[Daniel.]

Just a bit?

I love the series and some of the housemates but it's often described as the most epic series ever, when a lot of the time post fight night there are episodes where hardly anything happens?

I prefer 6 and 7 and would group it with the next lot of 10 and 13 somewhere, so it's top 5 but I think it's the least entertaining of the 'golden years' 5, 6 & 7.

Some of the housemates though - Nadia, Michelle and the hilarious and underrated Ahmed and Shell are easily top 20.

[Glenn.]

I can't really make an informed decision as of yet because I'm watching it now. I love it so far though and I'm only on week 2.

[Vanessa]

I love BB 5 . Victor!

[Glenn.]

I hate victor so much.

[Vanessa]

Me too! I love to hate him!

[Headie]

Originally Posted by Glenn

I hate victor so much.

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Victor might just be the best male HM of all-time. And IDC what you say, without Victor, UBB would've been 100x worse.

BB5 is great but Shell was really annoying and was responsible for Victor leaving over Jason, so why anyone classes her as an 'underrated housemate' is beyond me.

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by Hayden

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Victor might just be the best male HM of all-time. And IDC what you say, without Victor, UBB would've been 100x worse.

BB5 is great but Shell was really annoying and was responsible for Victor leaving over Jason, so why anyone classes her as an 'underrated housemate' is beyond me.

I don't like people who think their gods gift which victor seems to think he is for some reason. Someone that calls himself 'Slick' IMO is a douche.

[Vanessa]

Victor was an amazing housemate. BB5 wouldn't have been the same without him. Same goes for Michelle. She was so fiesty.

[reece(:]

Shell and Ahmed <3

[Daniel.]

The wedding scene was hilarious and Victor is slightly overrated, Ahmed was better

Also best male housemate = Derek Laud or Kemal

[Vanessa]

Fight Night was the best! I saw it on live feed!

[Daniel.]

The bb5 fight night and aftermath are 2 of the best episodes

Bb9 one got me more angry tho

[reece(:]

Soooo mad that BB5 was 10 years ago

[Vanessa]

Marco squeeling at Jason! Jason : he was taunting me. OMG! The whole thing was hilarious!

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Daniel_

The bb5 fight night and aftermath are 2 of the best episodes

Bb9 one got me more angry tho

Rex smearing pizza on Jen masterpiece!

[Glenn.]

I haven't reached fight night yet. It's approaching. Michelle and Emma have just entered the Bedsit.

[Samm]

It was a bit overrated but it was still a great series

[mizzy25]

It was very good when emma and michelle entered the bedsit, however my fave series of all time is bb3.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by Glenn

I don't like people who think their gods gift which victor seems to think he is for some reason. Someone that calls himself 'Slick' IMO is a douche.

"I don't like people who think their gods gift" *has Aaron as BB12 profile favorite* k.

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by troynuncdicit

"I don't like people who think their gods gift" *has Aaron as BB12 profile favorite* k.

Erm ok then.

[Gstar]

BB5 was great, had it not had fight night I don't think it'll get as much love as it does

[InOne]

It was an amazing series if you watched it at the time, especially all the live feed stuff. There was a good buzz about BB then still.

[Pete.]

great series

[supperhater]

I'm watching BB5 right now after recently watching BB7 from start to finish (I'd seen the first half of BB7 several times but always struggled to finish the last few weeks and wanted to get some closure at last) and I was really looking forward to watching BB5 properly after only watching the first 20 or so episodes on youtube a few years ago, but I actually do feel that it is a bit overrated. It was probably amazing when it first aired but I think some of the later seasons like 6, 7 (I know it gets very boring at points but so does BB5 and I'm only about 4 weeks into it...) and even arguably 9 were more entertaining.

I'm up to Vanessa's eviction and I think part of why I've struggled to maintain interest is that 28 episodes in, this was the first 'real' eviction of the series. Obviously Kitten was thrown out and there was the fake Emma/Michelle eviction, but I found myself desperately wanting someone to be evicted just so that it might change things up a bit.

Does it get better from here? Hopefully there'll be the regular evictions/nominations every week format from this point onward and I'll find it more gripping.

I do really like some of the housemates (Victor, Shell, Ahmed especially) and there are some great moments but so many episodes I have really struggled to watch all the way through. Also I find Nadia not that likable and don't really get how she won, though I guess I could say the same for winners of other series. And Marco is ridiculously annoying, and not even in an entertaining way.

I kind of want to finish this series but compared to BB6 (easily the best series ever imo) and BB7 it just doesn't grip me as much as I thought it would.

[Daniel.]

Yeah I watched all three a couple years ago in the order of 7 then 6 then 5 and to me BB5 seemed the weakest and BB6 the stongest. BB5 and BB7 both have the problem of being really slow at times whilst BB6 never once gets boring, although I can see why they are seen as the two best.

I put BB7 above it though because my fave hm ever - Nikki comes from 7 plus it was far easier to get into. The Shahbaz dominated BB7 first week >>>>>>>> The Kitten dominated BB5 first week.

Nadia, Ahmed, Michelle and Shell <3 were all flawless hm's though.