s the… other side, and that’s why he should have been cut a long time ago.

So yeah you know I joked earlier about Amy and Sally being clinically insane and… wow, oh boy. Part of the casting process that year involved wanting housemates with the shock factor, having seen success in previous years with “guess what, Nadia’s a man!” and “a black Tory? Tell me more”. In their search for entertaining ~characterz~, they found a man with Tourette’s who was told to apply for Big Brother by his dead friend in a dream, a porn star with body dysmorphia and a crippling fear of pretty much everything, a young person going through a gender identity crisis, an anorexic woman and whatever the fuck Glyn was. It was stunt casting to say the least, and the stuntiest of them all was a mentally ill ‘**** poof’ who threatened to commit suicide on live TV. Three guesses as to who I’m talking about there.

Yes, Shahbaz arrived, fresh from a Girls Aloud-soundtracked VT, and immediately tried to make friends with/shag all of his fellow housemates. He was an early favourite with both the audience and the other contestants, being just on the right side of terrifying (let’s call it ‘keen’). However, anyone who knows anything whatsoever about BB7 knows that this didn’t last long.

So yeah, then came everything else. The unpleasant first week of BB7. Coming onto Glyn. Invading everyone’s personal space for some reason. Probably trying to invade Glyn at one point or another. Being obsessed with Joan Crawford which is quite gay isn’t it. Being rejected and, as we know all too well, bullied by the rest of the house (led by Richard who later tried to a similar thing with Michael just saying). Throwing the house’s food in the bin whilst they slept. Being locked out of the house and having his clothes stolen whilst Nikki came up with ideas of what would “hurt him more” (seriously I’m glad we’ve seen a more grown up Nikki since BB7 because boy that was not a good look). Being sent to Coventry. Being both awful to live with and having awful people living with him.

Then, inevitably, he walked and was quickly forgotten about by the housemates as they found other housemates to turn against – just thankfully not to the level that they turned against Shahbaz. And that was Shahbaz, who was overall probably the most irresponsible casting choice Big Brother’s ever made? I know the supposed psych tests this show has are often ridiculed but how on earth did half of these people pass any sort of examination? Frankly, they knew exactly what they were going to get with Shahbaz and how his time in the house was going to end, i.e. badly. It’s hard to look at his time in the house as anything other than a series of highly disturbing events. But then Aisleyne came in and sprinkled fairy dust on the kingdom and everything was well again yay!!!

I’m off to bleach my brain. In the mean time, I save Belinda because ironically, writing about her won't keep me up at night.

Originally Posted by MB. (Post 8085580)

As long as Amy & Sally can be joint Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Originally Posted by Ross. (Post 8085588)

Don't forget Protectors of the Eggs

Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 8085587)

the shadow cabinet? What political beef do they have with Shahbaz Chaudry!?!?!?!?

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot (Post 8084900)

cut Benedict save Jem xxx

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75. Benedict Garrett (BB13)

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I have a pretty mixed track record with first impressions but jesus I thought Benedict was going to be AWFUL and I was fully prepared to loathe him just like I did Aaron the series before. A teacher turned porn star just sounds like a recipe for disaster and I was readying myself to suffer through 10 weeks of fun-sucking and camera-whoring antics.

Fortunately, I was wrong! But that's kinda because Benedict was barely on the show? I think a lot of people forget that he was pretty much invisible for the first ~13 days except for the controversy of him masturbating in the shower. I'll go ahead and say that my stance on the matter is that it's pretty disgusting for Benedict to openly flaunt that he had a nice wank in the shower or whatever, but at the same time Caroline was so ****ing immature with her dramatic freak outs about any sexual discussions that I couldn't even side with her. The whole thing was a mess and I didn't really enjoy it as a storyline.

But once Benedict was nominated ohmygod was he amazing. He voiced every opinion that desperately needed to be voiced and put people in their places and spilled some major truth tea in the process. I loooooooved when he did that hilariously spiteful impression of Ashleigh in the DR for being a thick Essex girl thinking she could actually get famous from BB in 2012 (is Ashleigh even from Essex? I'm admittedly awful with geography inside of the UK and it makes me feel guilty bc so many of you people know about the USA), he told Caroline off that one time because she LAUGHED in the foulest form when Victoria was evicted and is just generally ungrateful to her parents (??? :joker:) and bitches about everyone (and when she denied it, BULL. ****.), he taught a hilarious sex ed class that made Caroline squirm even more, he spiked Luke Scrase's protein powder just for fun, and finally he unscrewed a swivel chair and stole it from the house and used it as a prop as part of his exit, which I will say is a little too attention-seeking for me but still. It was the perfect kick-starter to the Insiders/Outsiders divide and really set the series in motion. But still, Benedict was really only visible for like five days so lol at him making it any further than this (and yes, I'm fully aware of how hypocritical this probably sounds since I'm quite fond of people like Laura McAdam and Isaac Stout but deal with it.) This write up actually makes me like Benedict more than I thought I did, but it's not like he was an important piece that held the series together or anything.

I'm saving Jem (BB12) because I, too, would cackle in Aaron's face and cheer every time someone else's family member or friend nominated him including his own girlfriend's mother <3 a woman of my heart.