1/17/2023 0 Comments Pete the plumber![]() ![]() And to prove it, Rob is joined by two authorities on the subject. ![]() As befits its otherwise baffling BBC1 status, it’s apparently a programme with a serious purpose: to discover and pass on ‘the secrets of a strong relationship’. (Cue the bungee jump.)Įxcept that this is not how Unbreakable sees itself at all. ![]() But naturally, too, the familiar traits of the dodgy lookalike celeb show are firmly in place: among them, the constant reminders of what tremendous fun we’re having, the clever use of Grieg’s ‘Morning’ to signify morning, and the abiding sense that the whole thing has been made to supply clips for Gogglebox. Unlike Stuart Hall, Rob has yet to perfect the art of sounding genuinely amused when somebody falls into some water – rather than, say, stuck with a job that will soon have him making an angry call to his agent. Unlike in Taskmaster, for example, some of the tasks are extremely boring. Naturally, the series does make a few cunning tweaks to its obvious forebears. Once there, they’re made to perform a series of game-like tasks as Rob looks on and guffaws. On first impression, you might have thought that Unbreakablewas just a fairly desperate reality show cobbled together from I’m a Celebrity, Mr and Mrs, Taskmaster and It’s a Knockout.After all, the format is that people of varying degrees of fame – from Simon Weston to, er, the bloke who presents MTV’s Celebs on the Farm – arrive with their partners at what presenter Rob Beckett calls ‘a big posh gaff in the country’. ![]()
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