“If this was ITV it would be a different show. As the British Broadcasting Corporation, we can’t look like we’re favouring a show.
“For example, there was a week when we did a cartoon, and I remember we got home, and I got a knock on my shoulder from one of the house producers.
“They said, ‘BBC Business has said it looks too much like Peppa Pig.’
“I was like, ‘Nah, come on.’ He was like, ‘I’m really sorry, but everything has to be approved by BBC Business before it goes on air.’”
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The former contestants made candid statement about the disadvantages that came from the show’s strict rules and limited screen time.
“It’s 100 hours of filming for a one-hour show,” he continued, with series 18 star Chohan adding: “I think with that as well, when we went into the buildings, the production team were honest with us, and they said, ‘look, at the end of the day, our responsibility is to make the show, yours is to compete for that money.
“‘We’re going to make the programme suit our agenda.’ There were a lot of great moments in there, but they’re not going to show people.
“Like, the week I got fired, I actually sold well with two things. We sold really well, but I was obviously going to get fired, and I do get fired.
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