[Maru]

Originally Posted by Nixa

She’s a clever one is Ali. Surrounds herself with happy idiots who she can easily manipulate & keeping Nathan, who is probably the only one of her level intellectually, close.

Playing the strong female character really well, picking off the weaker ones in arguments & undermining Rosie with the viewers.

She won’t be far off winning.

Yes. I thought it felt like during the pairings task that Ali was holding back on a good deal of zingers. She's very clever, but she's also very nasty. I think she's timing some things to line up with making certain HMs more nervous, so she can manipulate them passively. By saying very little and acting a different way (edit: aggressively working people behind the scenes), she's managing to control the behavior of quite a few of them atm because they're on edge.

Marcello had been in there for a few weeks and it took her this long to mention anything about supposed job security being impacted? That doesn't wash for me.