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Has the selection of housemates in BB been diverse

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I live in south western Sydney and this year the 3 HMs from Sydney were Tim from Newtown, Tully from Newtown and Justin From Randwick. Why are their none from outside of inner city suburbs. Not everyone from the west are bogans.
 
I've noticed over the years that the selection of HMs starts off reasonably diverse (age-/race-/demeanour-wise etc) but seems to bland out as people are evicted.

I guess it's understandable that the housemates would tend to nominate those that they don't feel they have as much in common with. And it seems that the viewers like to watch the plastic people. I think the vote-to-save has counteracted this to some degree, but the popularity of JadEd etc proves to me that it will never go away entirely.
 
Meewa said:
I've noticed over the years that the selection of HMs starts off reasonably diverse (age-/race-/demeanour-wise etc) but seems to bland out as people are evicted.

I guess it's understandable that the housemates would tend to nominate those that they don't feel they have as much in common with. And it seems that the viewers like to watch the plastic people. I think the vote-to-save has counteracted this to some degree, but the popularity of JadEd etc proves to me that it will never go away entirely.
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In the days of vote to evict, pretty girls like Jade and Tahan were voted off nearly straight away by the insecure teeny girls. Quickly followed by the loud and controversial characters like Tim. People were not let to develop in the house, but evicted by their covers or preconceived notions by how they look. By this stage we are usually left with a group of jocks and a token chick.
 
Diverse? Only in terms of race and demeanour. Having one token "oldie" is NOT diverse. True diversity would be having an even distribution of ages ie 2-3 housemates between Ben (31) and Sharon (40 or however old she was). In this regard, I think Nathan would have been fabulous as an original housemate. And looks/weight?? Don't get me started. Again, having one token "big girl" is not diverse, and even at that, Chrissie Swan is the only true 'big girl' ever to grace the Big Brother house. Size 16-ish a la Zoe/Heidi/etc is the higher end of average and NOT that big...they only look big in comparison to the other 10-15 skinny people in the house. Looks-wise, same thing...there's only 2 people out of 19 this year who are (IMO) unattractive, namely Ben & Justynn. Ditto last year - Michael, Charne, Bradley & Zoe were the only (again IMO) non-'beautiful people'.
 
I think BB did very well on the female side of things. They are all reasonably different from one another, hell, you could put Jasmine back in and because she was different she would add another dynamic to the house. The boys not so much. Tim, Ben, Justynn are unique. Rohan, Xavier and Nathan i feel are the same while Drew, Matthew, Caleb and Ed are too similar.
 
Drew is nothing like Matthew or Ed

i think they did a much better job this year than last. im not overly concerned with age, body type or race...its personality that matters
 
Since there is one gay man they could have included one lesbian too instead of the hasbian.
 
talene said:
Drew is nothing like Matthew or Ed

i think they did a much better job this year than last. im not overly concerned with age, body type or race...its personality that matters
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I absolutely agree with you that personality matters the most, and I daresay a large percentage (perhaps the majority even?) would probably also be the same. It irks me then that the producers keep putting in 'beautiful people' on the apparent assumption that people value eye-candy over personality.
 
fivecougars said:
molls i agree it would be good if there were more lesbians
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I agree

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