Christine Rose
INTRODUCTION
Q: What were you hoping for when you signed up for Masters & Servants?
A: We liked the idea of being servants. We thought it would be fun and a few little jokes... not everyone being totally disrespectful like it turned out to be.
Q: Which bits of Masters & Servants did you enjoy?
A:From the moment of meeting the Mills and hearing them swearing, I didn't enjoy any of it. There were five of them, plus two children who weren't taking part and their nanny all running round their house with their blue language. I wasn't having that in my house.
Q: Which bits of Masters & Servants did you hate?
A: Basically I'm upset by the whole experience. The Mills family applied but they weren't up for playing the game. I'm disappointed. If Channel 4 came to us tomorrow with a decent family we'd happily try the experiment again.
BEING A MASTER
Q: Was it difficult ordering servants around?
A: I didn't find it difficult telling them what to do. I run a household of ten so I am used to ordering people around. What I found difficult was that I had to clean up after the servants. We let them use the shower and they left a big pile of wet towels in a puddle on the floor. I wasn't up for that.
Q: Do you think you could get used to having staff?
A: I think it is difficult in this day and age. I've always been the sort of person who if I want something doing I'll do it myself. However if I won the lotteryI might think about it.
BEING A SERVANT
Q: Did you find it hard to take orders?
A: No, I didn't find it hard. I found it confusing because Susan often got the orders wrong. She sent me out to buy food for a roast and there was no meat on the shopping list. She forgot to tell Malcolm to pick up Indiarna from nursery, then at 6 o'clock suddenly realised that she wasn't home.
Q: What was the worst thing about your masters?
A: The worst thing was that they weren't really masters. They couldn't master their own family, let alone anyone else.
Q: What was the job you really hated doing?
A: I didn't like the way Susan always tried to separate me from my family. She couldn't accept that we wanted to do things as a unit.
CONCLUSION
Q: Did you learn anything from doing Masters & Servants?
A: No, I don't think we learnt a thing.
Q: Do you think you are more cut out to be a master or a servant?
A: I think I can do both as that is what I do as a homemaker. However I think it is more fun to play at being a servant.
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Susan Mills
INTRODUCTION
Q: What were you hoping for when you signed up for Masters & Servants?
A: We did it for a laugh and because we thought it would be interesting. I've been studying psychology for two years so I thought it would be good to see what happened when two families got forced to live together.
Q: Which bits of Masters & Servants did you enjoy?
A: None of it. We were the servants and we just had a hard time. We never got to be masters.
Q: Which bits of Masters & Servants did you hate?
A: All of it. Christine trashed us all the way through. She was just in it to belittle us and undermine us.
BEING A MASTER
Q: Was it difficult ordering servants around?
A: We never got the chance. They were never into playing at being servants.
Q: Do you think you could get used to having staff?
A: We would have been up for trying! We put sweets and chocolates in the Roses' caravans to try to get them into the spirit of things.
BEING A SERVANT
Q: Did you find it hard to take orders?
A: No, not really. We just got on with doing whatever they asked us to do. They got us up at 4.30 every day and we just got on with it.
Q: What was the worst thing about your masters?
A: They were unfair. They didn't even treat us as servants. They just wanted to trash us and make themselves look good.
Q: What was the job you really hated doing?
A: I can't say there was one specific job that we hated. We just got on with what we had to do.
CONCLUSION
Q: Did you learn anything from doing Masters & Servants?
A: I learnt not to trust anyone. Christine and Malcolm were nice to our faces but horrid behind our backs. Malcolm just wanted a family he could make a mockery of.
Q: Do you think you are more cut out to be a master or a servant?
A: Both, really. We could be good masters or servants.
If we were masters, we would treat our servants well. You get back what you put into people.
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