Celebrity Big Brother 2016; The Final; How disappointed were you?

I have just finished watching the 2016 January / February run of Celebrity Big Brother, and, must admit to feeling a little deflated.  Scotty T, the winner, although he has come across as a reasonable lad in the house, does not qualify in my opinion to being crowned the winner.  However much you may dress it up, he has effectively just coasted under the radar to the winning post, using the massive fan base he has accumulated through his other television appearances.  I don’t know why this surprises me so much as this has been a feature of the Big Brother process for a number of years.  My mate was so incensed with Scotty T winning, he declared he was not going to watch the live final programme!  Just for clarity we were out at the time of the live broadcast, as it was Friday night after all!

I myself did watch the recorded final, albeit strategically fast forwarding through many parts (the beauty of sky plus).  What struck me was the monotony of the interviewing process.  Emma Willis should really call it a day, or, at least subject herself to going in to the house.  We constantly hear about the pressure cooker environment, the world within a world, etc dirge.  I mean we know about all this by now.  Also all of the answers to the interview questions, we had heard already.  How many times have I heard how upset Darren Day was with John Partridge?  Well a lot I can tell you.  It may be that being an avid fan I have overdosed on the programme, having watched the main show, bit on the side, and, the live broadcasts.  I personally needed some new questions, but as ever all of the hard hitting subjects were basically avoided.  Why didn’t Emma ask about Scotty T’s 400 sexual conquests; if he had ever had a sexually transmitted disease; what he felt about the emotional distress these one night stands might inflict?  After all his sexual activity was one of his main talking points in the house.  How many times did we hear the phrase, “Scotty T’s job is to shag women”.  This phrase has never been questioned once; it has just been accepted by both presenters and housemates.  How do you square with what Scotty T gets up to, and, Stephanie Davis’s longing to have a normal relationship?  How can Stephanie hope to settle down, when all boys look up to what Scotty T gets up to, and, see it as the way to behave?  None of this subject matter was broached at all in any interviews that took place.

Perhaps I am just looking too deeply at it all, when in essence the fact of the matter is it is just a light entertainment game show.  Most of the arguing that occurs is stirred up by the shows producers.  At one time of day whatever was spoken about in the diary room, remained in the diary room.  Nowadays it is broadcast to the entire house to cause conflict.  Nowhere is safe in the Big Brother house.

So in conclusion I am going to have to think carefully whether to continue to watch future series of Big Brother.  I mean I have committed a lot of time to it, but is it productive, when at the end I become as disillusioned, and disappointed as I have done?  Has the way the show is now produced led to my disenfranchisement?

Just to end on a positive note, I have got to give great credit to Rylan Clarke-Neal, his presenting of the Bit on the Side programme, he has just got better and better.  My highlight of the whole series was the montage of the Bit on the Side best bits.  Pure genius.