Graham Norton

I don't think this was meant to be a part of the show, but what's kind of lovely is some of these households in real life would either never meet or certainly would not spend time getting to know each other.

And that I found really kind of cheery and optimistic and lovely that the households did not behave in a way that I, uh,

you know, cynically thought they would.

Yes.

They didn't turn on the people they thought they would.

Do you live in the neighborhood as well?

I'm there most of the time.

You don't have like a house right on the top of the hill or something?

I did have a little cottage at the top of the hill.

But because there was nothing to do, I did kind of just hang out there because I had my own little house by the lake.

And it had a big bank of monitors where I could kind of watch everything that was going on.

Because these poor people are being filmed 24-7.

Now that I'm doing the voiceover and watching it, I'm seeing all this stuff that I didn't know had happened.

That is like, yeah, that's good.

But it was interesting, though, the people who came in with that mindset, thinking, right, this is all a TV show and a game, and they came in with a game plan, they didn't do very well.

It was the people who just came in and jogged along and got on with people.

want to hear it all yeah authentic voices your podcast wanging on yes i i too i'm so sorry i've joined i mean mind you i kind of thought we must be the last possible podcast no no people are still still climbing on board the podcast train destination nowhere uh

But, yeah, basically it's a thing.

I did it on Radio 2 with my friend Maria.

It's problems.