by Julia Lawson
Do you really ‘Wanna Marry Harry’? Sounds a bit like tune from the nineties which never quite made it… ITV, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to take on Fox’s answer to The Bachelor. But wait, how many British bachelors would twelve American girls know off the top of their heads…
Do you really ‘Wanna Marry Harry’? Sounds a bit like tune from the nineties which never quite made it… ITV, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to take on Fox’s answer to The Bachelor. But wait, how many British bachelors would twelve American girls know off the top of their heads…
Well, maybe one - Prince Harry.
But not well enough to know they have been royally duped.
Meet Matt Hicks, a Prince Harry lookalike who has the task of wining, dining and spending time with the twelve glamorous contestants all wrongly assuming there is a castle in the country and a never-ending supply of riches at the finish line. In real life their ‘prince’ lives in Exeter as an environmental consultant.
To pull off the masquerade, he attends Harry-school learning the ins and outs of life as Prince Harry and living the high life; there is the occasional ‘security scare’ and subsequent extraction by the Men in Black, sorry bodyguards, with high-speed vehicles and helicopters to add to the drama set in a country house. Cricket, horse riding, wine tasting and trips on the London Eye… lovely.
But not well enough to know they have been royally duped.
Meet Matt Hicks, a Prince Harry lookalike who has the task of wining, dining and spending time with the twelve glamorous contestants all wrongly assuming there is a castle in the country and a never-ending supply of riches at the finish line. In real life their ‘prince’ lives in Exeter as an environmental consultant.
To pull off the masquerade, he attends Harry-school learning the ins and outs of life as Prince Harry and living the high life; there is the occasional ‘security scare’ and subsequent extraction by the Men in Black, sorry bodyguards, with high-speed vehicles and helicopters to add to the drama set in a country house. Cricket, horse riding, wine tasting and trips on the London Eye… lovely.
But it is as scripted as anything. And after interest plummeted, Fox pulled it off the air after just four episodes! The full series was broadcast on ITV2 this summer, with reruns likely to fill in the gaps over the next couple of years. Perhaps decades (gulp).
It’s not dramatic, educational or engaging for the brain, but with a large glass of wine after a long, dramatic day at work it could be the right kind of jibberish needed to let your brain turn off…
Secretly we may have wanted to find out who would win at the end, but not to the extent of Great British Bake Off, Masterchef or even Britain’s Got Talent. Some series just seem to have a soggy bottom…
It’s not dramatic, educational or engaging for the brain, but with a large glass of wine after a long, dramatic day at work it could be the right kind of jibberish needed to let your brain turn off…
Secretly we may have wanted to find out who would win at the end, but not to the extent of Great British Bake Off, Masterchef or even Britain’s Got Talent. Some series just seem to have a soggy bottom…
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