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Now that dust is settling on BB5 we should be turning back to other things.

After BB2 it took a while before we knew if Paul and Helen would get on in the real world, especially after the cynics, (including certain BB2 housemates), said it was only for the show.

(Well they have not yet tied the knot giving the cynics some lingering hope I suppose )

We were hungry for news, and some still are

Any hue

That was then and this is now

Michelle and Stuart (waits for groans - from the readership that is - to subside) was described as Paul and Helen but turbocharged.

From all of the comments about them, there is a lot of cynicism that it will last as long as Helen and Paul, with a lot of hope that Team Handsom will ride in and save sherref Stu from the evil temptress (etc)

In 2001 there was a lot of people Willing the relationship between Paul and Helen to succeed. In 2004 it seems that there is more an eagerness for the Michelle and Stuart relationship to fail.

Is this the case?

I would like it to succeed if only because of all those who posted such vitriolic hatred of someone they had never met.