I think that Jade was used, as was, probably, her mother - I only saw a few tiny snatches, as I try to avoid the program. If a company runs a program which is predicated on huniliation of the participants, and the snatches I have seen since it started have never contradicted that impression, and which deliberately includes people who will not get on together, then it is the fault of the producers if there is bullying - and any bullying is unacceptable - and people getting hurt.

I am sorry for Jade. I started off feeling very differently about her behaviour, but I don't think it was her fault. The producers knew what she was like, and that she was not manipulating enough to handle the situation to her advantage.

There was one tiny little tell in the news footage of Shetty hearing that Jade was voted out which I did not like. She could have looked relieved that her bully was going. She could have looked happy that she was staying. But for a tiny second, she had an expression I have seen at school, that goes with a girl who has arranged for someone to get into trouble, and has succeeded in her aim. You know, the one that's called "the cat who's got the cream". Most infuriating at school, but makes one determined to get the evidence on that person and sort them out. And it's hard to do it. I'm surprised she hadn't learned not to show that face. I may, of course, be wrong in my interpretion, but the person I was watching with saw it too, and read it the same way.

Penny