After escaping eviction from the Big Brother house twice before, Norfolk's Jon Tickle has done it again. Despite receiving the most nominations from his housemates, the public voted for scouser Sissy to leave the house. Of the votes cast, 44.68% voted for Sissy, 38.61% voted for Scotland's Federico and only 16.17% voted for Jon to be booted out. Although Jon has had to bear a cold front from his housemates, public support for him has continued to grow. BBCi has discovered that Jon is even popular in Scotland despite having their own contestant, Federico. Not only are there websites devoted to Jon, you can even buy a Save Our Jon t-shirt!  He is the star of the show. Scottish Sun are completely backing him as well. If he goes tonight, that will be the spark of it gone. 
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Scottish lass Sarah Bannister, from Kinloch Rannoch in Perthshire, has created a website dedicated to Jon. Speaking to Graham Barnard on BBC Radio Norfolk's breakfast show ahead of eviction night, Sarah explained exactly what it was about Jon that tickles her fancy. "I just think out of the whole house he's the most fun. He's genuine, he's funny and he is the character of Big Brother, he really is." It really does seem that Jon is emerging as the star of the show. Yes. Even on the initial night he was slightly different, but it was a bit dull at the beginning. He is the star of the show. Scottish Sun are completely backing him as well. If he goes tonight, that will be the spark of it gone. It's strange that Scotland is backing Jon because Federico's Scottish. Yes he's a Glasgow boy. Federico's quite a character but he's nothing on Jon. Federico is obviously trying to please people and he's putting across his image purposely but I think Jon is just being Jon. 
Federico was also up for eviction |
So what's on the website? There's jumping lions all over the page to represent Jon being king of the house and basically I've said as The Sun quoted Don't be Fickle, Save Jon Tickle. The rest of the housemates are just finding it too easy to vote him off, because you know, they find him difficult not realising that he's actually making them interesting. Do you think they're beginning to realise there's a reason why Jon keeps getting nominated for eviction but doesn't get evicted? Yes I think they're going to have to start thinking about it carefully. If he doesn't go tonight, which hopefully he'll stay, they're going to have to give it some more thought because it's obvious the public want him to stay. It's the same scenario a couple of year's ago with Paul. He was up for eviction seven times and the public kept him in because he was the entertainment. Do you think Jon will win Big Brother and put Norwich on the map? Have your say on our message board | 
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