[Liam-]

I generally don't care about whether someone is a recruit or not, that doesn't bother me, what bothers me more are people who go in there and add nothing to the show for me personally, so for me Aaron, Cristian, Chloe, Danny and Jack.

[Raph]

Originally Posted by Liam-

I generally don't care about whether someone is a recruit or not, that doesn't bother me, what bothers me more are people who go in there and add nothing to the show for me personally, so for me Aaron, Cristian, Chloe, Danny and Jack.

Don't you think Chloe represents the average BB viewer more than any other housemate in there (with the exception of Nick)? For me, that alone makes her deserving of being there. Like she said, she's watched the show for years, will always be a normal person and just wanted to do something special before she settled down. The fact that such a normal person got through the casting process filled with models etc makes her even more deserving in my opinion, as that couldn't have been easy!

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by Raph

Don't you think Chloe represents the average BB viewer more than any other housemate in there (with the exception of Nick)? For me, that alone makes her deserving of being there. Like she said, she's watched the show for years, will always be a normal person and just wanted to do something special before she settled down. The fact that such a normal person got through the casting process filled with models etc makes her even more deserving in my opinion, as that couldn't have been easy!

Nah not really, 'normal' to me doesn't directly correlate to 'deserving' there have been many, many normal people over the years and not all of them have been deserving, to me a 'deserving' housemate is someone who makes the most of the, primarily, once in a life time opportunity, I'd rather be entertained by a recruit than bored to tears by a 'normal person'

And if we look at it technically, people in media these days, are becoming the norm, our society as a whole is so reliant on the media and social media presence these days that it's not all that unusual to be scene as 'somebody' especially with the powers of Twitter and Youtube.

A 'normal' person could go in there and be the biggest dick in the entire world, whereas a recruit could go in there and be the nicest, funniest person in the world and that's what matters to me, not what their job is or how they got onto the show, don't get me wrong, it is nice to see people like Harriet go on there and be from a humble background, but someone being scouted isn't detrimental to my viewing experience or my opinion of them.

[Raph]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Nah not really, 'normal' to me doesn't directly correlate to 'deserving' there have been many, many normal people over the years and not all of them have been deserving, to me a 'deserving' housemate is someone who makes the most of the, primarily, once in a life time opportunity, I'd rather be entertained by a recruit than bored to tears by a 'normal person'

And if we look at it technically, people in media these days, are becoming the norm, our society as a whole is so reliant on the media and social media presence these days that it's not all that unusual to be scene as 'somebody' especially with the powers of Twitter and Youtube.

A 'normal' person could go in there and be the biggest dick in the entire world, whereas a recruit could go in there and be the nicest, funniest person in the world and that's what matters to me, not what their job is or how they got onto the show, don't get me wrong, it is nice to see people like Harriet go on there and be from a humble background, but someone being scouted isn't detrimental to my viewing experience or my opinion of them.

Fair, I respect your opinion. However I think once you go through auditions and see so many 'normal' people with fascinating personalities and then the cast ends up having recruits like Danny and Cristian instead, it can be infuriating. Also, whilst I see your point, the average UK citizen/BB viewer hasn't been on a reality tv show with Winston (BB15) or is best friends with Ricci from Geordie Shore like Danny. The average UK citizen/BB viewer also wouldn't have a Vevo channel on youtube.

Recruiting is a very beneficial process to Big Brother UK as you can get characters like Derek BB6 who was totally deserving of his place. However, the way Channel 5 recruits nowadays, it's never on the basis of personality imo, even though it should be. Agreed about Harriet though, the best moment of the series for me was when she said how much being on the show meant to her, in her eviction interview.