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The main factor that is causing the destruction of Big Brother is consumerism.


For the past few years it has often been the case, that the main story lines are based around love/couples, and normally of the beautiful people kind. These 'love' stories are then featured in Heat and other similiar magazines, thus giving Big Brother essentially free advertisement and causes more interest. This leads on to the possibility of more viewers and as such more companies willing to pay for advertising on Big Brother.

This then leads the producers to want to have love romances in the house as Heat take interest (of course they only take interest because of magazine sales), so to increase the chances of this we have the 'beautiful' housemates that are picked for attractiveness and little else, in the hope that a romance does blossom.

Because of the way BB has pandered to these housemates in the past (Nikki's re-entering, Nicole even being allowed into the house!) they are left with more of these shallow types applying in ever increasing numbers, who also know what they have to do to be noticed. You can easily argue that Noirins love triangle is a of a fabrication that magazines would love and that she could be setting it up in the house to then deny it all in magazines about how she doesn't love Marcus or Sree, but here's me posing and looking nice....

I know all housemates are celeb-wannabies (on some level or other) but the ones that seem to expect a bit of fame for just being there has grown. The reason it has grown is they know that magazines will pay for photos and interviews.

However, seeing as how most of the population (or at least BB watching viewers) aren't like that it has slowly started to kill the viewing figures on a year to year basis. Watching the same beautiful love interests whilst the odd-ball characters get picked off is slowly becoming tiresome and people are turning away.

The same groups form each years, with the members that are the 'attractive' with 'fashionable clothing' becoming a key group that look down (just like at school) on those that differ from them.

Luckily they haven't had much overall success with winning, but that doesn't mean they haven't done that well outside the house afterwards.

Any thoughts, I tried to keep it brief, but have plenty to say on this matter...