CaptainWacky said:
From day one...no, before that. FIVE YEARS BEFORE THAt. Yes, the guy first auditioned five fucking years ago and they obviously kept him on hold, just waiting for a time to build a BB around him.
That's an interesting point to make actually.
That guy with tourettes must have stood out from the crowd at every audition since BB3. I mean, he says "wanker" uncontrollably, you can't get a better hook than that. I think it's a safe bet that they kept an eye out on him and were well aware of what he was all about BEFORE he came back to audition again for BB7. He was on the radar for sure. And sure enough this BB was basically marketed as
that Big Brother with
that guy who has tourettes and says "wanker" a lot. He was the favourite son of the show from the start and was CLEARLY the most important housemate in the minds of the producers. It was the hook of the series, no doubt.
Before the show ALL the press was about the guy with Tourette's going on. Even then it was said he'd win. As soon as he went in he was being declared the winner. Every fucking guest on BBLB had to mention how much they love Pete. He had this whole contrived "perfect Pete" character prepared in advance, YOU KNOW. There were fansites registered before he even went in.
Again, this is true. He was fully pushed by the media as the winner from before he walked in the door and if not then his fake tumble down the stairs sealed that 100 grand out of reach from any other potential housemate. None of them could compete with the tourettes sufferer (aww!) who gets involved in no arguments and nervously laughs every 2.23 seconds.
We were told AGAIN AND AGAIN that he was the nicest, funniest, most entertaining one in there (Aisleyne was nicer, Glyn was funnier, Nikki was more entertaining.)
Pete wasn't funny! he wasn't! He had basically very litte comedy appeal after you had chuckled at him saying "wanker" again for the LAST time half-way through the first day. His best line remains "Wanker! -- Oh, my tourettes is in context!", which to be fair was a great line and probably his best moment, but it also goes to show that he's more savvy and in touch with what's going on than he lets on. It was a shrewd line and kinda showed that he wasn't as naive and as aloof as he presented himself. (maybe I'm reading too much into it). Glyn was
WAY funnier. I didn't find Pete had the same appeal and that some of his "comedy" antics felt a little forced.
Public opion was perhaps starting to sway against him. Okay, public opinion on the internet. So why did he still win?
Because he had tourettes and so is basically disabled, he was bullied at school and he seems naive to the evil world of bitching and sniping behind peoples backs. It had nothing to do with anything he did in the house. It was what he
DIDN'T DO in the house coupled with (aww, he's disabled his life must be so tough). The British public loves an underdog. A disabled underdog is even better. We'll have a blind, black transvestite with no legs next year with bicycle wheels for hands. MARK MY WORDS.
as I said he was declared the winner from teh start. The finale always had millions more viewers than the regular eviction shows. People who have3n't watched in weeks. So they see Pete's stupid rubber face (yes I'm bitter) on screen and think "oh that's the guy who should win I'll vote for him!" Because they've been CONDITIONED to feel that way. Aisleyne had a cult following but was never promoted as a winner on the spin-off shows the way Pumpkin boy was. Glyn was promoted as being a great character...the kind that could finish second to Pete. IT WAS A FIX ON'dT TYOU SEEg.dfhn.dsh
No not a fix.
They don't have to "fix" it when they have iditos voting.
RARR FRAGGLES
He was always going to win. All he had to do was keep his mouth shut and shed a few tears every now and again and look perplexed at what was going on around him while Glyn was sitting in cereal, boiling eggs for the first time, molesting the Oilies, getting drunk on four cans of cider and a glass of champagne, going on commando missions over the walls and coming out with accidental one-liners in what reached fever pitch comedy value whilst going on a world-tour of the house throwing up and "OH NO!!", while Aisleyene went on an emotional journey, was integral to everything that happened in the house and actually changed the dynamic of the show with her presence, all the while Pete just stood back and nervously laughed and occasionally acted in the most crazy way he could by saying random jibberish and playing the pots and pans in the garden.
Pete had a game plan but it started to unravel in the last few weeks with the return of Nikki. We saw another side of Pete. A Pete that wasn't just coasting through this materialistic world that everybody else lives in except him. No, instead Pete became the most materiallistically consious of all. While the other housemates were reflecting on the journey and the impact the show had had on them from a soical perspective the 100,000 was never far from Petes mind and he started to drop comments that made it clear what he was really thinking about under the surface. In those last few days it became CLEAR how intense he was about winning, as could be seen by his very obvious dissapointment with Aisleyene apparently losing him votes with a crappy "why I love Pete and why he's so perfect" task speech which was of course center stage while most of the other housemates ones were not read on the highlight show.
It was only AFTER Nikki unwittingly told Pete in the bedroom that the reason everbody loves him is because he's so innocent, cuddly and only sees good in people (or something to that effect) that it clicked in his head and he went to the diary room and said that he didn't believe Aisleyene did it on purpose. And then came the reiteration of that and he said something VERY TELLING. "I want
everybody to know that I don't blame Aisleyene".
He wasn't talking to Big Brother was he. He was talking to the nation. He wasn't so naive, he knew what it was about his character that kept him so popular and with Nikki's comment it reminded him that he may have missed his chances with allowing himself to act a little self-centered and angry at her speech about him. Something he was quick to go into the diary room and announce to the nation.
By this point I wasn't fooled by that and picked up on it straight away. Pete had a game-plan and his "perfect" persona saw him right through to the end, he tripped over his feet a few times on the final stretch but it was too late. Probably mostly with the blatant lie about his friend from heaven telling him that he would win BB7 and that he had to win to believe in heaven. :roll:
Pete played the nation. We remember the tourettes and what he didn't do in relation to the other more interesting housemates than to any percieved contribution. He was nowhere near the most memorable and I think Glyn, Richard, Jennie and Aisleyene deserved the win over him.
I'D DO ANYTING TO HER!
