[Garfie]

Originally Posted by Ammi

‘ the show follows the format of other national editions, in which a group of contestants, known as "housemates", live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world.’

….housemates being able to hear boos and gage popularity and less popularity etc is not ‘isolated from the outside world’…it can completely manipulate and change dynamics as a direct influence…

The thing is though, Ammi, those words are ambiguous enough to enable producers to manipulate them as they wish. For instance, they could say that ‘isolated from the outside world’ actually means that housemates can have no contact with family, friends, their work and their normal, everyday lives. They could claim it means physically isolated. They could say that it’s like a prison which isolates inmates from the outside world, yet they still have some awareness of what is going on.