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00:02She's f***ing rude.
00:04I started with nine pairs.
00:06I won't tolerate it, lady.
00:10Now, just six remain.
00:12I'm free!
00:13It's just all gonna be wrong.
00:16Your world is a bit like, whoa!
00:20While some couples bonded...
00:22Who am I to judge what they choose to do?
00:25I'm really proud of her.
00:26I was wrong to say some people don't want help,
00:28so thank you for showing me.
00:29Others struggled to overcome their differences.
00:32I do genuinely believe I can change anyone's mind.
00:35I voted for Brexit.
00:38F*** hell, Jesus Christ.
00:41Oh, f*** this! Get me away!
00:43No, absolutely not.
00:46Now, as the experiment steps up a gear...
00:49It kind of felt a little bit romantic.
00:52The couples dig deeper in a bid to survive.
00:55If I didn't have that help, I'd have been dead or imprisoned.
00:58...which will be the last pair standing...
01:01Shit!
01:02I don't f***ing raise your voice with me.
01:04...and claim the £100,000 prize.
01:11Which is crazy.
01:19At the start of this experiment, all my pairs were perfect strangers...
01:24...chosen to reflect a divided Britain.
01:26You only have to turn on the TV or go on social media or pick up a newspaper...
01:31...to see the world is a pretty fractured place right now.
01:34But I believe that if only we can get people to sit down and communicate one to one...
01:39...then we'll find out we have a lot more in common than we think.
01:44To win this competition, the couples will have to not just get past their differences...
01:49...but actually learn about their partner.
01:51Oh, shit, got me.
01:55In Enfield, North London, it's been nearly a week since barmaid Tilly was handcuffed to millionaire businessman Anthony.
02:03Over their time together, Tilly isn't convinced Anthony has been listening as much as he's been talking.
02:08I was washed out yesterday, but I found the cleaning therapeutic really good.
02:13And the bar, I love that. I've always wanted to do that.
02:16After this, I'd like to do a session entertaining people and serving them...
02:20...because they seem to like me.
02:23Anthony wants to sit there and talk about himself non-stop.
02:29I think if the competition is based on getting to know each other...
02:34...then, yeah, he'd better get to know about me and he's about to get ready for my autobiography.
02:39We're going to spend the entire night talking about me.
02:41Please don't interrupt me. Please don't tell me listening.
02:43Please shut the fuck up and listen to my life.
02:45Where is my red book?
02:51I think I've found out more about you than you have about me.
02:54Really? Yeah, 100%.
02:56I don't know, you talk a lot.
02:59Are you disappointed about that?
03:01If it stops us getting further in the competition...
03:04..then, yeah.
03:06What do my sisters do for work?
03:09Um...
03:10Um...
03:11They're in the care world.
03:13No.
03:17I know what your mother did.
03:19She was a National Health front of house.
03:25I've asked about your father twice.
03:27I backed off because you said,
03:29don't ask me that yet.
03:35My dad fell down these stairs in this house.
03:38Oh.
03:38And died.
03:41He was on a life support machine for two days and he died on my 16th birthday.
03:47He dropped down these stairs?
03:48Yeah.
03:49And it was absolutely fucking horrendous.
03:52We were all here.
03:54It was absolute hell on earth.
03:58It was a huge part of my life.
04:01I think it's shaped me in how I deal with grief.
04:09I can grin and bear quite a lot.
04:11I think I'm quite strong like that.
04:13Not everybody's living the life of Riley.
04:16But most people get to know my background, my story.
04:20They get to learn why I am the way that I am.
04:24I'm hard exterior, soft interior, for sure.
04:28I'm very experienced in grief because I'm fucking surrounded by it all the time.
04:32What a horrific thing to have happened.
04:35Terrible thing.
04:37Dreadful thing.
04:40Today was really very moving.
04:42I was aware her father was no longer with us.
04:45I've always said there's many things that I need to discover about Tilly.
04:49But knowing when to open the door on somebody's inner life surely is a question of timing.
04:56This was a real eye-opener for me and it shows we made a connection, which was lovely.
05:06In the stunning Yorkshire countryside, for another of my couples there's the sound of sweet, sweet music.
05:24I didn't know whether I had to sing back, I didn't know whether to blow him a kiss.
05:29What's going on?
05:38My heart and DNA is in Yorkshire.
05:40Tell me about your life in Yorkshire.
05:42It's like England used to be, which is quite nice still.
05:45I was in the British Army for 15 years and I served the Union flag.
05:49We do have an immigration issue in the UK.
05:52To be British is being born here.
05:54I speak the truth, I'm a Yorkshireman and I tell people what I think.
05:57That's just me.
06:00I'm handcuffing Bob to 38-year-old inner-city youth worker, Chris.
06:05I love London.
06:07I know sometimes everyone's like, oh London's dead and everything.
06:09I'm like, yeah, it just depends on how you're looking at it.
06:10Would you be able to reach across any divide, do you think?
06:12I would like to hope so, but I don't like disrespect.
06:15Great Britain is a multicultural country.
06:18A lot of people are like, why don't you just go back to where you come from?
06:20I'm like, hmm, last time I checked, like, I live here.
06:23I work with young people, trying to get them back into education.
06:27What's your reason for wanting to do this? Why are you here?
06:30So I want my young people to be able to see me conducting myself in the best way.
06:33That is the best reason I've heard so far for someone coming on this show.
06:45So, a proud Yorkshireman worried about immigration with a Londoner who loves his city's diversity.
06:52So how are you feeling, Bob?
06:53Yeah, great. I'm looking forward to it, mate.
06:55The pair are starting on Chris's patch.
06:57This is dinner.
06:59And he's keen to get to know his partner over his favourite takeaway.
07:03Well, have you been to a chicken shop before?
07:05I've never had a takeaway.
07:06You've never had a takeaway?
07:08I can cook.
07:10I'm always trying to be honest, fair.
07:14I've got a lot of loyalty within me.
07:16Hopefully, my partner, they'll be the same.
07:18If we're going to both put ourselves into this, then we have to be open.
07:22It's the best thing we can do, or you won't really be doing the experience.
07:26So what do you do for a living, Bob? What is it that you do?
07:32I prostitute my time to helping others.
07:38Is there anything that you would like to ask me since starting this journey,
07:42where I grew up, where I live?
07:43No.
07:44I knew what to expect with the terra firma and the environment, yeah,
07:48because I've lived in London.
07:51Right now, I'm not getting a two-way street.
07:54We're meant to be working together.
07:55We're meant to be finding out each other.
07:59In a bid to get Bob to open up,
08:01youth worker Chris tells him some of the issues he encounters at work.
08:05So when you see someone walking down the street,
08:07and you see a young boy,
08:08and he's got a hoodie on and all the rest of it,
08:10you might think,
08:11OK, this boy is acting like a gangster.
08:13Surely you can get yourself a job.
08:15How if I don't have the correct education?
08:18How if I don't even...
08:19Some of these young boys don't know how to spell their name, you know?
08:22These houses, just to take your mind off a little bit,
08:24Georgian townhouses, beautiful again,
08:27different level to what we've just come.
08:29You know, three storeys, absolutely gorgeous.
08:30It'll be absolutely beautiful inside.
08:33Every single time I'm having a deep conversation about my life,
08:36how I brought up, he will just mention something else.
08:38There's something going on which he ain't telling me,
08:40and it seems like we could easily walk away from this experience
08:43not knowing nothing about each other.
08:45People don't look after the frontage anymore.
08:47I'll be cutting those weeds down as I've ever lived here.
08:50I always looked after the front of my house.
08:57Every one of my couples has been matched in the hope they can gain something from their partner.
09:02But while some pairs seem to be making real progress...
09:07Ahhhh!
09:08...in the rolling hills of Hampshire...
09:10I have to pull every single piece of ragwort the Yellow Flower by hand.
09:15Fucking hell.
09:16...horse trainer Claire and model Bambi have had a slightly bumpier ride.
09:20There's still some left there.
09:26It's a whole shit.
09:27It's an actual shit show.
09:29So far, the pair's very different approaches to work...
09:31Oh, I just didn't have this on my 2025 bingo card.
09:34...have been causing friction.
09:35I want out!
09:36Get the fucking handcuffs off!
09:38Now!
09:42It's been very frustrating slowing down for Bambi.
09:45I haven't actually been myself.
09:46She's constantly wanting to get her makeup, get a mirror.
09:51You're not taking two hours to brush your hair.
09:53We've got to go. Come on.
09:55Feeling a little bit stressed today.
09:56I think, obviously, it's quite the emotional rollercoaster that we are on.
10:00Claire has one setting full speed ahead.
10:03There's no negotiation on that.
10:05I think there's a lot of things about Claire still to learn.
10:11With Claire still struggling with Bambi's more laid-back approach...
10:15Normally, I wouldn't cut it up like this, but...
10:17Well, I would imagine not, yes.
10:18No, right.
10:19Bambi wants to discover what drives her handcuffed partner.
10:24You work hard.
10:25Yeah.
10:25I don't have that drive because I never had to have it.
10:28I had a very nice childhood.
10:30I never wanted for anything.
10:32You've been brought up in a way where you've been cocooned
10:35and you've been protected because of my upbringing.
10:39And it was, you know, my mum abandoned me as a baby and stuff like that.
10:43Do you think that's why you keep so busy at the farm?
10:45Yeah, definitely.
10:46So, I'm quite tarnished.
10:47Probably, you know, a bit...
10:49Most people say probably quite broken.
10:51But I'm so long on the game now.
10:53I was never shown emotion as a child.
10:55Never cuddled.
10:55No-one ever said, I love you.
10:57Wow.
10:57You know, that's going to make me cry.
10:58Oh, my God!
10:59Oh, shit.
11:00But that's why I lock it there.
11:02You know, and it's all right.
11:03Mm-mm.
11:05Um...
11:06Um...
11:06That's why I've got, like, this harsh exterior.
11:09Of course.
11:10I'm very soft, really.
11:12My work is my only safe place.
11:15I had a very tricky upbringing
11:16and if I hadn't have had my work,
11:18my sanity would have left the building a long time ago.
11:21Anyone is capable of doing what they want
11:24if you basically just have the determination.
11:26I'm really proud of what I've achieved in my life.
11:29Everything I've done has been off of my own back.
11:32You know, and I said to my dad,
11:34and it's why I left home at 14,
11:35oh, you're never going to achieve anything.
11:37I went, I'm going to be one of the best professional riders
11:39this country's ever seen.
11:40Yeah.
11:40And that's why my work ethic,
11:42I've done every profession.
11:43I've been the only female hod carrier
11:45in the whole of England.
11:46Yeah.
11:46Just to get my dad to go...
11:47You've got so many accolades.
11:48Well done.
11:50I completely sympathised with what she was going through.
11:53It was hard watching her get upset.
11:55She is such a strong woman, and she's so impressive.
11:58It's wild.
11:58Like, it's phenomenal, to be honest.
12:01I like to think that we have bonded.
12:03It's amazing that you've been able to overcome all that.
12:06Look how far you've come, and you can thank only yourself.
12:09I've achieved everything on my own.
12:11Yeah.
12:12I'm really proud of that.
12:23With the experiment in full swing, the six remaining couples are still discovering new things
12:29about the person they've been chained to 24 hours a day.
12:37Yes.
12:38Yes.
12:38Peep of them.
12:40In London, youth worker Chris is introducing former soldier Bob to his family.
12:47This is my beautiful nan.
12:48Hello, darling.
12:49How are you?
12:49What's your name?
12:50My name's Muriel.
12:52This is mum, Bob.
12:53Pleased to meet you, darling.
12:54Pleased to meet you, too.
12:56Despite Chris's best efforts, Bob's yet to give much away about his life.
13:01I think that he's just skimming the surface.
13:03I don't understand his intentions yet, but I definitely know he's holding back.
13:10As if I could remember that face.
13:12Mum, Nan said she's seen your face before.
13:14On telly?
13:15You seen Bob on telly?
13:16Yeah.
13:17Yeah.
13:18Really?
13:18Really, Nan?
13:19My mum's good like that.
13:21She's seen him, she's seen him.
13:28Determined to find out more about who he's been handcuffed to, Chris decides to Google
13:32him.
13:34Interesting.
13:38What's that, mate?
13:39Well, I just looked you up.
13:43Former reform candidate dropped over racist comment.
13:49Black people in Britain should get off their lazy ass and stop acting like savages.
13:53That's a statement of the press issue that I said, well, I read something on Facebook.
13:58I witnessed a riot in London.
14:00I was appalled with what was happening in my capital city.
14:03What's with the terminology of black savages?
14:08You're talking about when he's a bloody racist.
14:10Well, everything's racist if you want it to be.
14:13I think I just found that boy was borderline racist.
14:17I'm actually quite disgusted.
14:20Just saying black, I group underneath that.
14:25In your eyes, am I less than you?
14:30It needed to know what I said because it wasn't going to come out in the end anyway.
14:34OK, I could have used better words.
14:36But it gets to the point where sometimes we can't say anything about anything.
14:42I don't deal with racists.
14:44I don't deal with people that's going to tell people that, like myself, that I'm sitting
14:47on my arse and I'm acting like a savage.
14:48If that's the way that you feel right now, get out of my mum's house.
14:59Look, it's quite green around here. You're not feeling a bit like you're at home?
15:02It's not.
15:03It's green enough.
15:04In south-east London, horse trainer Claire has left her beloved countryside behind.
15:10How are you feeling?
15:11I'm fucking dreading it.
15:13I thought you'd be more excited to see this sunny south-east London.
15:16The pair are travelling to model Bambi's urban abode and Claire's already missing home.
15:22Somewhere like London is generally quite a headache.
15:25Concrete city.
15:26I am going to seriously struggle being still or doing nothing.
15:31That is my idea of hell.
15:34I'm very much looking forward to going back home.
15:36And I think it would be nice going forward to see if Claire could learn some things from me,
15:39i.e., just chill, babe.
15:43OK.
15:44Home.
15:45Hello.
15:46Ta-da.
15:47This is it.
15:49She's got a bed in the kitchen.
15:51Well, no, it's a sofa.
15:53So what is...
15:54OK, right.
15:58There is either a bin in here that smells or there's a sewer problem.
16:03Her whole reaction when we walked in, it was quite shocking.
16:07You've walked into a perfectly lovely home and you've made really shitty little comments.
16:11I found it really disrespectful.
16:13Right, you want the toilet?
16:14Please.
16:16Can we have the chains?
16:17I need a poo.
16:18Great.
16:18As ever, the couples can request a longer chain when doing number twos.
16:23I am desperate.
16:24But it still requires cooperation as a pair.
16:29Is that right?
16:30Yeah.
16:33I need some toilet roll.
16:36Generally is some next to the toilet.
16:40No, it's all right.
16:41I'll wash my ass with my hands.
16:42No, you fucking won't.
16:44No, sorry.
16:44Absolutely not.
16:45Take that.
16:47I can't have someone washing their ass in my sink.
16:50With hands.
16:52I've got to draw a line.
16:53I have to draw a line.
16:54Sorry, I can't.
16:55You made me sound like I'm a fucking pig.
16:58How do you think you'd fucking wipe your ass in the apocalypse?
17:00Oh, I'm not in my sink with hands.
17:03Get real, Bambi.
17:04Wake up.
17:07I'll tell you something now.
17:09I'm cleaner than most people that live in a fucking house.
17:11I used to suggest otherwise.
17:12I just draw the line at that notion.
17:15Whatever.
17:16Where's the key box?
17:17I think it needs to be fucking front and centre today.
17:23To celebrate her return to the big city.
17:26Ah, can't wait.
17:27Shower.
17:28Tonight, Bambi's taking Claire out on the tiles.
17:31Razor.
17:32But they've got to get ready first.
17:34To look like this, it is a long process.
17:37It's the hair, the make-up.
17:39I have to account the faffing.
17:40It's at least three hours.
17:42It's not just a shit shower and shave.
17:46I'm going to have to do this as quick as I can now, aren't I?
17:48You don't do as quick as you can.
17:50Oh, my God.
17:51It's the best day.
17:52It's not living in the world that we do this.
17:55Bambi, how long do you normally spend in the shower?
17:56I don't have one hour in my car,
17:58but I would normally be in here for about four or five minutes.
18:01Wow.
18:03Faffers are my idea of an absolute headache.
18:06People's major problem now in life is they have no purpose.
18:09They sit in their flipping bedrooms fluffing about.
18:12I don't have time for that shit.
18:14Oh, can we just...
18:15No!
18:21What else do you have to do?
18:23Wash my hair and then I'm actually nearly done.
18:25Right.
18:26I've never ever seen a shower ever in my life this long.
18:29Can you take a piss? This is absolutely rapid.
18:31Fucking hell.
18:31If this is your idea of wrapping,
18:33I'd hate to see what your fucking paws or flow is.
18:36That was it.
18:38Wow.
18:40Fuck me.
18:41I will throw in the towel if the whole thing's going to be about her.
18:45Oh, my God!
18:55I'm trying to find clean on this. I've got clean socks.
18:59I've got clean on this somewhere. I don't know.
19:03In North London,
19:04following Chris's discovery of the comments Bob made online,
19:08he's been considering his future in the competition.
19:13Yeah, we went to bed on a heavy chat,
19:15obviously, finding that Bob's racist.
19:18A part of me did want to just react in a certain way,
19:21much more aggressive,
19:22but it puts me into that same bracket of what he already thinks,
19:25so I just want to show him a different side of who people can be.
19:30Bob is hoping that now Chris knows the pair can begin to move on.
19:35At the end of the day,
19:36there's some things we're going to disagree with.
19:38I take people on face value,
19:39and I think Chris does that as well.
19:41He needed to know what I said.
19:44I witnessed a riot in Camberwell in London,
19:47so I said something about these people on Facebook.
19:50Last year, I stood to be a Reform MP,
19:54and the press picked up what I said and hounded me.
19:57I'm not racist, I'm open-minded.
19:59I think a lot of people have got the same opinion as me.
20:02We all see life from a different position.
20:07Today, Chris has a shift at the Youth Centre,
20:10so he's taking Bob to meet the young men he mentors.
20:14So today, Bob, I wanted to try and give you
20:17a little bit more of an experience about what I do, who I am.
20:20Some of the stuff that I was mentioning yesterday,
20:22fingers crossed, you might get a little bit more of a feel.
20:24I'm looking forward to it.
20:26I love speaking to young people
20:28and telling them a little bit about myself.
20:31When I was younger, I listened to adults.
20:32I was in admiration of them all the time.
20:36I told Bob a little bit about how easy it is
20:39to get trapped up into gang culture.
20:42So I was going to tell you about myself a little bit.
20:46I joined the British Army at 15.
20:49I had 14 pounds.
20:51I went to America, Hong Kong, Germany.
20:55I'm not saying the Army is the first thing you should be doing
20:57or anything like that.
20:58Why not?
21:00It became the Bob show.
21:02It's like he started presenting himself.
21:03Yeah, I used to be in it.
21:05But it's not about you.
21:06It's about you learning.
21:07We can't spend the whole time talking about your life, Bob.
21:10Some of the boys, some questions about them, about their life.
21:13No, I will do too.
21:14Yeah.
21:14That would be nice to...
21:15Then I left the British Army, and I thought, what happened?
21:19They were good, excellent listeners.
21:22They were fine, outstanding people.
21:24He's on another planet.
21:26I want to see it through.
21:27But if I don't see a change in Bob,
21:29then I don't know how long we're going to have these handcuffs for.
21:38Literally never known anyone like this in my life.
21:41Seriously?
21:42No.
21:42I just can't believe it.
21:43I just don't think it's that abnormal.
21:46Back at model Bambi's house.
21:47She'll have her face on.
21:50Four hours after getting home,
21:52Bambi is still getting ready for her and Claire's night out.
21:56Hello.
21:58Ah, one second.
22:00Hello.
22:01Bambi's friend Jess has come over to help with preparations.
22:05Hello.
22:06Oh, I've got to hug your best friend.
22:08How are you guys?
22:08Hi.
22:09You all right? I'm Jess. What's your name?
22:11Claire Bear.
22:14He's so cute.
22:16I've just had the worst few days of my fucking life.
22:18Oh, no.
22:20She's fucking crazy.
22:22OK, we're fine.
22:23Are you OK?
22:24Yeah.
22:25What's happening?
22:28I'm not an emotional person.
22:29I definitely don't cry.
22:31But I can't lie.
22:32At this moment in time, I'm honestly struggling.
22:35Very, like, on edge.
22:36Very unsettled.
22:37The thing is all catching up through now.
22:39Do you know what I mean?
22:39Let's just power on through.
22:43Now it all begins.
22:44Now you get to see the old process.
22:46Oh, God.
22:46I know. Strap yourself in, babe.
22:48I've been seeing it all, trust me.
22:49No, you're in.
22:50You're in for the patch.
22:51Claire will do this for, like, four hours.
22:54We sit on the bed and I'm like,
22:55can you be bothered to go anywhere?
22:56And she's like, no.
22:57And I'm like, neither can I.
22:58Shall we just stay in?
23:01I'm pretty tough and I'm pretty resilient, I have to say.
23:04But this whole princess monarchy is getting on my tits.
23:08What are your thoughts?
23:09Do you want to put a bit of make-up on?
23:11Do you want to try and judge your hair up?
23:13No, I'm not at all.
23:15I could see she was getting iraic,
23:16but I've done every single thing that she wanted me to do.
23:19I'm not asking you to crap in a bucket or bathe in the river.
23:22I'm asking you to sit there while I take a shower
23:24and put some make-up on my face.
23:26I just don't think it's that deep.
23:28Have you got a skin-coloured one?
23:29I just can't be arsed going in the wall drive.
23:31No, we've got peach pie.
23:32I want a bag.
23:34It's absolutely smashed there.
23:35Oh!
23:36We've been doing this for fucking hours now.
23:38I am going to put my foot down, Bambi.
23:40I want a cigarette.
23:41That's fine.
23:42I'm basically done.
23:43I've just got to get my hair dry, shoving extensions in.
23:45It takes ten minutes.
23:45Oh, man, your ten minutes is insane.
23:47Listen, I did your two and a half days.
23:49I pissed outside.
23:50I've got to shut up for days.
23:52I'm not having this.
23:52What did you say to me in the taxi?
23:54Go on.
23:54I handed you like a motherfucker, which I have.
23:56Yeah, but it goes both ways.
23:58Bambi, don't give me that princess shit.
23:59No.
24:00No, Claire, I'm not going to have this, right?
24:02It goes both ways.
24:03Don't do that with me, honey.
24:03You wake me up in the middle of the night.
24:04You want to go piss, you want to go smoke,
24:05you want to do all these things, right?
24:06So the pandering goes both ways, okay?
24:08Don't snap at me, Bambi.
24:09I'm not going to snap at you.
24:10You'll come and drop my girlfriend.
24:11I fucking mean it.
24:12You want to take a tone, Claire?
24:13No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
24:15You have been treated like a queen.
24:18Do not talk to me like that.
24:19I mean it.
24:20I did your two and a half days.
24:22I didn't bitch about the story.
24:23No, no, no.
24:23Well, I did bitch, but I did it.
24:24You need to drop your head, honey.
24:25Can I speak, please, now?
24:26Because I let you speak.
24:27I was talking and you didn't let me finish.
24:28Okay, carry on, carry on.
24:30If you're going to be like this, Bambi,
24:31then I'm just going to leave.
24:33Because I'm not...
24:34It's up to you.
24:34It's your prerogative, babe.
24:35Okay, get the handcuffs.
24:36Cool.
24:36Dev key.
24:37Got it.
24:39We're done.
24:41Get me the key.
24:41I did your days.
24:43I did all of the parts of your days.
24:44No, you're being a brat.
24:44This is my days.
24:45This is my life.
24:46This is my existence.
24:48Shit!
24:48Don't fucking raise your voice at me.
24:50I lived your days.
24:51Get the key.
24:52All right?
24:52Get the key.
24:53Get the fucking key.
24:54I lived your days and I did it.
24:56All right?
24:56I mined a little bit,
24:57but I did every single fucking part of your days
24:58from start to finish.
25:00Stop shouting.
25:00Don't take a time with me.
25:01Stop shouting, Dev.
25:03Can you get the key, please?
25:04Get it.
25:05Dev, get the key.
25:06I think it's time to do.
25:06I just want to get it.
25:07Okay.
25:07Go on.
25:13Do the Honour's care.
25:14God forbid I'll be a fucking princess.
25:16Yeah, you have been a princess.
25:18Cool.
25:19Take the key, then.
25:19No, it's your fucking prerogative.
25:20You're the one that said it.
25:21You do the fucking key.
25:29Can you just go to charm school?
25:31Yeah, so do you.
25:32Okay.
25:32Good.
25:33Go on.
25:35I knew in my heart of hearts, even this morning, that it wasn't going to get any better.
25:40I'm no fool.
25:41I'm a good judge of character.
25:44I'm not up for being cuffed to a princess for that amount of time.
25:48And then for her to start getting really leery, I just thought, I'm done.
25:50I don't need this.
25:54I'm so fucking relieved.
25:56I'm so fucking relieved.
25:56I'm stood there in my own home and I'm thinking, who are you speaking to like that?
26:01All the things that I've done in your couple of days and you couldn't just sit there quietly and watch
26:07me put some makeup on.
26:09Wow.
26:10I think I've got the patience of a saint, but there's an absolute fucking limit and I think I've reached
26:14it today.
26:15I don't think there's anywhere and how ever going to get me back to the countryside.
26:18They're all fucking unhinged.
26:24Oh, my knickers are up there, but just chuck them in the bin.
26:34Just five pairs remain in the running for the £100,000 prize.
26:42The handcuffies all entered this experiment hoping to bring others round to their way of thinking.
26:47But to succeed, they'll have to be open to change as well.
26:54In North London...
26:56I might actually be getting the number two vibes.
26:59We have to get the lighter.
27:00Green campaigner Frank and right-wing commentator Lynn have failed to find any common ground at all.
27:07He's a bit idealistic. Let's help the world. Let's help everybody.
27:10But where's the reality?
27:12We're ready. We ready?
27:14You're not coming in here.
27:15Lynn's a Brexit voter. Lynn's intending to vote for reform.
27:20Lynn's on GB News.
27:21These are huge things and they pitch us right against each other.
27:27You know, it's been three days. He's had a lot of vegan food.
27:30You can do the math.
27:33Ooh!
27:33You hear it?
27:34We're hearing it.
27:36But I can convince anyone to vote green.
27:38Bring Lynn on my journey.
27:42Oh, that was pathetic.
27:44Three days.
27:45One thought.
27:47You wash your hands, give us a hug.
27:49Well done.
27:50Well done.
27:51Well done.
27:52You must feel lighter.
27:53I'm going to skip all the way to my house.
27:58Today, the pair are heading north to Franks in Derbyshire, where the 27-year-old councillor lives at home with
28:04his mum.
28:06Just on the right here.
28:10Your mum has not got an SLK.
28:12Yes, she has.
28:13Come on, Mummy!
28:18Ooh!
28:20Nice big house.
28:22Hi!
28:23How are you doing?
28:24Hey, good.
28:24Good, thank you.
28:25I'm Lynn.
28:26Well, nice to meet you.
28:27Lovely to meet you.
28:28Pleased to meet you.
28:29And so good to see you.
28:31Oh, lovely.
28:32Ooh.
28:37This is my bedroom.
28:38This is our bed for the next few days.
28:40Right.
28:41This is where the magic happens.
28:42What happened to the legs of the bed?
28:44Er, it broke, and don't ask me how.
28:49But it's very nice, very nice house.
28:52Did he pay you rent?
28:54Well, Frank cooks most of my meals, so I'd say I'm a bit of a winner, really.
28:59But no, I don't pay any rent.
29:00He's able to be a counsellor on £600 because his mum has come from wealth,
29:08and we're talking millions, according to Frank.
29:10Just look at it.
29:12He has absolute privilege.
29:21In Staffordshire, porn star Rob and traditional homemaker Charlie
29:25are on a mission to get to know each other.
29:28He just spotted the handcuffs.
29:30Did he want to be there?
29:33This is such a surreal, crazy experience.
29:36It's not easy.
29:37But I'm just going to, as always, put my best foot forward
29:40and be open-minded to find out a bit more about him.
29:45The pair are off to one of Rob's favourite pastimes.
29:48Come on, mate.
29:50OK.
29:50Sit down there.
29:51Getting his nails done.
29:54OK, so let's see how we're going to work it out between you two together.
29:58What we'll have to do?
29:58Yeah.
29:59I don't have gel.
30:00I just want them cut and cleaned and two colours on.
30:04What's that?
30:05They're just to keep us together.
30:07Hello.
30:08It's on your shower and everything.
30:09Yeah, yeah.
30:10We put a blindfold on.
30:12Blindfolds and stuff.
30:12Do you have to go any further then?
30:14No, I'm happily married.
30:16Oh!
30:18How long has it been for you, Charlie, since she had your nails done properly?
30:21About 18 years.
30:21She's not had her nails done for 18 years.
30:23I do them myself.
30:24Every two weeks, I have just clear gel on my fingers and then I have clear gel on my toes.
30:29With the line of work I'm in, people are interested in feet and feet pics and all that kind of
30:33stuff.
30:34So it's, yeah, it helps.
30:37Then I'll go and have a sunbed and all that kind of stuff, so.
30:40I'm quite home-handing.
30:41It's for a man.
30:42I never thought I'd be attached to somebody so in touch with his feminine side.
30:47The tampering that Rob does for himself is quite something.
30:50At least you're not attached to someone with really dirty nails and smell
30:53and, like, got wrapped to claws on the feet that are going to scratch your leg at night.
30:57You know what I mean?
30:57Exactly.
30:58You know what I mean?
31:00This experience so far has been a massive roller coaster.
31:04You know, we've had some ups and downs, but we're getting to know each other a bit better.
31:09Honestly, he's quite something else.
31:11And I'm definitely unbelievably low-maintenance compared to this diva.
31:16I'm embracing it.
31:24In Derbyshire, Green Party councillor Frank is still dreaming of converting GB News commentator
31:30Lynn to his way of seeing the world.
31:33So you're now entering the shoes of a green politician.
31:38Oh, my. This is a set-up.
31:40Do you have any life away from green politics?
31:43No, changing the world isn't just a hobby, it's a lifestyle.
31:45Yeah.
31:46You know, we've got to start by getting rid of some of these posters.
31:50Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
31:54Today, the pair are joining forces with fellow Green Party councillor Matthew on the campaign trail,
32:00hoping to change hearts and minds.
32:03Hey. How you doing?
32:05Hi, good to see you.
32:05This is Lynn. Hi, Lynn.
32:07Pleased to meet you.
32:07Good to meet you.
32:08She's very much in my world now.
32:10Her politics is always quite confrontational, a little bit punching Judy at times,
32:15and that's not really going to be appropriate when we're speaking to members of the public.
32:19It'll be interesting, perhaps, for Lynn to see that I really do stand by what I believe in.
32:24Let's see if people really like you guys.
32:26It almost looks romantic, doesn't it, from here?
32:30As we walk behind these two, hand in hand in the evening breeze.
32:36Nine times out of ten, when I'm on the doorstep and I speak to someone who says they vote in
32:40reform,
32:40that conversation ends with them voting green.
32:43It's about speaking to people in a way they understand.
32:45I do genuinely believe that it is my superpower.
32:48I'm here to show them that, really, all along they agreed with me.
32:52They just didn't know it.
32:55Hello, I wonder if I could give you one of these.
32:58What are the issues that matter most to you?
33:00There's no point in putting any more money into the National Health Service.
33:04First of all, you need to slim down the middle layers in the National Health Service.
33:10The money is not being spent on the front line.
33:13Correct.
33:14I think we should be doing more to encourage more people to go into nursing to go into GPs.
33:18Use the money that's there already.
33:18Can I just say, the NHS...
33:20OK, can I just say...
33:21Can I finish my sentence?
33:23The NHS...
33:24We'll go and have a cup of tea.
33:29Lynne has no respect for me.
33:30She doesn't respect me, my job.
33:32I don't feel I'm able to get a word in edgeways.
33:35To be honest, I've never been on a doorstep like that.
33:38It is really difficult.
33:39Thank you very much. I appreciate your time.
33:43Well, so far, not the most popular.
33:47Why did they agree with me?
33:49They didn't agree with you. You agreed with them because all you want to do is nod along and not
33:53offer solutions.
33:55What do you want someone to do about it?
33:57And don't just give me another GB News headline catchphrase like, stop this.
34:01What are we going to do?
34:02I'm not a politician.
34:03So you don't have the answers.
34:05Neither do you.
34:06Why are you shouting?
34:06Because you're not answering a question.
34:08I am, but you're shouting at me.
34:10You're saying lower taxes.
34:11You're supposed to be the party of peace and you're shouting.
34:13Frank was getting slightly overzealous.
34:15I could see why.
34:16We're in his environment.
34:18But you don't need to lose yourself and start shouting at me.
34:20Because guess what?
34:21I'm not going to give a shit about your green policy.
34:24I feel we're just going head to head.
34:26There is part of me that does wonder why I'm doing this and if I ever can convince them.
34:31I think in some ways I've just got to give up with that and maybe accept there isn't a way
34:35forward.
34:44It's a way forward.
34:44It's a way forward.
34:45In London, youth worker Chris is growing ever more frustrated at how things are progressing with former Reform Party candidate
34:52Bob.
34:53I want him to actually understand with the comment that he made how offensive it is and how much it
34:59affects so many people by just saying that.
35:02Hopefully by hearing a little bit more of my story, I can understand that black people sitting on the ass
35:07ain't savages.
35:09The work that I do is come off the back of, once upon a time, I was that guy.
35:15No one didn't give me no guidance. I didn't have a role model.
35:18Dad passed away.
35:19He was known into sort of gangs, gang affiliation and stuff like that.
35:24I ended up gravitating towards the street life and these older guys started grooming me.
35:29When you're in that environment, it's very, very hard, even though you know right from wrong...
35:33To break out.
35:34To break out.
35:36I didn't want to sell drugs, but if I didn't, then I'm not eating. I'm not surviving.
35:42If it wasn't for a youth worker that saved my life, it's all over.
35:45I remember one day he came to me and he goes, Chris, you can change.
35:48And I just said to him, if you help me, I will change.
35:52And I really want to change, you know?
35:55I said to him, help me. I don't want to live this life anymore.
36:00And it just changed my whole life.
36:04If I didn't have that small little inkling of help or that youth worker, just to say, you can do
36:08this, Chris.
36:09So what does it feel like when you're helping these young people?
36:12It's the biggest award because when I was growing up, if I didn't have that guy, Simon, to help me,
36:17I don't know where I would have been right now. I would have been dead or in prison.
36:23Very, very shocking indeed. I've never experienced personal trauma like that.
36:27And I think that lives with you for a very long time.
36:30He's learned from that and he's using that experience to talk to young men and women to bring them out
36:36of that mindset.
36:39Through all the hard work that I've done at the age of 25, I was the youngest black male to
36:43receive an OB for my majesty.
36:45Excellent. That is really an achievement. It really is.
36:49I was so proud. People started to see me as a normal citizen.
36:53Because I was told my whole life, you meant nothing.
36:57What he does for this community is absolutely unbelievable. I salute him.
37:01And he's been rewarded for it with an OBE. That's quite an achievement.
37:05And I applaud that fact and pleased for him to have that recognition.
37:09It was hard to share my story because you don't really want to be that vulnerable.
37:14But that's where the passion comes.
37:16I got very, very tearful and I think he understood it a little bit more than I can see that
37:21emotion that he could feel for me and hopefully he understood it.
37:32Such a nice view, that lake.
37:34Very beautiful, isn't it?
37:35Yep.
37:37In Derbyshire, left winger Frank is making one final attempt to get GB news commentator Lin to open up to
37:44him.
37:44Are we going in there? Yeah, we are.
37:46Could have let them know. Could have dressed up.
37:49What do I fancy?
37:52Vegan fish and chips.
37:53Vegan fish and chips?
37:54That's what I go for. Yeah, tofu.
37:56Why don't they just call it tofu and chips instead of vegan fish? You can't get vegan fish.
38:02You've always got a complaint, haven't you?
38:03Take it up with the management.
38:07I know that me and Lin certainly do have different opinions and I think we are divided.
38:10I really want us to find a positive way forward.
38:13I'm done with this needless butting of heads and I don't know, I think she kind of benefits somehow from
38:19keeping us divided.
38:20I think she quite likes the green and the blue and I'm this and you're that.
38:23And I think if we're going to go through this, we have to do it as a team and to
38:26do that there needs to be a bit more honesty.
38:28This is the number one thing for me.
38:30Sometimes I just feel like there is a front, a facade that I can't, like a wall that I can't
38:34penetrate.
38:35And I do feel like you haven't been open in your emotions and where you feel.
38:40I was still looking for your heart.
38:42Which feels like a massive thing to say but it's like I'm desperate to like chip away at this wall,
38:47to get in there and to feel like, there's Lin.
38:50You're not the only person that said that.
38:54As a political and social commentator, I'm quite forthright and quite passionate.
39:01However, I'm quite a private person.
39:03And that's probably why I don't really have new friends.
39:06My old friends get me because they've been here for over 20 years.
39:09But new friends, no, it's difficult.
39:13I just don't open up my heart unless I'm in that real need for romance or real need for close
39:21family situations.
39:23But what are we doing now?
39:25I just...
39:26Right now you're my wife, you're my mum, you're my friends, you're my brother, you're my everything.
39:32You're my life right now.
39:34I know that the only way that I can do this is by, quite frankly, loving you more.
39:41This, for me right now, this conversation has been the best part of this so far.
39:44Really? Yeah.
39:46I'm glad.
39:48Honestly, I am, I am.
39:51I think it's important for me to grow and learn.
39:54I'm really going to have a long and hard think about the things that Frank said.
39:58We're very passionate about who we are and why we're here.
40:02And I get the sense that we both want to see this through to the end.
40:09Lynn does have this cold, hard exterior, but actually with a little bit of effort, a little bit of kindness,
40:16it's quite easy to make a connection that's going to help us a long way on this journey.
40:20And I feel for the first time that we're really making headway as people,
40:24not just characters in a Punch and Judy show.
40:32In London...
40:33Say when.
40:34When.
40:35Lovely.
40:36...having bared his soul to Bob, youth worker Chris is hoping he can finally get him to open up about
40:42his life.
40:43I don't think he's giving me the full scope of who he is.
40:47He's skimming the surface, he's still holding back and I definitely want to dig deeper.
40:52In life have you ever looked at certain things now and said maybe that was a little bit traumatising or...
40:58I left him at 15. At the age of 15 with 14 pounds.
41:02What drove you to make that decision?
41:04I was ambitious as a young kid and my dad was a bully.
41:08I suffered it and suffered it and suffered it.
41:10And I would have left home at nine if I could have afforded it.
41:13Wow.
41:13Yeah, I just wanted to get away.
41:15And my dad was good sometimes and good and not good sometimes.
41:19So it's sort of bipolar, what you would call it today.
41:21So I joined the army.
41:23It took me away, did me a favour.
41:26It was good for me to get away, to develop myself.
41:30It's quite nice to see that side of Bob.
41:33It gave me a little bit more of an insight on who Bob is throughout this journey.
41:37I know that bit by bit, Bob is going to start to ease off a little bit.
41:41And hopefully this continues.
41:43Has that experience shaped you though?
41:45Oh God, yeah.
41:46Obviously like you were saying about your dad and everything.
41:49Have you holded onto it?
41:50Have you let it go off that trauma or do you feel like...
41:52It's got to go, you can't hold it.
41:54I just look back.
41:55You remember the good times?
41:55Mm.
41:57There was some good in everybody.
42:06Deep in a forest.
42:08My final couple.
42:11Come on, Marcus.
42:12And these two couldn't be more relevant to the modern world.
42:15So, I do usually say hello to this particular tree.
42:19Can you say hello to a fucking tree?
42:21I do talk to the trees.
42:22I love the trees.
42:24I'm so grateful.
42:25Give the trees a big hug.
42:26Mm, thank you, thank you, thank you tree.
42:28Come on, hug the tree, Angie.
42:30Go mad.
42:31This is fucking weird as fuck.
42:33What am I doing?
42:39I'm a tree-hugging hippie.
42:41That's me.
42:42I like to use natural products, so I make my own deodorant.
42:47What's your reason for wanting to do this?
42:49To...
42:50Get a few messages out.
42:51You can change people's beliefs and opinions, but only by example.
42:55All our actions have that ripple effect into the world.
43:00I'm handcuffing Moag to 44-year-old salon owner, Angie.
43:04I'm a petrol head.
43:05I would see myself as a bit of a girl racer.
43:09I absolutely love all things Botox and filler.
43:13The more frozen you can become, the better.
43:16Let me ask you about your views of the world.
43:19Oh, don't get me started on that.
43:21I don't like people telling me how to live my life
43:24because it's, frankly, none of their goddamn business.
43:33So, a save-the-planet activist with a petrol head
43:37who hates being bossed around.
43:42The pair have travelled to Angie's hometown of Stourport.
43:45Is this where we're going?
43:47Is it Carl Sherry?
43:49Yes.
43:49First stop, a test drive of the latest model sports car
43:53Angie has her eyes on.
43:55Ha-ha-ha!
43:57OK.
43:58Woo-hoo!
44:00Does the sound give you a release?
44:02Yeah.
44:03The more that engine rattles the sea,
44:06the more excited I get.
44:08And it's just how I like to unwind.
44:10Do you think that using a car to unwind has an impact on the environment?
44:16There are no facts that climate change exists.
44:20Sorry, but hang on, hang on, wait a minute.
44:24I don't think you can be 100% sure of that.
44:26Surely.
44:27You haven't got that evidence.
44:29But I guess we don't have that evidence on the other side.
44:32It could bring me solid proof.
44:34I don't believe that climate change exists.
44:37That's just a crock of shit.
44:39Climate activists.
44:41They're busybodies.
44:42We're just made to believe that these things are real.
44:45They are not real.
44:48Do you not think the world literally is heating up?
44:51No, it's utter bullshit.
44:54What upsets me is you think that driving cars like this
45:00does...
45:01Woo-hoo!
45:02...doesn't do any harm.
45:04Everything we do has an impact.
45:06So you can't be separate.
45:08You can't be in your own little island.
45:10And actually that selfishness will kill us.
45:14I think there's other things that do worse.
45:17Does that justify it?
45:18Because you think it's not harming the environment.
45:19We're all on this planet.
45:22And if we start...
45:25Sorry.
45:33If we begin to care about each other...
45:37We might have a chance.
45:45This is our first holiday together.
45:47Oh!
45:49Don't grab my hand like that.
45:51Do not grab my hand like that.
45:52She has to learn to just calm down a bit.
45:54I'm a fucking bitch.
45:55Say it.
45:56His whole energy is very judgy.
46:00Me, you and the world.
46:01She's that sister of my heart.
46:03She's really partly.
46:04Nice day for it, Captain.
46:06Nice day.
46:06This is the start of a beautiful friendship.
46:09I need to be left alone.
46:10You're not on your own.
46:11I know.
46:11It's not about me and her.
46:13It's about us together.
46:15It's a we thing.
46:31This is the end of a group
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