Joshuah Receives Full Hall of Shame Induction

The Worst of the Worst: Big Brother 9’s Joshuah Receives a Full Hall of Shame Induction by David Bloomberg -- 04/28/2008

Most viewers believe this bunch of Big Brother players is among the worst the show has seen. But Joshuah was the worst of the bunch, with his vile behavior getting so bad that CBS didn’t even air most of it. His verbal attacks were made only worse by his hypocrisy and claims that he’s really a nice guy. The Joshuah we saw certainly was not a nice guy – in fact, he was shameful.



Big Brother 9’s Joshuah has already received a Hall of Shame Moment for his behavior (along with Chelsea) in bringing up Amanda’s father’s suicide as a way of attacking her in the game. But Josh’s behavior went so far above and beyond (or should we say below and beyond) that it was decided he needs a full induction here in the Reality TV Hall of Shame.

It appears that Josh was trying to be, in his words, “The Gay Evel Dick.” Well, he certainly didn’t win, so he failed in that regard. That means the only part of Dick that he was able to emulate was the vile behavior that got Dick himself inducted into the Hall of Shame despite winning.

In Big Brother, it’s not uncommon for blow-ups to occur. Being locked in a house with the same few people for months on end can certainly wear on anybody, and emotional outbursts are likely to happen. But that’s not what we’re talking about with Josh. Instead, he often purposely preplanned his attacks, searching for just the right personal notes to hit. And with Josh, there was no such thing as too personal, as we saw in the situation with Amanda.

In one example, on March 18, Josh talked to James and planned out how he would attack Natalie’s apparently-schizophrenic mother and Sheila’s son (even though he had promised Sheila he would never bring up her son). In fact, he specifically said he wanted to mention Sheila’s son riding the “short bus” and then went on about how he was going to make the two girls cry. RealityNewsOnline’s recapper, William Hammon, even noted he was almost giddy about it! William added, “He can’t wait to see the damage he inflicts... He wants to hit them full force when they can’t defend themselves. … He then decides that he’ll give them an ultimatum: throw the HOH competition or have him humiliate them and their families on live television.”

Bizarrely, at one point in this little planning session, he even said that after making the women cry, his parents would be proud of him. Yet as we saw when the show interviewed his mother, that wasn’t at all the case – his behavior was even embarrassing to his own mother!

On March 19, Josh moved forward with his attacking, calling Sheila by a variety of names we don’t want to repeat here, verbally attacking her son, and threatening to rip out her hair. Even after Matt tried to get him to calm down and not play the game this way, Josh refused.

But those were not even the worst of Josh’s misdeeds. Looking back to March 9, we saw how he attacked Natalie when Ryan put James on the block instead of Matt, as Joshuah’s alliance had egotistically believed would happen. Of course, Josh couldn’t go after Ryan, since Ryan’s a man – he had to attack a woman instead (more on that later).

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Credit for this article goes to Reality TV Hall of Shame

David Bloomberg is the Editor of the Reality TV Hall of Shame, and can be reached at RNO@pobox.com.

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