BB Identification Theory

I've been going off Josie in recent days, largely because of her "feelings" for John James. He is such a mammoth TWAT that this reflects really, really badly on her - and makes me reevaluate how I've been responding to her over the last few weeks.

I started to wonder whether one of the reasons I liked Josie was because she reminded me of a very funny, very cool west country girl I know (let's call her Pouisa) and the realisation that Pouisa would never give the time of day to a knobjockey like JJ brought me crashing back to earth that this wasn't actually her - that this was someone who I don't know, and who I've have been projecting feelings from my actual life upon.

In fact, BB11 is proving a strange one from the point of view of audience identification. When Shabby initially went in to the house she seemed to bear herself with the lightly sardonic humour and self-sufficient approach, and have a similar sort of prettiness to, an actress friend of mine - Pane. Indeed, Pane texted me to say how much she loved Shabby - the narcissistic trollop. Conversely, my boyfriend hates Keeley - because she has the same small stature, blond hair and shrewd face of his poisonous dwarf of an ex-girlfriend. I mean, it's really bad - he can hardly look at her and she's bringing up a lot of bad feeling for him.

But the most interesting instance of this in my whole history of watching the programme is with Mario, who bears more than a passing resemblance to a very good friend - let's call him Pian. It's not just me that's noticed this likeness - other friends have too, as has his own MUM. The dark good looks and gentle manner shared by Pian and Mario has had a very odd effect on my viewing experience. I imbue Mario with Pian's character to such an extent that I actually, sort of, love him a little bit. I make involuntary noises like, 'aaaahhhh!' when he speaks....I want to give him a hug...I enmesh the two's behaviour in my mind so that when Mario is kind to another housemate I think 'typical Pian'...If anyone is a friend of Mario's in the house, I wonder if they could also be mine...

So Mario in particular, and other housemates to a far lesser extent, afford me the opportunity to reflect on people in my own life as well as colour and shape my responses to the housemates. I don't think this theory has any application beyond the individual. Winners of Big Brother can't win because they remind the majority of the public of someone they know (they win generally because they're kind and non-argumentative or - if they have arguments - they pick them well). But it is interesting nevertheless. Well, I think so anyway....