I would like to make it very clear that Big Brother are not the ones who wanted Roxanne Pallett on the Jeremy Vine show, and they are certainly not the ones who want her back on THEIR show tonight to be interviewed by Emma Willis.
Endemol, the team producing Big Brother, do not want Roxanne on their show after what she did. However, Channel 5 themselves have clearly forced them to do this, and clearly plonked Roxanne on Jeremy Vine as a sensationalist interview to try and draw in ratings and profit from this controversy.
Do not let anyone else tell you different.
On to the interview, and in my mind it was a complete waste of 20 minutes. Roxanne has had all weekend to consult a PR team, her friends, family, and to work out exactly what she needed to say – and whilst it was interesting to see which story she would go down, everyone needs to remember it is just that, a story.
Every word she said this morning was rubbish.
She defended her appearance on the show by saying she's not being paid. Except her payment is part of her Big Brother contract which states you are to appear on a Channel 5 talkshow after eviction.
She says she is a 'sensitive' person. No, that is not sensitivity. That is not even close to sensitive. Her behaviour was manipulative, sick and wrong.
That right there, to me, is admitting that she is only saying what she is due to public perception. If there was ANY support for her at all right now, she would be saying the complete opposite. This is all an act.
She says she has been a 'victim' of 'domestic violence' in the past. Yet said in the house she has 'never felt' something like Ryan's 'punches to her ribs' – Make of that what you will.
If Roxanne had been evicted, and interviewed by Emma, and shown that clip, do you really believe she would be apologising? Do you really believe she would be saying she overreacted? No. She wouldn't have. She would have carried on, because she would not have had her PR team saying "FOR GODS SAKE SAY THIS OR YOUR CAREER IS OVER".
One very telling bit in the interview is when Jamelia directly asked Roxanne if she would get help, because Roxanne was saying over and over she had a problem she needed to deal with. Roxanne refused to say she would get help (she swerved the question), but repeated she had a problem.
I do not believe for a second that Roxanne is truly sorry for any of this.
I do not believe for a second that a previous domestic violence case has caused her to mentally project this in her mind.
She is either an attention seeker of the highest order, manipulative and nasty. Or genuinely sick – and either way, should not be persuing a career in the limelight any further. It's time to call up that corner shop.
Let us not ignore the amount of people that have come forward from her past. This is not a one off incident, this is repeated behaviour from Roxanne, throughout her career, and is likely to be a big reason why her career was non-existant before entering the house.
I do not feel sorry for her, but I do agree that she needs to take herself out of the public eye, and everyone should leave her alone.
I do think the conversation around the issues that have arisen surrounding this incident is important to continue. But there is no need to keep attacking a woman, because heaven forbid, this cannot be easy for anyone and no-one deserves a continued torrent of abuse. If she is really mentally ill, lets hope she doesn't end up doing something drastic to herself.
That being said, if she DOES continue to try and continue a career in the limelight, she deserves everything she gets.
Judging from her PR spinning interview, it looks like she's going to try and carry on this media career. More fool her. If she's ill, she needs to go away and sort herself out. If she's well, she needs to go away, period.
I feel very sorry for Big Brother and the team at Endemol, they have been given a lot of flack for how they dealt with the incident, with some saying they were doing it for ratings, or blaming Ryan.
These people have no idea how Big Brother HAS to operate legally these days. They have to appease Ofcom, they have to look out for the safety of all housemates.
They responded by giving a warning. NOT A FINAL WARNING. They HAD to give this warning to show to any possible lawsuit that they took the complain 'seriously'.
Posted on September 3, 2018, in Big Brother, Media, News/Events, Personal Rant and tagged BBUK, Big Brother, CBB, Celebrity Big Brother, Channel 5, Endemol, JEREMY VINE, roxanne pallett, ryan thomas. Bookmark the permalink.	2 Comments.
Totally agree with your points about how BB handled the situation. They did everything they should.
I actually think they did Ryan a favour by giving him a warning. Without that he would have gone on thinking everything was fine and could have continued to play with Roxy, potentially giving her more ammo. He needed to be warned in some way and he was.