[Arneldo]

Since BB8 onwards it's been clear perhaps how little votes where being cast as voting was very easily influenced.

John won Hijack because he had a group of 100+ people back home in Scotland voting for him many times, but after Anthony + Amy were evicted, John got the anti-Emilia vote. Take into account Hijack had 700,000 viewers, and I'd say only about a quarter of that actually voted in the final. The forums were behind Amy and Emilia, but Amy fans were "too cool" to vote - securing Emilia's place in top 2. Nobody had the support of John's group back up in Scotland though.

In BB9, Rachel won for being nice. At the time of the final she was the anti-Res, the anti-Darnell vote, both of them being the most hated outside of the house at the time. I think this swung the vote in her favor. Take into account that Michael was the bookies favourite - because of this Mikey fans (especially those off the forum) were more confident he would win, and would be less likely to vote. Giving the forums their first BB win.

I think ti was the opposite in BB7 + BB8 though. In both of these series it was defiantly the younger viewers off the forms that decided the winner. Aisleyne and Amanda/Sam were the favorites in the forums but it was the greater voting public who chose Pete and Brian was the winners, but quite high margins. Pete was a big favourite on the forms as well, but I think at the time in the majority of the forum polls, Aisleyne was winning.

As for BB5, BB3 and BB2 - I think it was a simple popularity contest. Brian D, Kate and Nadia all won because they connected with the viewers, both male and female. In BB4 though - Cameron definitely had the housewives vote, and the public knew he was going to do good with his money.

'Nasty' Nick won it for Craig back in BB1. It was only when Craig stood up to Nick that he became a real contender to win. Even in the final vote it was really close between Craig and Anna (51% to 49%), so it was just as likely that Anna could have prevailed.


All of this IMO, of course.