Described as a cross between Big Brother and Black Mirror, reality game show The Circle was a surprise hit for C4 when it first aired last year.
Contestants were relocated to a newly refurbished block of flats in London, not allowed to meet in person and could only communicate with each other via the show’s social-media network.
As they competed to be the most popular and avoid being ‘blocked’, the competitors mostly played the game as themselves, but some used fake personas to win over as many of their new online friends as possible. This strategy was a success for 26-yearold contestant Alex Hobern, who pretended to be a 20-something woman called Kate and won both the show’s £50,000 prize plus the viewers’ champion award of £25,000.
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