Re: portiongate, I've rewatched the segments from last night and the night before. Jackie did actually say something the night before, but it was only to Josh, and not that loud. "Yeah, I've got so much rice, no veggies mate". She didn't say much, but she had raised it a little bit at the time. The scene where Paul and Josh were talking about stashing a bit away for themselves seemed pretty clear to me, I took it at face value? Could be wrong though.
What struck me with the argument is that they mostly all seemed to be arguing from genuine belief. Pete seemed to genuinely believe that it had all been served equally, and Jackie and Simone seemed to genuinely believe that it wasn't. Paul, not sure, and I didn't like his snide comments about the boys getting scraps, and letting the girls come and choose first from now on. That's not what Jackie was asking for at all, just for equal portions.
The other thing is that the camera angles the night before didn't really show enough to work out whether it was served equally or not. There was a comparative shot of three bowls, but no indication of how they compared to the others. And the camera angle wasn't really high enough to see into the bowls when the girls were sitting down eating. The night before that, Monday's show, I'm not sure they showed the meal at all? I only had a quick look through that one.
Jackie doesn't lie. I have no doubt that the food was not served equally.