uncomfortable viewing in the BB house

[unruliejulie]

Is it me or did anyone else find BB made uncomfortable viewing? I know shabaz is a complete ****** but i think they went too far with the whole house bullying him.Locking him out and then taking his clothes was incredibly childish and nasty. Maybe he deserved it, i'm not sure. Am i just being soft?

[sunflower68]

yesunruliejulie I was going to post on this so glad its been mentioned. As my mum always said, don't lower yourself to their level. It was totally out of order and you could see by Shabaz' face it must have happened to him a zillion times before (he does ask for trouble!)

On opening night Nikki said "all I want to do is shop and have lunch that is ALL I WANT TO DO" as if we should all let her do just that. Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

[purplelily]

Just watching the Shahbaz thing again now. He's been annoying me through the week, but I agree, they all went WAY too far at the end, I felt awful for him. And poor old Pete didn't know which way to turn, bless him. And afterwards they're all singing and dancing - not a trace of empathy - whilst poor old Shahbaz is getting ready to leave the house.

I think that Nikki has been very, very spoilt her whole life - and I think that it'll begin to wear on the other HMs now that Shahbaz has gone and they can concentrate their attentions elsewhere!

[purplelily]

p.s. Wasn't Diary Room Big Brother LOVELY to Shahbaz when he was leaving? Ahhh, I've never known a Big Brother to be so understanding and sweet.

[unruliejulie]

Thanks for all your great answers people, i think scubadiver summed it up brilliantly about a pack of lions closing in on an injured Zebra. I am glad shabaz has left because we weren't getting to see enough of the other housmates personalities as he was consuming the whole show. I like Pete and thought he was a sweetie in the diary room, also like Grace and Imogen (the only one to feel bad) and the rest don't seem too bad. Should be better now he's gone. Nikki is very pot noodle (all me me me me me) and yes, purplelilly, BB was lovely to shabaz, daren't be any other with his fragile state of mind!!!

sorry ray, i'm only coming round to yours if you put BB on!!! Guess thats a no then! XXxx

[123paul]

Yes I did. It was bullying at its worst. It had all the elements of bullying:

Marginalising the victim / pushing him onto the periphery

Individulas who initially stood up for the victim dropping away owing to group pressure

The bullies justifying their behaviour to themselves & each other

Bullies painting themselves as victims and setting up the real victim as the problem.

Continued small incidents designed to totaly undermnie the victim.

It really bothered me to watch it. I think it was a massive error of judgment of Endomol & C $ to let it play out that way.

[malaise]

I knew Shahbaz was going into the house about 2 weeks before he went in. His niece is disabled and used to live in the house I work in, and told people at her day centre that her uncle was going on the show. Heh. He's actually like that in real life, believe it or not.

While I feel that his behaviour was consistently over the top, I genuinely believe this is due to a psychiatric disorder. I think ALL contestants have some sort of personality disorder to WANT to expose themselves on live TV, and so it must be difficult for BB to discriminate truthfully between the ones attention seeking and the ones who are mentally unstable.

I found the bullying behaviour quite disgusting. Yes, Shahbaz was annoying as hell and yes, nobody can really understand what that environment must be like, but still. There's no excuse for that.