What a conundrum! I've gone from being indifferent to him. To being annoyed by him. To start to tolerate him. To grudgingly finding him funny. Now I think I absolutely bloody adore him.

He speaks a lot of sense too!

He's a good bloke, it's all banter with him, nothing nasty is meant in what he says to people.

I've liked him from the start.

Where other people see bullying I see tongue in cheek humour. And he can take it back too.

Spent a week with him and his family once by chance, hated him to start with, but then found he has the biggest heart. Hope he goes on to win, he deserves it imo

So glad he stayed in tonight....Thought he was a goner for sure, well done the great british public!

I've been switching my allegiance from day one. I think this year's lot have been a really great lot. At this moment I'm feeling a lot of Eric Love!

I'm with you OP. I do accept now it is all tongue in cheek with him and a bruskness we're just not used to on the TV nowadays.

Me too. At first he annoyed me to death. Now I want him to win - I am so fickle