Look at them over on that island to the east, copying us here on the mainland with their inferior The Celebrity Traitors (BBC One, Wednesday), which is clearly ripped off from Traitors Ireland: A Nation Once Again (RTÉ Player). There’s something so much more special seeing traitorous behaviour executed in your own accent (and then having traitors executed by people with your own accent). The BBC offering only has one broguish individual (the talented actor Ruth Codd).
And whoever this Claudia Winkleman is, she’s no Siobhán McSweeney, who comes with a laid-back evil confidence that could only come from Cork. Winkleman is a bit more Cruella de Vil.
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She certainly looks striking, loitering in a graveyard wearing a black poncho and with a mop of hair that resembles a poncho for the head, and heavy eyeliner that’s threatening to expand into panda cosplay or blackface.
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