I have some sympathy with families who for various reasons bad habits have crept in kind of unconsciously.
As someone unable to work due to ill health, who could never dream of earning what they do, who lives on such a tight budget that the ave spend on jeans (£35) is excessive and I'd have to save for...
This is frankly OBSCENE!
I know this is meant to be a relatively light "fluffy" programme I've been getting more angry the longer this show has gone on. Yet I keep hoping they'll have their epiphany that they'll 'get' that they are behaving like very spoilt, irresponsible toddlers!
To be earning goodness knows what (can anyone make an estimate?) have 2 DC and have NO savings whatsoever? No contingency plan for if they lost their jobs (and sales jobs are NOTORIOUSLY unreliable), or if one or both of them were to get sick/disabled or even die EVEN THOUGH they have recent experience of close loved ones who've gone through exactly that?!
It's offensive! Her brother lost his wife I think? Wtf must he think of it all? If he didn't know before then this episode being shown I can imagine could be quite upsetting for him.
TheDogAte - Alex might be ok £100,000's salary but actually just being on telly doesn't mean someone is necessarily on lots of money. I doubt Steph is on huge money as she's less well known, less prominent. Quick google suggests she's on just over £100,000 with BBC work which she supplements with other work. And I'd guess she DOES have savings and contingency plans for lack of work etc.