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Originally posted by Ruth
I'm not sure she wasn't faking during the GMTV interview. But regardless, I wouldn't wish any harm upon her, whether by her own or by others' doing. Doesn't mean I have to like her though.
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It's always a possibility, Ruth - although I'll still have to disagree. If for no other reason, the tabloids would've had every last frame of that interview scanned by body language experts, looking for proof that it was a sham. As for 'liking' her, I thought S Club 7 were pants - although pants of immense unintentional comic value, admittedly. I remember now seeing them interviewed - it was straight after their last ever tv performance as a bland, or something. I expected her to be a bit posh for some reason, so her accent shattered illusions I'd held for several years. But then she cried at the end of the song, and I just thought to myself; 'awww, sweet girl'.
I forgot about her straight afterwards of course, until CBB started. Again I was a little shocked by the accent, swearing, smoking and tattoos. There's absolutely no justification for that of course, but it was further shattering of my own rash assumptions. So it took a bit for her to grow on me, but after a day or so, she came across as a modest, sweet-natured and quite amusing girl. I saw a few uncomfortable moments since then, for sure. But there's not been a hm I've liked yet who hasn't shown their own fair share of similarly uncomfortable moments, either. I've still seen nothing to warrant the comments from pretty much all quarters which range from mild comtempt to outright scary and malicious hatred. The latter worry me far more than an ordinary working class girl who stepped out of a tv studio and found herself in Salem, rather than Hertfordshire.
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Originally posted by GRiT
I don't think so. I hope she gets the help she needs to get better, - I've stated that all along - but more than that, I can't be bothered with her. I simply cannot get emotional about her breakdown. Sorry.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'under the circumstances'. Under different circumstances Jo wished a breakdown on Dirk. I recall her saying she wanted him to crack, then followed by 'Crack Mutha*****a Crack, then she laughed. What a peach, aye? She's toxic, vindictive and I'll stop there but I could fill a page with awful words to describe her. Also, when she came out of the house there was no semblance of an apology but the repeated claim that she was stitched up by the editors.
Are you starting to understand my indifference a bit better? I don't wish bad or good on her I just couldn't care less either way.
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I'm not 'emotional' about it, I just think that kicking someone when they're down is frankly rather sick (I refer to the general ethos here by the way, rather than anything you may have posted personally on the matter).
I mean 'under the circumstances' of someone who is being vilified for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. There's an enormous difference between a baying mob hypnotised by the media, and a genuine girl with a good sense of humour. So yeah, she's peachy-keen in my book. She could've/should've apologised for a few cultural gaffs and one obnoxious stereotype, for sure. But she came out of the house accused of being a racist and a bully, yet she's quite clearly neither (based on the CBB footage we've been shown). So if she'd apologised then in the glare of those bogus accusations, she'd have been 'confessing' to 'crimes' that she blatantly did not perpetrate. As for the editing, if there wasn't a deliberately negative slant put on that, why was she shown smoking perpetually? We all know that, celebrities or not, such luxuries are in limited supply after a week or so. So where did the cigarettes come from, if they weren't being highly selective with the footage shown on the recap show? I think we have the grassy knoll right there.
I'm afraid not, no. Nothing I saw in the house, or have read in your posts today, would enable me to rationalise the 'crossing the street' mentality (collectively, rather than on your part alone). Indifference to the innocent is not something I can conveniently brush under the carpet, I'm afraid.