[Jack The Cat]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I've been thinking lately about the "types" of favourites/winners over the years and it seems to me that Big Brother has gone into phase 3 of the type of people the public want to win. At the very beginning it was the nicest Housemate who went on to win the series, that continued up to BB8 (not counting Nadia or Petes wins, i think they won because their story was different and they had a lot of sympathy votes) Brian belo winning started the craze of nice but dim people winning and now we seem to be at phase 3 with nasty HMs "redemption stories" (which are so fake imo) with the like of katie Hopkins being favourite and Helen winning last year.

Thoughts?

Interesting point, on the whole think you are right.

If voting behaviour is linked to how the nation is feeling, you could say phase one is the optimism of the New Century with (New Labour). Phase two was a more Environmentally aware (Green) and phase three is more feeling let down by the status quo (UKIP).

I'm struggling a bit with phase 2.