Callum Knell (BB14)
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Ok, ok. I do appreciate that some people do like Callum and appreciated him for the hot mess that he is/was but, like… I can’t even do that, I'm sorry. There’s ironically supporting someone and then there’s just supporting Callum. I've a number of thoughts about Callum, and none of them are exactly what I'd describe as supporting. Or ironic, I hope. He just really irritated me and I can’t exactly say why. I don’t think I’ve ever cringed every time a housemate appeared on screen before Callum came along (maybe that’s why then). And when he did come along, Callum at first seemed like a vaguely normal human being.
Until he met Jackie Travers, that is.
I’ve got a very slight bias for Jackie Travers, I'm not sure if you've noticed. And when she first heard Callum’s (actually not true I don’t think?) claim that he slept with a mother and a daughter once, boy, did she not let go of that. I've erased much of it from my memory but I don't recall it particularly changing my opinion of Callum, more so strengthening my love for all things Jackie Travers and her fractured hand-induced.. ness. And from then on a rivalry was born which was made stranger by him attempting tirelessly to do her daughter all through this, and yes I’d much rather focus on this than the Callum-Dexter rivalry because neither of those two people are really any good at just generally existing as people when I think about it.
So yeah, Callum was incredibly awkward and also incredibly up for a bizarre feud or two. Like, he had his stand-out moments in his confusing relationship with Charlie Travers (“soar”, and that’s more or less the end of the list) but whilst some use that as a reason for his brilliance as a housemate, they made me want to glue my eyelids shut more than anything so? Oh, and speaking of wanting to glue one’s eyelids shut, he did done a striptease for some reason (…trust me, there was nothing there to tease). I just feel sorry for anyone who was eating during that particular moment, because it wouldn’t have stayed down long. Callum also had a nice friendship with Sam which was actually only nice if you liked either Callum or Sam, or both, or could actually even bare them as housemates. Or as people. I liked neither and therefore their friendship made me want to vomit just as much as Callum’s striptease did.
And then he started playing with knives and plotting to smother Dexter in his sleep and stuff and he was evicted over Hazel and it was glorious? God bless Dexter’s fan base (that couldn’t get Sam out at the twenty two odd opportunities they had to do so (over Dan and Sophie lol) or get behind him enough to win). As I said, I don’t have positive feelings towards either of them, but Dexter only made me want to stick my foot through the TV a couple of times a week, not every minute of the day like his foe did. Which is nice.
So that was Callum. I’m off to puke.
I'm saving
Lauren and I'm assuming the only reason she was nominated in the first place is because Jake didn't read the rules.
