With George and anxiety...

A three year stint in the army would sort him out.

Thank god we no longer have to send young men off to witness untold atrocities and violence in order to make them "men".

OP: It looked a bit like a panic attack to me as well. Poor George.

I felt sorry for him - he looked so young and vulnerable.

Yes elly...the symptoms he described suggested that

Not fun. Poor lad, if that's what it was.

Well he could stay in the stores and do the cooking and cleaning and stuff. Anything to toughen the little softie up a bit.

I haven't really got, or had an opinion on George. I did feel for him the bush telegraph there though. He looked so young and anxious. I'm sure it'll pass once he's had some food and a good nights sleep.

I felt so bad for poor George as well, definitely suffering from anxiety attacks and being in that camp 24/7 around all that aggro can't be easy either.

Free floating anxiety

Hes lost Brian YVette and Susanah his mates and hard nosed unreality bods are seeing him as prey to get more airtime.

He seems like a nice lad although he doesn't offer much.

I forget he is good bit younger than everyone else.

Strike a light, he needs to man up. He's in a reality tv camp in Australia sitting on his arse all day long and getting paid a wedge for it, it's hardly Auschwitz

I do feel for him being down (and if it is a panic attack, I REALLY feel for him, as they are awful to have to deal with), and I have no idea what I'd be like in his positon, but I can't help get annoyed seeing people cry on Reality TV shows. It's just so weedy.

He doesn't need to toughen up. You seem to resent his sensitivity.

George doesn't need to act like an outdated macho stereotype. He's clearly much too enlightened to hide his insecurities behind a façade, the way a more shallow person would.

What's it like to have absolutely no feelings and emotions? Do you feel empty or do you just not care?

Do you not realize that preaching this kind of attitude directly influences the stereotype of men being unable to feel emotions and express them. This then leads men to bottle everything up and not seek help for the problems they are having, which can directly lead to things like depression, anger issues, alcohol or drug addiction, even suicide.

Do you feel bad for preaching such an attitude? Oh wait, you don't feel because men shouldn't feel or express emotions. My bad.

The poor lad is having to live in a confined space with the worst IAC contestant ever. No wonder he is having a little weep.

Are you blaming me for male suicide? Thats a bit of stretch mate. I'm just indifferent to the molly coddling of this idiot. Everyone loves him in there and yet he is still crying his eyes out. Just man up a bit.

Well I'm no tony fan, but I wouldn't call him the worst ever.

Ha ha. Another who thinks its funny to support a nasty vicious women who gets her kicks out of attacking others. Hey plenty at school who thought it was funny to watch the school bully.

At least he's got Lady C to keep his spirits up

Not you personally, no. I'm just saying that you, me, hell all of us have grown up with this idea that men should never show weakness or emotion and that can and does lead to male depression, suicide and a whole bunch of other things. I can hardly blame you for male suicide when this is an attitude most of the world are guilty of having.

In insulting and mocking George for showing and feeling emotion, you're re-inforcing those harmful stereotypes. What's wrong with a man being sensitive and expressing his emotions in an open way? Surely that's much better than bottling it up? What is it about being a man that means you have to be stoic and unfeeling - why is it unmanly to say 'hey, i'm upset'?

If George was a girl, you wouldn't be condemning him in this awful way (or maybe you would, I don't know). He got overwhelmed and upset. These are perfectly natural emotions and maybe linking this to depression and suicide may seem a bit of a stretch but they're all different ingredients of the same thing.

Everyone is force fed this idea of what it means to be a 'proper man' and it's bullshit in my opinion. If a young boy is feeling vulnerable, overwhelmed and upset then just let him ****ing express those feelings without fear of being mocked - something which George was allowed to do tonight, and visibly cheered up by the end of the show because of this. Also, notice how it was the women - even the vile Lady C - who noticed and attended to George's upset. The other guys were nowhere to be seen.

Very well said.

I personally have always found it 'tougher' of men to be able to show their emotions - negative and positive - as it shows they don't care about fitting into the narrow stereotype of what a 'real' man should be.

The male suicide rate in this country is horrific and very real questions need to be asked about why it's as high as it is.

Anyway, I hope that George is feeling better since this happened. He really did just look so vulnerable, it was pretty upsetting to watch.

For a red blooded straight male he is very weak and effeminate. Nothing manly or 'butch' about him whatsoever.

I hope he's ok. They could have done with sending a member of medical staff (assuming there will be some around? They're humans in the end, anything can happen to them out there) just to check him over, give him some water etc. Let's hope it was just a one-off.

You'd prefer if he painted a black camo strip across his eyes and ran around barechested (but not in a homoerotic way)biting the heads off baby emus- would that make him "manly" in your eyes?