[Romantic Old Bird]

Thanks Dinallt

I am not at all sure about Elizabeth's writing style. The unpublished article does not read well, and I find that her comments are so negative that they do not stimulate any internal discussion for the reader.

She fails, in all her discussions of the phenomenom of Big Brother, to examine why she really went in.

She applied for the first BB, was a standby, and applied again. She therefore can't say she did not know the effect it would have.

She saw how:

Nick was initially villified, and then how he cashed in on his villianous persona;

Mel was villified for kissing two different chaps in eight weeks;

Craig had a record contract, then lost it;

How Nicola had a single which bombed;

How Caroline and Nicola were criticised in the press for mistaking themselves for celebrities at a 'bash';

How they had all flashed and burned in the short 10 months between BB1 & BB2.

How on earth, as an intelligent woman, could she not have identified the true motives of the programme makers and the potential pitfalls ahead for the participants?

All in my humble opinion of course......