The teacher, 51, will swap her comfy home for a rusty tin-roofed hut with no electricity or running water and a hole in the ground for a loo.

The homelessness the programme sought to highlight doesn't end after a few days, with the participants returning to comfy homes with log fires and space-age kitchens.

He has become frustrated by audiences, he says, and thinks there has been a shift in why people want to leave their comfy homes to visit a sticky-floored multiplex.