Five get a bunk-up

NO, IT’S not an Enid Blyton novel for the 21st century.

It’s Channel 5 recruiting some famous faces (“famous”, as always, to be taken with a large pinch of salt), putting them in a couple of motorhomes and sending them off around Blighty for a little holiday.

And yes, you’re right, it does sound like something straight out of the Alan Partridge school of commissioning ideas. Presumably Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank is on next month.

Those hardy souls taking part include Birds of a Feather and Strictly star Lesley Joseph, who – despite being 71 and barely 5ft – is game for anything and damn impressive behind the wheel of her three-ton beast.

She’s joined by Rising Damp actor Don Warrington, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum star Melvyn Hayes and Kenny Everett companion-turnedreality star and tequila ambassador (apparently that’s a real job) Cleo Rocos.

And, probably to stop the average age nudging too high, Haircut 100 singer Nick Heyward.

They’ve been thrown together in a pair of motorhomes to see how they get on as they explore some top tourist hotspots.

And, fair play to them (and perhaps to the dismay of the show’s makers), they do a good job of getting along, negotiating the tricky roads and putting up with cramped conditions. Apart from Don, who from the first night refuses to sleep in his bunk bed and books himself into a fancy yurt on the campsite instead.

The first episode takes them to Pembrokeshire, the Gower Peninsula and Fishguard. And other than a knocked-off wing mirror (or “lost earring”, as glamorous non-driving Cleo puts it), it’s all happy camping so far.