Congratulations again Victoria. A very detailed interview and obviously NOT edited. I first read it yesterday, but there was so much to it, that I thought I ought to digest it a bit before I made my comments. Sorry, these are a bit marathon too.
I never really saw Stuart as the great villain, but he was and still is very competitive and far too keen to make sure everyone knows how great he is. Did people really say he was the most intelligent? Does it matter that his 6-year old had already out-grown Harry Potter? And if he still thinks the things he said to Penny were nothing, then it's no wonder he's finding it difficult to move on.
The whole behaving badly thing still integues me, but it concerns me more that Stuart is assuming it's all true. Unless my eyes were mistaken he's also lumped Amma into it and she wasn't even there! Unless her behaviour was so scurrilous she was digitally removed.
He has a strange way of describing things. In one way he's defending them by saying it's not their fault they didn't know how to behave, but at the same time blaming them for making him look bad.
Any ban, or decisions not to invite I'm sure had nothing to do with any possible bad behaviour. In terms of Kylie, there was a distinct lack of really big name guests. It was embarassing for LWT that the BB lot were the most interesting, but it was filmed on the same night at the Enigma Premiere, so they should have thought of that and not blamed the most famous people there for not being properly famous.
I'm not really that surprised that promotional people made a decision to invite them out less. I heard that Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and George Cloony all wanted to go to the Lord of the Rings premier in London, because it was on their way back from a screening of Oceans 11 in Kosovo. The organisers decided they didn't want them there, because they would upstage the stars of the film. When Helen went to Planet of the Apes - she was the topic of discussion (and whether or not she was talking to Paul). The actual film hardly got a look in! If individuals are to be believed, a number of them were turning down plenty of invites because they'd worked out how shallow it all was, and they'd get slagged for it anyway. If you couldn't get cheap publicity from having BB people at your event, then why not get it from not having them at your event? Sorry, this subject still annoys me, but back to topic ...
And what's the deal with saying he'd heard Brian wasn't very good on smtv? Even if he had heard that, it wasn't very nice to say. Neither was saying that Helen dropped her dizzy blonde 'up herself' act when she thought she was going to be evicted. All she did was consider if her behaviour could be better, which was preferable to assessing everyone's body language to work out which Judases had nominated him. And of course she settled in and was more herself.
His views are pretty similar to Josh's, but don't forget Josh had just appeared on Stuart's radio show, so they'd probably been comparing grievances. (Not tans, or pecs - they aren't like that).
The whole 'only his opinion' thing on Helen and Paul was a bit of a nothing. He made the valid point about whatever happens Paul will be a villain. It wasn't really answering the question, but is in line with his general complaint about reality being skewed and the press loving a villain. The idea of Paul being more famous for his relationship was brought up by Vic, so even though his defence sounded weak, I think it was still meant to be one. What I assume he was trying to say was that even really famous people who have achieved a lot can be most famous for their relationship. It doesn't stop them being famous for other things too. Personally I think it's just a shame that for Paul most people, and the press find his relationship so exciting that they don't bother about the rest. This is not the same as there not being anything else. It's just unfortunate that Helen's love of hair, glitter and make-up is also the stuff of glossy mags, whereas Paul's love of cars and design is not. It makes things seem really unbalanced. This year I bet neither Tom Cruise nor Nicole Kidman have managed an interview without a reference to the other. Even before the divorce the papers and magazines focused on the relationship as much as their multimillion dollar films. People try to use the 'famous for going out with ....' line as a criticism, but there's nothing you can do about it.
ROB - you should apply to be the psychologist for the next series. Your thoughts are at least as good, but do you think you could have worked out that Helen was love-sick from the way she moped about sniffing Paul's pillow and looking teary? That kind of deduction requires a degree and years of training?
