[Macie Lightfoot]

cut Benedict save Jem xxx

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75. Benedict Garrett (BB13)



I have a pretty mixed track record with first impressions but jesus I thought Benedict was going to be AWFUL and I was fully prepared to loathe him just like I did Aaron the series before. A teacher turned porn star just sounds like a recipe for disaster and I was readying myself to suffer through 10 weeks of fun-sucking and camera-whoring antics.

Fortunately, I was wrong! But that's kinda because Benedict was barely on the show? I think a lot of people forget that he was pretty much invisible for the first ~13 days except for the controversy of him masturbating in the shower. I'll go ahead and say that my stance on the matter is that it's pretty disgusting for Benedict to openly flaunt that he had a nice wank in the shower or whatever, but at the same time Caroline was so ****ing immature with her dramatic freak outs about any sexual discussions that I couldn't even side with her. The whole thing was a mess and I didn't really enjoy it as a storyline.

But once Benedict was nominated ohmygod was he amazing. He voiced every opinion that desperately needed to be voiced and put people in their places and spilled some major truth tea in the process. I loooooooved when he did that hilariously spiteful impression of Ashleigh in the DR for being a thick Essex girl thinking she could actually get famous from BB in 2012 (is Ashleigh even from Essex? I'm admittedly awful with geography inside of the UK and it makes me feel guilty bc so many of you people know about the USA), he told Caroline off that one time because she LAUGHED in the foulest form when Victoria was evicted and is just generally ungrateful to her parents (??? ) and bitches about everyone (and when she denied it, BULL. ****.), he taught a hilarious sex ed class that made Caroline squirm even more, he spiked Luke Scrase's protein powder just for fun, and finally he unscrewed a swivel chair and stole it from the house and used it as a prop as part of his exit, which I will say is a little too attention-seeking for me but still. It was the perfect kick-starter to the Insiders/Outsiders divide and really set the series in motion. But still, Benedict was really only visible for like five days so lol at him making it any further than this (and yes, I'm fully aware of how hypocritical this probably sounds since I'm quite fond of people like Laura McAdam and Isaac Stout but deal with it.) This write up actually makes me like Benedict more than I thought I did, but it's not like he was an important piece that held the series together or anything.

I'm saving Jem (BB12) because I, too, would cackle in Aaron's face and cheer every time someone else's family member or friend nominated him including his own girlfriend's mother <3 a woman of my heart.