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Not my thoughts or words, found on Reddit, but I offer it up for discussion...

"When I was watching the episode in real time, I thought it felt very staged, so I rewatched it and studied everybody's reactions, and I entirely believe that huge parts of it was staged. We know ITV BB have form for staging scenes, particularly tasks. They did it recently in the civilian series. The beauty salon task in the bathroom was staged, as confirmed by Emma.

During the scene where Mickey got aggressive, they were all trying to stifle a smile, even after he got aggressive. None of them were acting how somebody would genuinely act if somebody was legitimately aggressive. If it was legitimate, Daley would be trying to defuse it, as he's the only one that Mickey respects, yet he was nowhere to be seen, and everybody in the live thread was asking why he wasn't in the episode. Well, I'll tell you why he wasn't. He's the only one in there without acting, presenting or reality tv experience. He would have given the game away.

It's entirely implausible that Chris, who merely a few days earlier was stumbling over his words whilst meekly telling Mickey that he can't say that to Jojo, would just decide to stare him down out of nowhere.

Mickey was even smiling when Chris was staring him down and then suddenly flipped. How coincidental that he had a conversation with Jojo where she decided to play psychologist and ask him what prompted it, and he said "it was like a button being pressed and I couldn't explain to you why, even if I tried to". That conversation was set up to sell the storyline to us and try make it believable.

Even the scene with Angellica, Patsy and Donna looked staged. When it was just Angellica and Donna, they were given a cue to start talking. They had just been standing there saying nothing. After the cue, Donna just says out of left field "yeah, I have no respect, no respect. Anyway, I'm leaving", as Patsy approached. If this was a real scenario, Angellica would be like; "wait, what? What do you mean you're leaving? Where did this come from?", but she didn't have this reaction. Subsequently, when Angellica said to Patsy, "what about me?", she was trying not to laugh. Mere hours earlier, Angellica was showering Mickey with hugs and was delighted he was still there.

When Mickey left, Trish was totally unbothered, despite being the only one to have deep conversations with him and say she was taking him under her wing because he's fragile. She just went "I told you". That's not an organic reaction to hearing for the first time that he has left. I've no doubt that they had all already said their goodbyes to him before he was called into the diary room a second time.

I even think Chris' over-intimacy towards Jojo is scripted as a means to generate controversy and discussion. When she leaned across him earlier with the sword, he moved towards her like he was going to kiss her. It looked totally staged. If you look at Chris' exes, Jojo is the opposite of his type. He also hasn't ever shown interest in women years younger than him. He's only ever dated women his own age. Chris is 32 years old. Jojo is 21- and she's a lesbian.

The show is insulting the viewers' intelligence with this crap. Mickey wanted out, and his agents wanted him out after that Bella accusation (which they responded to with a pre-prepared statement within minutes of him leaving) and they put on a little school play production to facilitate it. It suited BB, because they could be seen to be getting rid of him, hence regain some credibility after the huge backlash they generated last week for not removing him after his behaviour towards Jojo.

It was like watching an episode of Love Island. So many of the scenes on Love Island are scripted, as confirmed by former contestants.

Even last year on CBB, the scene between Marissa and Ekin was scripted.

Everybody said the episode was really strange and disjointed, and it's always like this when they stage large chunks of it, as they can't give the game away.

People need to stop taking the show so seriously, because most of what we see on the ITV version isn't real, especially the celeb version."