[elliebrew]

The public do not like an obvious winner.

They like to shock the housemates

They also like an underdog

Whilst Ashleigh was the underdog initially the balance shifted when Helen's posse left one by one!

The house was made aware of Ashleigh's insane popularity around the same time.

All the housemates just thought that Ashleigh winning was a given!

The public didn't like that!

THE PUBLIC HATE BEING TOLD WHAT TO THINK

The Helen protest vote came as yet another 'lets stick it to the producers'

Helen was made the underdog, her redemption was her winning storyline and the public voted her the winner because they felt Ashleigh was too obvious

[M X]

I think Helen won because she was the biggest talking point throughout the series and therefore the public felt more familiar with her than anybody else.

[Cal.]

Tbh (and I am a strong Helen fan) you're reading far too much into it. There was 1.2% between Helen and Ashleigh, and that was down to a surge in the Twitter campaign for Helen to win once it got to the final 3. It went for there being a few tweets in Helen's favor every five minutes or so, to her being the only housemate to trend when it was just her, Christopher and Ashleigh left. Ashleigh fans also got too laid back on the final as well, believing they'd done enough to secure Ashleigh winning when they hadn't.

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by Who Is She?

Tbh (and I am a strong Helen fan) you're reading far too much into it. There was 1.2% between Helen and Ashleigh, and that was down to a surge in the Twitter campaign for Helen to win once it got to the final 3. It went for there being a few tweets in Helen's favor every five minutes or so, to her being the only housemate to trend when it was just her, Christopher and Ashleigh left. Ashleigh fans also got too laid back on the final as well, believing they'd done enough to secure Ashleigh winning when they hadn't.

but didnt you dislike helen once and behind the ashleigh campaign ?

[Cal.]

Originally Posted by LukeB

but didnt you dislike helen once and behind the ashleigh campaign ?

I didn't dislike Helen, I was just supporting both her and Ashleigh. Once it got close to the final I began to dislike some aspects of Ashleigh and decided to just focus on Helen campaigning. What does that have to do with what I said?

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

ok

[Marsh.]

I agree with that to some extent. The outside information leaking into the house shifted things around.

One of many reasons why the housemates should not be made aware of who's popular and who isn't.

[Kizzy]

This series should be called Big Helen How crazy all these big personalities in this 'power house' and who rules the roost? A beautician from Bolton!

[MB.]

Also, she got the most votes on the night

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Whatever helps you sleep at night

Helen won for being a memorable housemate and thank god people voted differently to the last few years or we would have had another Sam or Luke A on our hands lol.

Atleast now with Helen she has a strong chance at staying in the limelight and every article will say "BB WINNER HELEN" which in turn is great promo for the show.

Im now routing for her to turn that 100k into a million we haven't had a BB success story since Josie Gibson.

[DigitalSid]

Originally Posted by daniel-lewis-1985

Whatever helps you sleep at night

Helen won for being a memorable housemate and thank god people voted differently to the last few years or we would have had another Sam or Luke A on our hands lol.

Atleast now with Helen she has a strong chance at staying in the limelight and every article will say "BB WINNER HELEN" which in turn is great promo for the show.

Im now routing for her to turn that 100k into a million we haven't had a BB success story since Josie Gibson.

Hear hear.

[Cal.]

Originally Posted by daniel-lewis-1985

Whatever helps you sleep at night

Helen won for being a memorable housemate and thank god people voted differently to the last few years or we would have had another Sam or Luke A on our hands lol.

Atleast now with Helen she has a strong chance at staying in the limelight and every article will say "BB WINNER HELEN" which in turn is great promo for the show.

Im now routing for her to turn that 100k into a million we haven't had a BB success story since Josie Gibson.

I hope so!

I hope she embraces it as well and opens up more about her past (which is essentially going to help her as well with making money) and not just thinks she's too good for that and talks about her winning (which will bore people)

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by daniel-lewis-1985

Whatever helps you sleep at night

Helen won for being a memorable housemate and thank god people voted differently to the last few years or we would have had another Sam or Luke A on our hands lol.

Atleast now with Helen she has a strong chance at staying in the limelight and every article will say "BB WINNER HELEN" which in turn is great promo for the show.

Im now routing for her to turn that 100k into a million we haven't had a BB success story since Josie Gibson.

Another really good post Daniel.

Helen won for me because she has been at the forefront of the whole series not just bits of it.

[jessicadanielle]

Originally Posted by daniel-lewis-1985

Whatever helps you sleep at night

Helen won for being a memorable housemate and thank god people voted differently to the last few years or we would have had another Sam or Luke A on our hands lol.

Atleast now with Helen she has a strong chance at staying in the limelight and every article will say "BB WINNER HELEN" which in turn is great promo for the show.

Im now routing for her to turn that 100k into a million we haven't had a BB success story since Josie Gibson.

I didn't think we had any boring males in this year's final year apart from maybe Pav, but I can see where you're coming from. Helen certainly is memorable!

Can anyone tell me what Josie Gibson's success story was? I don't usually keep up with HMs after the show but I'm interested to know

[Amy Jade]

Originally Posted by jessicadanielle

I didn't think we had any boring males in this year's final year apart from maybe Pav, but I can see where you're coming from. Helen certainly is memorable!

Can anyone tell me what Josie Gibson's success story was? I don't usually keep up with HMs after the show but I'm interested to know

Fitness DVD's mostly.

[sampvt]

Originally Posted by daniel-lewis-1985

Whatever helps you sleep at night

Helen won for being a memorable housemate and thank god people voted differently to the last few years or we would have had another Sam or Luke A on our hands lol.

Atleast now with Helen she has a strong chance at staying in the limelight and every article will say "BB WINNER HELEN" which in turn is great promo for the show.

Im now routing for her to turn that 100k into a million we haven't had a BB success story since Josie Gibson.

I never thought I would say this, seeing as how you ignored my olive branch post (betting explained #15) but you are right and it was a good post.

They do say even a blind squirell will one day find an acorn (joke)

The main reason she actually won was down to her over zealous fans. They punted her so hard and invaded the forums with all sorts of stuff (quite rightly so as well) that when it became apparent that she might win, the GBP took action and voted Helen to beat her.

They wont ever let a bitch of her sort win BB. If it had have been Christopher against her in the end, he might have been helped along as well but in essence, the GBP hate a deceptive person and although Helen is a Bitch, she is an honest and in your face bitch.

This is why I predicted she could never win and even though it was a small margin, it was never the less a loss created by a moral fan base that didn't want to see her winning. Sadly Helen isn't the perfect model winner, but it will do BB good because they all now know that this kind of format does not work.

If something is not broken, don't friggin fix it. Well done Helen.....and before you ask,,,,,,,my bets were down and up but Helen pulled me back and over the top in quite an unexpected but profitable solution.

[ruiphillips]

Helen only won because the viewers were tired of the manipulation and made a joke of the series by awarding the prize money to a prozzie.

[Yaki da]

She won because she got to play the hard done by victim in the final week. She did exactly what she accused Ashleigh of doing... Going to the diary room, balling her eyes out, full of self pity asking "Why is it always me... It's so unfuuur"

[Bluerang1]

lol shock winner. bye

[brisbanebroncos]

Helen won because her fans didn't have to spend any money keeping her in so while the fans of Ashleigh were probably thinking that they had spent way too much keeping Ashleigh in and probably didn't spend as much on the final. Helens fans had all of their voting money to spare.

I think it's kinda funny that a complete asshole won the show. It's sad that she will not learn from the experience and to her, it will justify her actions and will go through life as an absolute bitch. However, I'll never meet her, so well done, Helen.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by brisbanebroncos

Helen won because her fans didn't have to spend any money keeping her in so while the fans of Ashleigh were probably thinking that they had spent way too much keeping Ashleigh in and probably didn't spend as much on the final. Helens fans had all of their voting money to spare.

I think it's kinda funny that a complete asshole won the show. It's sad that she will not learn from the experience and to her, it will justify her actions and will go through life as an absolute bitch. However, I'll never meet her, so well done, Helen.

That is a very good point, she was the only one of the finalists who had not been up for eviction before so it does play a part.

I also think she played a blinder by telling Ashleigh that she was the winner on the night that they "made up", I think that comment alone spurred on Helen fans, and made Ashleigh fans a bit complacent (maybe), at any rate I didn't vote so I can't complain about the winner :

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by brisbanebroncos

Helen won because her fans didn't have to spend any money keeping her in so while the fans of Ashleigh were probably thinking that they had spent way too much keeping Ashleigh in and probably didn't spend as much on the final. Helens fans had all of their voting money to spare.

I think it's kinda funny that a complete asshole won the show. It's sad that she will not learn from the experience and to her, it will justify her actions and will go through life as an absolute bitch. However, I'll never meet her, so well done, Helen.

Not really in my opinion,I would guess most avid BB fans would still vote to evict someone anyway.
Supporters of housemates under vote to evict cannot do a great deal to help them until we get to the vote to win stage.

I wasn't a Helen supporter until midway through the series.
No matter whether a housemate I really liked was up or not, I still voted in the evictions that took place but I always make the decision to vote to evict who I want out,not the recognised easy target via campaigns and the like.

So I likely spent as much as I would have expected to over the series in total.
In the final I threw a few votes to Ash and Christopher but the massive bulk of my votes all went to Helen.
Really pleased I am that I did vote that way too.

[BigBuk]

She was because she was the most deserving, she was this Big Brother.

I also find it ironic how Helen haters call her vile, a bully, asshole, etc.. but they're being the same thing by calling her names, glad Helen won, its rare that the most entertaining HM wins.

[delta]

Originally Posted by elliebrew

The public do not like an obvious winner.

They like to shock the housemates

They also like an underdog

Whilst Ashleigh was the underdog initially the balance shifted when Helen's posse left one by one!

The house was made aware of Ashleigh's insane popularity around the same time.

All the housemates just thought that Ashleigh winning was a given!

The public didn't like that!

THE PUBLIC HATE BEING TOLD WHAT TO THINK

The Helen protest vote came as yet another 'lets stick it to the producers'

Helen was made the underdog, her redemption was her winning storyline and the public voted her the winner because they felt Ashleigh was too obvious

Get over it, Ashliegh lost 'cos she allied herself with the wrong people, the vivacious girl we saw last night was a far cry from the biatch we saw inside the house. If she had demonstrated just 10% of the joi de vie that we saw last night outside of the house then she would have walked it.


In the end, as they all do, she reverted to type and withdrew from the group and started to criticise from afar, each time she lost a new 'sniping' pal she replaced them with like kind.

Helen is a doer and won because she was herself all the way through.



: dance::d ance:

[Northern Monkey]

A very fitting end.I'm glad she won.It highlighted what a joke this series was.