It’s the reality TV show that gives a fly-on-the-wall peek at how celebrities – a term used here in its loosest form – look when they’re lounging on the sofa in their pyjamas.
But the bit of hidden-camera footage we’d have really liked to see this week is the one showing the reaction of the royal family as Gary Goldsmith, the Princess of Wales’s “bad uncle”, walked into the celebrity Big Brother house.
