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Mr Friel said that students were already facing financial pressures, and skipping meals.

"Winning means going all out on the jokes, the memes and the folklore against our friends on the other side. Losing means skipping work on Monday."

Reflecting on his love of the show, he added: "I was skipping into the diary room even if they were telling me off - I loved it. I loved the whole thing."

"It's a real shared experience, it's so wonderful," she said, skipping off to catch up with the rest of her group.

Millet plays with the title and with the idea of atavism, in which an ancient trait asserts itself by skipping forward a few generations to suddenly appear in the gene pool.