[James]

I would say the £300,000 figure has been exaggerated.

The newspapers - even the broadsheets - want everyone to believe that Big Brother contestants get paid huge amounts of money for doing very little. So they overstate the numbers.

As for what Jade has said about Kate, Jade is entitled to express her opinion about any of her fellow housemates. One of the main features of any Big Brother press interview is what a particular housemate thought of the others.

Mind you, whether Jade really means what she said is anyone's guess. She changes her opinion on people as much as the direction of the wind. The tabloids also twist things and take them out of context to make a story.

I thought that Kate flirting to avoid nominations was self-evident. In the context of BB3 there's nothing really wrong with this. She employed the same 'tic-tacs' as Mel in BB1 who was turned into some sort of hate figure because of it. The difference this time being that all the housemates treated Big Brother as one big game. They were in it to win rather than the experience.