The Circle - who’s watching?

[Standrewsschool]

The first three are wannabes.

Hunter - trying to revive his career.

This is rather horrific image I remember from my Saturday nights 🙈🙈🙈

See I stayed high, you had to go low [balls] mwah ha ha!

James has definitely grown into his looks!

I'm ignoring the bulge

My screen froze on that gladiator pic of him! He guilted me into not having a bourbon with my tea.

He's got a sort of James Van Der Beek look going on in the top one. Can see why he's a bit self conscious and always covering his head if he thinks his 90s curtains are our abiding image of him!

@TitsInAbsentia

See I stayed high, you had to go low [balls] mwah ha ha!

😂😂😂

@OysterMonkey - just spent far too long pressing the x in the top left of your photo trying to hide the bulge before realising the x was part of the screenshot and there was another on the right!

Or @MrsToothyBitch I think he may have lost all his locks, and is worried, like Samson, if we see his bald head, he’ll lose all his strength, hence the hats.
#DoesHeSleepInAHat?

I quite fancied him as a Gladiator but then I was kind of into blond curtains in my teens. Never keen on the muscles though, it was actually the curtains that did it for me

He’s definitely more attractive nowadays though. Not that he’s particularly my type (which, you’ll be pleased to know, is no longer blond curtains).

@BillyIsMyBunny - ha ha ha, I did that too 😱😱😱 (go away Hunter!!!)

Think Hunters a hatfish, catfish.

It annoys me that they all seem to leave the toilet lids open, you'd think they would close them when they're in a chat in the bathroom!

My love for Syed/ Hashu grows every episode! Also, had anyone else noticed him ending all his messages with an ‘explanation mark’?

Why do they not take a few steps into the lounge for chats instead of staying in the bathroom?

Bigger screen I think.

Okay, James with no hat on, clearly the issue is more his pointy head than the loss of hair.

How does the food work? Do they fill in a shopping list?

Doh @jay55. Just realised I mis-read your message. Yeah, I’d rather be in the comfy lounge too.

@jay55 I think they give shopping lists and get groceries brought to them- delivered while they're gymming/hot tubbing etc. I would also rather be sat on the comfy sofa whilst circling, but I suppose they're told to go about their day. If you were mid skin care routine or mid cooking, you'd probably not want to break off if you might be away for ages- I'm sure we only get the edited highlights of chats.

@OysterMonkey, I think you're right! I thought he just wanted to keep up that 90s illusion but he's hiding his pointy head to conserving his strength. Like Billy, I also got confounded by the extra X in that pic- I thought he had frozen my very in need of replacement phone!

Urgh. I really can't stand Manrika.

I don't mind game players but she is beyond nasty with it.

How is Andy top again! I really thought Dot would have got that (although I was surprised to see Dot getting high ratings initially).

Quote annoyed Femi and Pippa picked bloody Manrika. She already feels like she’s running the show. Now they’ve given her the chance to actually have power - it’s not going to do anything for her already large ego!

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It’s interesting how we can all be watching the same show but get such different views towards the players. I actually quite like Manrika, she is definitely playing the game but she is also very open about it and I respect that she immediately owned up to Tally when she definitely didn’t have to in that moment.

I think for the younger players who probably don’t have a lot in terms of money/ security yet it’s understandable that they will be somewhat ruthless in trying to win £100,000. And really all of the other players are essentially strangers, being disloyal or pretending to like someone when you don’t isn’t necessarily mean when it’s to a person you have no real connection with and when you know there’s a roughly 50/50 chance they’re not even who they say they are. I find the game-playing much harder to forgive in the older players such as Hunter and Andy, I guess it feels like integrity should be something that comes with age and that they are in better positions in life and not in as much need for the cash so have less excuse for playing a ruthless game or deliberately trying to ruin the game for others.

I really hoped voting out Tally would end Andy's run as influencer. I'd have loved any combo of Felix, Dot, Vithun to have a go, to change things up and hear more of what they're thinking.

I think players going on about integrity in the Circle just sound silly. It's a popularity contest to win money. If you want integrity go and be a real nurse. I think Manrika is nasty and is more 2 faced than the others. Vithun is being boring now. I don't see why they like Dot. His speeches sound so stereotyped cutesy old lady and I think he's creepy. Syed to win. I'll be sad if Gemma goes. Andy didn't really understand why Gemma told him who he was did he?

Didn't realise there was a thread!

I think Andy is ruthless and a great game-player. He probably is a nice guy IRL but here he's being very strategic.

In the blocks he's influenced so far, each time the player that was the biggest threat of the two to Andy has gone. I fully expect that he'll keep 'Gemma' and get rid of Dot, noting Dot's recent popularity.

Manrika's playing a great game too.

Disappointed that Andy and Manrika are influencers again. Andy played a blinder building his image as fair and impartial when he's playing his own game all the while. Unlike Manrika who's honest to the cameras about how she plays the game I think Andy says one thing and means another.
Anyway it doesn't look good for Gemma.

Yes I was also hoping for an end to Andy. I think Gemma, who voted Andy #1, will go this week and to be honest I think that would have been the case regardless of who was the influencer out of Andy, Felix and Dot. Hopefully at the next ratings once Femi and Pippa are able to vote and be voted things will be shaken up a bit; I imagine being near the bottom will have kicked Vithun’s game plan back into gear and he has been quite calculating in the past, as we get nearer the end I expect to see a bit more tactical voting so that might start kicking in now. Hopefully that will mean we see someone different at the top and have less chance of a final made up only of OGs.