Singapore, Dec. 5 -- On Monday morning, four cast members from Singapore Social - Netflix's reality television series which Singaporeans seemingly love to hate - stroll into a guest lounge at The Straits Times' office.

The quartet - Mae Tan, Vinny Sharp, Nicole Ong and Paul Foster - are, mostly, impeccably dressed.

Foster, a 38-year-old actor and host, is dressed down in a T-shirt and a pair of shorts, his knee in a brace after surgery for a torn ligament from a netball session.

Together, they turn heads. Starring in a series for the global streaming service Netflix - and one which is heavily promoted on it - tends to make people take notice.

But the attention has not always been positive, with criticism that the cast is privileged ...