[Kaz]

Victoria at briandowling.net has now posted up the transcript of her interview with Stuart Hosking.

CLICK HERE to visit her site and read the interview.

Well done, Victoria - an excellent interview.

Stuart still seems to have a bit of a chip on his shoulder about how he was portrayed on Big Brother, doesn't he?

[Romantic Old Bird]

Aargh, I have written a response to this 3 times and my pc has crashed each time. So I am writing it offline and hopefully will paste it in afterwards!

OK, success, but be warned, it's become a discussion document on the BB experience, sorry, and log off now unless you have a few spare minutes!

Right, first of all, excellent, unhurried and full interview Victoria! You can tell it has not suffered from the heavy hand of the editor, and you asked the things we all wanted to know. Well done!

Poor old Stu, still smarting from the experience I see, but making the most of any opportunities given to him to meet Britney Spears, and to raise the mean average of a TOTP audience by 10 years single-handedly!

I am sure he is an overall good bloke, husband and father wise. However, I do think that no matter how heavily manipulated the whole presentation of him was, he does have a problem with having his authority challenged, especially by a woman. In addition, my goodness he was horribly insensitive to Penny re: the ‘Who would you sleep with?’ question.

Still, he has expressed broadly similar views to those given by Josh in his interview which was published in yesterday’s Observer. There is no doubt that it is a hazardous business.

Now, you all know what I am going to talk about and it is his comments re: Paul and Helen’s future prospects of marriage and happiness, so here goes!

I think he means that they have been pushed together by circumstances and public opinion, and that they may not have had the opportunity to really assess their feelings for each other sufficiently beforehand. This does make sense, and if you think about it, it is exactly what has happened.

They became joined at the hip within a fortnight of BB ending, apparently obsessed to the point of not being able to let go of each other’s hands. There was obviously a tangible thrill at even the slightest touch of their fingers at this stage in their new and passionate relationship. (PHEW! Do you think I could write Mills and Boon stuff??)

Very sweet, but that cannot last forever (sighs) unfortunately. They would not eat, sleep or function terrifically well in the real world if this had continued. Of course, they still were not IN the real world at this point.

After leaving the house they were in a amazingly surreal world, and they have been a great support to each other I am sure.

In the intervening period, Helen has changed her life entirely from the one she knew before, and Paul has returned much more to reality. It is bound to be a test on them and their relationship. My guess is that they have sunk most of their earnings into the flat, and Paul has done the responsible thing in ensuring a regular reliable income.

This might push them apart, because he will need to unwind in the evening and she will still want to talk clothes, dancing, etc. Paul is not as daft as he has been made out to be, and he might find the conversation a little repetitious.

Helen might find his normal status less appealing. She was really impressed at his being a car designer when she was ‘only a hairdresser form Wales’. The reality of his job is probably pretty mundane. Not something to enthrall when discussed at the dinner table.

She is now at least a minor celebrity, and with some smarter packaging and promotion could still become a bit of an institution on TV I think.

The whole BB experience has been a daunting and devastating thing for them all I am sure. How frustrating it must have been for them as individuals to be portrayed as the producers wanted them to be, rather than as themselves. The camera never lies, but the edit room can do a tremendous amount of damage.

I found Stuart’s comments re: the psychologist’s interpretations interesting too. One particular instance springs to mind when I thought ‘Rubbish!’ at the time.

It was when Paul was captured on tape saying ‘I love ya!’ to Helen. Geoff Beattie said that it was a very significant moment because Paul had said it and not felt the need to look back, and Helen had not felt the need to comment. He said that this meant all obstacles had now been removed from their relationship.

My interpretation of that moment was entirely different, although I think it was a very significant moment for Paul. Firstly, let us be quite basic about this, they had been rolling around in an intimate fashion on the floor, and he was a wee bit ‘overwhelmed’. He said ‘I love ya’ quite involuntarily, and was I think shocked by his own statement. You could almost hear him thinking ‘Oh ****!’

The reason he didn’t look at her for her reaction was that he realised that she either hadn’t heard it, or wasn’t quite sure she’d heard it. If he had looked at her, she would have said ‘What?’ and he would have had to elaborate. If she had said anything, she would have risked making herself look silly. IMHO of course, and who am I?

Going back to how the housemates were presented, and how some things were shown and some were not. There was one occasion when I think the producers and cameramen were very kind to P&H, and that was on their last night in the den. Whilst E4 showed uninterrupted coverage of the somnolent trio in the bedroom, the ‘live’ camera action on camera B was directed discretely at P&H’s feet. Even though we know from snippets shown that it was also filmed from above. A fair few post eviction blushes have been spared by that. Again, IMHO!


The whole point is that, going into the BB house is Faustian for the participants. These people do more or less sell their souls, without any guarantee of a positive outcome. It shows how seductive the possibility of fame can be, and it is largely speaking, pretty unethical.

If you decide to have your breasts enlarged to the point of ridicule and pose topless in a newspaper, then you know you are going to be ogled and mauled in the press. In fact, that is what you probably want.

If you go into the BB house thinking you might end up with a career in TV, and fame and fortune, you are likely to be sadly disillusioned. As viewers, we are also conned into engaging with the housemates, and into learning to care about them through close daily contact. They become as close to us as our family. They are dumped at the end of the process, and so are we. That is why so many of us are still visiting this and other sites.

The difference is that we will move on to look at the next ‘Alpha male’ and the antics of the next saucy flirt that crop up in BB3. Stuart, Penny and co. have to pick up their lives, and for the most part wish it had never happened. I wonder what Brian, Narinder, Paul and Helen did at that Kylie audience which was so unacceptable? All I have heard (courtesy the awful Dominic Mohan) is that Helen said ‘Mr Clarke, and International Popstar’ very loudly when Kylie called him onto the stage. Poor things, surely after sharing so much with us, and you can bet being watched avidly by most of the real so called celebrities, they could have been cut some slack.

I hope all this years big brother participants take heed of the problems
encountered by their predecessors. It is a foolhardy thing to do I fear.

For those of you who have been patient and long-suffering enough to read all of this post, thanks, awesome effort, and sorry I rambled on again.

I will now shut up!

[Kaz]

Fantastic post, ROB - thank goodness you persevered!!

I took from Stuart's response to the 'Will H&P get married' question that he really didn't know. As simple as that. I certainly wasn't left with any feelings of Sticks-induced 'you know what' after reading the interview.

Like you, I still have absolutely no idea what Brian, Naz, Paul & Helen did wrong at 'An Evening with Kylie'. I taped the show and have watched it a few times now, and can spot nothing amiss with their behaviour. Yes, Brian & Naz were dancing in the aisle, but so were other celebrities. I still have my doubts as to whether the 'ban' was real or just a publicity stunt.

I agree entirely with you concerning the 'I love ya' incident. It was a purely spontaneous statement, which took him by total surprise. I actually don't think Helen heard him, because her only response was 'Have I got mud on my face?'

[Feefs]

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?

[posh]

Victoria has also done a interview with bubble to it's up now great interview check it out on briandowling.net

[vix]

thanks guys... the interview went down better here than it did on my board!!!

As posh has correctly said, Bubble took me out for breakfast/lunch on monday, and we had a nice long chat.... I can only print what we recorded on tape, but again, it's another marathon- unedited effort. Bubble was a real sweetheart, and it's disappointed me that people found fault with his answers to some of my qusetions. He even felt the need last night to post on my board in his defence, which i thought was outrageous, and he shouldn't have had to do that.

Anyway, i've posted a link to the interview up in my forum and in bubbles forum... so if you find it, good luck, and i hope you have a better reaction than some of my members did.

Thanks again for the comments on the stuart interview.. I did have to edit quite a bit of it, (mainly my comments) but on the whole you read most of what was said.

I do love doing these interviews... it's so sweet they have given up their time for me. So thankyou, I'm glad it is appreciated.

[Kaz]

Thanks for your comments, Victoria. You do an amazing job on your site, and it must be great to be rewarded by getting to meet some of the BB housemates. I'm extremely jealous!!


CLICK HERE to read Victoria's latest interview with Bubble. He sounds like a real character, and he actually doesn't have his tongue out in all the pictures!!!

[chilledbootz]

Nice avatar Kaz!!!!. Stuart sounds like an idiot to me. Thought he was a nice bloke deep down but now I know I was right to not think a lot of him. Bubble sounds incredibly big headed, I know I love Paul, but does Bubble really think that, I was the only person who did. Most of my friends were irritated by his mood swings, and although he could be funny at times, he was too unpredictable for me. Like H I didn't know when he was joking and when he wasn't. At least Bubble seems like a nice guy though, unlike Stuart!!!

[Feefs]

I'm slightly concerned that in my marathon post I was unbalanced. Stuart has a habit of saying things that I find annoying, but I think he's probably an alright bloke if you don't mind those sorts of things. He's defnitely not a bad person, as were none of those on BB. It's rather easy to get carried away when discussing the negatives of an individual in those circumstances. I'd never stand up to such scrutiny!

But on the grounds that I didn't and he DID - Stuart only seems to say annoying things when he's trying to explain how he's really nice and not up himself, so I think he should just be nice, and stop telling us about it. His strategy to prove how he doesn't take himself so seriously would be better if he didn't tell us about how he deliberately dressed down for BBSW, or that he'd like to be dunked to prove people wrong. That sounds like a very serious strategy.

He should probably also avoid saying things like "Penny was never going to be a teacher", when she had been for 10 years.

All that aside, Stuart's an alright bloke, and I think I'd quite like him if he relaxed a bit more. He shouldn't worry if people think he's over ambitious, competitive and driven. It hasn't done Chris Evans any harm.

I've not been to his site for ages, but he might be more man of the people if he didn't have so many photos of his fancy red car.

[LEE]

Hi guys

Just to let you know that I'm going to be chatting to Bubble again later today as well. This is the followup interview I told you all about ages ago. We've been trying to organise this for a couple of weeks, but finding a time when both Bubble and I were free proved almost impossible!! But we've finally managed it

I'll post it up late this evening or tomorrow.

[Romantic Old Bird]

Originally posted by LEE
Hi guys

Just to let you know that I'm going to be chatting to Bubble again later today as well. This is the followup interview I told you all about ages ago. We've been trying to organise this for a couple of weeks, but finding a time when both Bubble and I were free proved almost impossible!! But we've finally managed it

I'll post it up late this evening or tomorrow.

Good luck Lee! Give him my love, and tell him to read our sites as well!

Oh, and if if happens to see Mr Clarke..... - from me!

[Romantic Old Bird]

Ooooh dear! I've just had read Bubble's interview for the first time.

Now I thought Bubble redeemed himself quite a lot in his eviction interview. He seemed to be happy to concentrate on positives regarding his fellow housemates. I remarked on that occasion to OH that he seemed a really nice guy.

This interview however does betray a somewhat inflated ego. He was not, in my opinion, the second funniest person in the house. Brian and Helen were both oceans funnier than he was. They both fed him opportunities to give the punch line;
'i.e., 'Bubble, did you take down my knickers?'

Bubble mate, you don't REALLY think Helen didn't gift you that, do you?

In fact, given the opportunity, in dry wit, observation and intelligent humour, Dean was funnier as well.

I think he is deluding himself completely on the Paul Clarke v. Bubble vote. I know BB were manipulative but they had independant adjudicators, and could be challenged to justify their figures.
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Bubble, you were moody and annoying.
I know you hurt your leg, but for a couple of weeks all we saw was you whingeing and moping around. That could well have been a proportional misrepresentation by BB I know, but the 23 thing to Brian? And the hats? You were practically psychotic when Brian hid them! Sad! Come on!

What I saw was you taking the nomination badly, wallowing in self-pity, and your housemate buddies sympathising openly with you, and ignoring Paul. It was his third nomination, he took it on the chin, and did not display any ill-will to the housemates who rejected him. The nominations did take away the cheerful openness he displayed in his first two weeks, but he showed a LOT of character.

We empathised with him. He was a nice ordinary lad. He was 'everyman' in the house and at that stage his flirting with Helen was only at the laugh stage. It's certainly not the reason I voted you out!
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I applaud the fact that Bubble is doing the London for charity, but I hope he doesn't think it makes him a saint. Almost everybody does it for that same reason, personal challenge and a good cause. He is using his higher profile for a good reason, but it won't do him any harm either.

I have supported my husband and sons completing the London and other marathons on numerous occasions. They do it for the right reasons too, but afterwards they anonymously donate the money they raise!

But hey, I'm sure Bubble is a good bloke really, and he has to capitalise on being a 'good pa' because he hasn't any alternative profession to turn to.

Bubble bragged in the house that he had 'had' at least 100 women. A proud boast indeed, so sensitive. I'm sure they were all delightful young ladies. However, despite this awesome prowess, I don't think the girls were screaming for him when he opened the HMV store in Basildon with Mr Clarke.

So, he needs to capitalise on his strengths and to continue to develop his comedic skills. In a year or so, the PA's will dry up as the rounds soak up more and more ex-reality show hopefuls.

Thankyou for the interview Victoria, you've met and obviously like the guy, so I'm sure he is a nice bloke. I just think it's a pity has had to rationalise his early departure from the house by crying 'foul'.

The 'public vote' got Bubble out, and he effectively defeated himself.

[Feefs]

Is it only me that can't get the link to work?

It sounds like an interesting interview with Bubble and it is a shame if he's feels he needs to defend what he’s said, but without seeing what he said I can’t comment. He does have a habit of sounding arrogant, but I'd have thought they'd be more generous as he and Brian were so close, and of course he's now your new showbiz pal Vic. Well done for doing it, and even if I can’t see it yet, thank you for (trying to) share it. You do put a fantastic amount of effort into these things and even if we don't agree on everything, I have great admiration and appreciation.


However, I must admit Bubble’s seeming unwavering self-belief in his own absolute popularity is hard to stomach. I too thought he was a moaning minnie in the house, and if he's like that in the interview then I'm not surprised by the negative comments. Based on my non-interview experience of him, my opinion of him has been changin, and I generally agree with ROB. The person I saw in the house was not funny, but immature and spoilt - far worse than Helen and Brian ever were. He was so ‘woe is me’ at getting nominated as if somehow the rules shouldn’t apply to him, so he became unpleasant as well as annoying. I also know I’m the antithesis of most Sun readers, but I never could understand that we were all in shock that he’d been evicted. My whole office thought we must have been watching a different show!

That said, Bubble did a great exit interview, and I thought he probably is really nice, just not suited to the BB pressure. He’s seemed well mannered and keen to keep his fans happy. He’s always sounded enthusiastic about being able to help charitable causes, which it great, but as ROB has pointed out, doesn’t make him unique.

Unfortunately he seems to have regressed into spoilt child mode. He's made a few 'I woz robbed' comments on his own website, that I hoped might have been part of his humour that I don't get, and not really bitter. Unfortunately I fear my optimism was misplaced and the spoilt man I saw on tv was not an artefact of the BB experience after all.

I obviously don’t know what he said about HMV, but I’ll contradict ROB anyway. If you look on his site, lots of the ladeez there think he’s the sexiest person alive. He also advertised his HMV appearances there, so if he said lots of people turned up to see him, then he probably wasn’t lying. He never put ‘with Paul’ in his diary, and Paul didn’t do anything himself, so it was always too late for us Paul fans!!! However, he has to be careful not to believe everyone if they tell him he was great and funny and the most wonderful person ever. They're after something! This includes the reporters from The Sun.

He is well intentioned, he’s probably a great dad, and his jokes did something for a lot of people, and I’d never dream of doing a marathon, even if I was raising money for myself, so he has plenty going for him. I am interested in what he’s up to, and wish him well. I’d probably have a laugh with him if I met him on a night out, but he needs to grow up and take the rough with the smooth. He’s had pretty good smooth - doing work for Chelsea, meeting some heroes and getting financially security. He’s in a position to do charity work and meet interesting people, (like Victoria and LEE). The Sun has continued to be supportive - they even managed to make it sound like he was doing better than the others by not appearing in BBSW.

I know this is a long post for someone that hasn’t even read the interview, and I’ll probably discover I’ve got him all wrong and I suppose in a BB interview, he’s going to look back. I don’t want to come across as nasty, because there’s far more I like about him than I dislike. He needs to put his disappointments behind him to let his good points shine.

I can't wait to see what he says to LEE. I hope he redeems himself!

[peachy]

No Feefs, you're not the only one who can't get the link to work, I can't either. Any ideas of what to try anyone?

[Mark]

link works fine for me

Mark

[James]

Originally posted by peachy
No Feefs, you're not the only one who can't get the link to work, I can't either. Any ideas of what to try anyone?

Hi all,
Have you tried:
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/inter...bubblemain.htm
This might not work, I don't know.

A word in defence of Bubble. It's understandable if he is having delusions about how popular he was with the public because he was obviously popular with many of the people left in the house at that time. They told him he would win the vote easily. I actually know someone very like Bubble who is always making people laugh. However, if you put him on TV he would definately come across as annoying and loud.

[LEE]

Just to let you all know, that I had a very good chat with Bubble last night but it's taking me ages to write up the transcript of the interview cos it's huge!!! The hatted one can certainly talk!!

Hopefully it will be posted up tomorrow.

[vix]

mmmm interesting...... thankyou for your comments

neither interviews were recieved as i had anticpated them to, and i wonder if that may have been the difference between hearing the words coming out of their mouths sitting face to face with them both, during alot of banter, and actually reading it as words on a page......... in fact I'm sure your interpretations would be different if you hear the tapes as opposed to reading.... still, that's my fault in not being capable in conveying the atmosphere and context within which things were said, NOT necessarily the fault of my subject who was saying the stuff..... no doubt, in more time, when i have more practice under my belt I'll get better at this interviewing lark!

What i did like was the fact that when I interviewed Bubble, he requested the interview, not me. He'd read the Stuart one and wanted one himself, so i obliged.

I found Stuart incredibly sweet, very very charismatic, and incredibly charming. I didn't convey that in the interview, and I should have. the interview made me think MORE of him, rather than less of him, and I really do feel for the guy when I read posts against him.

As for Bubble, well, he's one little darling i can count as a friend. Not anything that needs sharing, but he's done something for me that I'd wouldn't have expected in my best friend. He's is a TRUE sweetheart, and i love him. He's incredibly flirtatious..... if you didn't get that in the interview.... get your eyes examined!?! He's incredibly warm, and chatty, and charismatic, and more than anything else... he actually gives a SH*T about people.... which you don't find that often these days.... from famous people... or normal people for that matter.

I'm glad you seemed to have more constructive viewpoints on a whole over here and enjoyed the interviews. They are both fantastic men, and that's not something you find in this world very often.

[Feefs]

Originally posted by James
Have you tried:
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/inter...bubblemain.htm
This might not work, I don't know.

A word in defence of Bubble. It's understandable if he is having delusions about how popular he was with the public because he was obviously popular with many of the people left in the house at that time. They told him he would win the vote easily.

Thanks for the link James - it did work. I'm in awe of your typing Vic.

I had been feeling a bit guilty about my self-righteous character analysis of Bubble, and your comments about being influenced by what people tell you is very true. He is, like the rest of us (esp me) entitled to his moments of self-indulgence and in an environment like the BB house, it's easy to loose your grounding.

Anyway, I was able to read Victoria's interview, and even if I had jumped to a few conclusions, I'm thinking my instincts were right after all. He has extraordinary self-belief in his own humour. I know loads of people were entertained by it, but lots weren't. It's the height of arrogance to go on about how much funnier he was than everyone else, and to think that makes him better than the others. If he's going to play the 'I only act stupid' card, then he can have the decency to assume Helen sometimes does the same for the sake of a funny line. Even if he didn't actually say that people laughed at Helen compared to with him, it seems he thinks it and is happy for others to think that too.

I can't understand the mentality of someone who is that sure they deserve to win, and are that sure they shouldn't have been evicted. Everyone else looked shocked if they weren't nominated, or when they survived eviction. Everyone else said "I thought so" when they were evicted. In fact, the whole interview was far more "I'm great, I'm really funny and everyone loves me" than I could have ever anticipated.

BUT, then I read LEE's interview. Very good work. He was much more humble and very pleasant. Much more normal and didn't seem to be trying too hard to impress. He talked about what he's been up to and things from his life like giving up drinking, and I really liked that side of him. He was talking about things he knew about and seemed to be more genuine, which works for me.

I hope LEE isn't offended, and I'm sure it was because it was the phone, but I think he was being all flirty and lad about town trying too hard to impress Victoria. As it does in many men, this brought out the naff, boring, arrogant side of his personality. I'm hoping it isn't the real him and it was less cringeworthy if you were there.

He is doing a lot, and the marathon is something to be proud of, as is his committment to Macmillan in terms of raising money and spreading the word. There's no doubt in my mind that he does give a sh*t, but that's a basic requirement for me to like someone and something I expect of all my friends. It isn't that unusual in normal people, and I resent the expectation that it is a rare quality we should be humbled by.

I wish Bubble all the best, and hope he is really sucessful in his marathon and fund-raising bid, as I do to all the other people I know taking part and raising money for charity with only an internal email and a space on the notice board for support.

[peachy]

I still can't manage to read Bubble's interview. I can't get any of the links to work, it's strange because I can read Stuart's interview but not Bubble's. I have tried through Victoria's site also and I can't find the interview that way either. I think I need a new computer, or an upgrade or something!

[Kaz]

They're both working for me, peachy - I can't think what the problem can be. Are you getting anything at all?

... and James - please excuse me for not welcoming you to the forum before now.

Hope you enjoy it. Are you a Bubble fan? If not, who were your favourite housemates?

[James]

Originally posted by Kaz

... and James - please excuse me for not welcoming you to the forum before now.

Hope you enjoy it. Are you a Bubble fan? If not, who were your favourite housemates?

I'm another member of the Helen and Paul fan club. For me, their story was what made Big Brother 2 unique and the best thing I've seen on television for ages and the reason I'm still interested in the show. I just wish I'd kept some of it on tape! I also thought Brian was genuinely hilarious and a worthy winner.

I'm not particularly a fan of Bubble but I did not dislike him or any of the other housemates. They all contributed to the making of a great show. For that reason I would find it difficult to criticise any of them. The environment they were in just did not suit some of them. It's a pity, I think, that a few of the housemates have come out of the experience being disliked by the public. It should be enough to make anyone think twice about applying for the next one.

[Kaz]

Originally posted by James
I'm another member of the Helen and Paul fan club.

I think you concur with the majority of our other members so far, James!

Having said that, I also agree totally with the other comments you made. I love Helen (and Paul, as you can tell from my avatar! ) dearly and voted for her to win, but Brian also was a complete star and I felt so happy for him when he won BB2.

All the housemates contributed to what was a fantastic programme, and for that they have my undying admiration - I wouldn't do it for £1,000,000!

[vix]

well i have another treat for u guys...... u'll love it, i hope, as i much as i love doing it!... more later this week....

thanks again for the int comments......

ohhhhhhh dean has agreed for me to do the same to him as i did with Bubble and Stu, as has liz... provisionally, so i'll be an interviewing demon before the year is out! I'll let u guys know when i have dates as I'm sure you'll have probing questions for both...... anyhooo.......

byeeeee