Dawn Blake: An Apology
Unreality TV has been visited quite regularly over the past couple of weeks by Dawn Blake, one of the contestants to leave Big Brother 7 early on in the show.
You may remember early on in the series, the Big Brother contestants were denied access to their suitcases. The press jumped upon the story and a couple of comments from the housemates about Dawn. At the time, we ran a tongue-in-cheek campaign to have deodorants donated to the Big Brother house.
Understandably, Dawn was upset about this and took the time to get in touch with us to set the story straight.
She sent me some diary room footage which featured her requesting her suitcase be returned as she was being forced to wear paper underwear and borrow clothes from other contestants. She also complained at the time of feeling humiliated and embarrassed about having to borrow from the boys as the girls’ clothes generally didn’t fit her.
While our article was intended as tongue in cheek, we would like to thank Dawn for raising this issue with us and apologise for any offense our article caused.
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Dawn, in all honesty, I think you will be more suprised to see how many people are against you – and now your idiot followers who seem to find it difficult to put things into some sort of decent perspective.
You were kept against your will, I would insist you do approach Nelson Mandella or even Terry Waite to find out the true meaning of the words “kept against your will”.
The emotional part of me wants to fill this page detailing why you are no better than the nutters that saw fit to kill thousands of people on 9/11, or indeed the people who were behind the london bombings – but I wont.
I will say this though, anyone who can honestly say that Dawn has a legitamate arguement, one that justifys her little rants, and rediclous claims, I urge you to try and realise that you are the soul reason for the compensation socity that we live in today, and I can only hope you’re involved with something terrible, something that may put all of this into some kind of perspective for you, or that you change of your own free will after realising that your thoughts and opinions are just plain incorrect – but self critisizim doesnt seem to be something any of you are big on.
“Linda, no I don’t think it’s a waste of tax payers money. I’m a tax payer and I gladly donate my tax to help Dawn’s case. Shame on you. You obviously lack empathy. Have you tried putting yourself into Dawn’s shoes? If Dawn made a request to leave she should not have been held against her will. Had it happened to a member of your family would you really be so dismissive?”
Whaaat? Oh, Oh no. I’m TRAPPED, in a house, all on my own with no food, or wa…
Oh, oh wait. no, sorry, there is food, oh, and people. Lots of food, oh christ and a big comfy couch. wait, I’m not paying anything for all this? Awesome.
What, theres a fricking POOL!? AWESOME!.
… etc etc.
Why yes, I’m glad my taxs’ are going on Dawn’s case too, infact, I’d pay an extra 2% on my yearly earnings if she agreed to apologise to the police, channel 4, endomol and every other poor sap to look in on her rediclious plight and for her to go back on that hunger strike again.
Sarah,
Thankyou for correcting me on the spelling of the word “plagiariseâ€? I am man enough to admit that was a mistake. You say you’re not bothered by peoples spelling or grammar errors, well to be honest neither am I. Once again you are so absorbed with this joke of a “NON ISSUE” that you have completely missed the point. I was merely highlighting the futility (look that word up in your dictionary) and stupidity of this arguement and your blind devotion to it, which is I suppose honourable if more than a little amusing!
All this does is prove how utterly meaningless this complaint really is in the grand scheme of things. Let me try and put it into some sort of perspective for you.
FACT: Every 3 seconds a child dies from AIDS or abject poverty
FACT: More than 38 million people around the world are infected by HIV/AIDS, 25 million in Africa alone.
These facts can be found on http://www.one.org
FACT: There currently in excess of 380,000 people homeless in the UK at this current time.
This info was sourced from http://www.crisis.org.uk
And you people sit there and concern yourselves with the inane babblings of someone who was on tv for all of five minutes. Someone who was well aware of what was in store for her well before she went in and was given ample opportuniity to pull out before she went in. I’m sure Big brother producers kept Dawn in the house for longer to see if they would get their money’s worth out of her as clearly a lot of time and investment was put in. Clearly they didn’t get what they paid for as she was as dull as ditchwater and to that end I think Endemol should be the ones seeking some sort of reccompence.
I suggest some of you pay a visit to some of the websites I’ve mentioned above and educate yourselves. Theres a whole world out there!!
And just to add a further point…one that makes me VERY angry.
I think Dawn’s use of a HUNGER STRIKE too highlight her NON ISSUE is simply SICK and DISGUSTING given the points I raised in my last post about the plight of people in poverty around the world. To this end I demand an apology from Dawn for the complete lack of respect for people who have ACTUALLY SUFFERED and continue to suffer on a daily basis. These people have not been paid large sums of money for doing NOTHING on national tv. These people have not had anywhere near the opportunities in life that you have and your contempt for these people sickens me.
GROW UP DAWN!! YOU AND THE FOOLISH PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT YOU MAKE ME WANT TO VOMIT!!
Annon, you sound very jealous of anyone who manages to get on Big Brother. Are you really that unhappy? Spewing out sarcasm on Internet forums is not going to make it any better. If you get out and start a new hobby or make friends, it will probably start to help you feel better about yourself. Failing that, exercise will activate the serotonin in your brain.
Shaun, sounds like you’re in need of a little TLC too. What comes across is that you’re having a tantrum. Does thinking about Dawn make you agitated and get your heart beating faster?
Next time you feel like calling a whole bunch of people you don’t know on a forum “idiots”…. or, next time you feel like comparing a woman who was held against her will on a TV show with terrorists who have killed thousands and left children without parents… The next time… walk away from the computer and hit a cushion.
Have you considered what’s really causing all this rage? Please talk to somebody you can trust.
Dawn, I wish you all the best in your campaign for justice.
I’m not angry, and I am very loved I’m happy to say. this isnt about my personal situation though, its about Dawn, and how idiotic her, and anyone for her cause is.
Maybe your personal attack on me was to avoid the point? – job well done.
I’ll restate mine, I still hope something awful happens to you, to help you put this thing into some kind of perspective. and your thoughts on the matter are still wrong and incorrect.
regards,
Spewing out sarcasm is what dawn has been doing throughout these posts, you closed minded incorrect idiot.
thankfully my right to freedom of speach (together with my right to not have to disclose my identity) are in tact.
lets try it out;
Judder, you are a dumbass.
annon.
.. just like that, everything was right in the world.
Spewing out sarcasm is what dawn has been doing throughout these posts, you closed minded incorrect idiot.
thankfully my right to freedom of speach (together with my right to not have to disclose my identity) are in tact.
lets try it out;
Judder, you are a dumbass.
annon.
.. just like that, everything was right in the world.
Steve,
This will be my last response to you because you are rude.
I would just like to point out that, in my experience, people who are truly compassionate about the world at large are not the kind of individuals who shout and scream, insulting and haranguing and accusing.
If you want to be taken seriously you should consider putting your points across in a more logical and constructive way. At the moment you come across as someone who doesn’t care about the plight of anyone, but who is simply concerned with scoring points in an argument.
I’d like to make it quite clear that — contrary to your rants — there is no argument. Nobody on this forum has said at any point that Dawn’s case is the ONLY issue in the world, or that it is the most important issue. However, as this thread is about Dawn’s case, that is what we are talking about.
There are other forums to talk about other issues. Here we are talking about Dawn.
Please leave now, or I will have to.
Thank you.
Shaun, I love you, but I completely disagree.
I think it is worth noting here that the ‘compensation culture’ society in which we live today stems from one thing, and one thing only… Money. And by watching and taking part ‘interactively’ in Big Brother, we are no better or worse than the people who try to sue B+Q because a lampshade fell on their head in 1999.
Dear Linda: As a mass audience, anually, we pump hundreds of millions of pounds worth of our money into ‘frivolous’ endeavours such as voting who to evict from Big Brother, I’m a celebrity, or Love Island (to name but a few) Even if we don’t take part in that sense, we tune in, we log on, we discuss and in turn promote. As a result, we line the pockets in one way or another of the fat cats at the top. They don’t care about us. They don’t care about the housemates. we are all but one huge ‘homogenious lump’.
There are laws in education and employment which prevent persons from being held ‘against’ their will so why should it be any different for an institution such as Big Brother?
In answer to your quote about ‘wasting tax payers money’ I would like to sympathise with Dawn. This is perhaps the most careless and ‘homogeniuos’ statement of them all… As a student, I rely heavily on government subsidies – simply due to the fact that I cannot independently fund myself. So it riles me when I hear comments such as ’students? living off us!’ because tax is an investment, which ensures that society is able to move forward and that good and right is done. Just remember, I am among the next generation of prime ministers, solicitors, doctors, TV producers… So don’t come crying to me in 20 years time when your kidneys or you marriage or your community is failing. That is all beside the point however…
What I would like to make clear re: ‘a waste of taxpayers money’ is that, by saying this so passively, you have become the worlds biggest hypocrite. Do you not remember what happened when Thatcher destroyed the unions? gave the ‘little man’ no leg to stand on for unfair treatment in the workplace? There was outcry. There was rebellion, because what the bouffon sporting, Mr Whippy inventing bitchbag had done was theoretically an infringement of human rights, which is exactly what Big Brother seem to have reflected in their manipulative treatment of Dawn…
There again, you probably had a lavish ‘child of thatcher’ lifestyle where daddy was a banker and mummy spent all day at home or in the Jeep. A true capitalist who is not prepared to part with their money for the good of the state and reputation – whether it be Dawn quite rightly pursuing her case against Endemol to make sure that housemates are treated with the respect and common courtesy that all human beings deserve, (just as we’d complain or refuse to pay if a waitress deliberately gave us cold food, or no knife and fork to eat our food) or whether it be to catch the people who planned to blow up 747s over Heathrow.
I would also like to come back to a point I made earlier on in this post…
If you want to complain about Dawn wasting tax payers money then why were you watching Big Brother at all? If it is so bad then you could always refuse to pay your TV licence? Let alone become involved in discussions about Big Brother – the biggest capitalist movement in television history. Something that eats away at public money… Money that could be spent on the ‘NHS’, ‘Railways’… Or (god forbid) student welfare in the UK. If what Dawn is doing is so bad then don’t contradict yourself by being involved in what could be considered as the biggest public money-waster since the Millenium Dome.
At the end of the day, Dawn is probably one of the most intriguing characters to come out of Big Brother to date. She is intelligent, witty, intellectual (hey, we all make speelng mistaks) and clearly defies what we consider as the quintessential Big Brother contestant. I personally would much rather open the paper and read about her battle to save at least a few members of the public from the brainwashing that takes place for 3 months every year. To me, it is far more entertaining reading than Nikki’s boobs on page three, or how many times Pete swore at a recent film premier. If anything, this shows to us that there are confident people out there such as dawn who are prepared to have their name blackened *apologies for politically incorrect phrase, no thesaurus to hand* for what is far more worthwile than Nikki having a tantrum over a bucket of haddock. Dawn is controversial, and people don’t like that… She is far too different and intelligent for the average ‘white trash’ television public to accept as a decent human being, so instead you throw insulting – bordering on racist – remarks her way. You should be ashamed!
I would personally like to thank Dawn for restoring my faith in the true depths of the human personality. For too long we have come to accept a standardized model of human interaction and behaviour. This has an effect on us. We now see the likes of Jade Goody cavorting around not knowing what east angular is, or Nikki just… Not knowing who or where she is as the ‘norm’ and disregard anything deeper or more meaningful as a waste of our time?
To round up… If Dawn is being such a silly billy over this whole affair then I suggest you take a good look at the society by which you have been brainwashed. Take a look at the tabloids next time you fill your car with petrol, and then you will see what UTTER tripe we are breast (no pun intended) fed on a daily basis. Surely you should worry about that first before you slam a woman who has quite clearly had wrong done to her and quite correctly, wants to put it right.
Chin up Dawn love. There are still some intelligent and persistent people out there who are quite willing to offer you their support. And I am certainly one of them
Love Nic xx
(Manchester)
I feel an internet phrase coming on in response to sarah.
- Lol.
Steve, stay right where you are, we may be able to get rid of one of the few that think Dawn has a valid point. Where she may “Leave” to I have no idea, as her presence is not possible in any other form here other than text, so I can only presume that she may look into getting her ill thought comments off this page alltogether?
As for the HIV issue. Don’t patronise people by intimidating them with figures about AIDS in the world. I know only too well what life is like living around somebody who is HIV positive, but to disregard the plight of anyone else who deserves to have her name cleared (whether it be Nelson Mandella or Dawn Blake) is utterly ludacris, not to mention ignorant.
In response to the last comment by Sarah.
I agree on the one point this forum section is about Dawn and I would remind you that a forum is not a place where people of one opinion rule the day.
I’m sorry that because my opinion differs from yours you consider me to be rude. What I consider to be offensive is the type of person that has so little respect for someone else that they would use a hunger strike to make…well NO POINT at all really and this shows utter contempt which to me is offensive and it is my right to say so on a public forum.
And to answer the “points scoring” issue, I am not so much looking to win points but state an opinion and try and make people see the irationality of their comments. All along I have been sticking to facts, something to which others that have posted in this forum section have not. If this makes you uncomfortable enough to want to leave then by all means do so, although methinks there are more underlying reasons why you wish to leave, maybe a lack of any real arguement perhaps?
I have not insulted anybody or shouted, screamed or harangued unlike Dawn and her followers who seem to think they are witty when they come across as blind sycophants with no real mind of their own.
Shaun, I love you, but I completely disagree.
I think it is worth noting here that the ‘compensation culture’ society in which we live today stems from one thing, and one thing only… Money. And by watching and taking part ‘interactively’ in Big Brother, we are no better or worse than the people who try to sue B+Q because a lampshade fell on their head in 1999.
Dear Linda: As a mass audience, anually, we pump hundreds of millions of pounds worth of our money into ‘frivolous’ endeavours such as voting who to evict from Big Brother, I’m a celebrity, or Love Island (to name but a few) Even if we don’t take part in that sense, we tune in, we log on, we discuss and in turn promote. As a result, we line the pockets in one way or another of the fat cats at the top. They don’t care about us. They don’t care about the housemates. we are all but one huge ‘homogenious lump’.
There are laws in education and employment which prevent persons from being held ‘against’ their will so why should it be any different for an institution such as Big Brother?
In answer to your quote about ‘wasting tax payers money’ I would like to sympathise with Dawn. This is perhaps the most careless and ‘homogeniuos’ statement of them all… As a student, I rely heavily on government subsidies – simply due to the fact that I cannot independently fund myself. So it riles me when I hear comments such as ’students? living off us!’ because tax is an investment, which ensures that society is able to move forward and that good and right is done. Just remember, I am among the next generation of prime ministers, solicitors, doctors, TV producers… So don’t come crying to me in 20 years time when your kidneys or you marriage or your community is failing. That is all beside the point however…
What I would like to make clear re: ‘a waste of taxpayers money’ is that, by saying this so passively, you have become the worlds biggest hypocrite. Do you not remember what happened when Thatcher destroyed the unions? gave the ‘little man’ no leg to stand on for unfair treatment in the workplace? There was outcry. There was rebellion, because what the bouffon sporting, Mr Whippy inventing power napper had done was theoretically an infringement of human rights, which is exactly what Big Brother seem to have reflected in their manipulative treatment of Dawn…
There again, you probably had a lavish ‘child of thatcher’ lifestyle where daddy was a banker and mummy spent all day at home or in the Jeep. A true capitalist who is not prepared to part with their money for the good of the state and reputation – whether it be Dawn quite rightly pursuing her case against Endemol to make sure that housemates are treated with the respect and common courtesy that all human beings deserve, (just as we’d complain or refuse to pay if a waitress deliberately gave us cold food, or no knife and fork to eat our food) or whether it be to catch the people who planned to blow up 747s over Heathrow.
I would also like to come back to a point I made earlier on in this post…
If you want to complain about Dawn wasting tax payers money then why were you watching Big Brother at all? If it is so bad then you could always refuse to pay your TV licence? Let alone become involved in discussions about Big Brother – the biggest capitalist movement in television history. Something that eats away at public money… Money that could be spent on the ‘NHS’, ‘Railways’… Or (god forbid) student welfare in the UK. If what Dawn is doing is so bad then don’t contradict yourself by being involved in what could be considered as the biggest public money-waster since the Millenium Dome.
At the end of the day, Dawn is probably one of the most intriguing characters to come out of Big Brother to date. She is intelligent, witty, intellectual (hey, we all make speelng mistaks) and clearly defies what we consider as the quintessential Big Brother contestant. I personally would much rather open the paper and read about her battle to save at least a few members of the public from the brainwashing that takes place for 3 months every year. To me, it is far more entertaining reading than Nikki’s boobs on page three, or how many times Pete swore at a recent film premier. If anything, this shows to us that there are confident people out there such as dawn who are prepared to have their name blackened *apologies for politically incorrect phrase, no thesaurus to hand* for what is far more worthwile than Nikki having a tantrum over a bucket of haddock. Dawn is controversial, and people don’t like that… She is far too different and intelligent for the average ‘white trash’ television public to accept as a decent human being, so instead you throw insulting – bordering on racist – remarks her way. You should be ashamed!
I would personally like to thank Dawn for restoring my faith in the true depths of the human personality. For too long we have come to accept a standardized model of human interaction and behaviour. This has an effect on us. We now see the likes of Jade Goody cavorting around not knowing what east angular is, or Nikki just… Not knowing who or where she is as the ‘norm’ and disregard anything deeper or more meaningful as a waste of our time?
To round up… If Dawn is being such a silly billy over this whole affair then I suggest you take a good look at the society by which you have been brainwashed. Take a look at the tabloids next time you fill your car with petrol, and then you will see what UTTER tripe we are breast (no pun intended) fed on a daily basis. Surely you should worry about that first before you slam a woman who has quite clearly had wrong done to her and quite correctly, wants to put it right.
Chin up Dawn love. There are still some intelligent and persistent people out there who are quite willing to offer you their support. And I am certainly one of them
Love Nic xx
(Manchester)
I dont think its about having her name cleared that is getting peoples backs up though, its the issue of no one having NO clear idea of perspective with this. I can see the point of the above mentioned statistics – thats someone coming in saying “hey, you know what, this is not a big deal”. This whole thing is causing anger and agression, for me – I felt attacked by Dawn for me putting in an opinion in very early on, on saying I felt attacked, I was actually being attacked, with sarcasam and belittleing, to which I was stupid enough to rise to. This is something i feel very strongly about as All I can see in this whole thing is someone persuing compensation of some sort. You know those “Had an accident at work…” adverts? She is one of them, a walking talking example of how, with a little knowledge of the law, you can sue anyone for pretty much anything.
I dont know weather its the money or the fame she wants, but for someone to go infront of a camera in an audition situation and say what she said, I will NOT accept shes doing this to clear her name.
*sigh*
And in answer to Nic Stacey:
Clear her name of what exactly??? she was on TV for a few days and left due to having the personality of a gnat!! Surely the point of going on an entertainment show is to entertain?
My point is she hasn’t been through any “plight” so how can I disregard it? being kept in the lap of luxury for a few days does not constitute a plight by any stretch of the imagination.
I am not ignorant, the reason I showed the figures I did, wasn’t to patronise people but to highlight other peoples ignorance on this forum section. ONCE AGAIN missing the point.
To have an opinion about Dawn is all well and good. But remember she is a human being too.
Also.
Whether she is going on to seek compensation (which, she argues, is probably futile) is irrelevent. What I mean is that, the UK has laws… OK, some of them stupid and petty, but they are laws. And Big Brother have clearly broken them. Like a teenage boy who steals a car, or the man who threw the egg at Mr Prescott. However large or small, it is a law… That has been broken here, and Dawn, has the right… Should she choose to pursue it… To request somesort of compensation. Whether she does is clearly the final confirmation of her character?… No?
And, as for clearing her name? Surely a massive part in everybodies preconceptions about Dawn is based on how she was portrayed in the Diary room before she left. Again, Big Brother get off injury free, yet this woman is left with a lasting stigma.
So, by clearing her name, I mean that, she wants to prove that she was being aggressive to Big Brother for a reason, and not because she is a nasty person.
I agree with the points raised about the tripe we are fed on a daily basis by our political leaders etc and the dumbing down of society. To me this further illustrates my point about the wider issues being more important here than someone who is merely out for a buck. The waste of tax payers money arguement wasn’t an issue I raised as its not something I agree with.
Nic I applaude your last post because, while differing from my opinion, it finally offered up a FACTUAL alternative discussion as opposed to the “I love dawn..for no apparent reason” garbage.
You made your point well, at last a decent debate.
I am confused – Shaun/Annon are you one and the same person? Are you posting twice to back yourself up and agree with yourself?
Please clarify.
Also – to everyone participating in this discussion – can we keep it clean please and stop the name-calling, personal comments and shouting. It doesn’t lend anything to the debate and just lowers the tone.
So far, from most of the nay-sayers it has sounded like an ugly scream of vitriol – why? I don’t understand. As there are so many other more important issues in the world why waste time on a little issue of civil liberties like this?
Whether or not I agree with Dawn is irrelevant. She is a strong, educated woman and is not taking the easy path – for this you have got to admire her. Here comes another saying….’If no-one else is going your way – walk alone’. This is the bravest path and not for the faint-hearted. I wish her all the luck in the world.
Naomi
Yes. I wondered about that whole Shaun/Annon double-post thing. Looks like you’ve been rumbled, Shaun.
Also, Steve, are you just another user name for Shaun/Annon? I’ve noticed that your posts are just as contradictory as theirs. Look at yourself…
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by Steve on 19th September 2006.
GROW UP DAWN!! YOU AND THE FOOLISH PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT YOU MAKE ME WANT TO VOMIT!!
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by Steve on 20th September 2006
I’m sorry that because my opinion differs from yours you consider me to be rude… I have not insulted anybody or shouted, screamed or harangued unlike Dawn and her followers who seem to think they are witty when they come across as blind sycophants with no real mind of their own.
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I refuse to admire someone that shows contempt and disrespect for others…simple as that.
Maybe we should re-name this forum section “the Dawn supporters club” as most of you seem to have missed the whole point of a forum entirely and refuse to acknowledge that there maybe other opinions out there and that not everyone supports the idea of someone who simply craves attention but hides under the cloak of civil liberty law.
I sincerely apologise if any of my remarks seemed personal last night. Naomi you are right.
I also have to agree in parts with what you are saying here.
As I made clear last night, I have the utmost respect for anybody who is prepared to tackle the wrong-doings of a major institution such as Big Brother. To offend and dismiss somebody for doing so, surely shows a lack of human compassion towards one another in society? By disregarding Dawns battle and labeling it as a waste of time we are letting the big boys win. Maybe the hunger strike was a step too far Steve, but also consider the fact that, if you really believe in something and nobody is listening to you, the best way to get results is to be drastic. It clearly worked for Dawn… ‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’
To clarify, Dawn has been the subject of an illegal act, however big or small. And, as a human being, she has the right to challenge this fairly.
Surely she should not be an embarrassment but an example to us all. At times we are all faced with similar ethical dilemmas but refuse to pursue them and pass them up on the grounds that it would be almost impossible to win in a court of law or perhaps they are just too ‘embarrassing’ and ‘insignificant’…
In Dawn’s case, she has been publicly embarrassed and humiliated via her negative representation on the television, which, in turn led to a torrent of negative press and name calling by television’s ‘mother figure’ Davina McCall. Which is disgraceful to say the least.
I am by no means a ‘lover of Dawn’ Steve. I hope you realise that by now. Under normal circumstances I couldn’t care less what ex-big brother housemates were up to… However, this case has intrigued me somewhat because somebody has actually CHALLENGED the ways of Endemol and clearly done her research which is admirable.
Whether you see her fight as positive or negative is besides the point. This woman is an example to us that, if you personally feel injusticed for whatever reasons, then – at all costs – You should fight to have it put right.
Cloak of Civil Liberties – what a lovely concept. Yes civil liberties are there to cloak and protect us, and thank God for them.
Whole point of the forum. Well, as I understand it, Dawn responded to an apology and a conversation started from there – the difficulty is that those who do not agree with what she is doing have tended not to let little things like facts and evidence get in the way of the vitriol.
Why are you taking it so personally? Why did you shout? I don’t understand why you are getting so het up. Even if you think Dawn has ulterior motives that doesn’t detract from the fact/possibility that a crime was committed. Everyone, even people you don’t like because they make you queasy, is entitled to the protection of the law.
I am presuming you have read 1984 and understand the concept of Big Brother on every level. I think if you did then you would be using all this energy and concern on things like the fact that threads about Dawn are deleted from the C4 website. I find that worrying in the extreme.
I may not agree with your opinion but I will fight to the death to protect your right to voice it. Yes, Dawn has a lot of support – why do you begrudge it her?
Nsomi
To add.
Steve: I understand totally what you are saying and I think we’d get on in the house of Commons. However, May I just raise one more point…
When you said that dawn had the ‘personality of a gnat’ and remarked on her going onto an ‘entertainment show’ and ‘not entertaining’ I was quite shocked. For someone of such well structured and (most of the time) diplomatic capabilities I simply do not understand why you have adopted this ‘fat woman in her forties with a packet of walkers and nothing better to do with her time’ attitude?
Should Big Brother be JUST about entertainment? I don’t think so… If it was ITV would have bought it?… The sheer fact that Channel 4 have rights to it is because if offers up a lot of political and social issues which appeal to a completely different cross section of society (different from the cheap thrills brigade of middle England)
By saying that Dawn has the personality of a gnat you are clearly a slave to the dumbass blonde culture that Big Brother has spawned . I didn’t see enough of Dawn on Big Brother to possibly comment, but judging by what she has said and written since… She would have probably contributed in a fantastic way had she stayed in.
Consider this…
If Dawn hadn’t been represented so awfully in the days after she left, would everybody still have these hostile opinions toward her? I think it is well worth questioning… If it was Nikki or Richard fighting Big Brother we may be more sympathetic?
Just take what you see on Big Brother with a pinch of salt. Don’t let them try and tell you WHO Dawn is… I am glad I read this forum, because, it has shown me that she is somebody who is completely different to the Dawn that Big Brother tried to con us with…
First I have quite severe dyslexia , so I will always make spelling mistakes, so what.
I am also an asthmatic and have quite bad eczema, which also werent included in my BB biography, that aint my fault I didnt write it.
I was actually having nightly asthma attacks in the BB house, because of the air conditioning, dust and the producers giving me my anti-histamine extremly late. I refused to see their GP and asked to be let out to see my own. I wasnt.
My eczema and asthma were not being managed in the house under BB care as they had promised, so this was another reason for my request to leave the house, which I did state in the diary room.
Frankly some of the people on the blog Shaun/ steve and Anon otherwise known as the holy trinity are quite touched in the head.But the world is a bit more colorful with them in.
BB did state to the public and press, I only threatened to leave. This has now been memoralised in the press and websites.BB went to great lengths to state this was true. Journalists have since told me, that they take press releases and BB website as “FACT”.
1) BB producers Allowed people to vote for me, when I stated I was no longer taking part in the programme and I had requested to leave, creating the illusion I was co-operating in the programme. Not true
2) Press release to the tabloids 25th May
” Dawn has threatened to leave, we DONT keep people against their will, she is a hot -head and we cant stop her leaving”.BUT YES THEY DID AND I CERTAINLY WASNT HOT- HEADED ON ANY OF MY DIARY ROOM REQUESTS TO LEAVE.
Sorry whether you have no morals or sense , you cant release a press release like that, knowing the exact opposite is occuring and expect to GET AWAY WITH IT.If BB producers felt keeping me for 24hrs, was not a problamatic issue, why not keep it secret, why release a lie?
2)Its also infantile to say that you should only complain about issues that effect the whole world.
So if someone wrecks your car or breaks into your house, leave it cos people are dying of Aids in Africa.
If you get mugged dont report it, as you werent murdered and street children are being murdered in Brazil.
If you go to work tomorrow and your boss or teacher slaps you in the face dont do anything because Terry Waite was a hostage.
If we turned a blind eye to every incident that wasnt a national tragedy in Britain, there would be complete anarchy . So that argument is just stupid, lacks adult analysis and reasonable thought.
The holy trinity should just become a politician and stop showboating about your political knowledge behind the veil of Big Brother.
The holy trinity guy ( whoever you) has some valid points about the world, it is pretty crap, but what the hell do you want me to do about it, for you.
Why dont you lobby endemol (they are a multi-million pound organisation) to make a programme about your world concerns on your behalf and stop whingeing on this blog about tragedies no-one here has the power or money to change. BB made princess nikki, so surely they can make your programme.
Infact tell them to use the money they got from their phone votes (mine included) to allow you to realise your goal.
To the person who wished I was dead, dying or in such bad shape I wished I was dead, cos I went on a hungerstrike.
If anyone wishes I was dead because I received footage from BB producers via my hunger strike to take the police. Fair enough. But I would rather have the footage than you wanting me to live a bit longer.
PS Kidnap : is abducting someone and then holding them hostage ie Terry waite. However he did go to the country of his own free will (negotiate hostage releases)
Holding someone against their will :
is refusing to let someone leave, when they asked to .
Even if they intially come to you voluntary with a big cheesey grin on their face and run into your arms. It is not their coming that is under dispute or scrutinity, it is their going.
Note To Holy Trinity Guy :
Nelson Mandela was considered a terrorist, by the south african government and Margeret Thatcher and the british government at the time of his incarceration.So they argued his time in jail was justified.
He was only considered a hostage by certain people who were more left wing or humanitarians. I considered him a hostage, but many others at the time stated, He and the ANC was an african version of the IRA and should be given no sympathy or thought.
To the gnats personality man :
I dont know what a gnats personality is like, as I am not a vetinary psychologist. However I would say a gnats personality is Possibly a darn sight more lively and fully formed than the person who wrote that comment. Judging by the rest of his comments a gnat has a more complex brain than the author in question.
Once again :
It is producers choice in Big Brother, what is broadcast, so unless I went in with a mini TV studio rammed up my botty and broadcast on my own separate frequency, you saw of me what the producer wanted to show.
I dont begin and end as person with a TV producers edited lo-lights of me over seven days.
So even if I was walking around on my fingertips in the BB house, performed open heart surgery, wrote a song much greater than Bohemian Rhapsody, the producers wouldnt have shown it. Simply because I was castigating them for their screening process.
In the BB house I told some amusing anecdotes, sang many a song and more importantly took on the producers with rapier wit.
I do not apologise to those who like a more basic humour in their entertainment, from people who have been sectioned, suicidal, psychotic, paranoid and have come of their medication to give you a laugh.
But rest assured if you find this sort of thing amusing, you have something very funny to look forward to in your own lives.I wish you well.
PS Cant some of you also, write on the Steve Irwin blog as well ? The comments there are getting lonely. Steve Irwin blog, would definitely welcome the holy trinity’s ramblings and teeth gnashing.
Hiya lol, how you doing.
My complaints were all lodged in May/June to various authorities who have all the facts and evidence. So these blogs do not carry the same weight as their investigations, regardless of what side people come down on.
Common sense will tell you if you are backing the actions of people who cannot admit their own actions, you is flogging a dead horse.
Shaun/ Steve if you felt I was belittling you, for responding to a text.
Imagine if you had been locked in a room somewhere guarded by my own security and I refused to let you go, until I wanted to and belittled you for hours for my on personal entertainment.Then told everyone you made it all up?.
Shaun you are a steal pit bull when it comes to others people’s predicament and their situation, but a fragile butterfly when it involves your own emotions. That is often the case. That childen is known as a Cowardly HYPOCRITE.
Steve/ Shaun you take yourself off to steve irwins blog, like a good boy and bring anon with you and whoever you can create in one mind.
hiya lol
What are your plans now Dawn?
Do you have some sort of itinerary of what is next? I’d be very interested to know. x
Dawn, know what I found ironic in your last reply? I have one son that has dyslexia and one that has astham. So I know how you feel in both those regards. No, it’s not fun, but my kids are doing the best they can.
Sounds like Dawn needed Doctor Who to come rescue her from the Big Brother house also.
Cheers!
Jeff
Im letting the authorities do their job Nic and thanks jeff.
Dear Nic
In answer to your quote about ‘wasting tax payers money’ I would like to sympathise with Dawn. This is perhaps the most careless and ‘homogeniuos’ statement of them all… As a student, I rely heavily on government subsidies – simply due to the fact that I cannot independently fund myself. So it riles me when I hear comments such as ’students? living off us!’ because tax is an investment, which ensures that society is able to move forward and that good and right is done. Just remember, I am among the next generation of prime ministers, solicitors, doctors, TV producers… So don’t come crying to me in 20 years time when your kidneys or you marriage or your community is failing. That is all beside the point however…
What I would like to make clear re: ‘a waste of taxpayers money’ is that, by saying this so passively, you have become the worlds biggest hypocrite.
You do like to write a lot of rubbish and get off the subject altogether.
I too was a student and education is a good thing, but I paid my way always (as I had a part time job) and did not get any subsidy, only for course fees. But life and bills were lower in the eighties.
My MSC degree I paid for entirely myself as I was a lot older, so I paid tax as well as studied. Its blinkin hard.
However, Linda I dont think you need too much education too be a TV producer, the rest of the occupations you mentioned yes.
We also pay tax so we can be looked after in our dotage (by someone else , I grant you) , as you dont want to pay forty-fifty years of tax , to be told you still have to work at 80, which is a plight fancing our current pensioners and myself.
Nic is ok Linda and everyone has got of the point in some way or other as there aren’t many facts that you can work without deviating
This issue has run its course and unless I show you the footage, which I cant for legal reasons. Its time to put it too bed. I wish you and what ever you hold dear well.
I have been a vegetarian and animal campaigner for 26 years so I am commenting on Steve Irwin, PETA and his untimely death on that blog and I would be interested to know what younger people thought of him.
DAWN
Hi everybody.
Thanks for commenting on this thread, I’ve enjoyed reading all your points…and counterpoints….and counterpoints.
I’m closing this thread tonight, but I’d like to add one final thing. Dawn and I have been in email contact for a month or two now, and while we initially didn’t see eye to eye (an understatement!), you do not ‘know’ Dawn from what has been acknowledged as “5 minutes on TV”.
If you take the time to get to know Dawn, you’ll find her to be intelligent, witty and a nice person. Certainly not the worst person to walk out of the BB house this year.
More importantly, Dawn did not post fake comments, unlike someone else (you know who you are!).
Thanks again to everyone who commented here – even the guy with the split personality! I know Dawn is considering what direction to take her career in right now, and I wish her all the best in the future.