April is under the impression that she's America's sweetheart. She's in for a big surprise when she gets back into the world.

Big Brother 10 houseguest April is nuts. She has delusions of grandeur that are sometimes amusing to watch, and sometimes just sad. For some strange reason, she thinks that she's America's sweetheart, and I think she's going to be really hurt when she gets out.

I haven't liked the way she's played. She's been unnecessarily nasty to her allies and unwilling to take responsibility for her actions. She's a walking contradiction. She regularly has sex on camera, but she insists on changing her clothes in private. She's a staunch advocate for her nephew's disability, but she makes fun of others.

From her biography and what she's said in the house, she has a very good job and has her own home. She seems to be very independent, and she's shown flashes of that in the house. Why then, would she hook up with someone in the house almost from the first?

I could sort of see it if he were a strong player and she was using him. But Ollie is a useless sort of fellow. If anything, he has been using and hiding behind her. He hasn't won a thing and while she's portrayed as a beyotch, he's floating along. She could have had a strong female alliance going, but her jealousy and relationship with Ollie got in the way.

Ollie feeds into her feeling of superiority, spitefulness, and sense of entitlement. And the way she isolated herself during her Head of Household reign doomed her alliance. She refused to listen to her teammates' feelings about Jesse. They gave her plenty of hints that they wanted him out, but she refused to bend. Jesse and Michelle played her like a fiddle. Her storming downstairs for that catfight played right into their hands.

I'm still trying to figure out how she can think that America would pick as its sweetheart a shrew that seems to enjoy having unprotected sex for the camera. And it's not as if she didn't realize what she was doing. Last night on Big Brother After Dark, she and Ollie commented that we caught their entire coupling. And her attitude ... sheesh! She can be an ugly piece of work. The way she bashes others is such a turnoff.

She is on her way to sequester. After the ugly goodbye message she recorded for Libra, I wonder what kind of welcome she'll get when she walks through the door. I hope we get to see it. And when the game is over, she'll get another welcome that I'd like to see. When she realizes that America is not enamored of her, and that she hasn't put on her best face, she'll be shocked. And that would be more entertaining to me than her time in the Big Brother 10 house.

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