MARCHING into Shrewsbury jail for his latest reality show stint, soap veteran Sid Owen was in an unequivocal mood. “Without acting,” he said, solemnly, “I’d have definitely done a prison sentence.”…
MARCHING into Shrewsbury jail for his latest reality show stint, soap veteran Sid Owen was in an unequivocal mood.If ever he had regrets about his life choices, though, they were probably binned at his first cavity check on Channel 4’s Banged Up.
All of them are to be avoided but the most convincing of the lot is an ex-gangland enforcer called Kevin Lane, who, quite apart from putting the fear of God in everyone, was born to perform on TV. Subtle, it wasn’t. But then nothing about Banged Up is, including the bleeding-heart political agenda which is obvious from the fact the celebrities chosen for punishment include Johnny, fellow ex-
The games still move at coastal erosion pace and the cameramen seem more interested in the crabs than contestants, who all have an Apprentice whiff about them, apart from one character with a prosthetic limb, called Peg Leg, who looks exactly like a one-legged, working-class version of Alexander Armstrong, if you can imagine such an exotic thing.
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