I have just been reading Jo O’Meara’s interview featured in todays News Of The World.

I think it was awful that a girl was driven to making a suicide attempt over a TV show and I do pity Jo and recognise that she is in a sorry state.

Howver a few things strike me as not quite right.

First of all she comments that after her failed suicide attempt, she decided not to go to hospital because:

“I knew if I went to hospital it would get out and everyone would know. Things would be a million times worse, and I couldn’t face that.”

Well selling your story to The News Of The World certainly didn’t help you keep the secret did it Jo?

Jo also claimed that the public’s perception of her was based on bad editing on the CBB editors part. I can see how the editors can manipulate a programme, I know that is common practice. However Jo said some awful things, the producers did not make those up. The whole row between Jade and Shilpa was completely unedited, we saw Jo blatantly laugh in Shilpa’s face when she asked for help…that cannot be blamed on editing, that was Jo being Jo.

Jo has been badly treated by the Big Brother staff. They used her and left her out to dry, however she needs to take some responsibilty for her actions. Jo O’Meara may not deserve to be the national hate figure that she has become, certainly things have been blown out of proportion. But Jo did behave badly. She was nasty and bitchy and showed a very bad side of herself. If she had the guts to admit that much maybe I wouldn’t dislike her so much.

Move on Jo, Danielle certainly has.