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Despite what it may look like, this page's purpose is not to provide my female visitors with eye candy in Big Brother 3 celebrity form, but more to serve as a testament to my undying love for, and overwhelming infatuation with, the half-German hunk that is Alex Sibley. Just kidding. No, my interests in the man are of a strictly non-sexual nature. This said, however, I've found that it is possible to get some strange sort of orgasmic pleasure from masquerading online as someone much sexier and more popular than yourself, with a laugh or two to boot. Allow me to explain in more detail. In our media, the net often receives a great deal in the way of bad publicity. Stories concerning underaged teenagers being abducted by perverts met on internet chatrooms seem to be becoming more and more common. Chatting/corresponding with people online is cheap and easy, and can certainly be fun, maybe even rewarding, but, as the papers will tell us, people can be who they want to be, online. This is to say that the 14-year-old boy organising to meet the 14-year-old girl may in reality be a middle-aged man who spends his time jerking off in front of his computer. However, online impersonation isn't always potentially harmful - sometimes potentially funny. I don't usually masquerade as someone who I'm not ('though, given my site's title, some might argue to the contrary), but, on August 25th 2002, decided to try something that was to change my online existence forever. While on the site Friends Reunited,  I had something that I don't often have; a thought. Having done name searches on various 'famous' people in the past, I had thought just how easy it'd be to set up a spoof, for the purpose of fooling gullible net surfers into believing it to be the genuine article, so to speak. So, I did just that. The spoof account that I set up was under the name of "Alex Sibley", none other than Alex from Big Brother. If you live under a rock, or perhaps just somewhere other than the UK, you can visit the official Big Brother 3 site  if you want to know who I mean. Anyway, having set up my account successfully, and hence giving Friends Reunited members the ability to e-mail "Alex", I didn't expect much in the way of responses. Perhaps just a few, given time. Oh, Lord, was I wrong. Within 24 hours of setting it up, I'd received no fewer then 12 e-mails from people, all believing themselves to have tracked down the real Alex Sibley. Below are a select few (My comments are in bold, and my replies to their e-mails, where applicable, are below each pasted e-mail. E-mail addresses censored to protect the gullible): | ||||||||||||||||||
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Hi Alex, are you the alex that was on big brother? if so I thought that dance you done behind the door was so funny, every time I think about it I laugh. luv Jan xx And every time I read this, I'll laugh.
Awww, with e-mails as sweet as this, an Alex Sibley impersonator could almost feel guilty..... hey there alex we used to email each other a couple of months back...was just looking thru my inbox and saw one of the emails you last sent me, and thought id send you a quick message! i havent seen you on telly for a while which is a real shame (coz i think ur gorgeous), what you been up to recently?i just started my second year at chester college (hardly interesting eh its boring me senseless lol) anyway get in touch if u remember me! hope to hear from you soon
Love Roxy xxx
P.S i never did recieve that call that u promised sob sob No, you didn't: Successfully passing as Alex when hid behind a computer screen is one thing, but doing so over the phone to mad Alex fans is quite another.
No, no, thank you for entertaining me.
Hi, Lisa. I take it you know me from Big Brother. You're the first person to e-mail through Friends Reunited. I'm glad you enjoyed the show, it was certainly an experience, and thank you so much for taking the time to e-mail me. I apologise for the delay in getting back to you, I don't surf the net that much, but will reply to any e-mails. Take care xx Alex
Hey, I am really glad u emailed bk. me and my friend were just searching famous people to see if they were on friendsreunited!I thought u deserved to win bb instead if kate.U were really funny.Maybe we can talk sometime. Let me know when Alex deserved to win instead of Kate???
Dear Alex, Thanks very much for your email. It's good that you have the time to write to people. You must be very busy with your new lifestyle and all it entails. You were great fun to watch on Big Brother and I'm sure you'll make a success of other things that you do. Keep in touch if you have time. Take care of yourself If only she knew who it really was.....
WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO KID! I THINK ITS A BIT WEIRD THAT IF YOU ARE ALEX YOU ONLY ENTERED YOUR INFO AFTER BB AND DIDN'T EVEN MENTION IT!!!
Yeah, OK, you've got me there, Smartass
You wanna bet? Hey Alex,
Thank you very much for your e-mail! It cheered me up immensley as i am having a bit of a glum day! Won't tell you all about it because i don't know you but needless to say i almost choked on the cookie i was eating when i just checked my e-mail.
Sorry to say i didn't really watch big brother but i got the general jist of it through magazines, newspapers etc. When BB first started i was at college studying media so it was interesting to watch for research purposes ie voyeurism and such.
Hope you don't mind me replying? i always like to expand my list of people i recieve e-mails from because i don't get many (due to all of my friends being computer illiterate or having ten children!!)
Can i also just say that from what i did catch of big brother people were quite hard on u! Although i have given up on media as a career and am following a career in nursing (had my uni interview yesterday!!!) i still have an interest in it, can i just ask you what it is like going back to normal life after being the focus of so much media attention? That is all i will mention of BB because i am sure you are sick of talking about it and can i re-assure you that i am replying as i would anyone and not just because you are famous!
Please reply as it does brighten my day to see i have e-mail (V sad i know!)
Hope you are well
Hi. It's no problem to reply, think nothing of it. I'll always reply, 'though sometimes I may take longer than others to do so, as my schedule varies a lot. If I ever do take a week or so to reply, it's because I haven't been able to get online, not because I'm ignoring you! I hope that you're having a better day, today. I laughed about the bit about you almost choking on your cookie! I'll forgive you for not watching Big Brother! I suppose that it's unavoidable, hearing about it, you'd have to live under a rock to not know something about it. It gets a great deal of media attention. I don't mind you replying at all, I also like to keep in contact with people over the net. I did get some bad publicity, yes, but I suppose that it's all part of the overall Big Brother experience. I prepared myself for it. I know that most of us got SOME bad publicity, Jade got more than me, at any rate! Going back to normal life was strange in the way you'd expect it to be, like it is when you've been away from home for a long period of time in general. It was a relief, as I was getting a little fed up of the whole thing towards the end, as you probably know. It was strange to not be under the limelight 24/7. To know that nobody was seeing what you were doing. I've been noticed a lot since Big Brother, and have had friends talk a lot about it, which is strange. It's quite a thing to be some kind of star for weeks, then fade away into obscurity. I still sometimes find the whole thing hard to take in.
Thank you very much for your e-mail - I've had a few, now, and yours have been the best to read. You were the first to e-mail me, initially, but I've since had quite a few. Reply if you like. Take care.
Alex xx
Hi hun,
I'm having a good day today because i am pretty out of it, i've been to a friends barbecue today and ended up blowing up a massive paddling pool.
The reason i was a bit glum wads because a few weeks ago myself and my boyfriend mugged at knife point and they live near us and they're out on bail!!!
I keep seeing them everywhere and on friday steven (bf) couldn't come to meet me from work because they were outside the pub, so i had to walk an hour on my own at ten o clock at night!
Apart from that everything is good. I should hopefully hear back on friday whether i've been accepted to study Nursing at Huddersfield university so fingers crossed.
So BB aside, tell me a bit about yourself! And i'll tell u anything u want to know!
Hope to hear from you soon Hi Alex, Thanks so much for the reply, it was really nice of you as I expect you are very busy these days, I've seen you a couple of times on television since leaving the big brother house.
I'm a massive big brother fan, my family laugh at me as I don't watch much television all year around and then big brother starts and I'm addicted, they say "oh, big brother's back on, we won't be getting fed for the next couple of months". Then when it finishes I get all depressed. (Maybe I just like nosing into other people's lives). I couldn't go on the programme myself though, I wouldn't have the guts, I think you're all really brave.
Have you bothered with Adele since leaving the house? I thought you might have had a thing going on!!!! I see that the Big Brother 3 Uncut is now out in the shops, have you watched it yet? It'll be on my Christmas list anyway.
Take care x x x
Hi, don't worry, it's no problem replying, think nothing of it. I am fairly busy, but never too busy to reply to people who e-mail me (even if there is sometimes a delay!). I hope your family didn't starve to death this Summer, lol! I probably couldn't have gone on Big Brother a few years ago (and I don't mean because it hadn't started, lol), but you are who you are. I can understand why many people wouldn't want to go on, though, some people like their privacy too much. I haven't bothered with Adele since leaving the house, we will stay in contact, but between you and me, I don't think she's really my type! A bit too muscular for my liking! I have of course watched Big Brother 3 Uncut - I can recommend it. Thanx for your reply, hope to hear from you soon, bye x x x x
Alex Does anyone have any idea whether or not Alex Sibley is or was ever with Mel from Big Brother 1? I don't. This girl seems almost to fancy 'me'. I would offer to meet her, but I feel perhaps I'd be a disappointment.
I have an amazing friend who now has got Cancer for the third time. She is seriously ill at the moment in Hospital and has been incredibly brave and cheerful throughout her illness. She is one of the few unique people out there and has shown only courage. She has one very young daughter so her fight for life is extraordinary strong. She is also the only person who has ever made me feel totally humble and I have met plenty of people so that is an achievement in itself. My idea I have is maybe you could possibly visit!. Yes, I know it sounds like a crazy proposition, but she will go soon and she was a huge fan of yours and it would be just so amazing for her. Maybe you could coincide the trip with visiting PJ (I believe he is meant to be working in Bournemouth?!) Anyway she, is in the Royal Bournemouth Hospital on Ward *number was inserted here*. If you met her you could see why I am asking. Alex I am not begging you to do this I just want to make my friends time better and I know it would be. I would not pay you £££££'s but I could take you out for lunch in hip Bournemouth Town!!!!!!. I am also not some crazy fan as I am happily married. Well please please consider this and let me know it would be a huge kindness to her and she would make you laugh alot!. THANK YOU Almost leaves one facing a moral dilemna. If I could've drawn this e-mail and its request to the attention of the real Alex Sibley, I would have Hey Alex yeah its cool your replying even tho were strangers i didnt mean to send you my first email as i got the email address wrong but you replied so i thought i would too.! I see your a model i just checked ya profile. thats cool i use to do abit of modeling too, well only catwalk stuff but it didnt last for long as it was only soemmthing temp as i need a job when i got back form australia. The sender of this e-mail appears to have found the e-mail address through somewhere other than Friends Reunited, and is oblivious to the fact that the person replying is supposed to be Alex from Big Brother.
Hi Alex Sean from Fesdu here! i have managed to lose all your numbers so thought i would try and see if i could get hold of you through this site! I have split up with Debbie so now living on my own in Salisbury let me know how things are going after your tv appearance speak soon take care mate The sender of the this e-mail appears to be an actual friend of Alex. Hope he doesn't meet up with him and ask him why he didn't reply to his e-mail...This, incidentally, was the first e-mail I received from a guy, following a good 50 or so e-mails from women.
So, there we have it: Only a fraction of the e-mails I've had the pleasure to have grace my 'celebrity' inbox. Sadly, a good few of the e-mails I've received have been deleted by Hotmail. Still, although, given that Alex Sibley's becoming a rarer and rarer sight on our screens - having all but had his 'fifteen minutes' of fame - the flow of e-mails isn't what it once was, I'm still receiving e-mails from fans some 18 months on. I shall post any more e-mails of interest as and when they arrive in Alex's inbox. I also received three festive e-cards through Friends Reunited (which is more than I received as myself), this Christmas gone, which I would post up here if it wasn't for the fact that they don't seem to want to appear to save to my computer properly. Not so festively, I've recently had one or two bastards attempt to send to who they thought was Alex Sibley but was in actual fact me, a virus. Online celebrity impersonation is not without his risks. I replied to everyone - all but about four were women, out of what must have been well over one-hundred. Perhaps if I'd have posed as Kate from Big Brother 3, things would have been different. I really do hope that none of the people who e-mailled "me" see this update. Mind you, as a person with an I.Q. (just a little) above zero, I know that the chances of that happening are exceptionally low. However, should the very above happen, I hereby apologise. Not for doing it, but for calling you "gullible". Don't try this at home, kiddies; it's very, very naughty. HOME.
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