Elaine Burke

And even the chief executive of Channel 4, now she's pretty new to the job, Priya Jogra, she initially expressed sympathy to these women who have made these allegations.

But when she was asked if she would apologise for what happened to them, she basically did a no comment about her and went back to her office.

But it's, I mean, what's really, really troubling to me here is

I have always been astounded at the fact that this show exists and I always assumed that there was a certain amount of artifice to the construction of the show because you essentially have, the concept is two absolute strangers get married.

Now it is a sham marriage.

They're not legally married.

They're not legally married.

Yes, but they're put into a situation where they kind of live out as a married couple, share a bed together, having just met and visit with counsellors throughout the course of the show to see how they're getting on as this newly married couple.

To take responsibility for that as a production company and say, we are going to be confident that we've done enough safeguarding that we're going to let two strangers share a bed and we've vetted them completely to do this.

I just don't see how you can ever reach that bar as a production company.

And I don't know why this concept exists.

I think it's the use of it in public life as well.

So, you know, there's been lots of talk in Northern Ireland about its use on signage and public signage and things like that.

And also for it to be a way for people to interact with public services, for that to be an option and for it to be recognised, you know, as...

an official language where, you know, in Ireland, obviously it would be.

And like, I think that's the nature of the support.

Like, I don't have the phrasing around the question, but the article does talk around that use of it in public life.

And the more you see that, the more you are exposed to it, we're talking about how it's taught and how that has been challenged time and time again.

I think the trouble we've always had is a lack of immersion.

And teaching is only one part of the process of language learning, really.