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Are you feeling all right? Yeah, good. It's been a roller coaster for the last few weeks. But if you put yourself in that sort of environment, you've got to expect a bit of backlash here and there.

And I did want to make a dent in my time. I didn't just want to be forgotten like that. So you got to push the boundaries. And I've always been one to rock the boat, shall we say? So you were on Big Brother. We're going to get into the controversies of it. It's been utterly nuts. And that's why I got in touch with you. I couldn't believe what I was watching. But first, I mean, how did you apply? Was it, did you ever expect to actually get on? Well, originally I didn't want to do reality. I was on the hamster wheel of acting

for the last few years. That was dead set. I really want to be an actor. I loved everything about it.

That was what my passion was, etc. But it was a friend of mine. I was working at a gym,

just a part-time thing at the time. And a friend of mine was like, George, you'd be quality on reality TV. I was like, no, no, no, that's not for me, not doing it. He was on at me for weeks and weeks, though. So eventually I wore down and I said, all right, I'll apply. Nothing's going to come of it, and we'll take it from there um we both applied actually he didn't

hear anything back three days later got a text message on WhatsApp or um can we organise a phone call

did the phone call went well um just was my usual self because still I didn't think anything would come

of it but that phone call then turned into a Zoom call.

And after that, they wanted a live impersonal audition.

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