When I saw this re-surface I was mortified. As a social experiment first time round I had no issues with it, but after series 1 the following dickwads just tried to use it as a catapult into minor celebrity.
Where are half of the key protagonists from the early series now? At best doing night club appearances in low rent clubs in impoverished towns & cities. As for the celebrity variant, it just makes you realise what a desperate bunch of w@***rs and hangers on there are in this country, and more painfully, what an enormous number of mouth breathers there are to be watching them (as said above, about 6 million).
Personally, I'd rather nail my wedding veg to a post than ingratiate these morons with a single second of my viewing time.