To be crying at rich house poor house?

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Those young boys getting a PS4 though 😭😭😭

God bless their tiny little cotton socks ♥️♥️

I can’t get past the doctor’s face!! She has had way too much work done!

But yes, those little boys’ reactions were priceless, and their dad too

I stopped watching this as it seemed very “samey” after a while. I never really got why the “poor” people want to do it. Ok it’s maybe an adventure for the kids but as an adult i’d Get really depressed having one week of being wealthy then back to a hard life with no way of changing it. And what do the rich people ever learn? Nothing except thanking their lucky stars they’re rich!

I was hoping her face was just swollen from her latest treatment! But god! It's awful!

I agree she wasn't really a great advert for her services.
I think the poor families look at it like a holiday, they get a week off so to speak, all expenses paid, with freedom from their day to day worries.
I always feel sad that the first thing almost every poor family does is order take away. Not sure why, but it just "gets me" somehow, that "enough food" is such a luxury...
Same when they buy things that millions of people take for granted, like football boots, or winter coats.

We got a canvas letter today from the tv company asking if we were interested, I’ve just used it to shoo out the mother of all spiders. Does anybody actually get the point of this series?

I think it's a fucking awful programme. I watched it once but I can see how every episode would just follow the same formula, and I can't see the point. Rich family has mainly absent father as he works all hours; poor father is left to feel like he is an underachiever because he doesn't earn as much. Well that was what the episode was like that I watched.

It's voyeuristic to watch how poor people (though they're not really that poor, are they?) struggle, and rich people live through it for a week and then say "ooh, how hard life must be for them".

It can fuck off imo.

Cross posted, Around. No, I can't see the point!

@aroundtheworldandback were you in the rich house or the poor house? Guessing from your username I'd say the former

Brutus yes!! They have 150pw to live off!!

@Aroundtheworldandback we’re you flattered or offended?
My 2 teenaged dds got stopped and the younger one was invited to apply for a ‘losing my virginity’ programme. 🤔😡

We got a canvas letter today from the tv company asking if we were interested

So did I. I was actually kind of offended by it - OK, I live in an area which estate agents would call 'vibrant' (read: frequent visits by the police and the odd fight but it's got a really good sense of community) but it does rather assume that everyone who lives in our street is some sort of down-at-heel serf desperate to play Lord of the Manor for a week.

I was tempted to write back and ask if the 'posh' family would be OK coping with my dressage horse and weekly Waitrose deliveries...

I don't think a week is long enough for them to have a real idea of the other family's day to day lives. For a week it's just a novelty and relatively easy to manage. I agree the programme is repetitive and follows a set formula. I find the counting out of the money especially distasteful.

I won't be watching any more episodes.

Also love the way that they made Rickmansworth sound so rich and leafy. That particular road is, but there are plenty of people in the"bottom 10%" living about 5 mins walk away.

And a last day treat of a rainy walk in the Aquadrome...

I do hope that the families didn't get too much grief today. Such a risk putting your family on view, at the mercy of the tabloids etc.