All of the crying in tonights show was confusing to me. I never knew they were all apparently so close :S

yeah, me neither. I wasn't aware of this 'emotional, deep conversation' that ash and ashleigh had with each other the other day either :shrug:.

There have a couple of times it was mentioned. One was after an eviction and one was during the puppet task. Viewers wont have a clue unless they watch all the uploads and read the daily happenings and even then are still only seeing 6% of what happens in there per day. That 6% is for ALL housemates, so we see even less of each individual housemate.

The whole episode confused me tbh

I didn't understand his nice comment about Helen or the other housemates because they acted horribly :/ I guess they did that all behind his back.

I choose to believe that any emotion shown is genuine because emotions would be ridiculously heightened in there. They might cry over silly things, but their whole world has been that house for the last 50 days. And even if they're not close to each other, they've been stuck in that house with those people for 50 days and they would probably still feel guilty about nominating and whatnot (especially when it's PH nominating rather than regular nominations). It did all seem strange, but we don't see a lot of what goes on in there.

I think he was genuine with his feelings. I mean, they've been bitching so much in there. Every time they start to bond as a house things end up going bad. This was a prime opportunity were BB was going to stir things up and I think Chris was surprised by the outcome. Helen seemed to be helping calm things down tonight versus stirring them up. She was pretty level headed and told them to keep what they heard to themselves. I think that's what he meant about liking 'this' Helen. She could have easily used what the 3 PH's heard to run around the house bashing both the newbies to everyone.

Ashleigh also seemed genuinely upset in her discussion with Ash about why she nominated him, as well as Ash's reaction to her being upset seemed genuine.

It probably felt refreshing to see people actually kinda caring about each other rather then having the twist this week turn into another reason to bash and hate on each other.

I got the impression he was being highly sarcastic. Just like his 'Thankyou Steven' when Steven was ranting at them.

The only genuine tears were Helen's.

I dont think he know Mark pushed him and Ashleigh under the bus.

I thought it was totally genuine - living in that house must be a nightmare without all the twists and turns going on. Given he had just been revealed as being in the power alliance and all the fall out from that I'm not surprised it got to him - it would have the same effect on me. It really annoyed me on BBBOTS that they were saying it was acting and fake - reminded me of the way they used to comment on Aaron - nasty.