I cannot believe Danielle won the round the world trip and by default, was deemed to have been the person who’d most changed their attitude and who’d “grown up” more than the others.

There was absolutely no evidence of Danielle having done either of those things, either in the final show or indeed, the preceding shows. In the final show, she was still pretty much incapable of anything, still swearing her head off at anyone or anything that wouldn’t do what she wanted and still had a total inability to accept responsibility.

The parents in the last show were annoying too. During the segment where we saw them discussing the final task – which had been making-over three flats with the ‘kids’ as project managers – pretty much everyone agreed that making teenagers project managers was too tall an order. So why do it then? Read more & comment »

I missed the latest episode of this positively addictive show when it was originally on BBC, so I’ve caught up with it on BBC iPlayer, and I’m so glad I did, because the latest offering was every bit as entertaining as they’ve all been.

Last week, Nicky got the boot – thankfully – so this week, just four remained in the House of Large Lazy Gits. They are, Dogan, Dina, Sean and Danielle. And a bombshell was dropped on them within minutes of the show opening; this week, they were only given the equivalent of dole money to live on.

The news was greeted with mostly stunned silence as the four began to realise just how little they had to live on, in fact, it equated to about £7 a day. Oh dear. So, they set off looking for job, somewhat half-heartedly, as of course we’ve come to expect from them. If they’d put in any actual effort, I think we’d have all dropped down dead. Read more & comment »

I missed the third outing of this show when it was on originally but I managed to catch it last night on BBC3, and I’m glad I did… the show and the people in it just get more intriguing.

The parents are fun to watch too; putting ordinary parents in a room together and making them criticise each others kids would be hard enough, but putting these uber-devoted parents together is a real stroke of genius. The tensions are palpable as they all have to decide who’s got to go. I can see that segment of the show becoming a real maelstrom of emotion as the kids get picked off.

Anyway, as always, this week, the kids had to do a decent day’s work and keep the house clean and stick to a budget, and as always, they didn’t all do very well. In fact, most of them did a pretty pants job of the whole shebang actually. Read more & comment »