Bear - Deserving Winner, Or Fix? #CBBBLOGS
Once again the summer edition of Celebrity Big Brother is over, and we have a winner. Whether it was chosen by public vote, or by production, I'm going to be deciding whether or not bear is a worthy winner of CBB, and whether CBB is as honest as we think it is. In true journalistic style, i will try to remain unbiased, and look at both sides of the story.
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| Bear leaves as the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2016 |
Let's begin by talking about the complete INJUSTICE it is that Bear was not removed for his continually bad and somewhat reckless behavior, which has included damaging the house by throwing a mug at a glass pane, wasting food on numerous occasions, and just generally disobeying rules of the task and Big Brother. In previous years, housemates have been removed for far less major incidents, examples being Daley in 2013, for threatening a housemate, Emma from 2016 for repeatedly escaping and Biggins in the same edition, for something that wasn't even aired.
I'm not excusing the behavior of the housemates i mentioned because obviously threatening someone is not OK, however, what i am saying is that in some of the cases, what they did was only a single or double occurrence, however Bear was given a total of 4 on screen "Final Warnings", as well as a few unaired warnings, which leads to the question: Is Big Brother fixed?
This series has been one of the most insightful into what goes on behind the 1 hour of footage we at home are shown. During "Celebrity Big Brother - Live From The House", housemates were seen going to bed, with Big Brother saying "Good night finalists" The lights then went out for a minute, with housemates pretending to sleep, before the lights switch back on and housemates proceed to get up, with Ricky telling housemates "good take".
Video of Scripted scene (Source - Metro)
http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/26/watch-is-this-proof-celebrity-big-brother-is-scripted-viewers-left-fuming-over-clip-of-fake-scene-6091907/
Yes, this doesn't prove that the whole series is fake, but it does technically prove that that scene was fake, so who knows what other scenes CBB has faked....
There's also the Whatsapp controversy, in which Chloe Kahn claims to have messaged Renee before entering the house, which kind of defeats the point of Big Brother which is for the celebrities to have no contact with each other prior to entering the house. This was also kind of broken by Lewis and Marnie, which have been photographed with each other prior to the show.
Censorship has also been an issue this series, with many of Bear's other warnings being hidden from viewers, including Bear "nearly blinding" Samantha Fox. The reason why Biggins was removed from the house has also been withheld from the viewers, and also Katie by the looks of it who was unaware that the apparent reason he was removed was because of comments made towards her, which absolutely makes sense (NOT).
The way i see it, Biggins was either only booked in for a week, and they needed a way to get him out, whilst grabbing headlines as well, or, Biggins was bound to win the show, when producers had promised Bear the win, so had to get him out.
Either way, this really stops Big Brother from being the people's show that so many people love to hate, and rather a scripted, pre-planned reality TV show.
Going back to whether Bear deserved to win, you cant deny that he has provided some good entertainment, my favorite moment of the series being when he smashed a pie into Aubrey's face, prompting her to wreck his bed. I can't deny, without him, the series would have been fairly dull without him, even if he did take things too far.
Saying that, do i think he is a deserving winner? no, no i don't, but these days, a large proportion of people that watch reality shows like Love Island, Ex On The Beach, or Geordie Shore watch Big Brother. The content of these reality shows is for people to get absolutely obliterated, and then either get with whoever is the closest to them, or argue with everyone, which is exactly what Bear did, hence why i think he got the votes.
That is, if the winner was decided by public vote....
