[joeysteele]

Ben only told the truth about Mario and often the truth is not very palatable,its actually somehting Mario admired about Ben other than hoping to get something else from Ben. Had Ben shown the slightest interest in Mario sexually, Ben would have been his full hero.

Ben rejected all that and then Mario talked about Ben, not the truth always from him but out of spite, Mario knew what he had said was wrong in the main about Ben,so much so he had to have him on his own when Ben went back into the house for a few hours to apologise to him for what he'd said and for nominating him.

That time when MARIO sat on the bed beside Ben while Ben was talking to Laura. Mario had a crazed look on his face, a really weird fixed smile and sinister silence just fixedly staring at Ben.
As Ben said, bizarre, it showed Mario's giult and jealousy and furthermore ,'if', even now Ben was to come across Mario and give the slightest indication he could like him sexually, then Mario would be praising Ben all the time to all and sundry, such is the hypocrisy of Mario and his rather obsessive desires and ideas on friendship too.