[Sticks]

Reported in the Sunday Mirror

BIG BROTHER 3: RAT HAS A SECRET SON
LOVE rat Sandy Cumming has a second secret child.

Sandy's first wife Yasmin only told teenage daughter Amy the kilt-wearing Scot was her dad as they watched the show last week.

But cheating Sandy, 43, also dumped former nursery nurse Annette Hay before she gave birth to their son Campbell, now nine. Ex-soldier Sandy, who owes £4,600 in child maintenance, seduced Annette while with his long-term partner Anne Davidson. A year later Sandy moved in with Anne, 45, in Edinburgh and the pair wed in October 1993 - six months after Annette gave birth to their son. Last night Annette said: "He is nothing to do with me any more."

I wonder if this is why he wants £70,000

Should he come up for nomination, I know who my hand will be against !!!!

[splodge0]

Mirror again, sticks? Try the Telegraph old chap........

"Alex for Deputy Prime Minister!!"

[Janette]

I would never condone deadbeat dads, but we don't know the full story.

For all we know, Sandy may have been refused access to these children and that could be why he is against the whole idea of children.

Maybe I'm just playing devil's advocate, but I don't think we should be condemning Sandy when we haven't seen the big picture!

Fair point, Janette. I say vote him out because he is a boring prat who thinks he is better than the others...

[jbellemeg]

HERE! HERE ! OLDGIT

Couldn't have put it better myself.

[peachy]

I do agree, Oldgit. I've only just watched the show from last night and I just dislike Sandy so much. I have from the start but he acts so superior to everyone that he makes my blood boil. I thought he was cold to Lynne when she'd been voted out and as for his remarks the other night when he was saying that kids are brats and he didn't understand why anyone would want them when his own child was probably watching was unspeakable. What a git, (present company except Oldgit)

[Boris]

I've said it before and I'll say it again


Sandy is a PRAT

go go go

[LEE]

When the tabloid press wrote lies and half truths about Helen and Paul last year we were all up in arms and definitely didn't want to believe a word they said.

Why therefore are their articles being unquestionably believed this year. I agree with Janette, we don't know the truth. Sticks, if as you say in your signature 'The truth is out there' I don't think you're going far enough to find it.

[hauser]

I couldn't understand why anyone liked him in the first place, for read many posts where people actually liked him, and I wanted to know why, and what did they see that I couldn't....which was the most worrying aspect. If people liked him then they could have had the same character as he had, and who wants to associate oneself with them either. I was glad he went and gave a big cheer when he climbed that wall...best thing he probably ever did in his whole life. What was equally disturbing was that Alex liked him a lot, which makes Alex not so nice a guy at all, if he thought Sandy was the bees knees. Also telling Jonny that he didn't like him wasn't that honest a thing to say, it was a mean act, meant to undermine Jonny's confidence, which it did during course of the game for all to see. Sandy was plain jealous of a lot of the HM's I reckon, for a lot of old geezers get that way.....and maybe there is a grain of truth re the Sun's story re him and his abandoned kids...poor things. His only redeeming factor was that he could cook.

my quote woud be: when you're young you only see out of young eyes, but when you're older and more experienced you see something else.

[Flossy2k2]

I know I am well beyond my sell-by date, so I wonder if Sandy is as bad as Mr Hauser says. I think he was sensible to leave as he did, because a lot of the Housemates this year were a bit scheming. I think it is a pity when people leave as Sunita did but I do miss Sandy in the morning

[queenie]

Sorry this is all a bit late in the day but I feel I have to wade in with my ha'pennyworth too.
I very rarely dislike anyone in real life, and have not felt actual dislike for any of the housemates in any of the series. With two exceptions: Andy in BB1 and Sandy in BB3.
I disliked them both because they should have known better. Andy was clearly intelligent but had made a conscious decision to be a total sleazebag. There was also something rather sleazy about Sandy, and also deeply selfish and malicious.
He encouraged Alex to behave in a way that would make him unpopular. Under the guise of being 'honest' he insisted on cruelly telling Lynne that the decision for her to leave the house had been unanimous. Also while being 'honest' he deliberately undermined Jonny's and Kate's confidence. The smirk on his face when he did it showed he knew exactly what he was doing. He used his position as the oldest and most mature person in the house in a very negative and unscrupulous way.
I agree that we shouldn't take tabloid revelations at face value. But he is *exactly* the kind of man who would walk out on wives and children without a backward glance - oh, and urinate in a bin as a leaving present - so these allegations ring true to me.

[Kaz]

Hi queenie.

I agree completely with you that Sandy used the guise of being 'honest' to undermine the confidence of other housemates, especially Jonny. He also upset Alison the night she was evicted by making his malicious 'somebody out there knows the truth' remark, with a smug smirk on his face. I just wanted to slap him .... and I'm not a violent person, honest!

[Amy]

Sandy may have lived his life but most of the other housemates have only dreamed of what he MAY have done i feel he was all talk and no show, sorry but he bored me he had nothing nice about him at all

[James]

As far as I'm concerned, the tabloid newspapers are a national joke. I have difficulty believing anything those comics print, even the date at the top of the page shouldn't be taken for granted to be right.

The fact that Sandy was older than the others can't be underestimated as a reason for his failure to integrate with the others. He was thrown in there as the token older person. I'd lay good money that an over-40 won't win Big Brother, not unless they change the demographic of contestants. The way it's run at the moment, Big Brother is a fairly ageist television format.

I quite liked Sandy because he didn't join in the the attention seeking that went on in the early weeks and tried to play the game by his own rules, not trying to be something he wasn't.

I would say that if Jonny let his confidence be affected by what Sandy said to him, then that's Jonny's own problem. Jonny shouldn't of expected everyone in the house to like him.

I still think that Sandy used other housemates in an attempt to "divide and rule". Alex was his stooge, Adele would have been, Jade, despite being uneducated, was a bit too streetwise.

Sandy was finding it all too easy, got bored and left. Only Jonny, Kate, Alison and Sophie sussed what he was up to. He was probably the catalyst for most of the bitching and division in the later weeks.