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It's envy over his salary ($5m), status (US reality TV megastar), lack of intelligence and reward for lack of talent, he's not a singer, actor, sports star etc. If he'd been a Michael Madsen or Dennis Rodman nobody would have minded.

I enjoy seeing the pathetic vile venom of jealous contempt pour from Julian and Cheryl

There's an element of Julian, Cheryl etc have grafted in industry for at least 25 years and spent years earning peanuts, they get mild mid term success (Julian with Saturday Night Live and some lucrative panel comedy shows whilst Cheryl gets Eastenders). Then Situation (who was unemployed) comes along and cleans up becoming the second highest reality TV behind mega mega rich Kim Kadashian. So they are bound to be jealous. Plus ironically - since its CBB - reality TV is killing off scripted TV eg drama, soaps, comedy. It's cheaper to make Jersy Beach than it is to make Pretty Little Liars, How I Met Your Mother, 24, 2 Broke Girls, The Wire or Homeland etc.

TV is changing. It's all about reality TV (see the Hills, Osbournes etc). Kim 'sex tape' Kadashian and her family plus Situation, Snookie and Pauly D are the stars of US TV