I know, my bf's been looking for a medium sized rug for his room and I'm surprised at how expensive rugs can be!

Even though they wouldn't say which show they were filming for, it'd clearly be the BBC, and that's not how they dispose of their dead bodies. If he had any savvy he probably figured out the show anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if he's now put the rug on EBay for 3 times what he paid. That's what people did with the honey soap.

The clue's in the fact that the first guy was in a pub and the guy who bought the rug also seemed half-cut

im not completely sure, i may have to watch it again, but did the man who bought the rug come towards them one way, then go back the other way? he must have been going somewhere, nobody just walks up to a street corner and then goes back do they?

i may be wrong, it's just what it looked like to me

They do if they've just come from home, then randomly bought a rug that they don't fancy carrying round with them for the rest of the night!

Exactly, they were just fortunate enough to bump into drunk people who like shopping

i hadn't thought of that

i still think it was set-up though.

I must admit to occasionally have been going somewhere but changed my mind and direction.

The man buying the rug and to a lesser extent the man buying the skeleton seemed abit contrived to me. However, I reckon the man with the rug had had abit too much to drink, so that might explain it.

ON the other hand, what with Margaret lurking in the background it's abit of a giveaway that they were filming The Apprentice so that might explain it.

Agreed - he didn't even feel it or look at it - total set up - they might have clinched the deal earlier but then got the bloke to play along as if it was an impulse buy.

These filmed things are a bit of a con - I know because I went to Dickinsons' thing in Belfast and they filmed us sticking our hands up randomly to edit in later - I agreed as it was just a bit of fun but after the thing was shown, I looked like I had bought a manky old walking stick, and loads of friends were asking me why I'd paid for such a grotty item!!

I think that sometimes things are staged, for the purpose of the cameras. It seems likely that they did approach the chap, who obviously agreed, and then had to perhaps re-film the interaction to be more show friendly, or because it was missed in part, something like that. So it is staged, but not set up, if you see what I mean.

I suppose I can see that happening if they miss the shot of something they think will be particularly good.

Although the amount of footage they get in a day you wouldn't have thought they wouldn't have needed to do that very often.