She had no idea at all about the amount of planning involved. Apparently there is video diary of her saying "well, it's midnight and I can't see how I can be expected to work any later than this when I've got to be up so early tomorrow, so they will just have to put up with the handwritten worksheet." And then of course the next day there is footage of the class (a lovely group, as it turned out) saying they couldn't read the sheet and the lesson turning into a bit of a mini riot because the kids, however well intentioned, just couldn't do the work.
They left her without cameras several times so that she saw the children for real, and not on their best "Mum might see this on TV" behaviour.
She found it fairly tough going. On the Wednesday I bumped into the teacher looking after Clare at 8 o'clock and she was worrying because Clare still hadn't turned up. She finally turned up at twenty pats 8! She was mumbling something about a hairdrier going missing. I was recently talking to the lady whose house she stayed in, who had heard nothing about the hairdrier incident (but vaguely remembered her asking to borrow one late one morning!)
It is going to be so much fun.
Re famous backside watching: it is rather wide, clad in a short skirt dark grey woollen suit and topped with short blond hair with beautiful stylish roots. So I'm sure they won't have edited it out! I'm just excited to see all my friends, and all my students.