[James]

Originally Posted by angus58

Precisely, and yet the Josie and John James supporters have no more authentic information or knowledge to go on than those that despise and detest them. Therefore it comes down to a matter of perception and individual opinion.

If a supporter is going to tell me that I don't know them because only a microcosm of their true selves and lives is revealed by their twitter and other media, and that I've got it all wrong, then I will use the same argument back at them since they don't have anything else to base their opinions on either.

Well if two people say they are together it is usually accepted as being true. That's the way it normally works, only in Big Brother world is a different standard applied, with the subject being discussed months after the show has finished.

Most people don't lie about such matters. You'd just end up making a fool of yourself if you did. And if a couple wanted to fake a relationship (if it actually happens?) it would probably last a few weeks before going seperate ways. Pretty ridiculous to imagine continually having to put out a made-up story about your life to anyone you meet and asks, online and the media. You'd be living your life as a lie.

But if the evidence is being weighed, on the one hand you've got a photograph where one person is leaning to the side and a bunch of irrelevant, selective bits of trivia off Twitter which can be interpreted any number of ways. One the other hand to suggest it is real you've got the two people involved who say it is real, close friends that know them who say it is genuine and people who have met them who all say they look genuine.