Meaden's a trailer park owner who tried and failed miserably to do some dancing, Bannatyne runs a gym, Hoppen lines cushions up, Jones is the only one who actually has any money despite the only thing I know he's behind is expansys.com (I suppose that backs the HTC accessories store so I have used it) and Linney... well, apparently has something to do with cloud computing but when he first appeared I looked him up and didn't recognise anything he'd been involved in.

I'm not surprised no one idolises them. Especially Meaden.

They have names? And they're not called "Smaug" and "Alduin" and "Parthonaax"?

>Come to that, I don't know anyone who watches the show, even.

Then you should know that your experience isn't very representative, because the ratings for the show can be objectively confirmed.

I don't think anyone knows a representative sample of the population.

But you have evidence that your sample is not representative in exactly the area that you're discussing.