But it came at a time, says one day-school deputy head, when fretfulness about high-pressure private-school environments is sapping confidence in the model.
There is nothing new about status anxiety - that feeling of fretfulness over social standing, and the various badges of belonging that come with this, goes way back.
His hang-dog look -- combined with his ability to narrowly evade elimination -- led some suspicious ex-competitors to question whether his fretfulness was an act.
We could blame our cutthroat work environment, for example, yet work stress alone can't explain our fretfulness, since anxiety hits housewives and the idle rich just as hard.
