Take one pompous smug wannabe paternalistic do gooder who feels guilty about having too much dosh, and add in a selection of sad, downtrodden, poor, disabled folk living on Shit Street. Mix with a few cash poor charitable souls, whos hearts are a trillion times more wealthy than Fat Cats bank account and hey presto, a patronising sloppy concoction guaranteed to make any decent human hurl all over their TV screens.
The premise of this 30 minute bag of flatulence is that a millionaire goes undercover in a poor community somewhere in the UK, lies and says theyre making a documentary about volunteering, and then proceeds to judge all the individuals they meet to decide if theyre worthy enough to receive some crumbs from his money table.
Two weeks ago, a loan shark guy who made squillions from ripping off poor people went to Manchester. On receiving his job seekers allowance, he tutted '80 quid? Id spend that on lunch', making him instantly detestable. I had to restrain myself from stabbing the set repeatedly with a breadknife in the vain hope that somehow Id get him in the eye. This week, some fat chump with 3 billion quids worth of property went to Glasgow where he cleaned out some toilets, a horses knob (grotesque viewing, Im still chucking up even now) and took some cat shit out of a bearded womans flat.
At the end of the programme, after living amongst the less fortunate, these tosspot millionaires reveal their true identity, telling those that they have deceived for the last week, that they are indeed uber priviledged, money to burn blockheads whose stone heart has been warmed by the plight and destitution they have just witnessed. Now I dont know if Channel 4 have told the participants to leave a pause longer than the bloody M1 before answering 'are you having a laugh', but the silence is excrutiatingly embarrassing.
The millionaire then proceeds to hand over a cheque, usually for between 10 and 50 grand, and the poverty stricken folk collapse in a heap of tears, hug the liar and thank him profusely. Sorry but 10 grand? Thats like me giving less than 1p to a homeless guy. The tight bastards.
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3 comments:
Nice ascerbic comments. I hate that bloody programme, you said everything for me.
Thanks for your comment Hector, I find this show patronising in the extreme, nice to see someone who agrees with me!!
Spot on, I just watched it for the first time. I googled "Secret Millionaire - Patrnonising".
Your blog captures it all, what an awful program.
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