"It's cos we're real," replied Charley.And I was reminded that people on Big Brother are obsessed with being Real. The amount of conversations every year on the subject of being real or being fake should be considered in the light of Adorno's comments quoted in one of our Mirror Stage posts: ‘those who are so utterly compliant with the expected behaviour that they can even simulate the signs of resistance spontaneously precisely because they no longer feel such resistance in themselves’. They can suggest they are in someway real, against the fakeness of the other housemates and, perhaps more importantly, the (apparent) unreality of the house, simply because they have fully accepted the order that is imposed by the house. That is to say, they, in their realness, are acting (within a day) like exactly every other housemate who has ever been in the house. Their reality, which they see as being resistant is a sure sign that they have given themselves up to the house.
One could also note here the way Tracey said she didn't wear make-up because she is just Tracey, she doesn't need to hide herself, take her as she comes (The emphasis she placed on being Tracey is of course missing here and perhaps loses the point about all the other people named Tracey). Of course one has also to mention Shabnam's brilliant riposte of "Well? What's that in your hair?", she could have also asked about the piercing in her lip...
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