I think it's fair to say Aaron - regardless of winning the show - has booked himself in the pantheon of all time BB Greats: Jade Goody, Brian Dowling, Nasty Nick, Victor Ebuwa, Nadia, Freddie and Rex.
He proves that it's the middle/ posher class males who are often the best HMs (Rex, Freddie, Ben, Harry). The exception being the posh one who legged it in BB7
Aaron delivers what he said in his VT about not flying under the radar and being watchable, just in terms of
- contributing to the series
- and creating talking points
and
- getting a reaction from fellow HMs - he's no1 gossip topic
- getting a reaction from public - he's no1 most talked about HM this year
Just when you think you can predict what Aaron will do, he goes and does something opposite. Let's be honest, the last 3 weeks are usually the dullest and non-eventful weeks but yet again Aaron is serving up almost all the talking points on the HL show.
Take him out of the equation and the show would be BB4, dominated by wannabe alpha-male Jay (Aaron has stopped this from happening by constantly undermining Jay's authority in often subtle and ace ways) and it'd otherwise be a straight forward all-Geordie shoot out to the finish if Aaron wasn't in there.
Even his haters are more into hating him than loving their chosen one. That's how good a HM he's been. BB legend.
Is Aaron playing a game? Of course - he admitted it in his VT and reiterated this in his 3rd day in house. Yet he does game playing with panache, wit, intelligence and almost no arrogance of Anton, plus he shows other sides yet is an enigma. I highly doubt we are seeing the real Aaron, but i don't really care as he's what BB is about. He's single-handedly saved this series (and I think he knows that!)
Aaron's the first overt game player that alot of the public are getting on board with. Anton wanted to revolutionise the game, Aaron did.