[davidalbert]

...Whether freddie goes or stays this Friday, I would just like to THANK the executive producer of BB10 for handpicking Freddie for the series.....after meeeting him at a chance party...and finding him unusual.....

the producer was criticised for doing this but others such as Noirin and isaac were handpicked from the Aussie reality show..and people have been found in this way before...Ziggy had been part of a pop group for instance.....

For me, Freddie has been the most real person I have seen on a REALITY Tv show in this reality tv era....the oppsite of all the PLASTIC wannabes we see in the media today in our heavily botoxed celebrity cyulture..where everyone is plastically or surgically enhanced like Sophie.......and wants to be yet another Chantelle or peter andre.
Many of us actually CHOOSE ..NOT to live in that plastic world and Freddie has been a gentle softspoken alternative to that LOUD abrasive culture
....
He reminds me of Prince Myshkin, the central 'holy fool' character in Dostoyevski's great novel 'THE IDIOT, a person from the upper classes who passes through society as an outcast, regarded as a fool, but somehow one of the most wise persons in it................he even looks like Christ at times.

Anyway I am enormously grateful to the producers of BB10 for letting us gett o know Freddie a liille these past 10 weeks, it has been a truly REVELATORY and moving tv experience, up there with all my moments over tv watching the past 40 years.

[Kazanne]

IF most Freddie haters tell the truth,they'hate'(what a stupid word)they hate freddie simply because of his class,you can tell in the undertones of their posts most of which are short and abusive as though they cannot really find something credible to dislike him for,so all this name calling is just a cover for their inane jealousy,Do you think this post might be a bit long for them to read?helmets on..lol.lets go

[zukhov]

Comparing him to Christ is going a bit far!

[IsleOfWeather]

All that money his parents have and it looks like what Freddie really needed was parents who actually spent time with him bringing him up


FAIL

[davidalbert]

....isle.....as regards his parental upbringing I think he has turned out rather well......

fuuny that Robbie Williams has dropped Freddie in favour of David..because apparently on Robbies blog ...'Freddie has let all the POWER get to him!' ???? is Robbie watching the same show? maybe rumours of a Robbie drugs clean up are too exaggerated.

[watchinittoomuch]

Originally posted by davidalbert
....isle.....as regards his parental upbringing I think he has turned out rather well......

fuuny that Robbie Williams has dropped Freddie in favour of David..because apparently on Robbies blog ...'Freddie has let all the POWER get to him!' ???? is Robbie watching the same show? maybe rumours of a Robbie drugs clean up are too exaggerated.

That's ironic coming from him especially

[setanta]

Originally posted by zukhov
Comparing him to Christ is going a bit far!

Yeah, he lost me there too lol

[davidalbert]

..yes watchin....I used to be a massive Robbie supporter but he lost critical distance.........STARS should never get too pally with the masses! its not ART!

[watchinittoomuch]

Originally posted by setanta

Yeah, he lost me there too lol

Woohoo A Withnail fan! Funnily enough I am just wearing my withnail T shirt, that says 'What ****er said that' heheh

David, I really like your post, it really has been very interesting watching Freddie...although the Christ comparisson is a little dramatic, I do agree with the rest of your sentiments. He is the one housemate I feel would have been just as interesting in any of the other series, which is something I cant say about anyone else really other than maybe Brian Dowling or Nadia...

[davidalbert]

watchin.....yes I was a huge NADIA supporter but Freddie surpasses even her! for me........
the one consolation of him going this week if he did would be LIBERATION from Bea.............

[watchinittoomuch]

I cried when Nadia won

[fredrica]

Originally posted by davidalbert
...Whether freddie goes or stays this Friday, I would just like to THANK the executive producer of BB10 for handpicking Freddie for the series.....after meeeting him at a chance party...and finding him unusual.....

the producer was criticised for doing this but others such as Noirin and isaac were handpicked from the Aussie reality show..and people have been found in this way before...Ziggy had been part of a pop group for instance.....

For me, Freddie has been the most real person I have seen on a REALITY Tv show in this reality tv era....the oppsite of all the PLASTIC wannabes we see in the media today in our heavily botoxed celebrity cyulture..where everyone is plastically or surgically enhanced like Sophie.......and wants to be yet another Chantelle or peter andre.
Many of us actually CHOOSE ..NOT to live in that plastic world and Freddie has been a gentle softspoken alternative to that LOUD abrasive culture
....
He reminds me of Prince Myshkin, the central 'holy fool' character in Dostoyevski's great novel 'THE IDIOT, a person from the upper classes who passes through society as an outcast, regarded as a fool, but somehow one of the most wise persons in it................he even looks like Christ at times.

Anyway I am enormously grateful to the producers of BB10 for letting us gett o know Freddie a liille these past 10 weeks, it has been a truly REVELATORY and moving tv experience, up there with all my moments over tv watching the past 40 years.

I agree with you Freddie is a gentle spoken person. What BB have done though is to bring in Bea who has tried to take him down mentally.

Now we have seen her dirty work and are aware of her unprincipled behaviour.

Supporters are gathering new and old they can now see who was to blame and it was not Freddie.

[fredrica]

Originally posted by davidalbert
watchin.....yes I was a huge NADIA supporter but Freddie surpasses even her! for me........
the one consolation of him going this week if he did would be LIBERATION from Bea.............

Awww I hope he stays because it will shock Bea.

I want him to be in the final because he deserves to be.

[davidalbert]

.....I also think the Freddie/Bea storyline has some way to run....Freddie did ask her if she was about building bridges or burning them..........they are the main storyline at the moment....and COMPELLING adult viewing!

[dannythehoofe]

Originally posted by davidalbert
....isle.....as regards his parental upbringing I think he has turned out rather well......

fuuny that Robbie Williams has dropped Freddie in favour of David..because apparently on Robbies blog ...'Freddie has let all the POWER get to him!' ???? is Robbie watching the same show? maybe rumours of a Robbie drugs clean up are too exaggerated.

Yes he is watching the same show, clearly! Freddie has become far too cock sure of himself!

[halfacrown]

Originally posted by dannythehoofe

Yes he is watching the same show, clearly! Freddie has become far too cock sure of himself!

Did you watch last night?

[davidalbert]

...the highlights show at 9pm has become compulsive unmisseable viewing

[fredrica]

I am not worried about whatever R. Thinks. All I can say is that he i s gaining supporters.

[scot]

Originally posted by davidalbert
...Whether freddie goes or stays this Friday, I would just like to THANK the executive producer of BB10 for handpicking Freddie for the series.....after meeeting him at a chance party...and finding him unusual.....

the producer was criticised for doing this but others such as Noirin and isaac were handpicked from the Aussie reality show..and people have been found in this way before...Ziggy had been part of a pop group for instance.....

For me, Freddie has been the most real person I have seen on a REALITY Tv show in this reality tv era....the oppsite of all the PLASTIC wannabes we see in the media today in our heavily botoxed celebrity cyulture..where everyone is plastically or surgically enhanced like Sophie.......and wants to be yet another Chantelle or peter andre.
Many of us actually CHOOSE ..NOT to live in that plastic world and Freddie has been a gentle softspoken alternative to that LOUD abrasive culture
....
He reminds me of Prince Myshkin, the central 'holy fool' character in Dostoyevski's great novel 'THE IDIOT, a person from the upper classes who passes through society as an outcast, regarded as a fool, but somehow one of the most wise persons in it................he even looks like Christ at times.

Anyway I am enormously grateful to the producers of BB10 for letting us gett o know Freddie a liille these past 10 weeks, it has been a truly REVELATORY and moving tv experience, up there with all my moments over tv watching the past 40 years.

Liked the comparison with Myshkin, though there are elements of Nastasya in his(Fred's)make up too. Is Bea Fredies Rogozhin?

Fred is certainly an unusual curiosity and it does not surprise me at all that a hard nosed profit driven BB executive handpicked Fred for the BB house.

The curiosity factor is, at least somewhat, derived from the fact that Fred comes from one of the smallest minorities in Britian; The stately home residing, boarding school and Oxbridge educated elite.

Further curiosity is provided by Fred's paradoxical admixture of relatively high intelligence and extreme naivety(this naivety giving him his 'likeability' factor)and social ineptitude.

Fred profoundly lacks the social skills needed to integrate sucessfully with new and unknown groups of people from varied socio-economic backgrounds. He responds to his inabilty to integrate by creating a persona he imagines will be accaptable to other HMs and the BB audience. Unfortunately he has not been wholly succesfull and so the finished product resembles faded facsimile of a real person.

Freddie is likable and the social anxieties and rejection he has experienced in the house are not his own fault. Rather, they are, no doubt, a product of his upbringing.

Fred belongs to an extremly isolationist class, he inhabits a world largely removed from the everyday lives of the average citizen of the UK. His experiences and social development have been shaped and informed by stately homes, boarding schools and Oxbridge.

It is indicitive of this upbringing that he is unable to mix sucessfully with varied people. Fred's social failings are a result, of amongst others, of being removed from parents and siblings and sent off to boarding school. Fred himself stated he was looking forward to getting to know his siblings now they have finished with boarding schools!

The OP seems to imply that BB has had altruistic motivations regards inculding Freddie as a HM?

Whilst i agree with davidalbert that the BB show has been REVELATORY re Fred, I think perhaps we would differ somewhat re what exactly has been 'revealed'.

[fredrica]

Originally posted by scot

Liked the comparison with Myshkin, though there are elements of Nastasya in his(Fred's)make up too. Is Bea Fredies Rogozhin?

Fred is certainly an unusual curiosity and it does not surprise me at all that a hard nosed profit driven BB executive handpicked Fred for the BB house.

The curiosity factor is, at least somewhat, derived from the fact that Fred comes from one of the smallest minorities in Britian; The stately home residing, boarding school and Oxbridge educated elite.

Further curiosity is provided by Fred's paradoxical admixture of relatively high intelligence and extreme naivety(this naivety giving him his 'likeability' factor)and social ineptitude.

Fred profoundly lacks the social skills needed to integrate sucessfully with new and unknown groups of people from varied socio-economic backgrounds. He responds to his inabilty to integrate by creating a persona he imagines will be accaptable to other HMs and the BB audience. Unfortunately he has not been wholly succesfull and so the finished product resembles faded facsimile of a real person.

Freddie is likable and the social anxieties and rejection he has experienced in the house are not his own fault. Rather, they are, no doubt, a product of his upbringing.

Fred belongs to an extremly isolationist class, he inhabits a world largely removed from the everyday lives of the average citizen of the UK. His experiences and social development have been shaped and informed by stately homes, boarding schools and Oxbridge.

It is indicitive of this upbringing that he is unable to mix sucessfully with varied people. Fred's social failings are a result, of amongst others, of being removed from parents and siblings and sent off to boarding school. Fred himself stated he was looking forward to getting to know his siblings now they have finished with boarding schools!

The OP seems to imply that BB has had altruistic motivations regards inculding Freddie as a HM?

Whilst i agree with davidalbert that the BB show has been REVELATORY re Fred, I think perhaps we would differ somewhat re what exactly has been 'revealed'.

Great post thank you.