[Jamesy]

I don't believe they told him to stay. Which Perez said and some fans are believing as gospel. However I believe he certainly wasn't that open to leave whenever and the producers at least persuaded him a hell of a lot to stay. The thing like the random secret walk-out and room twist was obvious of that (look at how makeshift that room was).

I still believe they got him staying in for the fee.

We know how dodgy C5 production has been, from Spedi to simple things like them trying to cover that Rylan was leaving the house for X Factor rehearsals. Lets not forget the amount of times we have seen pictures of the house with production team members in the background with housemates too.

I doubt C4 were any better but C5 do seem to have the ' no outside world contact' rule thrown completely out the window and they have been awful at covering everything up.