[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by JTM45

If you're someone who is determined to see worst in everyone and everything then i suppose (i can only 'suppose' because i have been brought up to look for the best in a person or a situation) you would have even found fault in him winning.

I'd say spending the entire Series doggedly hating on one housemate and exaggerating their flaws to the point of the ridiculous instead of actually enjoying something/someone about the series has gotta' be much, much worse than actually fulfilling a dream by getting into the house and then thriving in there, being one of the few housemates who the other housemates have only had extremely positive things to say about after leaving, and going on to outlast all but one of your closest friends and allies in there.

If anything your posts remind me to be extremely thankful that i'm the sort of person that i am.

As has been the case all through BB,you have made brilliant posts.
This is another.

Runner up is an excellent result, the times on here where the runner up has even hailed more than the winner are endless.

Raph has as I said elsewhere been the one who was in the house the longest, he is the top male housemate this series and likely has been all series.
He is also runner up too.

Raph has aways indicated he wanted the BB experience,of course had he won,that would have been perfect.
For me anyway.

However to try to diminish being 2nd and calling it failure, then that means no matter who they were,all other housemates in all series were 'losers' too and anyone in 3rd doing even worse.

If medals were issued on BB,all these 3 Isabelle, Raph and Deborah would have got one.
That's not losers at all.

Congratulations to Raph,well deserved result and the only one this series to have gone all the way from day one to finish runner up.
In a series for all housemates that in my view has been one of,if not the hardest, with the endless twists on noms and evictions, to be able to survive to the final moments.

The guy did great, absolutely great.
The really best thing is he got to fulfil his dream of being on a BB series.
However he was also there from start to end too.
Well deserved for a great guy.