[DryCounty]

No, this is not Bea!

I've watched the show for years, and read the various forums, but this is my first time posting. I just flet a little sorry for Sophie on Live feed tonight. Did anybody else think that she'd clearly been crying in the toilet? She didn't have a mike on, but Rodrigo seemed to notice.

The thing is folks, that at times many of us (myself included) sometimes forget that these guys are human. Whatever Sophies reasons were for saying and doing what she did or didn't do with Kris, whatever her reasons for going on the show, she is still just a 20 year old kid that deserves a break at times. What she has endured over the last couple of days was a bit cruel. In my view, the fact that she has tried to smile her way through it, makes her a very admirable young woman.

It is quite clear that she is very concerned with what other people think of her. We were probably all a bit like that at her age. It's only as you get older that you realise the most important person you have to please is actually yourself. I know that there'll be some teenagers on this forum who'll consider themselves more mature than Sophie. Fair play to you if you are. But, if you're really mature, you'll realise that tolerance of, and indeed compassion for, those who have not been lucky enough to have had your life experiences, is enormously rewarding.

So please folks have a little compassion for a girl that's clearly a bit upset. It doesn't matter what she is or isn't, it doesn't matter what plan she might have, it doesn't even matter if she's pulling the wool over my eyes and taking me for a sucker. What matters is that we cannot know any of these things for sure. There is a CHANCE she is genuinely upset, therefore I would ask that we all give her the benefit of the doubt and lay off.

I know we all have our favourites (I'm a darkhorse man myself), but knocking the competition is hardly a decent thing to do. Lets talk up our favourites without talking down their opposition.

Marcus is Legend........I've even used his favourite Bn Jovi song as my username. He's right it does kick ass!