The Duchess In Hull

This was a fascinating programme which was quite unexpected because I imagined the Duchess of York would be very 'royal' in her dealings with the family she was helping; I couldn't have been more wrong and I completely warmed to her. Sarah Ferguson is an expert in diet and the pitfalls of eating the wrong food, so I had no doubt that she would know her subject; what I did not expect was her genuine friendliness and warmth toward a family who were really struggling on the breadline to provide food for their growing family on £80 per week. Heaven only knows how they are managing now that food prices are going up almost by the day. They live in Hull on an estate ...

Its not exactly Skyplus territory on terrestrial TV for Monday and Tuesday night primetime and so the only telly worth a look was this ghastly two, one hour documentaries on Sarah Ferguson's, ill thought out plan to help the eating and living habits of wretched working class family up in Hull, the single parent capital of Britain. If we are honest the only reason we watch class based reality TV is to see someone else worse off than us look rather silly by the situation the telly people put them in so we can have a good snigger, but the 'Duchess in Hull' couldn't even achieve that. The idea was for the extremely privileged Duchess of York to be parachuted into ...

I have always had a soft spot for the Duchess of York, as Andrews wife she was always eclipsed by Princess Diana in both glamour and column inches. I did not blame her at all for heading to America following the break up of her marriage and I have read about her Weight Watchers connections over the other side of the pond, so when I heard about her 2 part documentary I was curious to see how she was going to tackle this family of grease loving Northerners. The Sangerson family by their own admission lead sedentary lives and eat more fat in one day than I consume in a week, watching mom Tonia prepare their meals is an education on how not to eat. These really ...