Celebrity Big Brother has me watching but has it gone too far?

We see the Big Brother blueprint everywhere on reality TV, from I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here where media personalities live together in the jungle to The Circle where contestants live together but can only see each other’s virtual profiles.

- Jennifer Cartwright on Celebrity Big Brother

When people have nothing to do except complete miscellaneous challenges and talk to each other, drama is bound to erupt.

Celebrity Big Brother's format may seem simplistic in comparison to these other shows. But forcing famous faces to live together in any location makes friction, fights and friendship all inevitable, even if the Big Brother house is a basic set based in the UK.

Normally, when both the civilian and celebrity versions of Big Brother start, the first few days are boring. The launch night, filled with awkward hellos, is entirely skippable. Housemates often begin hyperaware of the cameras and their reputation leading to lots of rehearsed anecdotes and name drops spilling out of their mouths at the first opportunity.