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Sorry Christine, you're talking out of your cakehole there. What's all this sh!te about Kim loosing votes because it was text-only at the end? It was exactly the same for both Kim AND Edith. No hidden agenda, no conspiracy, Edith was just preferred by more people on the night.

As for all the campaigns for Edith, that's ridiculus. Campaigns have never really had an effect on reality TV votes, and as someone running a BB site I'd have thought you would have known that.

Even if Edith has a large fanbase because of Radio One, Kim has a far bigger fanbase because she's an 'actress' on the termimally dull Eastenders. Talking of terminally dull, although she has probably the best 'trained' voice of the contestants, she lacks the passion, understanding of the music and emotional expression to create a *great* performance. As the judges said, Kim would be fantastic in a musical stageshow, but there's one thing she's not: a pop artist.

Edith, on the other hand, understands the music. Not just hitting the notes, but the emotion and essence behind a song. She feels music, and that's what makes her a thousand times the artist of Kim or Debra.

Well so far Chris Moyles has campaigned for Kate, Cameron and Nadia to win BB!! Alex, Will and Edith to win Fame Academy, so i suppose your right bonzo these appeals have little effect

Alex Sibley and Paul Clarke had massive campaigns to keep them in, when they started heavily odds-against in various eviction weeks as well, they won btw

Didn't he also campaign for Spencer and Anna to win Big Brother and Ainslie to win Fame Academy? He campaigns for someone everytime a reality tv show comes along, and his success rate is pretty low.

You can cherry pick examples all you like, but unless you can prove there is a high corrolation between a radio one campaign and the success of the contestant, then my point is valid and yours is a rather pathetic attempt to discredit someone with an opposing viewpoint to yourself.

In the final week he campaigned for those people i stated above, , i didn't want either kim or edith to win so i'm not that bothered!! Its you who started the conversation about campaigns not being effective, i disagree, sorry if you see that as a personal attack!!

Was he even on Radio 1 when Anna was there, if so i'd imagine it was the graveyard shift, and as i say, his campaign for Spencer was probably cancelled out by Nortons campaign for Alex Sibley that week!!


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A very interesting comment from someone who just above had told another distinguished member they are talking out of their cakehole for having an opposing view to you.

I agree that it was the same for both on the night (except that Edith sang first and then they stopped the voting almost straight after Kim had sang)



No, I think that the votes for Edith would have come in during the day because of the mammoth advertising she got. The night before, Kim was definitely in the lead, because otherwise she wouldn't have been saved by the public vote. Also, I heard some Kim supporters say that she would definitely win, so they weren't going to bother to vote.



I think that they can have an effect and in this case, not only was it Radio One campaigning, but Edith's parents own a hotel who are customers of a large brewery. The brewery told their staff to all vote for her on the works phone.



I understand what you're saying and I did in fact like Edith as well and she has a very nice voice, but having had singing training myself, I would say that Kim was the more professional of the two and was more consistently good, whereas Edith did sing out of tune on a few occasions.

I don't deny that they were both very good and there wasn't much in it, but I just feel that it was obvious that Kim had been the public's favourite all the way through and then just lost out on the last day. I also didn't like the tactical voting which Edith did because she wanted to win so badly. To choose Reggie over Debra had to be a tactical vote to get rid of the competition imo.

At the end of the day though, it doesn't really matter, because lots of money was raised for a good cause and that's what it was really all about.

Since when has Christine been distinguished?

I had a feeling Edith was going to win this. I said this pretty much near the beginning of the week.

I would have liked to have seen Kim win it but Edith is Scottish I suppose.

I thought she sang the best all the way through and her voice is really sexy and fits alot of the songs she was given to sing! She looked so excited when she sang the Oasis song with Jools, and if she was contemplating changing careers, although she has a ace job to start with!

sour grapes or do you want cheese with that wine

FYI only Colin Murray 'campaigned' (if you call it that) for Edith to win, we have Radio 1 on all day in the office and that what I heard

Anyway does it really matter, this was a singing/entertainment/popularity contest to raise money for Comic Relief

I donated money to Comic Relief and voted for Edith (of my own free will) because I preferred her to Kim. I've no problem saying Kim was the best singer, but she didn't appeal to me one tiny bit (the word desperate springs to mind)

anyway see you all again around BB6, when the real fun (and arguments) start anew

Hello again DH

REALITY CHECK
DJ Edith turns back on 'intrusive' television shows


RADIO 1 DJ Edith Bowman has vowed never to have anything to do with reality TV again . . . while taking a cheeky pop at music mogul Simon Cowell.

The bubbly presenter said the winners at the Scottish Style Awards all had the X factor.

But she hastily added: "I hate to quote from Simon Cowell.

"Thankfully he's not here with his rather large pants."

The 30-year-old Scot, who was hosting the awards at Glasgow's Tramway,admitted she not only has a problem with Simon, but dislikes reality shows in general.

"I know I took part in Celebrity Fame Academy,but I'd never do any others," she said. "That was the most subtle one. It's more about the classes and how you deal with them.

"I did it purely to help Comic Relief and I thought that being on radio I could generate a bit of buzz about it. I'm not planning on doing any more singing.

"I'd rather have needles stuck in my eyes than take part in Strictly Come Dancing. These shows are really quite intrusive.

"I give three hours of myself to listeners everyday and it's not like I'm hiding anything. I just have no wish to do any more."

Instead Edith is focusing on her radio career and her new project - as landlady of the Station Buffet bar in the Fife village of Elie.

"My brother and I are licensees and he's going to run it," she said.

"I'm getting weekly phone calls from him about it, and I think we're opening up mid-November.

"He's got some great ideas. There's this real waste of space outside and he's going to put up heaters and vines, and make it a little patio area. With the smoking ban coming in, it will be great."

While Edith is more likely to be pulling pints than DJ-ing in her new pub, she revealed she will be broadcasting from her home town of Anstruther in the coming months. She and side-kick Colin Murray will be heading north to present their afternoon show.

"We're doing a thing with Radio 1 called DJs Go Home,"she said."First we'll go to Belfast for Colin, then we'll do a show from my old school, Waid Academy in Anstruther."

Edith, who turned up late for the Scottish Style Awards after her flight was delayed, wore a dress by Fashion Designer Of The Year Jonathan Saunders.

She said: "I wanted to wear a Scottish designer so I asked my friends at Clash magazine to recommend someone. They told me to go to Jonathan Saunders,but I didn't even know he'd been nominated.

"He's one of these Scottish talents that's going to be massive."

Although Edith agreed with the judges in that category, she was surprised at some results. "I thought KT Tunstall or Franz might have got the bandone," she said.

Texas, also nominated for Most Stylish Band, arrived at the bash after playing a sold-out gig at the Carling Academy in Glasgow.

Edith admitted she is a massive fan of frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri.

"In terms of a Scottish icon of style, it has to be Sharleen Spiteri," she said dailyrecord