[monx]

Ok for entertainment value I would love Brian to win but I thought about this long and hard last night.

Nick was the ground breaker in many ways and for some he made Big Brother what it is today.

All his lying, scheming an machiavellian whisperings, showed a housemate trying to ensure his own place in the house whilst casting doubt against others. His only mistake was perhaps to be too obvious about it and not realising that his housemates were not on the same page. He was ahead of his time for game playing and did make it all must see tv for us all.

At the start of that summer I was glued to the set, I drew the line at watching the live feed at night because I didnt want to become addicted , I remember the day he got found out like it was yesterday, my mother rang me at work and told me that it had made the news and that there was a special programme on that night going through the events.

I have to admit seing someone get his comeuppance was great telly and at the back of my mind I kept thinking surely they will all realise that what he was doing was just trying to win. Ok not very well, all that guff about being in the army was shown up to be a complete and utter fabrication the first time he attempted the assault course! However I did feel people were overacting at the time.

As he himself says, had this happened in America they would have applauded his inginuity and guile.

I think the months of villification in the press and the nick name "nasty Nick" initially made it impossible for him to find work unless he used his notoriety.

I just think there would be some kind of karma and ironic closure if he should win as he was the first and only one to be kicked out for "playing the game".

Just a few ramblings from a fevered brain (got summer flu)