Monday, 28 January 2008

Freddie Starr

One of the things that I miss about living in Nepal is UK television. Or so I thought until last evening when I caught the start of "Celebrity Wife Swap".

This showed "comedian" Freddie Starr (who is quite mad) swapping his wife for a week with former pin up girl Samantha Fox. Starr has a fourteen month old baby and before I switched off I was horrified to see Fox arriving and announcing to the child that she would be her new mum for the coming week. Starr's wife is clearly as mad as he is. What adults choose to involve themselves in in the interests of television entertainment is entirely up to them. But inflicting things like this upon babies is really grim and the series producers should be ashamed of themselves.