The circle - final week

[jay55]

New thread, if we can stay awake to find out what happens...

I like the fact that they didn't reveal the position of everyone in the ratings, otherwise there would completely be changing their tactical voting. As it is, it's tactical but they are in the dark much more.

I agree it was hood to hide the penultimate ratings and thus who is most popular right now. Although knowing Andy he will feel compelled to confess he was the super influencer in the group chat and completely destroy any chance he has of winning by making it known he’s most popular!

I too believe Andy has the integrity to not vote out any of the #circlefam.

If he is sensible he would block Tom as it is clear the others dislike Alice whereas for some reason they haven't considered really that Tom may be Pippa and Joey/Femi but assume Alice may be.

We need them all to come on here and do a live chat / AMA! Then we can grill them about the inner workings and the bloody producers’ influence to our hearts content.
So I assume I need to follow all 3 on Insta then @BillyIsMyBunny to see the live q&a tomorrow? Or is one in particular leading it?

If there were chats not shown where Alice was ignored it would explain why he’s so angry now and attacking felix. To be honest it just makes him look weird. It doesn’t make sense then though why Alice would say felix was flirting with her, they’d all immediately know that wasn’t true, which they did, but such a daft thing to say.

If Andy has blocked Alice and they do a leaving video they will all know immediately it means Tom is pippa/femi...

Wow, reading that Femi and Pippa didn’t want to play a priest but were convinced to makes me feel horrible for watching and enjoying something so manipulative. This series has just been messed around with so much with too many twists. Agh but I’ve been really enjoying it, particularly lately! Monkey with hands over eyes emoji.

For people who didn't want to play the priest they were really piling on the sermon talk. (Ok, maybe it was also down to editing.)

I think playing a priest is only OK if playing a religious leader of other religions would also be OK. Would there be a pretend Imam? Almost certainly not. Syed felt a priest wouldnt be fake because he felt it would be disrespectful. You have to treat all faiths equally but Channel 4 have shown more of their lop sided race policy where black people can pretend to be white but not vv and pretend Christian leaders are OK but not pretend Muslim or Sikh ones. We need to treat all races and religions equally. I'm atheist.
On another note I like Syed but his gullibility is getting silly

@ElizabethTudor If you follow any of them, it’ll come up to say whoever you follow has gone live with XXX.

Andy's reaction to being in the final was lovely, it finally made me warm to him.

I think Hashu being naive about catfish is an act.

The cliffhanger was so unnecessary, given it's the final tonight.

@2Rebecca
It'll be interesting to see how other players react to the priest being a catfish, especially if by chance it's Tom who goes out tonight so all they get is a video message instead of a live meeting. They were all dismayed that Gemma lied about being a nurse, would they feel the same about the priest? Someone like Felix might have strong feelings about it, and maybe Syed being a religious man himself.

I am about four episodes behind lol but there is a scene where Natalya has socks wrapped around her hair, even the voice-over comments on it. Then she takes the socks out and her hair has lovely bouncy curls. Were they really socks? Does anyone know what the technique is?

Oooh it is a thing !
www.insider.com/i-tried-tiktok-sock-hair-curling-trend-amazed-by-result-2020-4

@bonfireheart

I am about four episodes behind lol but there is a scene where Natalya has socks wrapped around her hair, even the voice-over comments on it. Then she takes the socks out and her hair has lovely bouncy curls. Were they really socks? Does anyone know what the technique is?

Yes and you can also do it with a dressing gown belt, slightly uncomfortable to sleep in but works really well!

Re the sock thing. I inadvertently did it recently with crocodile clips used to bung my very long uncut hair up when wet. When I lowered it later on I had the most astonishing curls (straight hair here).

@ElizabethTudor

We need them all to come on here and do a live chat / AMA! Then we can grill them about the inner workings and the bloody producers’ influence to our hearts content. So I assume I need to follow all 3 on Insta then *@BillyIsMyBunny* to see the live q&a tomorrow? Or is one in particular leading it?

Joey seemed to be leading it, I followed it from his Instagram. You definitely don’t need to follow all 3 as I don’t follow Shabaz, but unsure if it came up on their instagrams or not. It appeared in the same way a story would come up but said ‘live’ at the top.

I hope Andy will vote out Manrika but I think he feels a (misplaced) loyalty to her. I suspect Alice will go.

This is how I would like it to end - First place to Syed (even though his eyes will probably pop out completely if he wins), Andy for runner up and then Manrika. I just hope they don't all vote tactically as someone undeserving will win by default.

Yes imagine if Tom won. That would be an anticlimax!

Thanks @BillyIsMyBunny and @TakeYourFinalPosition (very appropriate name for final day!)
I’ll follow Joey then
And the winner when we know who it is .... maybe they’ll do a live chat too.

Scott aka For has just posted on his Instagram that he and Talky are going live at 4pm if anyone’s interested.

Given how much this season has been producer-manipulated (no idea if that was the case with previous seasons) I imagine the winner will be the person the producers have decided should win ...

Aka Dot! Not for - wish Mumsnet had an edit button, even if it expired after 2 minutes, I never notice what autocorrects been up to until after I hit post.

I was so happy that Andy was super influencer and not Manrika. She I am sure would have blocked Andy.

I really hope Andy has blocked Manrika but think he is actually too nice to do that so will go for Alice or Tom.

Morning, checking in No way I could have stayed up to watch last night, hoping I can manage tonight live, may have to have a tactical snooze

Pippa and Joey believing it could possibly be them as the secret influencer...pah ha ha! On what planet! Agree with others that they are playing Tom as WAY too preachy, it's far more likely a man of the cloth of his age would be much more matey/blokey.

Alice-the-nasty really going for it. We're used to hearing people say after the event that this wasn't shown/that was edited but how much by, how do we know they aren't just working on damage limitation when they realise how badly they come across?

Syed talking to Manrika did get me a bit emotional, I would quite like them to have a friendship outside the circle but I guess it depends if she forgives him for being a catfish - I reckon she will, he's been a joy and clearly kept her spirits lifted in there. I don't think it would be as anything more than friends however.

Really want Andy to block Tom so petulant little Alice has to front up at the dinner party but equally happy for Tom to go. I can't see anyone voting Alice high. I don't think Andy would block an OG, especially having to do it face to face, he's played fairly straight all the way it would be out of character to do anything otherwise now surely.

Cliffhanger...WHAT THE BLOODY!

So remind me, do they all do their final vote then go to dinner/drinks whatever it is?