[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Pink Pegasus

I think it just depends on the way you view it.

The people who were offered money I don't see it as being really their money.

They are being offered money for a chance to give them the option of rebuilding the prize fund for the eventual winner.

It's not like the prize fund is still intact and this is just an extra 5000 they are offering to certain people with the option to keep it or add to prize fund.

No matter what way it was worded by BB, Chloe was given the option to basically return 5000 to the prize fund that she contributed (amongst others) to dropping in the first place or else to pocket it for herself and she chose to pocket it.

This does lessen the overall prize fund so in a slightly more indirect way perhaps than Jack/Joel, is still 'taking away' from a figure that could very easily have been higher for the winner if she just said a simple no.
I know it's not 'taking away' from the current prize fund figure on the plasma screen but imo the money on offer to each of them is just part of the original prizefund anyways that they are meant to be trying to rebuild. I don't see it as just some extra treat or prize that is being offered, it's part of the money that they helped to lose and supposedly want to regain again for the sake of the winner.

She goes on and on about how everybody should want the winner to have as big a prize fund as is possible but doesn't apply that reasoning to her own actions. That is why she is a hypocrite.

Wonderfully put as usual