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Absolutely!
I'd sooner never see a wheelchair user in the BB house than see one simply because of some misguided notion that in the world of "entertainment" (loosest sense) everyone needs to be fairly represented and accounted for, and all must be PC.
Does anyone actually have any figures relating to the amount of disabled applicants for BB, then? I thought maybe there would be very few, anyway, either because they have more sense than to make themselves and their disability fair game for every ignoramus in the country... or because they didn't want to be "token" a la South Park.
Not sure about half who you're on about... But there have been celebrity Big Brothers, I mean more about the ones who are on it normally... And maybe you don't find them attractive, but they're hardly unattractive. Of all the times I've seen it, there's never been a big person on their either.
(And for the record, Nadia was pretty)
alison?
and only one of those i mentioned were celebs...the rest were "normal" people
Jack Dee
Claire Sweeney
Keith Duffy
Anthea Turner
Vanessa Feltz
Chris Eubank
Mark Owen
Les Dennis
Melinda Messenger
Sue Perkins
Anne Diamond
Goldie
Bez
Kenzie
Brigitte Nielsen
Jeremy Edwards
Caprice
Lisa I'Anson
John McCririck
Germaine Greer
Chantelle Houghton
Michael Barrymore
Maggot
Samuel Preston
Pete Burns
Traci Bingham
Dennis Rodman
George Galloway
Rula Lenska
Faria Alam
Jodie Marsh
Jermaine Jackson
Danielle Lloyd
Ken Russell
Jo O'Meara
Leo Sayer
Shilpa Shetty
Carole Malone
Donny Tourette
Ian "H" Watkins
Cleo Rocos
Dirk Benedict
Jade Goody
Jack Tweed
Jackiey Budden
There's about 4 lookers among them. I would mention the normal contestants too, but no-one will remember who they are. But whenever I see the line up, personally I usually consider only a couple of them to be really attractive.
So you fancy a few of them? And the others are "ugly"?
Different strokes for different folks... Personally from what I've seen there has never been an obese person on Big Brother (by which I mean a size 20+), or somebody with huge ears and seriously wierd teeth.
I've never seen an unattractive person on there.
Not all disability is physical or visible. When they included housemates with mental health problems they got really critised for it yet many mental health problems can be considered a disability.
Also, Jackiey had a hand that was severely damaged which could be considered a disability as well.
I remember a few years ago I looked at the application form for Big Brother and it said how you weren't allowed on if you had a history of mental illness... This seems to have changed.
The questio is, are they exploiting mental illness or hidden disabilities (e.g. Pete) for fun, or putting a positive message accross?
again.....alison
I remember back in the day when they screened the contestants loads I was still at school and was secretly disaapointed by the fact I thought I'd never get in the BB house as I wouldn't pass their pyschological testing.
There was a thesite rant on the issue of exploting mental illness at the time of BB7 which is worth a read.
Got a pic?
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=alison+hammond
I guess with mental illness, it's alot to do with whether you'd be able to cope with the stuff you may end up doing?
Yeah if someone had a violent mental health history or if being in confinement was likely to put someone into a full blown nervous breakdown it would probably come back to bite them in the ass.