Paul Osborne

No, I mean, it's very innocent.

Like, you know, we'd had the rich-poor side previously, I think in the previous Celebrity Big Brother, or the one before that even, there was like a sort of royal hierarchy with Queen Mother Jackie Stallone and going all the way down to...

bed warmers and all that sort of stuff so it had been done before it was just another way of sort of creating an interesting dynamic in the house and to see how people would react and also a commentary on on Jade's celebrity status I mean you know we're aware that her celebrity status wouldn't necessarily be looked at by these very professional people who had

you know, careers in entertainment, that they wouldn't equate their own celebrity status with that.

So we were sort of, you know, playing around with that concept a little bit as well.

And we had no idea it was going to lead to what it led to, of course.

Otherwise, we wouldn't have done it.

We always stayed as true to what was happening as we possibly could within the confines of having to put together an edited version of the show.

It was always a kind of sort of a sacred cow, Big Brother, that you told the truth.

So it was as accurate as it could be.

And also, again...

that was also streaming live you could tune into that at any point so you it was always something that we strove to do but it was something that you also had to do because you know the public at large and journalists getting their stories are watching the streaming and that you know they're utilizing that material for stories in the press and forming opinions about

what's going on in the house and who people are and whether they like them or not.

So it's, you know, pretty accurate.

As accurate as it gets in an edited show.

At the time, at least, there was a rotating team of 12 producers and your responsibilities were you were either running the gallery, the control room, and therefore being Big Brother and talking to the housemates.

But also, you know, when conflicts arose or intensity increased, then a lot of the housemates would come to the diary room.

They would talk to the producers as Big Brother.

So those were part of your responsibilities.

And then your other responsibility is that once every 12 days, because it's a rotating team of 12 producers, you would be sort of in charge of or the main set of eyes on the goings on in the house and therefore the next night's show.