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BB14 Channel 5's Big Brother: Secrets and Lies (aka Big Brother 14) started June 13th 2013 and was won by Sam Evans. Discuss the series and housemates here. |
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The Italian Job
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I saw this post on DS and i thought it was spot on about Callum. Thoughs?
![]() Here is my (totally unprofessional) take on Callum based on a few people's observations and mine on some earlier threads. Now this is potentially a stretch, but indulge me in my moment of being Dan. He keeps repeating things over and over "soar, Charlie Travers!" and "ask me how I'm feeling" and "I'm doing my bit, Sam" and he is fixated on Dexter as an evil nemesis. I started thinking he might be losing his touch with reality a bit this week, possibly schizophrenic? On part of the LF last night, when Charlie told Sam that Callum's take on Sam's crowd reaction was inaccurate he bizarrely tried to make it Dexter's fault that Charlie had made him look bad in front of Sam. He has a need to see Charlie and Sam as good and pure, and he must be their hero. I read he even saw Hazel upset about Dan and thought he could help her out too. If he's not schizophrenic (and if he is I do feel sorry for him) then he certainly seems to have a savior complex (or both). I saw this post on DS and i thought it was spot on about Callum. Thoughts? On top of the stuff in the house, he has stories of saving 19 lives in 4 years as a lifeguard as well as another 9 outside of that. On his BBspy bio he mentions how coaching kids gets him lots of praise from parents which he enjoys, and saving lives makes him a hero which he also enjoys. Someone on here astutely mentioned his rant about batman and superman, indicating he sees Dexter as a supervillain and himself as a superhero. Now I've even defended Callum in the past for being so compassionate toward Sam's frustrations, but I think we're all feeling a bit confused about his behaviour lately? Anyway, he might just be a socially awkward try-hard David Brent who lied on his VT and I might be overthinking it but I'd love to hear others' thoughts.
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I do think Callum sees himself as the hero and he sees Dexter as the villain. He seems desperate to be seen that way.
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Firstly the main sympton of schizophrenia is experiencing hallucinations and/or delusions, which Callum is not and its a total barbaric assumption to make.
Secondly hed have never made it past the audition process if he had schizophrenia.
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I agree with the saviour complex. Callum sees himself as the hero and Dexter as the villain.
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It's because Callum is the hero, well victim at least. And Dexter is the villain. He's been bullying and belittling Callum for a while now, and finally Callum is standing up for himself.
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Having a saviour complex or similar psychological set up does not necessarily negate this bit:
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Lmao dexter jealous on BBOTS.
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If Callum were perfectly stable and this was all an act, then he would've been kept off the show. They don't cast boring people, they cast people who tick one of a certain combination of boxes on the psych screen - that's all of them, not just Callum. |
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the guy is psychotic with obsessive tendancies he thinks he invents all these characters he thinks he is some kind of jim carrey with superior intelligence. but he gets so confused he doesn't even know the real callum most of the time
callum is just using dexter again he thinks if he plays the good guy v the bad guy he will win the show its another game plan he has come up with , when talkign about super heros thats where he is going with it. the same as pretending he was mates with dan just so he ican get in with the others as they miss dan, there is no end to his sneakyness whats funny is without dex callum would never of had a storyline from the begiinning all he had was his showmance plan which failed .
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Callum chat in the diary room about superheroes and villain was a bit weird for me.
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And finally the rest of the house is backing him.
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the fact is he just needs a new plan as his keeps failing thanks to dex. and he is extremely bitter. dex summed up him well tonight.
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People who do not like Callum will obviously believe anything unfavourable said about him , it doesn't make anything true it just gives them another talking point and more ammunition,ell I think I am savvy enough to make up my own mind,and imo Yes Callum is a tad dramatic,but he isn't sly and malicious,the only one I can see fitting that bill is Dexter.
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a blind man can see what he is.
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Callum has issues which is projecting onto others.
He wants to sort other people's problems out; however, he cannot recognise that he is the one with far more to sort out then those he's attempting, in a rather cringeworthy manner, to help. I have to say he is very much like a friend of mine. Who is a qualified and practising psychologist! |
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Love all these wannabe shrinks in here.lol
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Hes just about the most weird, sly, fake calculating person in there. Hes the only one nobody literally has a clue what hes really like cause his personality changes like the wind to suit the moment. I described him weeks back like an automaton from some sci-fi program, whos been programmed to interact with humans on a level it thinks is agreeable but is always a little 'off' and awkward cause it doesnt know how to display actual emotion or passion. Hes just bloody creepy and downright annoying if you ask me. Thought it from week 1.
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His lie so far was the biggest (by his own admission it was total bollocks) and he has repeatedly flitted from being one extreme to the other in terms of his personality. Dexter is a self interested dick, but he has consistently been a self interested dick, only change is hes more aware of it now. Callum went from some hippy throwback, to danny dyer via guru nanak and back again in 5 weeks. Im still not sure if hes a total fake or not cause I literally have no idea of his actual personality. Hes not vile (like some this year) or malicious, but hes a total freak and very self important (despite his claims to the contrary) and I cant trust a single thing he says. Moreso than even Dexter.
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Callum's neediness, quirks and manic intensity come blasting through the screen. imagine what it's like living with him! The final diary room segment was truly bizarre but more telling, perhaps, was Callum trying to claim Dan's place in the house by telling everyone that they were close and communicated by glances alone. I had thought that Callum might calm down: far from it.
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Maybe he wants to save everyone because deep down he wishes someone would save him.
He seems marginally sociopathic (we all are at times though). He seems over intense (facially). I have noticed he forms his face in an exaggerated way when he wants someone to think he is really listening...instead of listening he shows he is listening. At a guess he will not understand why people have said he tries too hard. It seems to be true that he does - however he genuinely does not seem to have a malicious bone in his body - possibly because he has trained himself not to have. I think it is intensely hard work being Callum and I wish he was able to relax a bit - no-one seems to value all his attempts to smooth their rocky paths... |
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He does in a way. Sophie and Dan were spot on when they were discussing him constantly making himself a martyr. When he told Sam he'd do the dishes, instead of saying it simply he had to ram the point home and fully express how he is giving up his precious time to do..... the dishes.
Everything has to be ultra serious all the time, like he's a panellist on BOTS or something. |
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