As much as I enjoy the Big Brother launch show every year, and I allow myself a few little excited squeals as the housemates are revealed (I am under no obligation to be the epitome of cool!), I couldn’t help but notice, and be depressed by, the behaviour of the audience, or rather the clear divide between the housemates apparently deserving of their boos and chants of “Get her out!!”:

Ladies who weren’t booed as they entered the house:

- The WI, royalist sixtysomething

- The political, gobby fiftysomething

- The self-deprecating Welsh girl who has more than a passing resemblance to Beth Ditto

- The clearly mad makeup fiend with more eyeshadows than pauses for breath in the average sentence

- The rainbow-clothing-wearing raver in her thirties whose personal philosophy is “Av it!!”


Girls who the - let’s admit it, predominantly female - audience would clearly have quite happily thrown to the lions:

- The self-professed London “It Girl ” who loves money and has a footballer as a cousin

- The intelligent, indie-loving beautiful blonde who’s clearly loaded

- The vivacious , pink-loving twins who delight in the novelty of their birth and squeal a lot

- The Indian accounts executive who speaks her mind and would choose vodka over a man any day (sensible girl, say I)

- The seemingly down-to-earth Yorkshire girl who happens to enjoy a passing resemblance to Victoria Beckham

So ….. basically we hate any girl who is attractive, bubbly, with a great body and doesn’t seem to appreciate the notion of self-deprecation.. Girls who, in normal life, might pose something of a threat….?

Come on ladies, this isn’t the playground. Be cool.