Paul Osborne

Diary rooms where you...

down a lens, talking to people at home directly in the same way that you do now with a phone in front of your face if you're an influencer.

Well, it was a very intimate relationship between Big Brother and the housemates.

It's an opportunity to talk in a therapeutic sense about how things are unfolding in the house, your general experience with certain people.

Most housemates really felt that when they came to the diary room, it was like an offloading.

of things that they wouldn't say in front of other people, feelings they didn't want to hurt, or conflict they didn't want to be part of.

So there was an element of therapy about it, I think.

We would always give them tools like that.

From day dot, it was always, have you spoken to your housemates about this?

Is there anyone in the house that you could speak to that you could confide in?

So those would have been ongoing, but that house was so divided.

and it was divided in a way that you had kind of almost boundary-less bitching and gossiping and name-calling on one side and the other side that were didn't want to engage with that and make it a thing and I think that's you know potentially what didn't I didn't allow the house to come together

and explore how harmony could be restored.

It just continued along a divided line, which was unusual.

Fully supported.

Fully supported.

Celebrity is a little bit different because they have agents and managers.

So it kind of becomes a discussion.

In the early stages of Big Brother, we had a sort of interim agency that would help the housemates navigate the journey from housemate to ex-housemate.

And, you know, they would field offers from newspapers and from other agencies that wanted to represent them.