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Originally posted by Eugene's Lair:
Davina: “But you were quite mean to his [Freddie’s] face. You could have just avoided him.”
Kris: “But then that’s being fake, isn’t it?”
And there you have Kris is a nutshell.
Tact? Decency? Pah. Fake. The feelings of the people you’re being nasty to? Sod ‘em if they don’t agree with you. The viewing public? They’ll support you as long as you’re “true to yourself”.
All that matters is that you express yourself fully and without concession. Indeed, to not do so would be deeply wrong.
Grace Dent wrote about this a while ago. The way in which many HMs (and indeed viewers) believe that the ideal HM is one who “always speaks their mind”, is “true to themselves” and has no “edge” to their personality whatsoever. Any complexity, inherent contradictions or depth of character means that they are being “fake”, and that’s an inexcusable crime. For them, BB exists in a land fit for zeroes, where mediocrity is all.
I want to see depth of character. I want to see complex personalities. I want to see human frailties. I want to see consideration for others. These are all signs of a real, 3-dimensional human being.
Kris, however, believes that they are weaknesses and signs of a dishonest and “fake” personality.
I’m delighted he’s gone.
all those signs you mention above are all there to be seen in the rest of his gang too. Last night on LF the conversation between them was how on earth had he gone as he hadn`t done anything wrong, culminating in Karly saying that they had all been real and not fake so they mustn`t have had a good edit and Marcus was horrible so BB mustn`t be showing it.