Edinburgh: Alina Bzhezhinska

Alina considers herself a natural host: "My parents house was always thronging with guests. My family was very creative and artistic, easily able to enthrall the guests with music, dance and poetry."

Looking back on her best and worst moments on House Guest, Alina says, "The worst thing by far were the sneaky tactics of a fellow contestant attempting to wreak misery and woe on a perfect party. The best thing was that the guest, also known as ‘sneaky woman number one’, did not choke on the piece of plastic that had been served in her not so smooth smoothie!"

Alina wishes she'd been blessed with a different overnight guest: "It was a very complex night which stretched over to the morning, 5am. It was full of different emotions. I would prefer not to have had Angela stay over at my home. I was very tired and in the end it was for nothing. She was still playing her games the next day."

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Angela says: The worst thing about staying at Alina's was the smoothie incident with the bit of plastic. The bedroom was very comfortable - Alina slept in her son's room