What's so wrong with being a romantic?
 

I've been on this forum for 5 years and I've been obsessed with my fair amount of BB couples. And every single time I get called stupid and naive and whatever else. I get belittled for believing a couple off Big Brother can be real. I'm a bit fed up with it to honest,you have your opinions and I have mine,there's no need to treat me like an idiot just cos I'm not cynical about every single Big Brother couple in existence.

But what is wrong with believing in a couple?? Yeah you might not like them but why pick on me?? I've been obsessed before,I know a lot of them they can break up,it doesn't mean I can't like them for the time being. What is it that is so disgusting and horrifying to a lot of you about fans of Big Brother couples???

Bless.:pat:

Nothing, but on big brother its clearly fake most of the time.

Paul and Helen. Believable and real.
Grace and Mikey. Not believable to me at all, Grace came across very camera aware but they've proved it was real because they're married now.
All the others were pretty much showmances or just fancying each other a bit. Couples in scripted shows are more real.

Remember Ziggy? Sweetened Chanelle up, fucked her (without realising Carole was in the next bed, then dumped her.
And then got a lecture about not using condoms lol

I like couples on TV aswell. I think they are cute. :')

I think being romantic is much better than being cynical.

Exactly! Me too.

I think people are more cynical about BB than romances. They know that these days people were only in it for the cash

Sorry, but how the fuck can anyone be in love after 2 days of knowing each other? and its obvious that they just want the money.

2 days? More like 73 I think it was. 24/7.

I don't know of a couple that were together after two days (?).
But I know lots of housemates have said how they came out of the house knowing a hell of a lot more about the other housemates than many of their friends because of the 24/7 for three months solid.

I'm not talking about JJJ.. i'm talking about most of the other couples.

Ssophie and Kris were about 2 days before they kissed, maybe it was 3 days, i'm not sure though :/

Personally I think being realistic and using my intelligence is much better than being gullible and being made a fool of! Each to their own I guess!

Blowed if I would allow such people to use me to help line their pockets and give them the attention they so obviously crave!

Real life is so much more interesting and fun - or at least it should be!

Nothing wrong with being romantic, but believing in couples, espicially those that form on a reality TV show is a different story tbh. People act up to the cameras because they know its what the public (some of them anyway..) want to see, so you should take them with a pinch of salt in general. Theres a few I believed were true mind.

So you're saying that just because I like a couple I'm guillble and an idiot? Right so believing in love makes you stupid,seems a bit silly really doesn't it?

People should be able to spend their money on whatever they want. And you're allowed to like a couple and enjoy 'real life'. Feck sake it doesn't all have to be so extreme.

Well I never did see Sophie and Kris but there is a difference between couples like them and Sezer and Imogen and whoever else than couples like Helen and Paul and Grace and Mikey. People have to stop putting every single Big Brother couple into one big caterogy of 'fake'.

In terms of BB.. nowadays people go in for a romance for the £££££.

I am not cynical about every couple though! Helen and Paul lasted 5 years. Sophie and that black dude from bb3 got together and had a baby together!
Grace and Mikey.. can't believe it but they are married!!!! I believe they are obviously in love with each other. Also they hardly do any interviews together.. they went back to their ordinary careers.

Josie and John James though... it's just that John did treat Josie like crap a bit in the house and I just don't believe that.

Preston and Chantelle.. I don't believe in them. They were genuine first time around but now.. they just want all the magazine deals with £££££. Maybe Chantelle still likes Preston.. but they married and got divorced. They both deserve someone else.

To be honest I really wish Pete from bb7 was in Ultimate BB. I loved him and Nikki as a couple. I thought I saw a nice spark when I saw them together in Ultimate BB when Pete was a part of that task :) They are just friends now though but I find them both adorable with each other and they are both interesting and entertaining characters on their own too!

Sophie and Kris from bb10.. what a joke. That's all I can say :hugesmile:

So.. there is a mixture really. Some genuine.. some obviously in to cash in on the magazine deals.

If BB12 comes back.. I mean yeah.. you know what.. I would LOVE to see a genuine romance blossom.. like Helen and Paul when it was sweet and innocent and not being boring farts under the covers all the time...

Anyway in this day and age. Romance is usually just a quick honeymoon period. After that the romance is DEAD.

Amen :hugesmile:

Mikey and Grace are a good example of people staying together. And yes, we disagree on the couples things Laura but I don't insult you over it or think you're any less intelligent. I try to look at it from the best of both views! Hope you didn't think I've been insulting at all!

Being able to distinguish between real love - and that 'put together' for a tv show for the obvious rewards - is real and intelligent!

Just believing every couple on a tv show that claims to be 'in love' (when this will obviously help them get airtime) - because you want to believe it - is not so intelligent!

Then to keep harping on about how lovely and wonderful they are - when most other people can see that they are not - is downright annoying! You asked!

Oh no you're fine,I know you wouldn't insult me :)

Gooood :D

Is there a lot more haters on you in recent years or something?

So you're that EVERY SINGLE couple who meets on a telly show can't be actually in love? But how do you even know?

I don't think EVERY couple is real,in the last 11 years of BB I say there was about 9ish real couples(off the top of my head). I don't believe it cos I want to believe it,I believe it cos what I see in front of my eyes to me is real. For some couple anyways.

And I'm gonna 'harp on' on about lovely and wonderful I think they are all I fecking want,there's enough hate on this place for them to last a lifetime.

I don't know,seems to be but they've always been around.

Kissing someone and declaring your love for someone are two very different things though.

LMAO no one is a "hater" of you, they just don't agree.

I love how you went through so many! I can't believe you think Pete and Nikki were real(I did too at the time) and John and Josie weren't! John didn't treat Josie like ****,if anything sorry Josie people but it was the other way round. But I'd be here all day going into that.

Do you see what Preston said in OK? He said if him and Chantelle got back together it would have be forever so neither of them got hurt again. That doesn't seem like something anyone would do for a bit of money.

I'm not saying anyone is a hater of me,they're a hater of couples. People just keep insulting me for believing in BB couples.

I think the main problem is we can't identify the degree of love. We're still only seeing what they give us on the outside. But deep down it's hard to tell. I think we needs to see what happens with JJJ after all the corny mag shoots and stuff. That is the real test.

Princess, think and feel how you like. It's not upto anyone else. It's what makes you, you. No need to defend that

Well I'm going on the hours and hours of live feed I saw. I believe they'll still be together after all the hype goes away but as you said we'll have to see.

N'awww thanks Kerry :) I just feel a bit defensive is all.

It's all talk and no action in a magazine for money though!

I do think Pete and Nikki were real at the time (in the house). They were such an odd couple! Also I liked Luke and Bex. I thought they were real too. They lasted for a year. I thought their personalities went well together. They had a similar sense of humour. The only difference they had was that Bex was a booze drinking party animal and Luke was a geek who would rather watch re runs of a Touch of Frost drinking tea on a Saturday night! :hugesmile:

Oh Josie and John.. I am not a fan of either of them. Or Cameltoe for that matter....

Anyway it is all just difference in opinion Laura! No one dislikes or hates you!

Also the forum would be boring without a bit of difference in opinions! :)

Don't worry. Easy to if people keep having digs :(

In real life, absolutely nothing, but when it concerns BB you have to take it all with a pinch of salt, seeing as most "couples" don't last particularly long.

Yeah, but all I'm saying, is when the mag deals are over and stuff. Practicality will hit them, and they'll have to make a decision. Where they will both live ect. Don't forget John is very close to his family back in OZ and has spent the last few years comforting his mum.

Fine - just don't expect others not to make comments you don't like - when you make such ludicrous, unfounded remarks about how much in love they are!

At best - Josie is in lust with his looks as well as making a lot of money out of the whole 'couple' thing - and for JJ1 it is about publicity and making a name for himself - it is so obvious - to most anyway! Hardly good role models are they? Certainly not the kind of people I want kids of mine aspiring to!

Grace and Mikey lasting the longest now! Well actually they have lasted 4 years at the moment.. (including marriage) If they are still together next year they would have been together the same length of time as Paul and Helen!

I do hope Grace and Mikey last.. and have babies. I liked Grace in bb7. She was a bitch but made bb7 interesting. She's not stupid either. Mikey was a bit dull in bb7. I think Grace wears the trousers. However they both appear to be decent people outside of BB.

That's one out of how many? You know what I mean, right?

LOL Luke and Bex got more stick than any couple!!

I'm not saying anyone hates me,I don't want to sound like 'Oh poor me' I'm just a bit fed up with being called names for believing something and then being told there is no way in hell I can be right.

Aye it would be indeed.