Sugar believed that by doing this it would keep the show fresh, and thus avoid it becoming just another version of existing reality programmes at the time, such as Big Brother. An example of this was having mixed gender teams at the beginning of the process, albeit a male and female candidate switching places with each other, rather than at a later task in the process as is more common in the programme's format found in other series.
Sugar believed that by doing this it would keep the show fresh and avoid it becoming just another version of existing reality programs like Big Brother. An example was starting with mixed-gender teams where a male and female candidate switched places at the beginning, unlike how it is usually done later in other series.