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Originally Posted by Lord Of The Garden

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Lauren is an interesting housemate and i have enjoyed much about her over the series.

But she really went down in my estimations tonight.

I thought it was a very low blow for her to suggest Ron was transphobic, it's an unfair and quite serious accusation to make of him and only after he suggested nominating her - she had never said it before then.

Worst of all - she made the accusation but with nothing at all to back it up !

I mean - quite the opposite appears true. He seems like he makes a lot of effort with her. He even had her massaging his feet the other night. Hardly the behaviour of someone who felt prejudice towards her!

Fair enough, she didn't like the fact he suggested nominating her. Like Danielle, she is obviously someone who takes nominations far too personally.

Interesting that she got the most noms tonight and judging by the other HMs reasons for nominating her, it seems she is quite self centred and inconsiderate of others which i hadn't realised. I mean, for Charlotte to complain about Lauren's dirty habits - it must be bad!

It's one thing to be messy and inconsiderate of others. Another to take it badly if HMs nominate you. But if and when they do - there's no need to resort to accusations of bigotry and prejudice for it, to Ron or any other housemate.

I thought that she was above resorting to that level of unfounded accusation, especially over noms, which are simply part of the game. She knew Ron had a label of prejudice hanging over him him when he entered the house and it felt like she played to that unfairly and it was a cheap thing to do.

Great post, my first thought when Lauren said that was she was playing the transphobic card. Ron merely suggested putting her up, Vicky gave him the final say and he went for Louie, maybe he is homophobic as well, and if he nominated Carol he would be a misogynist etc etc. I didn't like her doing that at all, and the other thing I didn't like was Ron and Vicky just getting to choose one HM for eviction, they should have been allowed to pick a second one like all the others, the outcome may not have been any different but at least we would have seen a bit more of their thinking.