It's been seen a lot on this show and seems to be a fairly recent trend. It's when you are on camera and feeling 'upset' and start desperately flapping one or two hands in front of your face while putting on a 'close to tears' expression. Can anyone explain the phenomenon? Is it a scientific measure to help 'evaporate the tears', or simply a drama queen acting method to 'express emotion' to enthralled viewers?

I think it's an attention attracting technique to warn people not to miss you getting upset. If enough people then look at you you turn on the water works otherwise you don't waste your time crying if no one is paying attention.

Yes, I've been mystified and annoyed by this recent gesture. Someone told me it meant your eyes were welling up but you were trying to hand-dry them before tears formed!!?? It looks like they're having a menopausal Hot Flush. Idiots.

It's so annoying when people do that. They're clearly attention seeking. They want to make sure that the whole world knows they're upset.

You see it all the time on reality tv. I've never saw anyone do it in real life.