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Do you think some people who watch BB get too carried away with their disliking of the housemates?
Definitely. Sure they are just contestants in a show, but it's a show like no other. If you go on the Generation game, or family fortunes you won't get noticed in the streets, but after a week in the big brother house, you are famous... You are a celeb.
Loved by many, hated by many, but the question is, can it go further than that. Of course. Take the rivalry between football fans for example; I'm thinking Celtic vs. Rangers. In the past throats have been slit and people killed over the team they support.
If some idiot will strike someone, over something like football! Then what's to say someone won't walk up to one of the BB housemates in the street and put a knife through them?
This is perhaps the worst possible outcome, but of course we have other hatred, which many of the housemates are bound to go thorough. Being spat and sworn at in the street.
Tim is our classic example of this. I felt sorry for him when he left the BB house and was boo'ed off-stage. The public can be rough! And this is something that the housemates know, but perhaps will underestimate when going into the house.
Sure it's unfair, but it's a consequence that they have to be ready to face.