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Originally Posted by Nedusa

You may be right but personally I don't like the idea of having paid stooges living in the house with the other HM. Either they are real HM on a task where they act as a "plant" but its part of a bigger task or they are put in for a day or two at most and then removed. Any longer then it blurs the line between whats real and whats staged and the whole show starts to lose credibility.

Housemate on a task is a different kettle of fish, this is something different.

If he leaves after a few days then his purpose is redundant, staying for several weeks will make it that much more believable to the other housemates that he's a real housemate. And let's face it, there's already a huge blurred line between what's real and not on this show.

I'd say he'll leave 4-5 weeks in and be replaced by a new genuine housemate.