Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Between a rock and a hard place
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN: LOCH NESS TO LONDON
SKY ONE, 9pm
IT’S sink or swim for
Jamie Redknapp and
Freddie Flintoff as a seaplane dumps them in the middle of Loch Ness.
As they swim to safety, a speedboat whizzes over and, emerging from a balaclava, is former marine commando Jason Fox.
The SAS hardman explains: “Your teammates are being held hostage in that castle. Your challenge is to go and rescue them.”
Beginning this comedy odyssey from Loch Ness to London, the buddies find teammates Romesh Ranganathan and Jack Whitehall tied up and waiting at the legendary Urquhart Castle.
Then the trip’s first leg over 80 miles begins as they are put through their paces by Fox and adventurer Aldo Kane.
Dressed up like a bunch of paramilitary Wombles, they try to camouflage themselves as they start their SAS Highlands Survival challenge, and we discover who the sharpshooter of the team is when they carry out a sniper test.
As always with anything League of Their Own, everything quickly descends into laddish chaos and they all behave like a bunch of idiots.
Redknapp is forced by Flintoff to drink water from his disgusting sock and Jack worries about his contact lenses on a treacherous gorge walk before they all break into a rendition of Waterfalls by TLC.
Fox isn’t impressed, calling them a haphazard bunch. “Jack is a buffoon and Romesh moves more like a slug than a human,” he says.
There’s a lot of blokey mocking, punishment press-ups, and not even Jack’s contraband hampers are going to help them.