Mrs Angry on Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum
I cannot believe Danielle won the round the world trip and by default, was deemed to have been the person who’d most changed their attitude and who’d “grown up” more than the others.
There was absolutely no evidence of Danielle having done either of those things, either in the final show or indeed, the preceding shows. In the final show, she was still pretty much incapable of anything, still swearing her head off at anyone or anything that wouldn’t do what she wanted and still had a total inability to accept responsibility.
The parents in the last show were annoying too. During the segment where we saw them discussing the final task – which had been making-over three flats with the ‘kids’ as project managers – pretty much everyone agreed that making teenagers project managers was too tall an order. So why do it then?
The deciding factor in making Danielle winner seemed to be that she’d asked her mentor during the makeover task if he would take the reins as she wasn’t able to organise her troop of volunteers. This was applauded by the parents and they believed this showed her burgeoning maturity in admitting that she couldn’t do something. But my argument is that she didn’t even try!
We saw her hiding out in the bathroom and ineffectually wielding a cloth around with about as much direction as a blind, three legged donkey. We also saw her having her trademark verbal paddies when she was told off or something happened that she didn’t like. Meanwhile, Dina and Dogan were making supreme efforts, and in my opinion, Dogan did exceptionally well at his task.
He was under pressure and the focus was all on him seeing it through, and he did so without getting angry and without chucking in the towel at the first of many hurdles, so why wasn’t that acknowledged properly?
The ‘rules’ about who gets booted and who doesn’t have always been ambiguous in this show, but voting Danielle to win is just plain stupid. I – and several other people I’ve encountered who have an opinion – believe that Dogan should have won. So why didn’t he?
I suspect that it’s because his parents can afford to send him on a round the world trip if they wished to. Ditto for Dina’s dad, so Danielle was the only one of the three finalists who, if she didn’t win, had no chance of going on that trip.
It’s the only reasonable explanation because – even with the ever shifting goalposts that we’ve witnessed in this series – Danielle hadn’t improved anywhere near as much as Dogan had.
Cries of ‘FIX!’ are still resonating around my living room, and granted, there was only me here to shout it when I caught up with the final show on iPlayer, but nonetheless, I really can’t believe that Danielle won for the right reasons.
What do you think?
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absolutely agree that it was because she was poorer than the other two. but that’s not such a bad thing really, is it? perhaps bad for the show, but good for the people.
I completely agree with you. In the school task where Danielle had to plan a lesson she let rip in the house by shouting: “You f***ing ugly prick” at a picture then stormed off crying, swearing and screaming because she couldn’t finish the work. When the show did flashbacks of what the kids where like before the show we see Danielle crying in a temper, shouting, swearing, screaming and jumping up and down because she broke an earring. How on Earth has she made any progress at all?
Personally I think Sean should have won. He was voted out because the parents thought he hadn’t made any progress. I beg to differ however. Before he came into the house Sean was extremely lazy an made his Nan do everything for him, he couldn’t even make a sandwhich. However, in the house he was the natural leader, took on every task thrown at him and helped out everybody else. I feel that he should have won and if Danielle was voted out instead of him the week before he would have been awarded the round the world trip.
Like you I think that the show is a fix. I think that Sean was voted out and not Danielle because the producers knew that Danielle was going to explode again and that the viewers would want to see it and if they kept Sean in that the viewing figures would go down.
Out of the three finalists I definitely think that Dogan should have won (if Sean was in the final then he should have won with Dogan a close second). He made so much progress and really impressed everybody with the last task as project manager. He love it and was exceptionally good at it so I though that maybe he would win because he would have discovered a career for himself in interior designing.
It actually is a good thing Danielle could get the round the world trip!
Dogan is a silly boy who’s been misbrought-up by his mum who admitted herself that she “failed” him, and she was right!
Dina thinks she’s a little princess, but she doesn’t realize that she squeazing her dad off his money.
Danielle she’s terrible as well, saying “I’m a bitch and I like it” shows she has no respect for herself but she’s also proud of it!Besides she behaves like a baby and has shown her incompetence in doing anything.
I’d rather see Danielle wins than Dogan who insults the hotel manager and thinks everybody would like to work for his family when nobody give a shit about them, and Dina who patronizes everybody and who, unfortunately for her, has a dad who’s in love with her and unable to take his eyes off her (perverse
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To conclude BBC keep studying UK’s teens’ personnalities and the result is one more time disappointing, asking the parents to decide who should stay in the house is a not well-thought idea coz they all wanna defend their own kid’s interest, which is normal.
BBC, as usual, find the worst kids showing more drawbacks than anybody else.
This is unreal, not really nice to watch, excessive and ANNOYING!!
But I watched it anyway and I can’t help myself wondering, where’s our future going?
Load of S**t her winning. Dina should have won
I have to say that I am happy that Danielle won. Not that I think she made the most improvement but because she visibly changed from the beginning – when she couldn’t even ask hotel guests whether they’d like a glass of water!
Personally I had been routing for Dina – like one of the parents said she had “stayed true to herself” the whole way through. She developed from an overshopped minor to a conscientious (spelling?) young lady. Obviously like it said in the final show she hadn’t conquered cooking for herself… (neither have I and I’m 22 and live in my own flat!).
As for Dogan, I do think he genuinely has changed from a complete pr$&* into not so much of a pr%&*. He still wasn’t able to control his temper all of the time, appropriately, and for example, to tell Dina why she was so immature during that final argument they had.
As I said before, I am glad that Danielle won but not at all convinced she deserved it.
I think that Dina should have won. She was more capable than Danielle and Dogan. I wouldn’t have minded if Dogan won because his flat looked great when it was finished.
I think Dogan should have won if indeed the competition was judged on who had progressed the most throughout the show.
The thought of it makes me chuckle… Danielle…. travelling around the world…. seriously?! People like her should be shipped off to a galaxy far far away, so they don’t irritate the rest of us!