Don’t fall into the Trap of watching
TV’S most awful, morallycorrupt family was back on our screens on Sky Atlantic on Monday in the long-awaited third season of Succession.
You can in no way root for a single member of the Roy family, yet it’s utterly compelling.
When we last saw the dysfunctional dynasty, Kendall (Jeremy Strong) stabbed a knife into his father
Logan’s back on a live broadcast.
Now it’s the fabulous fallout as Logan (Brian Cox) declares war and says he intends to go “full f***ing beast”.
In most episodes the tycoons are in dark shades making intense calls from private helicopters, all plotting against each other. As gloriously
mad and obscene as ever...
CHEATING for cash and dropping women through trap doors seems to be a new low, even for a trashy relationship reality show.
Grinning host Joel Dommett tries to keep things light on C4’s The Love Trap, but Wednesday’s first episode went down like a lead balloon, with some branding it sexist.
The format sees one eligible bachelor looking for love in a mansion full of beautiful women. Don’t even get me started on the premise that women must fawn over this stranger as if he’s a god.
He’s the prize, even though for all they know, he doesn’t share his chips or wouldn’t remember your birthday.
David is looking for the one – he really is. Although you may recognise him from another dating reality show, Too Hot To Handle. Fame-seeker alarm bells ring. Oh and there’s a twist. Only half of the women are genuinely looking for love… the other half are in relationships and playing for a cash prize of £20,000.
Hmmm… let’s just gloss over the fact that surely NONE of the contestants are really looking for love.
Among the hopefuls are Elise, who said: “Guys just want situationships. I want to settle down – I want the fairytale.”
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And Kelly said: “I like my men like I like my dogs – loyal as hell.”
While Saran informed everyone that she has 11 body piercings, one for each break-up. Lord knows what she’ll do if she gets dropped through a trap door on national television.
One by one, David lines up his suspects then dumps one, who brutally plummets through the floor. There are so many questions… were we really supposed to believe the girls (who had swapped heels for flats) were shocked? Was the owner of the mansion happy about the holes in the floor? And why in hell did anyone sign up to this degrading format?
J’harie was the first to go. She was a trap – she and her fella cooked up the whole thing. ‘Go on babe, seduce a man on telly for cash. It’s bound to work out’.
It would add another dimension if there were
Gogglebox-style cameras on the boyfriends at home as their partners flirted outrageously. Even Joel has admitted he’d be “absolutely livid”. A peek at episode two reveals the girls spooning David in a ‘chemistry test’. Desperate to win, some of them begin licking his body and nibbling his ears. Is it worth ditching your morals just for 15 minutes of fame and a sponsorship deal?
This spot-the-imposter game should follow its contestants through the trap door.
rare
HEADLINES were made in 2020 after
peregrine falcons and white storks raised chicks beside
rewilding project purple emperor butterflies in a world-famous at the Knepp Estate, West Sussex.
storks had hatched here for more It is thought to be the first time wild
by hunters and suffered habitat than 600 years after they were culled
storks aims to restore a population loss. The project to breed wild white
a the south by 2030. It started with of at least 50 breeding pairs across
Warsaw Zoo four years ago. flock brought here from Poland’s
A SMALL herd of bison will be released
in into Blean Woods near Canterbury
will Kent next year – the first time they have roamed free on the British Isles for more than 6,000 years.
It is hoped that could pave the way
in a for more bison herds across the UK
of pioneering project to restore tracts woodland.
to At first, the herd will be restricted a 150-hectare fenced enclosure where there are no right-of-way footpaths.
Rangers hope they can eventually live freely in the British landscape.
beavers, bison are eco engineers Like
to with natural behaviours that help restore and sustain woodlands.
the They kill selected trees by eating bark or rubbing their thick fur against the trunk, leaving standing deadwood
habitat for insects, bats that is a vital and birds such as woodpeckers.
They also plough through dense
and forest to create natural clearings corridors – and their dust-bathing
clears patches for other wildlife too.