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Originally Posted by KingPrawn
Aisleyne was second favourite because of a story that appeared in the red tops stating that Aisleyne was ahead in the vote. I suspect that Pete and Glyn were always ahead but the producers, always looking at their profit line, started a rumour that Aisleyne was ahead in the vote to 'encourage' Pete and Glyn fans to vote even more.
You say that people got a negative representation of Aisleyne. I disagree. The highlights showed the following incidents:-
a. sticking up for Michael when Richard called Michael a 'she';
b. calming down a row between Spiral and Jennie;
c. her comic turn of sticking 50 Malteasers in her mouth.
These and other incidents showed Aisleyne in a positive light.
Obviously, there were incidents that Aisleyne deservedly got lambasted for:-
a. flirting around with Pete in front of Nikki on her return from HND;
b. recounting a conversation she had with Grace to Mikey during the first spin-the-bottle where Grace was embarrassed by Mikey joining in with the game and Grace stated that she would '...not take Mikey home to meet her mother';
c. her behaviour over being labelled the top 'Mach' in the house with just ridiculous.
And BB did not show on the highlights show her taking advantage of an 18 year old boy by flirting with him during the weekend before final nominations just so she wouldn't be up for eviction. If the general public has seen that then she would have not been very popular at all.
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There was nothing wrong with Aisleyne talking to Pete. At that time, Nikki and Pete were not an item and Pete was not anyone's property. Aisleyne did not come between Pete and Nikki when Pete made his feelings for Nikki clear.
It was good that the producers showed some of Aisleyne's postive points, but why shouldn't they have shown them if that's what she did? The negative stuff was usually heresay. It came from other housemates such a Nikki, Lea or Richard, who gave a running commentary on all the negative parts of her character. We rarely saw or heard see any evidence to back up their claims - just catchy slurs and insults, which were snapped up by BB presenters, who made it clear that Aisleyne was not their favourite. All of the presenters were horrible towards her until the complaints came in the final week.
Aisleyne's large internet following comprised people who'd enjoyed watching her on E4 and were disappointed to see so much positive Aisleyne moments exclluded from the highlights. We were watching a totally different show to the one which was manifactured for the highlights show. A newspaper article at the time quoted an inside source saying that the producers were engineering the programme to prevent Aisleyne from winning. Your suspicion that Pete and Glyn were always ahead overlooks the betting in the final week, which placed Aisleyne as second favourite. Some put Glyn as second favourite on Friday evening. Glyn had to overtake Aisleyne to come second.