Most underrated and/or overhated CBB housemates
 

Feel free in this thread to list what CBB housemates you think are either too hated by people, deserve more praise, or maybe even both.

Here's all of mine.

Caprice (CBB3) (Underrated)
Kenzie (CBB3) (Underrated)
Dirk Benedict (CBB5) (Underrated)
Nicola Tappenden (CBB7) (Underrated)
Stephen Baldwin (CBB7) (Overhated)
Paddy Doherty (CBB8) (Overhated/Underrated)
Darryn Lyons (CBB8) (Overhated)
Romeo (CBB9) (Underrated)
Andrew Stone (CBB9) (Underrated/Overhated)
Georgia Salpa (CBB9) (Underrated)
Julian Clary (CBB10) (Underrated)
Rhian Sugden (CBB10) (Underrated)
Rylan Clark (CBB11) (Overhated)
EDIT: Charlotte Crosby (CBB12) (Overhated)
Keith Chegwin (CBB15) (Underrated)
Perez Hilton (CBB15) (Overhated)
Nadia Sawalha (CBB15) (Underrated)
Ken Morley (CBB15) (Overhated)
Farrah Abraham (CBB16) (Overhated)
Chris Ellison (CBB16) (Very underrated)
John Partridge (CBB17) (Underrated/Overhated)
Scotty T (CBB17) (Overhated)

Jodie Marsh
Danielle Lloyd
Tricia Penrose
Chloe Goodman
Cami Li

Andrew Stone first springs to mind as an overhated, he was a hilarious non entity <3

Everyone from Geordie Shore is overhated

O I forgot to include Charlotte Crosby on my list

Traci Bingham, Faria Alam and Rula Lenska are all underrated <\3

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Traci<333

"Oh my goooooood, I can't believe I'm nomiiiinated!" *rinse and repeat multiple times at 3am :laugh:

TILA TEQUILA was hilarious

I think Chloe Ferry was overhated. Yeah she was messy but she was never nasty to anyone and just wanted to have a laugh.

Chloe Goodman remains an unpraised goddess. She could have played the Jeremy Jackson situation for sympathy but she was mature about it.

Lauren Goodger gets a lot of **** too when she was a great housemate. She got involved in tasks, never tagged along with the Gary Busy bashing and best of all she knocked Ricci's advances back when it probably would have gotten her a lot of attention.

Gurl he was trash bore

mhmm yes sis

There's like 30 other housemates praised to high heavens for being bores.

"Am I proud to be British? No, not particularly, I just happened to be born here. I mean it's a bit like saying I'm proud to have feet... I've just got 'em!" That launch VT quote is up there as one of my favourites and that "I'll chin the ****" comment was just so underrated. He should have had more airtime and lasted much longer.

Here's my underrated/overhated housemates:

I'll also add Ollie Locke (CBB13) as being very underrated. He seemed lovely, I felt bad for him at times, and definitely deserved to win out of that F3

Gurl she was in 1 scene

yes i agree

He was okay, Also Sam Faiers too, she was lovely and i re-watched it last year and she had air time every episode. I liked her than most of the cast tbh. She's better on towie but you can't help being ill and having Crohn's disease.

Unnecessarily hated on here:
- Michelle Visage (she literally had a 90% good person role until she decided to befriend Hopkins and call Alicia Douvall a dumb, selfish nutjob - newsflash: she ****ing was - and Perez Hilton a disgrace - newsflash: he is.)
- Vinnie Jones. Every time I read about CBB7 on here there seems to be the impression that he was a repulsive bully that made life hell for...I can't remember who exactly. I just found him to be a weird armchair figure that didn't mince his words. Nothing really that hateable.
- Kellie Maloney. I do think she's tremendously insecure and didn't come out of CBB14 very well but I think she's not that awful a person, and was certainly fascinating viewing.
- George Galloway. I haven't rewatched CBB4 because I don't really see an urgent need to rewatch reality TV from 12 years ago, but the consensus on here seems to be that he/Barrymore/Burns were all awful to Poor Dumb Tramp Jodie Marsh and tbh I'm not really having that and idc if that makes me dismissive. She sucked. And he was intriguing.

Most underrated:
- Leo Sayer. Honestly one of the best male HMs in his brief tenure. Definition of an entertaining diva.
- Christopher Maloney. I actually think I'd put him in my top three HMs of CBB17? I enjoyed him more than Tiffany. Unintentionally hilarious and the go-to gay for ridiculous facial expressions.
- Keith Chegwin. Obviously pretty much universally liked but I found him a really compassionate and interesting housemate with a ton of good stories and thought he played a great role as the antithesis to everything obnoxious and awful about Hopkins/Kavana
- Terry Christian - saw a couple of people on here saying they hate him so maybe he's more suitable for the above category but I just found him quite witty and fun :shrug:
- Ray J. I know the series just ended but everyone seemed to write him off as a bore and I don't get it :shrug: was one of the more naturally charming and charismatic personalities when I watched.

I won't go into the quiet ones that didn't last very long like Claire King, Gail Porter, Nancy Dell'Olio, Jonathan Cheban etc.

I agree with the stuff I have in bold, ESPECIALLY Keith. I actually juggle who my favorite is of CBB15 between him and Katie P. A lot of Hopkins haters like to use Pricey as someone they can relate to against her but I think Keith did this better and more efficiently than her because a)he was fantastically dogged in his tirade against her ("If you actually LISTENED to what people said, maybe you'd understand what happened!" "Don't ****ing turn around and tell ME, what to do!" "I'm not your father, I'm Keith Chegwin.") and b) he delivered much sooner and sharper.

Katie Price may have ensured her win towards the end, but he started it for her. He was never going to win (outlasting Calum was the best he could accomplish) so pushing the win for his closest anti-Hopkins friend is just as respectable.

EDIT: I'll also add about Christopher that as much as I love Gemma, his beta-hatred for her was hilarious and all began when John told him "Duuude ur her bitch". Which resulted in such an underloved CBB17 exchange:

Gemma: Chris can you get my washing up?
Christopher: ...nO...!
Gemma: ...thats why ai love ya!

Ray J would have been a great housemate had he been anything like the person we saw outside the house (obviously, the... circumstances prevented that happening), but there really wasn't much charisma or, well, anything present in his character in the short time he lasted, bar an interesting Whitney-related convo or two; Vinnie was absolutely diabolical and I will not let revisionist history change that :hmph:

I also don't get the Natasha Giggs hate she was sweet kind and iconic

:clap1: There isn't NEARLY enough Leo Sayer love on here (as in there isn't any) but yes he's absolutely one of the greatest/most intriguing/bizarre CBB housemates of all time :worship:

I think that's a fair reason to dislike Michelle though? My problem with her, more than anything, wasn't even that she treated Alicia awfully. It was the fact she sold herself on "sticking up for the freaks/underdogs" or whatever it was only to become Hopkins' loyal little beta and pretty much join in with whoever Hopkins chose to victimise and goad. Perez was just as much of a parasite as Hopkins was so I have no sympathy for him. But the way she turned on Keith and her 'idol' Katie Price, for example just because Hopkins didn't see eye to eye with the both of them just showed how spineless and easily influenced she was (yet she kept making herself out to be this strong woman). Plus take her away her close aligning with Hopkins, what else did she really do in the house? I think most of her supporters are just fans of Drag Race and think "ermahgerd it's Michelle Visage!!!" as opposed to anything she actually did in the house.

And Alicia being 'dumb and selfish' isn't a justified excuse of how they treated her. By that logic, just treat anyone awfully if you think the reason they're doing it is true. Same logic applies to Jodie, just because you don't like her, it doesn't mean she wasn't bullied.

So I just finished CBB13 today and one thing really baffles me. I'm pretty sure she's mostly popular on this site so this is more about the BB fanbase as a whole.

Why was Linda so hated? The worst she did was her pursuit against Jim but that was only after he made the "Frank Carson's dressing room" comment that he for whatever reason lost no popularity over. After he did this she was really wary of him even after he apologized, though sometimes sorry doesn't cut it. Since then she got flack for "bullying" him which is an awfully odd complaint to make. He's fully capable of fighting his own corners and him walking away from an argument doesn't mean he feels picked on by her. The only time I thought she was over the top was when he was getting her dinner and she told him not to be nice to her but other than that small moment I really don't get it. Even at the final whenever the camera panned to her during interviews the crowd booed mercilessly against her no matter what. It's like she was the most hated of that season, even more than Lee Ryan for example. It just astounds me, I don't get it at all, and I feel she had the worst treatment after CBB of any housemate. Jim isn't as hateable as I remember but he was such a calculator and it annoys me that everyone fell for it and launched against her.