[MB.]

Another franchise falls!

#14



Points: 153

Highest from Survivor

Much like The Debbie Wanner Experience mentioned earlier in the ranking, The Alecia Holden Experience was just as magical, except that little bit more… concise, let’s say. By that, I mean that she was so hated by her tribe that she was voted out in a mercy kill after eleven painful days on the beaches of Cambodia. You see, Alecia was never meant to be a Brawn. She wasn’t as strong or as intimidating as her fellow tribemates. She was, in fact, a mental giant. She lived by her own tune – so what if she didn’t realise that you have to take the pen lid off the pen in order to be able to write with it? Alecia didn’t care for rules, for order, for the kind of routine and regime that her Brawn tribesmates craved. She didn’t use her muscles; she used her brain. So what if that didn’t come to fruition in the challenges, where she’d completely forget how puzzles worked? She had heart. Look at the time where she spent almost an entire day trying to make fire, starting with just the smallest embryo. She cared for her tribe, as much as she didn’t fit in with them, even when they didn’t care for her. She shared the clue to the hidden immunity idol with Cydney, even though she’d later be trampled over by Scot and Jason for it. She managed to plead her case well enough that she was, inexplicably, spared over Darnell and Jennifer, even if she wasn’t able crack the other three in the end. And, perhaps strangest of all, even notorious holder of bad opinions Jeff Probst sided with her. Now that’s the making of a legend. And with that, Survivor is out of the ranking, which is a little bit of a shame considering it produced two top-tier seasons (and one Millennials vs. Gen X) this year. Plus, Alecia was in the top 10 for a while (or so my terrible memory tells me), but was ultimately pushed down to 14th by the people above her. That's how these things tend to work. But hey. Onwards and upwards!

[EspeonBB]

Debbie love is obvious but she was legitimately mad whilst also being a strategic threat at the same time? What a goddess (hopefully she's not an early boot in Game Changers)

Evelyn and Loveita too

[Pete.]

Originally Posted by Stephangel Davis

Oh you really did just try and shade Miss Aubrey? She did tackling Bear way better and dint just dislike Bear because he wouldn't climb in bed with her! *raises her eyebrow*

Aubrey was of course a sublime anti Bear warrior (spitting in his food was a bit problematic though and puts her under Renee)

[Calderyon]

It was pretty clear that Renee had a Mobsters wife with a wiseguy fantasy wet dream thought up between her and Bear. And when it didn´t happen, she was pissed.

[LukeB]

I didn't watch CBB18 fully but I know Aubrey spat on a sandwich which puts me off her a bit. spitting is kind of trampy

[MB.]

Originally Posted by Holy Spearit

Aubrey was of course a sublime anti Bear warrior (spitting in his food was a bit problematic though and puts her under Renee)

Funny you should mention her...

#13



Points: 154

A few entries ago, I briefly hinted at the Renee/Aubrey relationship that was one of the few highlights of CBB18, however slightly twisted it may have been. Perhaps it may have grown from the general Americans vs Bear vibe of the series, but wherever it came from, it went on to become a rather charming little friendship of two women who appreciate the art of spitting in someone’s food. The fact that she was previously of The Celebrity Apprentice (and therefore came in talking non-stop about how firm her hatred for Donald Trump was, which is always a good start) was emphasised from the beginning, and I’ve seen it mentioned somewhere else that Renee became the Lisa Lampanelli to Aubrey’s Aubrey O’Day, so clearly the latter has a type. If you were to separate the two, however – and you have, as is the point of this ranking – it seems that Aubrey comes out on top, and that’s possibly because she was a rare breed of housemate: the competent strategist. It’s an archetype that had never really been achieved properly before, no matter how many Shannon twins or Jenna Jamesons had come and gone before her, so to see somebody nail it and earn their "well, at least she beat Frankie Grande" placement was truly heartwarming. Until Bear went and won, that is, at which point our hearts all shattered into a million sharp little pieces. Shit, I said I wouldn’t mention Bear again, didn’t I? Shit.

Also, on a purely vain note, I think this might be my favourite pic of the whole ranking, simply because the background fits quite nicely with Aubrey's ombre. So at least there's that.

[Jason.]

Originally Posted by LukeBrrr.

I didn't watch CBB18 fully but I know Aubrey spat on a sandwich which puts me off her a bit. spitting is kind of trampy

It was Bear's so it didn't bother me

[Daniel-X]

I stopped Kaoh Rong after Alecia's elimination but she was ICONIC, a legend in her own right.

[Calderyon]

Spitting on anyones sandwich should get you removed on a normal season. But CBB18 wasn´t a normal season, wasn´t it?´´

[MB.]

Originally Posted by Stephangel Davis

I stopped Kaoh Rong after Alecia's elimination but she was ICONIC, a legend in her own right.

Finish it tbh xo

[Cal.]

Aubrey So happy she got 5th still, she was pretty much destined for 6th place all series.

[Pete.]

Renee became the Lisa Lampanelli

[Jason.]

I don't think spitting on a sandwich is necessarily ejection worthy. BB could've intervened before Bear consumed it but they watched it happen and then told her off. Spitting on another person, however is a different story.

[EspeonBB]

Alecia is really iconic A MENTAL GIANT who survived for 4 episodes and got the hero music during her elimination despite everyone on her tribe hating her and wanting her out every time they went to tribal

[MB.]

#12



Points: 155

It's time for one of the few people who have to date made it into both TiBB Reality Rankings, and unlike the only other person who I can tell has achieved this feat (Katya, for your information, hunty), this one has managed to improve on their previous placing. That said, it’s only by two places, and up until the final vote they were bound to be fourteenth again. Poor that indeed. That’s right, I’m talking about Jeff Weldon. No, wait, I’m talking about Da’Vonne, the walking gif herself. In fact, I’ve seen the gif of her leaving the BB17 house (oft misappropriated as being from last year and being a gif of her entering the house. These people must be stopped) more than I’ve seen my own family. And frankly, they may as well just have played gifs of her on repeat for the… what, eight weeks? she was in there for, because it’s all she was going to deliver. And for those who like that kind of thing, deliver is what she did, providing sassy confessionals and gifs and momes upon momes for Tumblr to touch themselves over on particularly lonely nights. Funnily enough, it was after her eviction that she truly came alive, and unleashed her fury onto a terrified Paulie Calafiore in the jury house, leading the aforementioned Paulie Pile-On Part II. That was fun. Let’s hope we get more moments like that to justify your tenth-placed finish in next year’s ranking, Mama Da’!

...oh, fine. Here you go.

Spoiler:

[Jason.]

Didn't watch BB18 but I loved her in 17 and glad she got a second chance and lasted even longer as she was taken too soon last year <3

[Calderyon]

Alecia on the Brawn tribe was one of the biggest oddities ever on a reality show. She clearly should have been in the beauty tribe.

[Cal.]

Didn't watch 17 and 18 but was prone to lots of Day clips which I'm not ashamed to say I enjoyed

[Daniel-X]

Originally Posted by Bah HuMBug

Finish it tbh xo

Will do lovely X

[Jason.]

Originally Posted by A Charlie Doherty Christmas

Didn't watch 17 and 18 but was prone to lots of Day clips which I'm not ashamed to say I enjoyed

Queen of appealing to non-watchers

[Daniel-X]

Originally Posted by A Charlie Doherty Christmas

Didn't watch 17 and 18 but was prone to lots of Day clips which I'm not ashamed to say I enjoyed

*

I watched 17 actually up until like Week 5 and Day was by far my fave.

[Pete.]

Why didn't Mama Day reach Top 10

[LukeB]

Mama Day making this and not Jason scum Roy

[Calderyon]

Whew. I thought she would win. Thankfully she didn´t.

[MB.]

One more cut left before the top ten. But who is it? Why, it's this 'un...

#11



Points: 157

Just missing out on this year’s top ten comes the woman behind what may be 2016’s greatest winners arcs, or at least, 2016’s greatest winners arc that doesn’t include the words Kristie and Bennett. It’s The Alana Spencer, the supreme cake queen herself. Beginning her journey in what might as well have been a permanent Las Vegas-style residency in the final boardroom, all so Lordsugar could pretend that she was “really quiet and timid and shy” in the beginning as if they didn’t just edit her out of the first couple of episodes because Karthik needed some more airtime, Alana slowly became a well-rounded business beast, starting with her first win as a Project Manager in week three and seeing her go from strength-to-strength from that point on. Well, if you ignore the time she fell back into the final boardroom in week seven, that is. Alana’s confidence grew and so did her snark, and at one point it seemed like her sole purpose in the show was to provide fun little moments like criticising the mermaids or the following exchange:

Alana: "Right, so we’ve got fifteen minutes-"
Karren: "Actually, no, your first guests have arrived"
Alana: "Right, so we’ve got no minutes…"

And then, gin came along, as it so often does. Alana had had a pretty good episode by her standards the previous week, she’d still ended up in the losing team, and therefore had a lot to prove before the interviews came around. Thankfully, she decided that she wasn’t going to put up with any BLOODY WAFFLE-OFFS () and dragged her team to victory, despite having to promote a gin named Giin and being on the same team as Courtney Wood. Her excitement at realising she was in the final five was amazing and was really only the beginning for her, as she more or less slayed (sorry, slew) the interviews, leaving Claudine’s wig on the floor, etc etc. At the final two stage, despite her team nearly dissolving into civil war over the name Maureen, her Ridiculously Rich by Alana cakes appealed to Lordsugar’s sweet tooth and, durr, she won, thus redeeming 2016 forever more and-OH GOD SOMEONE ELSE FAMOUS HAS GONE AND DIED FOR FUCK’S SAKE never mind.