[James]

Hello Mary and welcome to TIBB – possibly the best Big Brother message board in the world! - happy posting.

I agree with you 100%.

If Paul ever had any problem with what Brian said about him to Helen in the BB house, Paul undoubtedly now considers it water that has long since passed under the bridge and emptied into the sea.

It has to be remembered that these things were said in the cocoon that is the Big Brother house. The housemates weren’t privy to the way that the events of the house were being portrayed on television and didn’t know that the romance was seen as the main storyline. Brian or any other housemate shouldn’t be held accountable for remarks that they wouldn’t consider to be any more important than anything else they said.

It is very true that Brian has always been supportive of Helen and Paul when asked about them. Any criticism in the media has been conspicuous by its absence. The way I see it, of all the housemates, Stuart, Brian and Dean have, in fact, been most positive about Helen and Paul on the outside.

It would be reasonable if Paul found it more difficult to cast aside the things that Bubble and Josh, for example, said in media interviews after they left house. They knew how Paul was being portrayed in the press and how difficult it would be for him to deal with the papers on the outside. But I’m absolutely sure that Paul had little or no problem with them either, and if he had he’d consider it ancient history now anyway.