[iRyan]

I'm from the US too! I first learned about BBUK in 2006 before I had even ever payed attention to BBUS. I had an online friend from Liverpool who told me about this crazy girl named Nikki and watched endless YT videos with her in it, and ended up following the series. This was before BBUK got uploaded to YT, so I had to resort to clips and articles on the website to keep up - I never got to really watch full episodes except for an occasional few that were randomly uploaded. Anyway, because of this I ended up getting into BBUS (which was airing BB7 All Stars) at the time. It wasn't until BB8 (US) that I got fully engrossed and became a big fan, buying the feeds and everything. By this point I guess I had just forgotten about BBUK or wasn't interested in watching a whole series because it seemed too long to me.

However, in 2009 I decided to watch BB7 UK in it's entirety on YouTube. And that's when I became hooked. It was the summer of 2009 when BB10 was airing but I was too involved in BB7 to start BB10 as well. And I had originally planned to just watch BB7 because of Nikki. But I ended up falling in love with the show, so from there I watched BB9, then BB10, then BB8, then BB5, then BB6 all in the span of a few months. And BB11 was the first series I watched live in full, and obviously I was gutted because I thought it was the last. Then it as announced obviously that C5 took over and I was beyond thrilled.

I too don't understand why people complain about the littlest things in the show. I, for one, am just happy BBUK is still on air.