Hopes can be quickly dashed.
Ask David Bentley next summer when the Euro 2008 squad is announced. Or Gordon the Gopher when Andi Peters unveiled his successor, Edd the Duck.
The chances of the Big Brother housemates actually nominating the exceptionally self-absorbed Seany less than a week after his oh-so-unspectacular entrance were always going to be slim.
But, while that chance was there, it gave BB fans hope.
Hope that this idiotic, self-indulgent, pompous, "crazy" fun-seeker would not waste anymore of our valuable viewing time.
He might even be worse than Charley. Yes, he's that bad. Twelve hours in, he'd kicked Ziggy out of his bed and poor old Lesley out of the house.
Everyday since, he's been in the pool splashing other people, who are also in the pool.
Does this "wacky" man not realise that people in a swimming pool generally don't mind getting wet?
But any glorious hope of an early eviction was smashed when Shabnammmmm, Our Trace and Ms "Let's have a meeting which I'm going to walk out on halfway through" were put up to face the public vote.
So we're stuck with another week of torture from the world's most Charmless Man.
Still Seany has at least one redeeming feature.
He's on Big Brother. He'll be forgotten come September and, after that, little more than an annoying quiz question that'll bake you noodle down the local for years after that.