[Romantic Old Bird]

I thought Sandy was OK when he first came into the house, but fairly quickly realised that he was a miserable and (it eventually transpired) thoroughly unpleasant character.

I am sorry I didn't ever become entranced by BB3. It wasn't the fault of the housemates I am sure. I think James has made some very good points about the way in which the series was conducted.

I hated the manipulation, the huge budgets and most of all the incessant heavy drinking binges. They worried me to death. I really feared something would happen to them (worse even than abandon beneath the duvet and public striptease). I still think they have seriously hammered their livers.

Quite early on Kate fell asleep drunk in the water and had to be woken as she started to slip beneath the surface.

Did the producers reconsider their tactics? No, they gave them more and more booze.

Instead of dividing them into opposing camps they should have united them in adversity. Limiting them to basic rations with very modest treats as rewards would have been much more healthy for mind body and spirit.

However, thanks to the runaway success in viewing figures you can will be another roman orgy of excess next year.

Outwith all of that though, Sandy was a misfit who thought himself superior to the other housemates. He was a grave mistake, his behaviour was unforgivable. How unkind was he about Alison and towards Jonny?