Bromans may not be a word, but it’s great TV

This week I became famous. Two stars of the hit ITV2 reality show Bromans liked my tweet, with one even retweeting it – the ultimate sign of agreement and respect. One was a local lad called Brandon and the other was from Essex and his name was allegedly Dino.

The tweet read: “Bromans is the best show on TV and I don’t even care.” I was drunk when I sent it.

Bromans, for the undoubtedly small number of you who don’t know, is a game show where ‘modern day geezers are sent back to the time of Caesar’. That is actually the most succinct explanation of a concept possibly ever.

The men are all definitely modern and, with the help of their girlfriends, compete against each other in a range of physical challenges while wearing tight black underpants. If Shakespeare penned TV scripts I imagine this is what he’d have created.

It doesn’t sound intellectually stimulating and I can confirm it wasn’t, but it genuinely made for great TV and the combination of muscleflexing, name calling and fiery rhetoric meant it was actually pretty similar to Newsnight.

After my phenomenally successful tweet I did some digging and realised one of the Bromans was a self-proclaimed ‘influencer’.

I tried to work out if that was an actual job title and then whether or not I was one. I concluded that, after three unsuccessful attempts to persuade my cat he didn’t need feeding, I wasn’t.

But it made me think, should job titles and words as well as taxi companies be regulated?

This isn’t the first time I’ve been stumped. A few weeks ago an MP had to tell me what ‘woke’ meant. Come to think of it, I’m not even sure Broman is a word.