[queenie]

And as Desmond Morris, the anthropologist, pointed out in a recent article, they are quite literally making monkeys out of the housemates. They are going to come out of the house to find they have been universally reviled as boring, horrible and stupid. But as Morris says, this year they've been given next to nothing to do, they're like bored animals pacing round cages at the zoo, we'd most of us be pretty vile that under those circumstances.