I just love to hate ’em at First Sight
IT was heartbreaking to hear
12-year-old Bailey talk about his struggles with obesity in a
BBC1 documentary on Wednesday.
“People don’t understand what it feels like,” he said. “They just take one look at you and think, ‘Oh, they eat too much’. It makes me feel bad about myself.”
Eastenders actress Clair Norris fronted the Panorama show Obesity: Who Cares If I’m Bigger?
Clair, who is overweight herself, recalls the issue starting with school meals.
She met teens on a weight management programme, dancers in a plus-size class and a manversus-fat football team – but the answers were harder to come by.
One message was clear: it should not be a blame game. As Clair said:
“People with obesity need support.”
NEVER have I seen a group of people more despicable than (most of) the current cast of Married At First Sight Australia.
To my absolute shame, I have devoted hours to viewing them preen and fight and bully each other.
At times it has been genuinely troubling to watch and yet here I am, 36 episodes into this unashamedly provocative format and filled with rage.
At the final reunion dinner party, on E4 on Thursday, the couples and exes came together for one last chance at airtime – and they were given wine.
The experts gleefully watched it all unfold from backstage.
Olivia, Sam and Tamara immediately formed a witches coven in the corner, spitting out words like “yuck” when talking about Brent, like high school mean girls.
Do these people not realise they are being filmed on global television? Where people with eyes can see them? “They’re just like hyenas, surveying the land, bitching about everyone,” said Dom.
I am firmly Team Dom, by the way. She has behaved like a queen despite relentless abuse. But we need to talk about Olivia.
Unapologetically petty and jawdroppingly manipulative, she has become despised by viewers and has even received death threats since the show ended.
Dirty
Others beating down her door for series supervillain are Tamara, Sam and Carolina, who copped off with one of the other husbands in secret and just didn’t care. “We want to be the stars of the show,” admitted fame-hungry Carolina.
These people are not technically married, that’s the problem. It makes it all too easy to turn this seemingly serious social experiment into an explosive, wifeswapping slanging match.
But the episodes with the dinner parties and commitment ceremonies where dirty laundry is aired and everyone is one opinion away from a punch-up are certainly the most entertaining.
Best moments of the dinner party included Al burping in Tamara’s face, Tamara getting caught out for texting Ella’s “husband” Mitch, and Holly demanding Olivia apologise to Dom for sharing her nude Onlyfans photo.
Olivia didn’t apologise. She just complained that Dom had “fashioned a weapon”, referring to that time Dom broke a glass in her vicinity. Dom now wears a tattoo of a broken glass with pride.
Tomorrow night expect the Hunger Games in the final episode as they all face the experts and some glorious video evidence. Is there anything more thrilling than comeuppance?
This may be engineered, ridiculous, soapy telly, but like millions across the world, I’m hooked and I’ll be rooting for the good guys.