[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Garfie

As Ammi indicated, Marcello basically admitted he was creating an argument out of boredom, and I think maybe to release some stress in the final week. He was argumentative and confrontational, but not what I’d call aggressive - and I can understand why he wouldn’t want to be presented in that way.

He seems to target Sarah in these situations, which seems strange when he has a close friendship with her, but I believe this is because he sees it as amusing banter, and thinks Sarah will understand it that way. The problem is that, when he does this, it is not easily identifiable as banter, so it doesn’t always hit right. His delivery just isn’t good.

He was probably right about the influencer comment, and about the fact that he wasn’t being aggressive, but he can’t see how his delivery appears from an outside point of view. He might think differently when he watches it back.

Basically, I think both Sarah and Marcello enjoy a good debate that they can get their teeth into, but this topic was not worthy of that. It was generated by a bored housemate trying to entertain himself.

…he has focused on Sarah a few times, Garfie…and as you say, theirs is one of the closer friendships…?…but there was also the thing with Khaled just a few days or so ago…and again, they’re two people who are closer in the house…I don’t sense though, that it’s any type of banter…maybe if a closer friend disagrees with or questions him or says something to counter what he believes…he might receive that as a criticism from them in some way…and hence, emotions can be enhanced into more annoyed ones…