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Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot

Okay since I missed the whole Gina Rio discussion because time zones, here are my assortment of thoughts in bullet fashion!

-I really don't see the comparisons to Jim Davidson, Helen, or Katie Hopkins at all. Like, Jim and Katie were entirely put into the house because of the awful things they've said and done, and Helen was put into the house because this is C5 BB and we're supposed to hate a prostitute, and then she turned out even worse than we imagined. Gina's VT was just like "lol I'm rich af" and I don't think that makes her a bad person or anything. And then once she was in the house she did have a rocky first few days, but she was able to recover pretty quickly and was actually pretty and nice and chill by the end of the week? I actually think that Gina's pretty unique in that she had her rough patch very early and then mellowed out more and more as time went on (the Hazel thing being the obvious exception.) Usually we're watching people become more and more agitated as the weeks pass on but Gina actually seemed to grow more comfortable with her environment each week.

-re: Gina playing the racism card, tbf explicitly saying in front of a black girl that black men aren't your type but you go for mixed race guys and then telling her "you probably wouldn't go for white guys" is at least extremely racially insensitive.

-"she claimed to have all of the money in the world, but it didn't change her having the face of a chewed piece of toffee." maybe this is just some British idiom I'm unfamiliar with, but am I supposed to believe that Gina isn't really rich because if she was then she would've had some plastic surgery on her face? I was confused by this.

-re: Gina slut-shaming Hazel, it definitely wasn't a good look but all it really does is, like, push Gina out of my top 10 and into my top 20 or something.

-re: the bee task, Gina and Hazel were both equally petty throughout the whole week. I think the difference is, like MB said, Gina's a complete cartoon character so it's expected from her. Hazel's whole shtick up until this point was that she was a resilient ice queen who didn't let anything (even a potential rape scenario) get her down! And then ****ing Gina of all people gets under her skin and she's reduced to lobbying makeup-related insults at her and telling her that she smelled. I like Gina and I dislike Hazel so obviously I ended up siding with Gina, but Hazel really was a bad arguer.

-re: Primark vs. Tesco, I don't really have much to say since I'm American and both of those brands/companies/whatever mean absolutely nothing to me, but I will say that until BB14 I was under the impression that it was "PREE-mark" and I thought it was, like, Michael Kors or some ****. Apparently I was wrong.

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