[Jack_]

Originally Posted by jet

I have to disagree Jack. BB is real life, because the people in the house are real people with emotions and pasts and they can't suddenly become cartoon characters when they enter the house. They are still real; albeit some of them trying to be something they are not for as long as they can to fool us!
Their pasts may be irrelevant to you, and that is absolutely fine FOR you, but it's not the same for everyone. As I said before though, people can redeem themselves even if their pasts have been less than stellar; one of the delights of BB is how people can surprise you....so nobody is written off because of bad press. THAT is the point of the show to me...there is good and bad in everyone and the show brings that out in ways we don't always foresee at the start....

But they are cartoon characters? Big Brother is a cartoon show. It hasn't been a social experiment since about 2003. They are merely characters in one of the most false environments on television, it's like an unscripted soap opera. You cannot tell me Big Brother is real life because it isn't, and therefore the real lives of the people who enter to become housemates and characters are just not relevant to what occurs within the confines of a glorified television set.

How can people redeem themselves or surprise us if we don't know their pasts? This may be true for Celebrity Big Brother because the lives of the housemates are well documented (although I still think it's silly not to judge the celebs on a blank slate), but for the civilians? Absolutely not. I mean sure, the forums and social media have uncovered some pretty nasty tweets made by Andrew - but they were four years ago for starters and let's be honest, you cannot gauge what a person is truly like from their social media account, this is true for everyone.

Unless you suggest we get the entire documented history of each and every housemate with character references from those who know them and every single detail of everything they've ever done good or bad, we just simply do not know them, and it is silly to suggest otherwise. We get to know them - in the 48 minutes we have a night mind you - on the television show we are watching. That is the point of the programme.