Just reading about a contestant or should I say victim who says he was asked to wear track suit top on show said he arrived in a nice jumper was asked to change, just confirms my naive suspicions that they must turn up in leggings baggy tops etc, have a tooth knocked out etc!!!!
They aren't acting, well not all of them anyway. There was a family from an estate where I used to live on it a few years ago, I didn't/don't watch it myself but by all accounts it was a corker. lol
The family were a mum who was a drug addict who pimped out her daughter in the local pubs for drug money. I know the children of the family as they went to school with my kids and lived up the road from us, the whole sorry story is/was true.
The mother died a couple of years ago aged early 40s.
Cheers Panky, as you've correctly surmised they aren't/weren't friends. One was a family of a work colleague and another couple were customers (co-op) of mine.