Yes definitely very difficult. I've found this series nearly impossible to even pick housemates that I definitely like a lot never mind someone I would like to see win. I've had favourite housemates "at the time" at a few points throughout the series but never a very
firm favourite that I am certain I would like to win overall.
In the first couple of weeks Nick and Joel were my favourites but over time began to find them either boring or irritating.
Aaron was my favourite for awhile because I found him very funny then he went on to do something that got himself removed.
Twins were my favourite because I thought they seemed like nice chatty down to earth girls most of the time and also found their very fiery side entertaining and they got evicted.
Kieran was also a fave as found him just an all round sound guy who could be funny at times too, but he also got evicted.
Sarah seemed a cool girl, pretty normal yet could see she had a take no bull side too and would have liked to see more of her but then she got evicted too.
Jade irritated me at first sometimes but really grew on me and I began to find her unintentionally hilarious and also liked her side where she stood up for herself, then she got evicted.
Simon was really growing on me at some points and I felt sorry for him when everybody ganged up on him or at times when he looked completely lost and like his personality was suppressed but also enjoyed when we would get to see a glimpse of his funny side occasionally too. He got evicted.
Chloe I used to see as a very nice sweet girl but over time and especially lately she has become very annoying and I think very mean towards Jack who I think imo has always been a good friend to her. And I agree when people say it is only because she knows he's not popular anymore so this makes her look very bad and fake to me.
Jack annoyed me the way he treated Simon a few times by shouting too much and being hypocritical in shouting at Si for nominating Eileen, but have never found him as terrible as some people have, like for example I never had a problem with him believing he was popular or believing the lies Nikki told him etc. He's been coming across much better lately too imo.
Sam is nice but irritates the fcuk out of me. The guy on BOTS last night described Sam as someone who if she was sitting with one person who said their favourite colour was red she would agree and say that her favourite colour was red too, but would then go to another person and say her favourite colour was blue if that happened to be what that person said. That sounds about right. I hate all the "I love you soooooooooo much, I'm sooooooo sorry. I would never want to hurt anybody, I hate being in this position" etc etc type speeches she gives too. They don't give a fcuk about her most of the time so I wish she would toughen up. I can't fault her much for being too "nice" as that is a good thing to be, but because she can be overly nice and people pleasing and whilst it doesn't make her a bad person and she definitely doesn't deserve any of those ridiculous boos she gets, at the same time I find her very irritating to watch as a housemate and not that entertaining.
Harry is difficult to decide on. I
hate the way she expresses her mood as she does it in such an immature, passive aggressive, teenage temper tantrum strop type of way. I prefer someone to state clearly what their problem is even if that means they feel the need to get angry and shout, rather than storm about the place banging doors or banging down items like cups on the worktop, or to go off in a sulk saying "I'm fine!", or things like repeatedly saying "I'm not allowed have an opinion" even though someone is asking her for it or "if you can't see why I'm angry then it doesn't matter, I'm fine", or the whole passive aggressive "yes I'm just a terrible person, I'm just a selfish bitch, stay away from me then" type strops too.
With people like that I avoid giving them the attention they want and when they say "I'm fine" in a sulky way and refuse to talk to me straight, then even though I know they are not 'fine' I usually refuse to play their game and say "ok so you're sure you're fine? Great! Glad we got that sorted" and will act as happy and breezy and cheerful as is possible with them, completely ignoring and acting oblivious to their strop and sulking and acting as though I don't even even notice when they bang a door or act moody or whatever. Passive aggressive people generally hate this reaction because their mood is not having the effect they want it to have and they don't have someone following them about begging them to explain why they are annoyed so they will usually after a certain period of sulky time either perk up and become cheerful again or else will FINALLY actually explain in a straightforward way what is bothering them!
In fairness to Harry though, despite her crazy outburst last night I think she
has become better at explaining to Nick exactly why she is upset or what he is doing that makes her angry. And when she does explain herself she often makes very good points. Nick does act like a weasel by going behind her back bitching about her all the time and she does always get the blame for Nick separating himself from the group so I can see why that would be so annoying. He did treat her pretty poorly when Nikki was there and was very dismissive of her. So I can see why she gets annoyed at times it's just the way she
expresses this annoyance that bugs the crap of me. I wish we got to see more of her fun carefree side on the highlights that we get to see a little bit of on live feed.
I think Christian is a lovely guy. I don't see any maliciousness or nastiness there at all. I think over the weeks he has gotten much better at expressing his opinion. The only problem with him is I find him a bit boring. He never makes me laugh or he rarely has a debate where I am in full agreement with him thinking "go on Christian!" A lot of the time I think he just goes along with certain housemates too much and wish he would separate himself from Danny. His fake accent annoys me and the week where he tried to become argumentative for the sake of it didn't suit him either because it looked forced. (poor guy can't win either way I guess
) I liked him with that lady Jasmine and I was interested in how she described him on BOTS, she was just full of glowing praise for him and said he was not boring at all in the house, had been bullied all his life and was very interesting to talk to, so that made me notice him a bit more. He is not a pushover like Sam, he will argue his opinion and speak up but I don't know, for me personally he is just missing that certain charisma or "x" factor that would draw me to him as a favourite housemate and I can't explain what that "x" factor is.
Danny I do not like at all.
Even with the early favourite "at the time" housemates I had, I still never got a chance to get to know them better and develop a firm favourite. It's been very difficult this series to form any type of attachment to housemates and this series I haven't joined a single fan club/appreciation thread.
So yeah I haven't a clue who I want to win. I just know that I don't want it to be Danny.
If pushed for a top 3 in no particular order I would probably say Jack, Harry, and Christian.
Aaron,
One of the hardest series to pick a winner?
) unless Joel pulls out a Preston which I think is likely
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