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It's not wrong legally, which is the main subject of this debate; I wouldn't say it was wrong morally either, since the contestants are free to leave at any time.

The only issue may be the exploitation of young minds who will do almost anything for a little fame. But, aren't we all exploited for the benefit of others?

At what point did Big Brother (a gameshow) become Guantanamo Bay!

Its a gameshow! People CHOOSE to go on it! Do you really think that if there was any danger at all to people the producers would go ahead with it?

A question, Sam... Do you think that Max should come out the 'closet' now? I think that trying to be someone else is driving him nuts. I know he's driving me nuts.

I'm still not sure Max is Olay, stripey.... Olay was much cleverer and would easily know the difference between a real prison and a gameshow....

Unless, Olay had some sort of breakdown and was left with scarring in the pre-frontal lobes, and now back as Max -the mad- tranmere?

Thanks for your comments. I agree totally with what you have just said Alice. The whole show is built around people falling out, they try to create situations for the housemates where that will happen, and when it does the producers jump with joy because it makes what they regard as 'interesting viewing'. Someone once called Big Brother a 'human zoo'. It could also be seen as a laboratory where people's behaviour is scrutinised like lab rats. The fact that before every advert break they show a brief clip of some bust-up which will be shown in full in the next segment of the programme proves that the rowing and difficulties housemates have with each other are really what the show is about, and is meant to keep you on the edge of your seat till the show comes back after the adverts finish. I still hold my original view that sending people to the jail is out of order, and I am not sure lawful, even if people chose to go into the house. I heard of some radio station in Birmingham where contestants for a holiday competition had to sit on ice blocks and the person who sat there the longest won the holiday. People ended up seriously injurying their backsides - which were scarred afterwards! The station was heavily critisised and fined aswell. Clearly the defence of 'but the contestants chose to go along with it and could have gone home whenever they wanted' (which they could have done) meant nothing to the regulators and the perception of those who heard about it.

I hear that Dennis, the one slung out for spitting in someone's face, is in hiding and has also been interviewed under caution by the Police. So some offences you get sin-binned for, others you get the boot completely. Everyone in the house sort of lives in fear of the Big Brother voice that comes over the tannoy, if someone is called to the Diary Room they don't just honour it they approach with a bit of fear and trepidation - it's almost like how citizens in the normal world respond to the Police of summons's from a Court. The BB producers are like god in the house, and everyone doesn't just listen to them (as they are bound to) but are sort of scared too. Look how that Mario guy was when they got him up in the night and called him to the Diary Room, for no real reason, he was like the plebby kid being summonded by the headmaster at a school and was as edgy and as full of trepidation as a little kid would be too. Therefore the jail, and being sent to it, feels real and quite serious, I would imagine.

So you think BB is cruel and vindictive?