I am very disappointed that people felt they should 'let Shilpa win' to clear up a very difficult situation that blew up over racism. That however is what has happened.

 It WAS disgusting how Shilpa was treated in the house, but I think it was equally appalling how Aisleyne was treated. I could NEVER FORGET how Ais was treated in BB7 and despite the fact that she had hundreds of genuine fans and was leading the voting system at teatime on the night of the eviction, she still did,nt win. Nobody 'let her win' in order to Condemn bullying. Shilpa would not have won CBB had it not been for the bullying and race row that ensued

 I think Shilpa  is a very nice girl but she did not shine in my eyes whatsoever. 

To me personally, the winner is someone who is genuine and real or someone who makes you believe in them when you watch them. Aisleyne was a good example of that..she was real, honest, spontaneous, silly, funny, wonderful in every way, I simply adored her character.

Shilpa Shetty looked down her nose at Jade from the beginning. I actually saw her doing it and I did,nt like the fact that she JUDGED Jade purely on the auful way she talked.  Jermaine had it right when he said you cannot mix Class. Shilpa Shetty came from a very advantaged and privileged background where her family manners and principals in life were completely different to Jade and she clearly came into the house unprepared to accept there were other people who were different to HER.   Shilpa did,nt RUDELY look down her nose at Jade, she looked down her nose in more of a shocked way that anyone like Jade could possibly BE somebody. Jade did see this however and I think Jade then spent the rest of the time putting Shilpa down to get back at her .

I think the entire thing was horribly unfortunate.  Jade behaved in a terrible way as did Jo and Danielle. There is no excuse to bully somebody. I am glad people have seen their way to putting things right for Shilpa who deserved an enormous apology ( which Aisleyne NEVER received by the way ) but apologising is one thing and giving away a winning title is another.  Shilpa should NOT have won this years CBB it should have been Jermaine Jackson.

The reason it should have been Jermaine Jackson is because he produced the personality of someone we can all learn something from. This man gave something to everyone in my opinion.  Why is it that we think the loudest or noisiest or most comic person shoud win? why cant it be a quiet, thoughtful reflective person who LISTENS more than he talks, thinks before he speaks, defuses problems before they start...be a winner to us??

If people thought a little more like Jermaine Jackson, there would be NO bullying, there would be NO racism and who knows there may be no hypocrisy which is what CBB has turned out to represent.....

I say good luck to Shilpa, but I think even she knows the crown went to the sympathy vote and letting her win was a way of saving a lot of peoples asses.

Well I did frown on the entire Interview process for everyone actually.

Davina had clearly been 'given her script' and unfortunately Ian who was actually fairly consistent in the house ( tho no favourite of mine particularly) just got the normal Davina grilling because of course she was not asked to p-u-s-s-y-foot around him. I thought she was a bit rude to Jermaine in places, cutting him off mid-sentence...damm I hate that....grrrrr....and making some crass comment about wanting to be a fly on the wall in Jermaines house when he met up with his wife....( rude cow)...Danielle and Jack came out together on account of damage limitation ....(that old chestnut) and they had clearly been briefed....Dirk...I think she was her normal self with...and Shilpa.....blah blah....

I had the feeling anyway that everyone had been given plenty of advance warning of the entire shenanigans that had been happening in the outside world.  Ian smiled and grinned a lot and seemed genuinely surprised that people liked him. In fact did,nt she say to him about how nice it was to interview someone who was not getting booed??  Im sure it was Ian.  She was a bit sarcastic when she said...that he went in as 'H' and came out as IAN and is,nt that what he wanted.?? 

They want to get rid of Big Brother if they have to supply it with a script...and they need to invent some programmes for Ais.

I think Ais should do a Sit Comedy, an agony aunt show and also I think she should be on one of the early morning programmes like GMTV everyday doing a work out programme like Mr. Motivator used to do....

emptybox - 29/1/2007 01:50 I don't agree that people "let Shilpa win". If that were the case they would have abstained from voting for someone else, but not positively picked up the phone and voted. People aren't generally as cavalier with their hard earned. Perhaps the Right On/PC Brigade might have felt it was the thing to do to vote for Shilpa, but I doubt they make up a high percentage of the BB audience. In my eyes Shilpa was a truly worthy winner and I'm absolutely delighted that she exited in triumph. Having said that I liked Jermaine as well, but he was a spectator for much of the time in there.

Hi EB...Im afraid I have lost all faith in the voting system on BB. They messed the voting up this time around with Shilpa's name. Asking people to vote to save/evict and got everybody muddled up. Then they apologised in the press and offered refunds.  I think they were just trying to find out what the public opinion was up to that point. 

Anyway, my favourite was Jermaine, your favourite was Shilpa.  Thats cool with me