Farida has already proven to be the most upfront housemate in this year’s Big Brother – but at what cost?
The make-up artist, 50, has had quite the first week – clashing with Kerry, 40, upsetting Olivia, 23, over some salmon, and dividing fans with her question to Hallie about dating as a trans woman.
In five days Farida’s made sure she’ll be remembered even if she does risk becoming the first housemate to be evicted on Friday night and she could have sealed her fate on day one.
Metro.co.uk has launched its new Big Brother’s Big Body Language series with body language expert Judi James, available to watch on our YouTube channel every Thursday from 6pm.
And in the first episode, Judi reveals the ‘school boy’ error Farida made right from the get-go.
‘The thing to remember with Big Brother is it’s a fight for survival when they get in there. It might not be apparent on screen but they’ve got to get into the right groups, they’ve got to form groups, and for someone like Farida it’s important to try and be leader because they want to control the food, the beds and everything.
‘This was a battle almost to the death for leadership. It looked nice, it looked friendly, but it was absolutely brutal.
‘We had everybody sitting around the table and that always shows you the group formation. Who’s at the head of the table? Well, it’s Jenkin and that’s still that kind of parental “I’m the leader type role”.
‘But then suddenly Farida stands up, pulls the chair out, gets on the chair, and absolutely screams at everybody to be quiet. That’s an assumption of leadership and it’s an absolute schoolboy error in terms of taking control.
‘Then she started saying, “we need some order, we need a system, we need some planning.”
‘Now, everybody that’s ever shared a flat with someone else knows that that’s not the role you want to take. It’s called critical parent, it’s the one that starts creating the rules and once you do that, and once she did that, psychologically, what happened then was she fractured the entire group.
‘She came out very early as a wannabe leader and she got an immediate challenge from at least one other person.
‘Also when you take the role of dominant critical parent you have to police those roles and then you create what’s called rebellious children with the rest of the group.
‘Then it becomes “we’ll have a washing up rota pinned to the fridge and you’ll take a turn”, but immediately even people that don’t mind doing the washing up, they’ll leave it and become completely rebellious.
‘What she did by doing that was birth the rebellious group who probably wouldn’t have had a group normally. That group will be all of those people like Jordan, people that we’ve seen sitting around in the garden together, Henry, all of that group.
With that one step, it was so high and impact, it did her no favours whatsoever
‘That absolutely gave them power instantly because suddenly the rebellious children became the core group to join.
‘So with that one step, it was so high and impact, it did her no favours whatsoever because it meant that people will now like Kerry will keep challenging her.
‘But it helped to create a very successful group that are the rebels now the cool rebels, so it was so interested in Jenkin got knocked off of his suit as leader as well.’
It’s not been confirmed Big Brother housemates will be evicted by viewers voting who they want to leave, despite fans requesting voting to save.
The first housemates nominated will be announced on Thursday’s Big Brother: Late and Live and it seems likely Farida could be up for the chop which, to be frank, would be a disaster.
Big Brother airs weeknights at 9pm on ITV2. Watch the full episode of Big Brother’s Big Body Language here.
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