A lot of things in this thread (i just finished reading), are true about Vanessa Rousso. But i don't like what i read about her divorcing, from her ex-husband Chad Brown. Ok, they were divorced after his cancer remission, but should you stay with someone if he/she is sick, despite love/harmony was already gone between you too ? No.
Besides it, she was recently (may) in a radio show,
http://www.pokernews.com/live-report...ost.240756.htm, talking, about her comeback to poker (after existentialism-divorce-death-poker's boredom crisis). She there explained that she hosted Chad brown in her home (not theirs) for the last months of his life. It does not seem like an abandoning whore, as some stipulated here. I believe she really loved him, even as a friend after.
And last thing, i like her as a promoting persona for poker. She has always been a good ambassador for poker and women in poker (which is not the last of poker problems, to me). So some may leave her breath a bit more.
I don't have access to Big Brother US, in Canada, so i cannot judge her performance there.