[Amy]

BIG BROTHER runner-up Jason Cowan has launched a blistering attack on the show, claiming it was rigged to make him look "grumpy, moody and arrogant" so transsexual Nadia would win.

"It's not a reality show...it's a soap opera and Big Brother writes the script," blasted Jason, 30.

"I didn't have a chance of winning. Mind you, even Brad Pitt would have come second to Nadia."

He also claims Big Brother:

FOOLED viewers into thinking Michelle and Stuart had the first BB bonk. He says they just pretended in a bid to boost their popularity.

MISSED secret sexy moments between himself and Vanessa that were never captured on camera.

STAGED the infamous fight night, guaranteeing trouble would kick off by plying the housemates with booze,

Last night Channel 4 emphatically denied that the show was rigged.

A spokesman said: "Unfortunately, every year after the show contestants think they have been portrayed badly.

"But they forget that the show is streamed 24 hours a day. And I can say wholeheartedly that the editing wasn't geared towards Nadia winning. It's the viewers who are in control."

That's not how Jason sees it. He insists Nadia should have been evicted after ‘fight night' when she SLAPPED him across the face after threatening to KILL him.

Viewers never saw the ugly scene, but Jason claimed: "She was screaming that she was going to kill me and then just hit me, leaving a red mark. She broke the rules by being violent and should have been evicted."

Jason reckons Nadia got away with it because Big Brother bosses were desperate for her to emerge the winner.

He stormed: "Big Brother in the UK was a flop last year. What did they need to make it a sexy, wild, interesting show? A transsexual!"

So, Jason claimed, the footage was edited to show him in the worst lightand Nadia in the best.

"I'm not surprised I wasn't popular. I would have voted me out," he fumed. "They portrayed me as grumpy, moody and arrogant. They manipulated it all. They never showed me cuddling and comforting the girls or having a laugh.

"Big Brother knew that Nadia as the winner was a smart move...and they orchestrated it to happen."

Jason reckons even Nadia's famous rants about running out of cigarettes were purposely doctored to whip up sympathy for her. He says in reality she was even worse!

"It was like living with a Jekyll and Hyde," says Jason. "Big Brother made it look funny, but it was no joke for us. It was sheer hell for us."

Nadia's constant cackle was no laughing matter either. "It was 24 hours a day," said Jason. "If Big Brother had shown how much she laughed, people wouldn't have found it funny."

Since the show ended last weekend Jason has been holed up at home in Glasgow brooding about what went on during his 10 weeks of "torture".

Of that alleged first Big Brother bonk, Jason said: "I took a pack of six condoms into the house. Stuart asked for one and I gave it to him. But I don't think he and Michelle had full sex.

"They certainly didn't use the condom. He told me he never used it. I think they wanted to give the impression they'd had full sex to boost their popularity with viewers." But Big Brother missed what may have been a real ratings winner.

"There were things that went on between me and Vanessa that the cameras didn't see," Jason revealed. "I'd never talk about things that went on between me and a woman, but we did get away with a few things."

Jason slumped into a depression after the fight on Day 20. He said: "It was exactly what Big Brother wanted. They fuelled the housemates with seven bottles of champagne and loads of other booze.

"There could have been serious casualties. When the food fight broke out I knew I was in a house full of delinquents.

"To escape, Vanessa and Shell hid in the toilet crying. But Nadia and Marco barged in on them, screaming. I knew how upset Vanessa and Shell were, so I pushed the other two out.
"That's when Nadia turned. She called Vanessa a ***** and said she was going to kill me and her. Then she slapped me across the face."

He added: "After that I totally regressed from Funtime Frankie into a depressed man. But they didn't show me being a bit down.

"They portrayed me as grumpy, aggressive and boring." Jason's biggest regret is the lies he told to get on the show.

He admitted: "I knew there'd be gay guys in there and thought Big Brother would love a bisexual, so I said I was one. But they never asked me if I'd slept with a bloke. I haven't ever.

"I haven't slept with 250 women either. It's more like 60."

Jason now worries the lies will ruin his chance of happiness. "All I want is to get married and have a family. But women will think I'm a slag," he said.

He's also fuming over the way Davina McCall greeted him when he left the house. "It knocked my confidence being booed, but she didn't care. She just wanted me out of the way to interview Nadia," said Jason.

Later when he read his Press cuttings, he wept. "It was too much. I don't like rejection," he said.

The only positive thing to come out of Big Brother is the prospect of meeting the mum who put him up for adoption when he was two. Jane Astrauskas, 46, got in touch via the show and the pair will meet next week.

He said: "The first thing she said was, ‘I love you and I always have'—words I'd waited to hear for a long time."

Article from News Of The World

[Sticks]

Sorry, but I am inclined to believe him here

When Michelle looked like she could win this, suddenly the tasks and the editing were done to make her seem worse than Myra Hindley.

BB has an agenda

They tried this with BB3 to get Alex to win, but failed that time.

[Amy]

"Unfortunately, every year after the show contestants think they have been portrayed badly.

"But they forget that the show is streamed 24 hours a day. And I can say wholeheartedly that the editing wasn't geared towards Nadia winning. It's the viewers who are in control."

I am inclined to believe a spokesman over Jason, How do you editing someone in bed all day and show them sleeping all day ohhhhhh that's because he did do that all day!From reading that Interview Jason seems to have forgotten about the live streaming. I expect this will be a unpoular opinion of mine but it's just what I think.

[Stu xxx]

he needs to get over himself! x he is bloody lucky he came second!

[Red Moon]

I not surprised that Jason attacked the producers of Big Brother 5. He was clearly unhappy on the final night when he when he was greeted with boo’s from the audience and the press coverage.

But what did he expect after the fight night he took to his bed and sitting around with Victor and looking depressed. By the final week he found himself with no real friends in the house and although the other housemates tried to include him he still preferred to be on his own. They portrayed him as grumpy, aggressive and boring because that was how he was most of the time. Saying he was a bit down is a bit of an underestimate, at one point I though he should have seen a Doctor about his depression.

I think he under estimated the intelligence of the TV audience that we actually thought that Michelle and Stuart had sex in the house. It was clear from anyone watching that they hadn’t had full-blown sex although sexual acts had taken place. To say that Michelle and Stuart did this was to boast they popularity is clearly sour grapes, it was the production company that claimed the first Big Brother bonk took place to increase the ratings.

None of us will ever know the truth behind fight night, however it is clear that a large number of the housemates were involved and to blame for what happened. What seemed unfair about that night was that Emma left the house and the others involved stayed who did things that were equally bad. You can’t single out Nadia without mentioning Victors role in the fight night, if Nadia should have been evicted then Victor should have gone to. I fear the mud slinging over fight night will continue to for a while now after this article.

The editing issue is interesting and deserves a thread of it’s own. Clearly Big Brother can edit the highlights show in anyway they see fit for any reason. The live feed is a different matter it is only edited for content. However, you must remember we are on shown what they want us to see on the live feed, there are at least 42 cameras in house and we only get to watch one.

As for the booing and Divina, Divina clearly tried to encourage the audience to cheer and not boo, and given how he handled the interview it is no wonder she wanted him out the way. One thing I don’t think Jason has understood about the show yet is he only came second because a large number of people voted for him who didn’t want Nadia to win and not because they wanted him to win.

[She Devil]

Originally posted by Amy

I am inclined to believe a spokesman over Jason, How do you editing someone in bed all day and show them sleeping all day ohhhhhh that's because he did do that all day!From reading that Interview Jason seems to have forgotten about the live streaming. I expect this will be a unpoular opinion of mine but it's just what I think.

I agree with you there Amy.

And RM is right the only way Jay came 2nd is because alot of the public didn't want Nadia to win.

[sheila p]

jason we are in the real world not your world dont be such a bad looser

[golden~rose]

why is he roping nadia into this, he seems to think that he's been edited towards the end so that nadia could win...i dont think so, there was no chnage in jason towards the end so how can he possibly stand up and make such a statement!!

[bananarama]

Even though he is a housmate I had little personal support for in all honesty I tend to agree with Jason. The exuse that the program is aired 24 hour a day therfore they can't fix it is utter babbling jibberish. The 24 hour airing is edited to suit BB's agenda. When the mud wrestling was live on E4. was it show !!!!!. No. just selective editing of contestants faces.

It is not technically live at all they have about 20 minutes time delay to engineer things however they want.....

This may not be to create a fix as Jason puts it but it is edited to construct a story line that will bring in the viewers and votes. Jason was stitched up to a point and so to was Michelle with the same type of story line selective editing to whip up public interest and increase the vote count.

All BB's that I have seen have been fixed in this way at some point in the show... Allowing and encouriging Stuart with his cowboy hat and outfit gave him comliments of BB a popularity boost over and above the others. It gave him more attention . Another little fix that seems to have gone unoticed.......

Wake up and smell the coffee of course BB fix it. Always have and always will till the very last show is aired next year

[Amy]

Originally posted by bananarama
Wake up and smell the coffee of course BB fix it. Always have and always will till the very last show is aired next year

That's your opinion, fair enough! Lets not forget, however, that these people are told before they enter the house, on a number of occasions, what could or may happen to them in and out of the house, they make their bed so to speak! So in all fairness they should expect to get good and bad press, and they ALL got that.To me this is just his last ditch attempt, as with others In the show, to get some money before they are all gone and forgotten! As for BB fixing the show, do you really think they are going to waste their time trying to make us like certain people? Even if they have it's worked hasn't it?we all still watch it that's why we're all still here isn't it!?!?!?!?!?

[LovesTania]

I agree Amy, if u go into big brother expect the unexpected, jason should just try and ignore the fact that nadia won and try not to be too jealous. And anyway on fight night he was one of the people who threataned marco and nadia so i dunno what hes talking about even tho i know nadia slapped him.GOOD I HOPE IT HURT!!!!!

[She Devil]

Jason says he wants to be liked. well he isn't exactly doing himself any favours with what he is saying.

[golden~rose]

agree, he needs to get over it,

[shellspeare]

the article had sore loser written all over it. when will he realise that he was portrayed that way because he acted that way, or has he forgot about live streaming?
his snipes and lies in the notw article just reflect what he was like in the house, a backstabbing spitful, pumped up little man.

*lifts the stone so he can crawl back under it*

[Romantic Old Bird]

I always did think Jason was emottionally vulberable. Anyone who obsesses so much about appearance, behaviour etc is controlling themselves to avoid facing up to their own issues.

He obviously really needs to be liked and loved, which is why he went on, and he now thinks it has backfired.

His interview with Davina was awful, but mostly because he was very wary and didn't enter into the spirit of it.

Anyway, I hope he finds happiness from meeting his natural mother. He does need toface up to the fact that, as a 15 year old, she probably did a selfless thing by placing him up for adoption.

[helenrobin]

Well I think the Jay Statement is just lashing out because he didn't win, Nadia won fair and square as far as I can see, she deserved it, and it seems pretty dumb of him to say she should of been evicted the night she slapped him, well he should of been evicted for his scary temper, Victor should of been evicted for having to be restraint, after all she had her warning as did the others who deserved it. I think he is just jealous, even if she hadn't of been a transexual I think she would of won just because of her personality.

Nadia wasn't the fave to win to start off with, we all know Dan was, but nearer the time peeps personalities came out, which then put Nad's in the fave position.

Jay needs to understand, he was a great laugh at the beginning but his mistake was getting mixed up with Vic because Vic just brought him down and that's when he became boring and grumpy.

Just a reality check!

[Sticks]

Originally posted by Romantic Old Bird
Anyway, I hope he finds happiness from meeting his natural mother. He does need toface up to the fact that, as a 15 year old, she probably did a selfless thing by placing him up for adoption.

Point of order here

My understanding was that he was taken away from his mother. She did not have a choice, others made that decision.

[bananarama]

Well like the others but in a diffeent way Jason is making some dosh out of all the conroversy. In my book that is good. All BB housemates like them or not deserve to get a good old shot in the arm of cash rewards.

Anyone spending 10 weeks in an environment so tense and competitive all in the cause of giving us BB fanatics our daily fix of BB maddnes deserve what ever they can screw out of the media or ourselves.....

I hope the reunion with his natural mother leads to a more mentally settled Jason. There is a good heart in there he just doesn't show it often enough......

[sheila p]

he was a bit funny on gmtv this morning he still thinks that we portrayed him wrong JASON GET OVER IT

[Deus Ex Machina]

I agree with most of what he has said.

Big Brother has always been rigged, you could clearly see that Big Brother wanted Nadia to win.

Even in his 'best bits' video montage, it had clips of people saying nasty things about Jason, and that didn't happen in anyone else's interview (except maybe Kitten, I missed that).

[helenrobin]

Some how I don't think BB could of rigged the show for Nadia to win, why can't people just understand that the public votes not BB. In that case we need to take a look at the previous BB and it must be that all previous winners were rigged to win!

Jay is a sad loser and needs to get over it, it has nothing to do with the fact that Nadia is a transexual, it was purely entertaining personality, she gave as good as she got, if peeps can't see that the housemates made their own way out because of personality clashes then I don't know what else to say.

nadia won fair and square and she was actually not the fave to win until the last few weeks and that is because she is who she is, a funny person who can stick up for herself and also show her emotional side.

[bananarama]

There is little that is fair and square about BB. If Nardia had been a normal female with a personality of smoking like a pig on roast and cackling like a hyena with out of control nicotine tantrums she would have been booted out at the first oportunity.

The latest public novely factor of transexualism won BB not Nadia.......

[JC]

I've always said that BB edited out most of Jason's funny bits for the C4 shows. These get the highest viewing figures (and therefore votes) I'll admit it would've been extra easy to portray Jay in a bad light even on the E4 coverage as the guy was practically nocturnal. Yes, he was in bed most of the day, but when he was up he didn't go back to bed til around 4am. I and many other insomniacs thank him for this.

I find it very interesting what he had to say about day 20. Footage of him and Vic acting violent was shown, Nadia acting similarly was not.

[Ebroo]

Big Brother has always been fixed to get us to favour certain housemates ( remember Alex in BB3), but that does not make it right. Even in the live streams, the producers went out of their way to make jason look like a vain idiot. As people have said before, why was Nadia's violence not shown or even discussed?. I'm certain if Jason or Victor had hit anyone they would have been out.

[Mike]

Thats something i could never work out mate, why was Nadia's violence never discussed? it was weird because the minute Jason or Victor upset another housemate they were disliked.