Day 34

Never has a love so pure been so frustrating to watch.

John James and Josie have had a weird relationship from the beginning. It’s been kind of like watching a brother and sister relationship grow. Except that the older sister wouldn’t mind a shag from the younger brother and the younger brother doesn’t understand the tingly feeling he gets around his big sis. Like I said, it’s been a weird relationship.

I mentioned in my opening Big Brother blog entry on this site that on first inspection Josie would probably get labeled the house “frumpy one” but I was, happily, wrong. I’ve liked Josie’s personality from the off, she seems fun. I only worried about how she would be viewed because the other housemates were skinny model types. I like to think of it as a vindication of the male species that all the blokes took a shine to Josie. In fact the only person to fancy any of the other girls was… another girl, Shabby.

John James was the leader for Josie’s affection but a close second was Nathan. Oh yeah, Nathan is gone. Oh well.

“Do you fink I’m flurtin’ wi’ you or summit?”

It’s been evident for a while that Josie and John James have like-liked each other. There has been mutterings back and forth with other housemates about it. Josie even refers to JJ as her husband and it’s one of the only names anyone is allowed to call him without a strop being thrown.

What has been harder to judge was when they were going to talk openly about how they feel or even, god forbid, make a move.

Thinking back, I would have said that they haven’t even admitted to themselves their feelings for each other until last night’s show. It seemed to genuinely be the first time either of them spoke about how much the other means to them. But it was like pulling teeth.

I was on the edge of my seat screaming at them to be grown-ups and talk honestly to eachother. Instead there was just some retarding mumblings and shouts. Neither of them acting around each other the way they were acting apart. Neither of them saying to each other what they were saying apart.

I likened the situation to being at school and two friends wanted to date but they were two young and shy to admit this fact to the other. Resulting in one or both picking a fight because of their frustration.

The distance between us

I know I made fun of Shabby having the hormonal tantrums of a teenager but once again we’re seeing teenage traits in these grown-up housemates. They’re mad about each other but they’re going about it like kids. IT MAKES ME WANT TO SCREAM!

But, alls well that ends well. In a cringe-tastic scene, where Big Brother had to basically hold their hands and say “do you like her?”, “…yeah”. “Do you like him?”, “…yeah”. “Then shut the fuck up and snog already”.

And when they were cuddling and making up the coup de grace of the childlike behavior for me was John James’ expression when he tried to tell Josie how much he liked her. Rather than actually say the words “you know I’m mad about you” he just gave a “you know” and a dumb expression.

And then Josie went back to sucking her thumb.

ARGH! Why do they do this to me?

Just like me they long to be close to you

– Aaron Poole
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