Big Brother Australia – Sun 6:30pm, Mon-Fri 7pm, Ch9
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Coming up! Housemates are not comfortable with the Estelle and Ava relationship. Surprise surprise!
Michael and Zoe are in the Captain’s Quarters, assessing the groups in the house. Michael believes that Estelle is alienating herself.
Benjamin, Bradley, Angie and Josh are in the bedroom, Estelle had left half of the double bed she shares with Angie unmade, and only made her side of the bed.
Michael chats to Zoe in the Captain’s Quarters, he says that George is quite boring.
Ray is talking about chocolate milk again, when talking about the ‘yes/no’ task with Ava and Estelle and his daily feasts and the unfortunate vom incident.
Angie asks Benjamin if he’s had a chat to Estelle about the Ava situation, Benjamin has said that he’s had chats, but nothing major or groundbreaking. Angie says that she has been meaning to chat to her about it.
The house is still talking about Estelle, Josh says that nobody actually knows which Estelle they’re going to get. Zoe says that she thinks it’s great that Estelle and Ava have each other, Josh feels that it is going to be detrimental to Ava in the competition for Estelle to be so stuck onto her.
Housemates have been told that they have successfully passed this week’s animal documentary task. Each housemate gets $40 each to spend on luxury food items which should last them the week.
Estelle pulls Benjamin aside to confront him about breaking her down. Benjamin warns Estelle that Ava is being hogged by her, and no other housemates are having an opportunity to get to know her. Ava just sits there saying “oh no she’s not doing anything” waaa waa waa. Estelle is telling Benjamin that she feels she is being personally attacked by Benjamin all the time, and she does not want to lower herself by quoting what he has said about her. Estelle just cries, and her face goes pretty red.
(I wanted to make these recaps impartial so you can make up your own opinion about the housemates, but I’m quickly going to add my bit on the side – I think it’s cool that Estelle and Ava get along so well, and Estelle has someone to be best friends with – totally cool. The problem that Benjamin, as well as the other housemates have with the Ava + Estelle friendship is that Estelle has stopped Ava from bonding with other housemates from the moment she entered the main house. Estelle is usually within 1 metre of Ava).
Shopping budget time! Housemates have forgotten to order tofu for vegetarian housemate Ava. Angie explains the situation with Ava, offering to visit Big Brother to negotiate provisions of tofu, Estelle interjects and then Angie and Estelle bicker about not being able to talk without each other talking over one another. Big Brother allows housemates to trade off some luxury food items for tofu for Ava.
The housemates aren’t so happy that the Tim Tams have been forfeited.
The chat room is open again! Benjamin suggests that Angie go into the chat room with Estelle. Angie wanted to chat to her about her friendship with Ava. They both talk over each other a lot. Angie says that there should be no division in the house, Estelle says that division is inevitable. Angie wants to open the doors to welcome Estelle and Ava into the rest of the group. Estelle says that she knew the whole time about the issues other housemates had with her and knows that other housemates think she is oblivious to everything. Estelle is thankful to Angie for caring.
That’s a wrap for another short Friday episode of Big Brother! Be sure to save your favourite housemate from eviction this week – Estelle, Ray and Angie are up for the chop on Sunday night, who goes? You decide!
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Nice editted version, how about the fact Ben blew up at BB and was sent to the naughty corner for gross disrespect? Or the fact that ben broke Estelle down yet again with his lies?
Channel 9 is allowing this bullying to go on. Gen Y, congrats on showing the nation just the sort of people you are.
Yeah it’s interesting that it was cut out, considering it was a pretty significant thing that happened around that.
they are being really awful to Estelle, so what if she hangs around with Ava, they like each other and no one else will talk to Estelle, who can blame her?
Big brother, are you happy to see Estelle being bullied like this? Step in now before she has a breakdown, she’s done nothing wrong!
I think a lot of people are misunderstanding the whole situation.
The other housemates are cool with Estelle and Ava being friends. The issue is that none of the housemates understand either Estelle or Ava.
They don’t know Ava because Estelle has handcuffed Ava to her. Josh has had the most opportunity out of all of the other housemates to get to know Ava. Stacey has also taken an opportunity when Estelle was stuck on the wall in the animals task.
Josh summed it up pretty well in a conversation with Zoe.
“She’s sorta said that she hasn’t really connected with anyone… I was like ‘well it’s hard for people to connect with you because they’re not sure if they’re gonna get, are they gonna get hip hop Estelle or are they gonna get basketball jersey Estelle or Hippy Estelle?” … “It’s good for Estelle but it’s like, detrimental to Ava…”
So not only do the housemates not understand who Ava is, but they also have not met the real Estelle.
We can blame the other housemates for not going out of their way, as adults, to get to know Estelle. But also, Estelle said she was clearly aware that people weren’t warming to her and she actually did nothing to fix that. An example of this is how difficult it is to have a conversation with Estelle: in the Chat Room, Angie began talking, and Estelle kept cancelling out what Angie said. Angie open the doors for Estelle to be a part of the group. Straight away, she said that it was not genuine.
When listening to what Estelle says when she is in an argument, and cries on cue, a lot of what she says is absolutely stupid. She uses bigger words and unrelated terms to make her argument sound like she is right.
Benjamin clearly said to her that other housemates are not being given the chance to get to know Ava. Estelle took it as a “personal attack” claiming that it’s bad that Estelle has found a friend she can communicate with and understand.
I can absolutely understand the people saying that bullying is going on – but we do have to remember that Estelle is not privy to all of the conversations we get to see on the program. She is not aware of the conversations going on around her. This does not excuse it, but some of the conversations are acceptable, but there are definitely ones which aren’t so acceptable. Conversations where housemates are venting to each other about Estelle ARE acceptable. Conversations mocking Estelle are not. We also need to consider that these people in the house are adults. If Estelle was under pressure, she would have confronted housemates a lot more than she has, or spoken to Big Brother about it. From what we have seen she has not made a concerted effort to try to make things better for herself.
If we go back to the comment Josh made: “well it’s hard for people to connect with you because they’re not sure if they’re gonna get, are they gonna get hip hop Estelle or are they gonna get basketball jersey Estelle or Hippy Estelle?” – Up to this point, housemates have not been able to understand who Estelle is because she has been different characters from the beginning.
Hayden, you will forever be known as “Big Brother’s Thinks-too-much”. 😉
Well, I for one appreciated the extended analysis, Hayden.
People complaining about the so-called bullying of Estelle seem to have shorter attention spans than a goldfish. Estelle was obnoxious as the power-IT-girl on her arrival, and gravitated to Ryan, and tormented poor dweeby Bradley quite mercilessly. She was obnoxious when she took Ryan into the Captain’s Quarters and said to Ryan, ‘All the other guys are going to be jealous.’
Then she noticed Ryan was not only thought stupid, but ridiculous, so adjusted her behaviour/persona. Then Ryan was voted out! Then she was nominated, etc. At every turn she adjusts her persona, and finds someone new who she has previously not been close to to glom onto. Josh, eg.
When Angie was nominated with Estelle, this week, Estelle was onto her like a leech. This was only a few days ago! Then Ava arrives and Estelle is her Siamese twin, swfitly transferring her affections form Angie to Ava.
I find her behaviour creepy, and no wonder the housemates are commenting on it.
estelle is quite twisted; was she not given psychological evaluation before she entered the house? it seems as though she has slowly gone crazy in the house, and the other housemates are right to question her behaviour. I cant wait to see the back of her