[Jason.]

I admit, I liked Gina at the time. But looking back, she was unpleasant. Yes, she had her moments and I will admit to that, but the way she treated Jemima and Hazel in particular was awful.

[Lostie!]

Originally Posted by BB6

I admit, I liked Gina at the time. But looking back, she was unpleasant. Yes, she had her moments and I will admit to that, but the way she treated Jemima and Hazel in particular was awful.

The race card night was when I knew there was no going back for me with Gina. A complete and utter insult to actual racism (not to mention the spitefulness of branding someone a racist so publicly without even trying to be rational about it first), just so she could have a bit of drama and attention.

[Pete.]

Originally Posted by BB6

I admit, I liked Gina at the time. But looking back, she was unpleasant. Yes, she had her moments and I will admit to that, but the way she treated Jemima and Hazel in particular was awful.

People forget that Hazel was just as bad as Gina!

[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.

[Pete.]

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.

<3

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot

I was under the impression that it was "PREE-mark" and I thought it was, like, Michael Kors or some ****. Apparently I was wrong.

[Macie Lightfoot]

#. Sada Walkington (BB1)



more like Sada Joggington amirite?

ugh this actually pains me because Sada is the first boot EVER and she's actually pretty darn good? She was the token spiritual hippie that we saw in every early 2000s reality show, think Kelly Wiglesworth from Survivor. Sada was a quasi-vegetarian, she fell in love with India, and she chanted this beautiful masterpiece in the bedroom one night for no reason,

WE ARE ONE WITH THE GODESS
AND TO HER WE SHALL RETURN LIKE A DROP OF RAIN
DROP OF RAIN
FLOWING TO THE OCEAN

and then Nichola was oddly delighted by this and asked her to chant it again <3 I love granola chicks like Sada because she's such a product of the time period she exists in and it makes it super easy to put yourself in the Y2K mentality and enjoy BB1.

Unfortunately, for reasons that weren't really shown in the highlights, everyone hated Sada and she was nominated!!! I can only guess that she was nominated because she's annoying af. Thankfully, though, this kicked off a hilarious roller coaster of emotions including

-proudly proclaiming that all the guys fancied her
-being really bitter at Mel for ****ing up the gender divide and thus sealing her fate
-threatening to walk
-deciding not to walk
-becoming Caroline's personal therapist when she wanted to walk
-bitching out Mel for having a gameplan and being convinced that Mel was jealous of her

It was all as hilarious as it sounds, but unfortunately the public had enough and Sada was evicted right away, forcing her to take a farewell bath (???) in the garden before leaving. I can't exactly say that it was the wrong choice, because...

I am not only saving, but using my final pass on Caroline because she is AMAZING and she doesn't deserve to go so soon just because people are too lazy to watch BB1.