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Originally Posted by Epic.

I'm confused. If so many on this thread are calling Nicky Maxwell an underrated housemate (as does the forum whenever she's brought up), then how on earth is she an underrated housemate?

She was relentlessly called a bore until this forum had an awakening!

Originally Posted by Elliot

I think most of the bb8 cast are ‘underrated’. It’s kinda brushed aside and forgotten about as a series and labelled as the start of the decline of big brother. Non of the housemates really got the same press and opportunities as the people in the series before them, despite the fact imho it had an insanely strong cast. Gems like Nicky, Carole, Laura, shabnam and Leslie are never ever talked about or held to the same regard as the likes of housemates from bb6 & bb7. Nicky especially imo was absolutely fantastic and grotesquely underrated for how good of a housemate she was

Whilst I agree BB8 is underrated and wrongly labelled as the decline of BB, to be honest the BB8 housemates still got the same opportunities/press attention as the previous series. You had Samanda earning a million just months after leaving BB, Chanelle and Ziggy being in practically every magazine in the UK, Brian getting a lot of TV/press attention, Liam doing alot of modelling gigs, Charley getting to appear on alot of different specials etc. BB9 was the first series where people truly stopped caring about what the housemates did after they left the house.