[Luanda]

Two brains undoubtedly has issues regarding relationships, amongst other things. His pursuit of Noirin progressed from an infatuation to a very real need to control her and because she has now rejected him he is sulking and refusing to speak with her. His justification for this we heard while he was in the pool, talking to Noirin, was incoherent babble. I would guess in the same situation outside the house his sulking could possibly manifest itself as phone calls, following her or even worse. I think being in the house has tempered his reaction to some degree.

Marcus is 35 and one would have thought he has had a girlfriend or girlfriends in the past. He is now single and as far as I know he has never married. He lives with his mother. The pattern of behaviour he has displayed in the house is very likely ingrained in his personality. If he has had previous relationships I think it is fairly safe to say this same desire to control his mate has surfaced before possibly meaning the relationship was shortly lived.

What I don't understand is ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends regularly pop up in the press if a particular housemate has shown weird behaviour in the show. Kenneth is an example of this. No such ex-partner has come forward for Marcus and he never seems to talk about his ex-partners apart from saying he "always gets girls he doesn't want and doesn't get girls he wants". This leads me to two possible conclusions;

1. Marcus has a history of thinking girls are his girlfriend if they display even the most minor of glimmers of interest in him. He latches onto that interest and interprets it as genuine interest when really it is just friendship ......... as he did with Noirin.

2. Marcus has never had a girlfriend because of his weird behaviour.

Marcus has to categorise everything immediately and then cannot change his mind. He has already said he can guess what people are going to be like within 10 seconds of meeting them. This is clearly nonsense and shows his need to put people in pigeon holes of immediate like and dislike. He and others do this because because he cannot accept rejection. If he guesses right and the person is not amicable towards him he is never disappointed. If a person he does like turns out to be a nice person then he is right, reinforcing his behaviour. This shows Marcus is massively insecure.

I am not anti-Marcus by any stretch of the imagination. I like him for his eccentricities, same as I like Halfwit for his eccentricities. I like people who are a little off the wall. However, I think Marcus, if he is in a situation he cannot categorise or justify may just turn out to be a very unpleasant and nasty individual.