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00:08We only met yesterday and we stopped while it made it in the shower to get warm.
00:20Could you survive being handcuffed to a total stranger?
00:26In a brand new competition, 18 people have agreed to do just that.
00:31For a big guy, I'm getting a little nervous, do you know what I mean?
00:35They'll have to live together, just inches apart, doing everything, and I do mean everything together.
00:45I'm starting this experiment the only way I know how, in a TV studio with a live audience.
00:53Everyone is handcuffed to their total opposite.
00:56Pull back the divide.
01:02From a posh baronet with a former prison officer, to a self-confessed prude with a porn star.
01:09I'm scattering the couples to the four corners of Britain, to walk a mile in each other's shoes.
01:17It is so exhausting, being in Claire's world.
01:21I'm hoping that by living together in such close proximity, they might just learn to get along.
01:27If you listen...
01:28Don't keep telling me to listen.
01:30Everything's racist if you want it to be.
01:34They can uncuff at any time.
01:36I've f***ing had enough, and I want the cameras just to bugger off.
01:40Give me the f***ing key.
01:42But the last pair standing...
01:45Come on.
01:45We don't do that round here.
01:47...will win £100,000.
01:52She might have different opinions, but she's actually really helped me get through this.
01:57Can a divided Britain settle its many differences?
02:02I've learned that other people are kind in a world that I do not trust.
02:07This is the survival show where you have to survive someone else.
02:11I don't want to do it.
02:15You're at the classes of Barmy, aren't you?
02:17Welcome to Handcuffed.
02:28Let's meet our first brave handcuffe.
02:35People have animals and family member tributes on the leg.
02:40Why should I not have a tribute to a string cheese?
02:43That's what I love.
02:45I genuinely believe that feminism and body positivity go hand in hand.
02:51I want to show people it's okay to be different.
02:55We're all allowed to live our lives as we want to.
03:00I am not going to let the handcuffs come off.
03:03And I will try as hard as I can to find common ground.
03:06I'm nervous, but I can survive this.
03:09I can survive anything.
03:14So let's get this remarkable experiment on the road.
03:17Will you please welcome to the stage our first pair?
03:31Okay, so would you mind telling us who you are and tell us where you're from?
03:35I'm Jo, I'm from Manchester.
03:37I'm 39 and I own my own plus-size clothing company.
03:41What's the best thing about the North?
03:42Gravy.
03:44We do have gravy down here as well.
03:46Ours is just better.
03:47What would be, do you think, the worst kind of person for you to be handcuffed to?
03:52Somebody who measures people's worth by this rather than what's inside.
03:58You know, when somebody passes away, an obituary never said,
04:02oh, here lies Susan, she had great tits.
04:07Well, you're going to be a lot of fun watching the show, I know that.
04:09So I think, Joe, it's time for us to meet your other half.
04:16The sweat is dropping down my balls in this hot taxi, I must say.
04:23I would describe myself as an alpha male, yes.
04:25I'm a natural leader, very confident, very outgoing.
04:29I think it can be hard to be a man in today's society.
04:33It's toxic masculinity for wanting to open the car door for someone.
04:37I'm incredibly competitive and I think that will drive me very well in this competition.
04:45APPLAUSE
04:46Here we go.
04:48Say hello there.
04:49Take a seat, take a seat.
04:51Tell us who you are, where you're from.
04:52My name's Reuben, I'm 29 years old.
04:54I'm a property developer, fitness freak and I'm from Portsmouth.
04:58And you say you're a fitness freak.
04:59Do you go to the gym often?
05:00Two hours a day most days.
05:01Wow, so it's a big part of your life.
05:03It is, it's the main focus actually.
05:05I want to look myself in the mirror and go, cool, I'm sexy.
05:10What kind of person do you think would be the hardest kind of person for you to be handcuffed to?
05:15Someone who does not take accountability for themselves.
05:18Someone who blames everyone else for their own situation in life.
05:22If you want to get ahead, life's very competitive.
05:24You need to put in more work, more hours, more discipline.
05:27You're prepared to talk, obviously.
05:29Are you prepared to listen as well?
05:31Oh, that's a thing that I'm not very good at.
05:33That's what I've been working on.
05:35Well, you've come to the right place.
05:37It is time to handcuff these two total strangers together.
05:45Once the cuffs are on, they'll have to live their life together around the clock.
05:50Shall we do this?
05:51Yes!
05:53Pull back the divide.
05:58Hello.
05:59I've got paper.
06:00Nice to meet you.
06:01Nice to meet you.
06:02Joe, meet Ruben.
06:04Ruben, meet Joe.
06:06You've got the name of one of my favourites.
06:07Sandwiches.
06:08Oh, yes.
06:09LAUGHTER
06:11Fuck.
06:13Training's out the window.
06:14Lifestyle, out the window.
06:16Healthy habits, out the window.
06:18Ugh.
06:19I'm apprehensive, not optimistic.
06:21I think he looks nice.
06:23He might be a bit of a gym bro.
06:26Definitely not someone that I would probably meet with, like, in real life.
06:31So it's the age-old battle of the sexes.
06:34A proud feminist with an alpha male.
06:38You ready?
06:38Yeah, I'm excited.
06:39Are you?
06:40Oh, keen as.
06:41And we've got this though, haven't we?
06:43We've got this.
06:43Yeah, money in the bag, money in the bank.
06:45100%, yeah.
06:48Joe and Ruben are just one of the nine pairs I'm handcuffing together.
06:54They're a cross-section of British society.
06:58All complete opposites.
07:00They'll start by spending time in each other's houses.
07:04Look at the size of it.
07:05OK, right.
07:06Oh, my God, this is hallowedown.
07:08It's rough, thanks, babe.
07:09Before travelling across Britain.
07:11Nice day for it, Captain.
07:13Nice day.
07:14Wherever they go, there's a key.
07:16But use it and they lose the chance of that £100,000.
07:23Let's meet our next pair.
07:28I'm feeling nervous now.
07:31Like I'm going to physically shit myself.
07:36Enter North London barmaid Tilly Martin.
07:40How nice is this area, by the way?
07:42Fucking love it.
07:44Not a good-looking fellow, sir.
07:45Honestly, I'm like, he's all right, isn't he?
07:50I might go in the pool later.
07:54If I won a share of £100,000,
07:57to me, that's lottery money.
08:00I think Britain is divided.
08:02I think you're either really, really rich
08:04or you're on your arsehole.
08:06I work three jobs, you know.
08:09I am feeling very nervous about being handcuffed to a stranger.
08:13All of a sudden, I'm like, oh, fuck.
08:21Hello.
08:22Hello, mate. You all right?
08:23I'm good. Nice to meet you.
08:25Oh, go straight in for the high, thank you.
08:26Go straight in for the high, thank you.
08:27Take a seat.
08:28Well, I feel we've already met,
08:29but will you introduce yourself to everyone else?
08:31I'm Tilly. I'm 37.
08:32I'm from North London.
08:34I run a cleaning company and I'm a barmaid.
08:36So you've got two jobs then, really?
08:38Yeah, and a few other ones.
08:40What do you like as a person?
08:40How would you describe yourself?
08:42I think when people first meet me,
08:44they think, hmm, she was a bit much.
08:46I swear, quite a bit.
08:47You like a good old sweater.
08:48It just happens.
08:49I've been told I can't say cunt by my mum.
08:51Yeah.
08:51So, yeah.
08:53What kind of person do you think you might struggle
08:55to be handcuffed to?
08:57I think somebody that thinks they're better than me.
09:00Some people think if you talk a certain way,
09:03you know, if you have a certain kind of job,
09:05you're below them.
09:06Just because you're rich, it doesn't mean that you're wiser.
09:15I'm viewed by some as extremely gifted.
09:20For Tilly, introducing millionaire businessman
09:23and true British eccentric Anthony Saxon Kersley.
09:27Money talks and wealth whispers.
09:30Real wealth doesn't shout.
09:34In this country, manners have been decimated,
09:38but good manners can be taught if the person being taught
09:43is willing to learn.
09:47I want to win this process purely to prove
09:49that I have got the character to do this.
09:57Good evening, Jonathan.
09:59Hello, sir.
09:59Very nice to meet you.
10:00Take a seat.
10:01Take a seat.
10:02Tell us a bit about yourself, your name.
10:04Any other details you want to share?
10:05I'm Anthony.
10:06I'm 60.
10:07I live in the glorious county of Suffolk.
10:10And I run the bespoke classic car business in the countryside.
10:15You hire out cars?
10:16Not quite.
10:17It's a car hire firm?
10:18It's more couture.
10:19So what's your reason for coming on the show?
10:22It's terrifying how this country is changing.
10:25Manners are not frivolous.
10:27It's the core of our being.
10:28It should be the core of the way we live.
10:30If more people had manners and understood what they were,
10:33we wouldn't have been half the problems we've got now.
10:35Anthony, pleasure to meet you.
10:36OK.
10:37It's the moment of truth.
10:39It's time to handcuff these two total strangers together.
10:44Shall we do this?
10:45Yeah!
10:47OK.
10:48Pull back with your eyes.
10:54You look fantastic.
11:01He's hilarious, isn't he?
11:02Anthony, what do you make of Tilly, your first thoughts?
11:05Not at all what I was expecting.
11:07What were you expecting?
11:09A leggy blonde.
11:11Bitly disappointed, isn't he?
11:13Yeah.
11:15Whenever they're interviewed, one partner will wear noise-cancelling headphones,
11:19allowing the other to tell us what they really think.
11:22Tilly obviously isn't the sort of person that I would meet on a day-to-day basis.
11:26Her style of dress is a fashion throwback from what a cleaner might wear.
11:31I thought I was going to be handcuffed to a bit of a prick.
11:38Like, not saying that he's not, I don't know him yet.
11:43So, a millionaire on a crusade to bring back old-fashioned manners and a cleaner who can't
11:48stop swearing.
11:50So, how are we getting to yours?
11:52We're going in a time machine.
11:56The pair will begin the competition at Anthony's Suffolk Manor House.
12:00She's gone over Silver Sound and I bought her in San Francisco.
12:06And he's pulled out all the stops for Tilly.
12:08There you are.
12:10Can you settle back?
12:12This is beautiful, isn't it?
12:14Yeah.
12:14It's very special.
12:17So, we're heading out of London and we're heading up to the very quiet enclave of Suffolk
12:23where we're going to spend some lovely time getting to know each other.
12:28I could get used to this, I reckon.
12:32How many cars have you got?
12:34Roughly?
12:3555, 60.
12:36How much is your entire collection worth?
12:41Somewhere between three and a half million, maybe four.
12:46In Rolls Royce.
12:50I felt like Julia Roberts, guys.
13:01Back in London, feminist Jo and alpha male Wobin are heading to her house in Manchester.
13:07I'm going to make an executive decision that we're going to get some snacks.
13:10I'll make sure we've got some protein and that sort of thing with us.
13:13He'll make sure that he's got protein for us.
13:16These two might seem poles apart, but I reckon they might have more in common than they think.
13:22Are we going in here yet?
13:23We are, yeah.
13:24So...
13:24Hang on, hang on, hang on.
13:26Hang on.
13:26Oh, yeah.
13:29No.
13:30The answer is no.
13:32You've got to read the attraction level and clearly it's not there yet.
13:36It will never be there.
13:37They all say that to start with.
13:39Baby.
13:40Fucking hell.
13:40This is going to be entertaining, isn't it?
13:43I can't deal with this whole toxic masculinity thing.
13:47Hey, stick with me, love.
13:49Hey, you fancy a bit of me, don't you?
13:51I didn't like him calling me baby.
13:54I've not told him I'm gay.
13:56And then he just keeps making jokes saying,
13:58oh, you'll get there, don't you worry.
14:00No, no, I won't.
14:01Like, you've not got the right part.
14:06Stick with me, sweetheart.
14:07You'll be all right.
14:08I think I could manage quite fine on my own.
14:11Sure you could, baby.
14:14Can we just make things clear?
14:16Call me baby one more time.
14:18Did I?
14:19And we ain't going to be winning this money, I can assure you.
14:22Did I call you baby?
14:23You've called me baby about four times now.
14:26Darling instead?
14:27Absolutely not.
14:28Absolutely not.
14:28You can call me Joe.
14:29Joe.
14:30You're obviously from a world where you seem to think it's appropriate
14:34to, like, make sexual jokes to strangers and stuff.
14:36I don't find that appropriate.
14:39I think it's really crossing a boundary.
14:42Hey, I thought we were having a laugh, but not all right with you.
14:45I just didn't expect to be caught with someone like you.
14:59I've handcuffed pairs of total strangers together,
15:02all competing for £100,000 prize.
15:07As the first couples head to their homes,
15:11I'm hoping that by living in each other's lives,
15:14they can learn to get along.
15:22Next up, a divide which has split the country since at least 1066, class.
15:32If the dogs don't like him, there's going to be a problem.
15:35They're part of the family.
15:36If they don't approve, that's it.
15:39May I present Sir Benjamin Slade, 7th Baronet of Munsell.
15:45I'm a very simple person.
15:47I only want to have fun, make a bit of money,
15:51sex, power, and I like very, very fine wine.
15:54No cheap stuff.
15:56The class system is very simple.
15:58Once an Englishman opens his mouth,
16:00you can tell exactly where he's coming from.
16:03I have to say, 50,000 quid,
16:06it would help keep the wolf from the door.
16:10Hello, sir. Come and have a seat.
16:12Thanks, mate.
16:15So, would you mind introducing yourself
16:17and telling us where you come from, sir?
16:19I'm Sir Ben Slade, 7th Baronet of Munsell in Somerset.
16:24So you are a sir?
16:25Yeah, I'm a baronet.
16:26A baronet is a small baronet.
16:28I think it would be fair to say you are of the upper class.
16:31Yes, but everybody thinks I'm absolutely loaded,
16:34but actually, times are tough.
16:39For Sir Ben, I've chosen this fella.
16:43I might have had a spat with people
16:44who see themselves as intellectually higher
16:46because they might be able to use certain long words.
16:48Well, so can I.
16:49Don't let the Cockney accent fool you.
16:52My mum used to say to me,
16:53school don't finish when you come out of that game.
16:57You've got to keep learning, because the upper class
16:59will use knowledge against you.
17:06Would you mind telling us a little bit about yourself?
17:09Yeah, I'm George.
17:10I'm 60 years of age.
17:12Ex-prison officer among many other things.
17:14As an ex-prison officer.
17:16Presumably you've been handcuffed to people in the past, have you?
17:18I've been handcuffed to IRA terrorists, Al-Qaeda terrorists, Italian mafia.
17:23Let me ask you, generally speaking,
17:24what are the biggest challenges that faces as a country?
17:27I think that we've got to stop looking at each other as the problem and look up.
17:31And we all doff our cap because he's got a posh accent.
17:33He went to Eton, you know, so he must know what he's talking about.
17:36So you're not a respecter of just a posh accent.
17:40I'm a respecter of a human being.
17:42How they talk, I couldn't give two monkeys.
17:44Okay.
17:45So it's the moment of truth,
17:46it's time to handcuff these two total strangers together.
17:52Shall we do this?
17:54Yeah!
17:54Okay, pull back the divide.
17:59Hello, mate, you all right?
18:01Right to me.
18:01Okay, so, George, let me introduce you to Sir Ben,
18:05and Sir Ben, this is George.
18:08Hello, Ben.
18:09Hello, mate.
18:10Please will you join me in wishing them both the best of luck.
18:18Where are you taking me to?
18:19Well, we're taking to the old family ranch.
18:22So is this a council house we're going to?
18:28Far from it.
18:29George will spend his first days in handcuffs
18:31residing in Sir Ben's 14th-century ancestral home in Somerset.
18:39Blimey.
18:39Who cuts a grouse?
18:40Like the Sydney Harbour Bridge, never ends.
18:43Mansell House, we've been coming up for 300 years there.
18:47As in the baronet, I don't tolerate any crap in my house.
18:51And so, some people think that I'm a knob,
18:56and it's absolutely marvellous.
18:58Good sport, it's a bit like fox hunting.
19:03I'll show you round the house.
19:06To help the couples really focus on each other,
19:09I'm restricting access to their phones.
19:12I've also placed keys in their homes in case they decide to uncuff.
19:18There's a lot of history here.
19:20So when was this house first built?
19:22The room you were in was there in 878.
19:26878?
19:26Yeah.
19:26That's fucking Alfred the Great, isn't it?
19:28Yeah, Alfred the Great came here in 78.
19:30He didn't?
19:30Yes, he did.
19:31He's a hero of mine, Alfred the Great.
19:33Yeah, but anyway...
19:34Don't go so fast, I've got questions.
19:37I'm fascinated by history.
19:39I consider myself an intelligent man.
19:41Don't go thinking you're better than me
19:43because you've got a plum in your gob.
19:45Because you ain't.
19:46Oliver Cromwell?
19:47That's from the Roundheads, isn't it?
19:49Yeah, yeah, roundabout there.
19:50So that's sort of James I era, isn't it?
19:54Yeah, that is James I on the left.
19:56What you don't know about me is I'm a history tour guide.
19:58Oh, Christ, you know everything.
20:01George is a historian, which is a bit inconvenient.
20:06That was a painting done by a famous artist,
20:10the German chappie.
20:12Adolf Hitler?
20:13He painted that?
20:14Yeah, he's a good painter, wasn't he?
20:16He's very good at oratory, he's a very good at history,
20:19very good with children, and he loved music,
20:21and he's good with dogs.
20:23You sound like a fan.
20:24No, he was slightly difficult for other reasons.
20:28So you've gone and purchased that?
20:31Yes.
20:32That is just German art of about that period,
20:36and you have to respect it.
20:38I wouldn't want his painting in my house
20:40because of what he did to humanity.
20:42That is a horror of a human being,
20:44and his artwork doesn't belong to be shown.
20:47It means going to the toilet.
20:48Do you not see that that's abhorrent to some people?
20:51No, it's your choice, but nobody understood he could paint.
20:54You write my classes a fucking balmy, ain't you?
20:56You ran a fucking twist.
21:06200 miles north...
21:08I don't know why I'm so nervous.
21:11I feel like a bit juicy like my boyfriend to me mum.
21:14Feminist Joe and alpha male Wubin have made it to Manchester.
21:20I know I've really got to curb my opinions and buck my ideas up
21:24if I want to see us all the way through this challenge.
21:27I've got to be strategic in my approach.
21:29Easier said than done.
21:30Cheers, Joves.
21:32Before heading to her house,
21:34Jo's checking in on her plus-size clothing business, Topsy Curvy.
21:39It's a completely different walk of life.
21:42I just hope I can open his eyes
21:44to realise that there's loads of us
21:47who are seen as, like, society's outcasts.
21:51So this is my business, Topsy Curvy.
21:55It is all gender-neutral, plus-size clothing.
22:00I'm a fat, artistic, gay woman.
22:02I'm the OG FAG.
22:04In the world of trolls and in the world of the internet,
22:07everything I am is fair game.
22:10If we can live our lives always being mindful
22:13and always being kind,
22:15then that, to me, is more inclusive for everybody.
22:19Hiya!
22:20Hello.
22:21Jo runs the company with her business partner, Nat.
22:24I'm Reuben. Lovely to meet you.
22:26And you.
22:27We're not just running a business.
22:29It's about creating a community.
22:31We have to be so mindful with the language that we use.
22:35We need to be inclusive.
22:36Don't assume pronouns.
22:38And it's giving them a space to wear what they want to wear.
22:41Be who they are.
22:46I'm 100% biting my tongue.
22:48A lot of what they said in there is complete bullshit.
22:51These people are definitely too sensitive.
22:53Life's tough.
22:54And that is the problem, I think, with this community,
22:57is it's so accepting of everyone and everyone's feelings.
22:59The world is a fucking jungle.
23:06People think fat people are, like, the lowest of society.
23:09Like, we get abused daily, don't we?
23:12We do.
23:13Someone will just holler out of a car window,
23:16fat fuck!
23:17Yeah.
23:18And...
23:19For me, it's just about eating healthy, living life,
23:23our gym almost every day.
23:24We went to the gym once, didn't we, mate?
23:27Yeah.
23:27Oh, is that a vending machine?
23:31I would say that Reuben finds fat people disgusting.
23:34I'm one for banter, but there's a time and a place.
23:37I think someone might need to, like, bring him down a peg or two.
23:42Reuben probably doesn't believe in what my business stands for,
23:45but I would like him to treat me with respect.
23:49You don't have to find someone attractive to treat them with kindness.
23:53It is going to be a massive struggle to stay in this.
24:03So, this is our driveway.
24:06In Suffolk, barmaid Tilly is arriving
24:08at millionaire Anthony's Country Manor.
24:16There he is, home at last.
24:19Hello, darling.
24:19Hello.
24:20Look who I've got to introduce you to.
24:21Oh, my God, it's a proper handcuff job.
24:23I've missed you sweetheart.
24:24I've missed you too.
24:26Gosh.
24:27Here we are.
24:29Come through.
24:30Come through.
24:32Welcome home, Tilly.
24:34Hello.
24:35How's Taz?
24:37How are you?
24:37Very nice to see you.
24:39Good day.
24:39Yes, thank you.
24:40Tilly.
24:41Nice to meet you.
24:44Taz is our resident cook.
24:47Taz cooked at Windsor Castle for the Royal,
24:49so she's very well trained,
24:51and she looks after us like an egg in a case here.
24:56Let's go and sit down and enjoy ourselves.
24:59Oh, look at this.
25:00Oh.
25:00Lovely, isn't it?
25:03Anthony is keen to begin his masterclass in manners.
25:07We're going to have some pims, so why don't you come with me onto the terrace?
25:11Yes.
25:12Without wishing to be pompous or arrogant about it, I wanted to ease her into it.
25:17She's going to be a little nervous, I think, to start off with.
25:22Thank you very much.
25:25You've only got a lovely Cockney wilt.
25:30And is it my joining us?
25:31Thank you very much.
25:33I'm finding it hard to find the words to say what the fuck is going on here.
25:42It's mental.
25:43It's fucking mental here, man.
25:45You're very good health, my love.
25:47Cheers.
25:47Very good health.
25:49It's very nice to see how the other half live.
25:52Very nice.
25:53Come and join us, darling.
25:55Cheers.
25:56Cheers.
25:57Cheers.
25:59But listen, you don't become really successful by being nicey-nicey.
26:04You've probably got to be a bit of an arsehole sometimes.
26:12But Anthony has saved the best for last.
26:16Come and meet the rest of the family, my love.
26:28That's fucking beautiful, that.
26:30Let me introduce you.
26:32It's a significant part of my life.
26:34And if Tilly has to know me, she's got to know my passions.
26:391937, Rolls-Royce Hooper designed body.
26:42And the first proper owner was the Prince of Wales.
26:46I feel like I'm about to cry.
26:48You are crying.
26:51She's crying.
26:52I don't like her.
26:54She's crying.
26:54It's like...
26:55Why are you crying?
26:56I don't know.
26:59I don't know.
27:00Come on through.
27:02I've never seen so many nice cars ever in my entire life.
27:06I've got to fart, but I can't fart in this car.
27:09Sorry.
27:11Come on.
27:12OK.
27:12Let me go.
27:15So this is Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith 2.
27:18And this is the exact specification of my late father's Rolls-Royce.
27:22And that was the car that he told me to get out of and walk.
27:28About five miles from our house, my father stopped the car and said,
27:31what have you done to earn money to buy this car?
27:35And I said, well, I'm 12.
27:37I'm enjoying it with you.
27:38I'm enjoying your success.
27:39To which he said, we'll get out and walk the rest of the way home.
27:43And he drove off and left me on the side of the road.
27:47I was heartbroken.
27:50It was an understatement.
27:53He was very hard on me.
27:56Brutal.
27:57I wasn't quite the son he expected.
27:59I think that was the problem.
28:02It leaves an indelible mark you can never get rid of.
28:05Do you feel like you started your whole car collection to prove to him?
28:10Yes.
28:11Yeah, definitely.
28:12I wish he was here to see it now.
28:16His dad sounds like a prick, innit?
28:18That proper.
28:21It explains a lot.
28:23I think people's relationship with their parents
28:27signifies the rest of your life.
28:29Do you feel happy in your life now?
28:32Oh, yeah.
28:33Absolutely.
28:34And I'll be happy when we complete this process and we win.
28:53In Somerset,
28:54ex-Prison Officer George is doing his best to settle into Sir Ben's ancestral home.
29:00Oh, no, no, no.
29:01Nigel, come here.
29:02Nigel!
29:03Come here.
29:04You bad dog.
29:06Please tell me he's not named after Farage.
29:09Yes, he's Nigel.
29:10Is he?
29:10The other one's Boris Johnson.
29:12Boris!
29:13Get in there.
29:14Boris!
29:16You...
29:17Get in there.
29:18Quasi!
29:19Quasi, come here.
29:21Quasi.
29:22Quasi's a good dog.
29:26After Quasi Quating?
29:27Yeah.
29:28Do you have any animals that are not named after right-wing politicians?
29:31No.
29:32No.
29:33This whole thing is dream sequence shit.
29:36It's fucked up.
29:38He's set in his ways.
29:39He's older.
29:40But if you want to do this experiment, I will only do it searching for the Goodwin people.
29:48These lovely politically incorrect statues.
29:53They are correct.
29:54These people were princes.
29:56They don't look like princes.
29:57They look like they're in servitude.
29:59How do you know they're black slaves?
30:00Well, look, they've got loincloths on in submission, right?
30:03So, let me ask you something.
30:04Oh, what do you mean they're in submission?
30:05Of course they're in submission.
30:06Do you know why they're like that?
30:07Because they've got their hands up.
30:08Please, please help me.
30:09No, you're doing that.
30:10It's because a glass table goes on top.
30:13You're an educated man.
30:14You know about the slave trade in England.
30:15Yeah, I know a bit about it.
30:17A good Negro was worth $1,500 on the slave block in New Orleans.
30:22I have cousins in North Carolina.
30:25What's your name?
30:25Who's a slave?
30:25Yeah, I am.
30:26Because you don't know.
30:28I don't know.
30:28Yeah, you don't.
30:29Why don't I know?
30:31Because I'm working class and I'm educated.
30:33Don't assume because I've got a Cockney accent and I'm working class that I do and I don't
30:38know stuff.
30:38I educated myself from a child.
30:40Did you?
30:41Yes, I fucking did.
30:42Because my mum taught me that.
30:43Okay.
30:43That the upper classes will put you down, son.
30:47And I will not have any bastards say to me, you don't know.
30:50I don't give a fuck.
30:51I can uncuff now.
30:52I will not have people saying you don't know.
30:54Because you might be fucking amazed at what I do know.
31:02As the couples come to terms with life chained just inches apart.
31:06What a relief that was.
31:10To stay in the running for the £100,000 prize, they'll also have to try finding common ground.
31:23on the roadside.
31:24Normally, I would always be on the roadside with a lady.
31:27Why?
31:27To protect her from traffic or anything driving fast.
31:30Oh, I don't need to accept.
31:31In Manchester, body positive Jo is taking fitness fanatic Ruben to her favourite restaurant.
31:39Oh, this is us, is it?
31:40As the day has gone on, I've tried to take it as best as I can.
31:44Ruben isn't the sort of person that I would have in my life, so it is very, very tough.
31:52What are you thinking?
31:54I almost fancy something a little bit naughty.
31:57Oh, hey!
31:57Something like a cheesy, slutty pasta.
32:00Yeah, push the boat out.
32:02I train so fucking hard to offset the amount of food I eat.
32:06I would be absolutely ripped if I didn't eat the way I do.
32:11Having a treat every now and then, it's not nasty, it's not good or bad, right?
32:15It's not, but it is when it turns into a binge.
32:19I do not have a limit on how much I can eat.
32:22I can eat and eat and eat and eat to the point where I feel shit and I make myself
32:27sick.
32:27I've done that multiple, multiple times.
32:29Really?
32:30Yeah.
32:31The food is so addictive and it's such quick dopamine.
32:35Yeah.
32:35People say, oh, it's alright, just have one, but I can't just have one.
32:40Which is, it's hard.
32:44Life is all about discipline.
32:47If I look in the mirror and I've got some love handles and I'm looking overweight.
32:51I tell myself, Reuben, you're a fat .
32:52You need to sort it out.
32:54Just shut up and get on with it.
32:57Because when you look in the mirror and you feel shit, life's just shit.
33:01The thing is, I always feel guilty after.
33:04But you don't have to.
33:05I don't ever deny myself.
33:08If I want something, I'll have a little bit of it, you know?
33:12The problem is though, I always want it.
33:15Are you having that last bit?
33:16No, I'm okay.
33:17You sure?
33:17I'm stuffed, but thank you.
33:18You have it.
33:19You go for it.
33:21Very kind.
33:25Yeah, dinner was lovely tonight, I thought.
33:28Thought we got on really well.
33:30I think.
33:33Finding out that Reuben had issues with food was actually something that I expected.
33:37And I do not judge him for that.
33:41It was actually really nice and quite refreshing to be able to get, like, down to that kind of conversation.
33:51But there's still a long way to go.
34:03No.
34:04No, hold on.
34:05I'll talk about this chap.
34:08In Somerset, former prison officer George hasn't given up trying to understand Sir Ben.
34:14Yet.
34:15We're not exactly cut from the same cloth, are we?
34:18I mean, you know, with Hitler and fucking slaves.
34:22The bad is on display.
34:24It's not being hidden.
34:26But I think it's a human being in there.
34:28When I was a prison officer, I've spent a lot of time with people who build up personas.
34:33And it always used to be my job to sort of get underneath that a little bit and find out
34:37about the person.
34:40Are these all family members?
34:41Yeah.
34:42That's Mike, his brother or not, yeah.
34:43Did you get on well with him?
34:45He dropped dead, unfortunately.
34:46Yeah, but did you get on well with him?
34:47Yeah, he was very good to me.
34:48Nice bloke.
34:48Look, I was orphaned.
34:49I was on my own.
34:51And he was very...
34:53He was...
34:53He was all up with him.
34:54Yeah, he taught me quite a lot.
34:58Unfortunately, my folks died on me.
34:59My brother died when I was 12.
35:01My mother died the next year.
35:03And my uncle died the next year.
35:05Then my father died the next year.
35:06So nobody taught me anything.
35:07If you have literary parents and political parents, you've got a big advantage.
35:14You've got to be looked after.
35:16So I've had to survive.
35:17But that's what I'm trying to do.
35:18I'm trying to survive.
35:20That's my motto.
35:21My father's dead, my brother, they're all dead.
35:24Nobody believes me.
35:26But that's how shitty it was.
35:29I feel sorry for Ben.
35:31We all build our fortresses around ourselves to stop us being vulnerable again from things
35:35we went through.
35:37He likes to scare people off, I think, old Ben.
35:40He likes to shock them.
35:43But the man who doesn't change has wasted his life.
35:46You come across to me as a really nice Ben.
35:50Yeah, yeah.
35:50I think there's a heart of gold.
35:52I think there's a heart of gold in you.
35:54Oh, dear.
35:54I don't know.
35:56Oh, it's terrible.
35:58Blub.
35:59Yeah.
36:00Come here.
36:00Come on.
36:01We don't do that round here.
36:02I do.
36:03God bless you, mate.
36:10In Suffolk,
36:14Barmaid Tilly and car collector Anthony are also getting to know each other better.
36:19Can I just have my arm up here?
36:22Yeah.
36:22That's nice, isn't it?
36:24Yeah.
36:28Today, the couple are leaving Anthony's not-so-humble abode behind and heading for Tilly's in Enfield,
36:34North London.
36:35Oh, it's socks.
36:37Now I'm packing for him, I'm just putting everything because I haven't got a clue whether it's been a word
36:42or not.
36:43People waiting on him hand and foot is quite apparent.
36:46He's got a PA.
36:47He's got a chef.
36:47He's got a gardener.
36:49He's got this.
36:49He's got that.
36:50He's got a chauffeur.
36:50No, leave it.
36:51You're not taking it down the stairs.
36:53If we're not carrying it, we'll leave it.
36:55Off we go.
36:55Anthony, how are you feeling?
36:57A little apprehensive, but I'm sure it'll be fine.
37:06So, this is Enfield.
37:08Right.
37:09The fella that invented Guinness Book of Records.
37:12Was that Norris McWhirter?
37:14Dunno.
37:15Murdered round the corner.
37:16Oh, murdered?
37:17Yeah.
37:18I think he was shot.
37:19Oh.
37:20Tilly is taking Anthony to her childhood home.
37:23There she is!
37:24Come on!
37:25Where the 37-year-old still lives with her mum.
37:31Hello, baby girl.
37:33I'm Maria.
37:34Right.
37:34Hello.
37:35Hello.
37:36Hello.
37:38It's just like the family base.
37:40This is my sister, Darcy.
37:42Darcy.
37:42Hello.
37:42Lovely to meet you.
37:43It's loud.
37:44It's chaotic.
37:45There's kids running around.
37:46Blah, blah, blah.
37:47And it's like this all the time.
37:49It's very loud.
37:50This is my best friend, Alex.
37:52I'm so sorry.
37:53This is Ellie.
37:54Hello.
37:54Hello.
37:55This is Anthony.
37:56It's a completely different gearing, is the word I'm going to use, to my life.
38:02And a different sound level.
38:09I think he's finding it a little bit overwhelming.
38:12But listen, I think if you gave Anthony a microphone, he would, you know, he can talk.
38:19Fucking hell, he gives me a run for my money.
38:21I bought my first Rolls in Bentley when I was 21.
38:23The car which actually brought Tilly to tears, believe it or not, is the 1937 Hooper that would belong to
38:29Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, which is a very beautiful car.
38:33And what are your first impressions of Anthony?
38:36Quite talkative.
38:37He's not afraid to say how lucky he's been.
38:42How many cars do you have in total?
38:43About 85.
38:4585?
38:46Wow.
38:46About 65 of them are Rolls-Royce and Bentleys.
38:48The rest are the makes.
38:50Yeah.
38:50Jaguars and Mercedes and things that are picked up along the way.
38:53Listen, everybody likes their time to shine, innit?
38:57But maybe it was a one-sided conversation, which is telling.
39:05Mrs Tumnus is her name.
39:08She is, um, adored.
39:10That is the person that I'm matched up with.
39:13Ever so slightly self-centred.
39:17Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah.
39:18Bye.
39:19How do he and Tilly seem to be getting on?
39:22Fine at the moment, but I...
39:25Is it the lull before the storm?
39:34Time is 5 to 7.
39:36Oh, my God.
39:38Right, OK, action station.
39:40I'm underdressed.
39:41It's all systems go for ex-prison officer George
39:44as aristocrat Sir Ben prepares for an elite dinner party.
39:49Great Gatsby, that's me.
39:51I give big parties and everybody gets a drink.
39:54Oh, my God.
39:56Paddy! Paddy!
39:57Open the wine as soon as possible, can you?
39:59OK.
40:00And ventilate it.
40:02If you live in one of these houses,
40:04you've got to get it right.
40:05Yeah.
40:07I'm in command in my own house.
40:09I don't take prisoners.
40:11Come here, you.
40:12Where are we going, Pete?
40:12Get the white wine out and open it.
40:15He's barking at the fucking service.
40:17I mean, it's not fucking upstairs, downstairs.
40:19It's not the 19th century.
40:20Unless you want gobbing your food,
40:21because I know if I was serving him what he'd get.
40:24You've got a temper on you, haven't you?
40:25Stop worrying.
40:26It'll all come out in the rain.
40:27I ordered these people to do things.
40:30I'm not doing my best.
40:32It's not fucking good enough, actually.
40:33Here, excuse me, excuse me.
40:35He's a boss, and he's used to shouting at people
40:38and making staff jump.
40:40Thank you, Harry. So kind.
40:45We've got some interesting people come,
40:47and we can have an interesting discussion.
40:58What the fuck am I doing here?
41:01When I have a vision of the upper class toff,
41:04that's Francis.
41:10And then you've got me,
41:12Jellied Eels and Byer Mesh.
41:14Big build and a bald head.
41:16They've already summed up,
41:17you're a Neanderthal knuckle-drager.
41:20I always think of me mum, and I think I'm going to show people
41:23that we're more than what people think of us.
41:27Nigel Farage.
41:29He is the most dynamic politician that has been in this country for 20 years.
41:34I don't know, it's all logical.
41:41So said a man in Munich in 1938.
41:44Oh, God.
41:46I am a studier of history, and I know populism when it turns its head up out of the turret,
41:51and it says, I'm the answer, but it's never been the answer.
41:54It's exciting to vote for her.
41:57Oh, in the same way it was exciting to vote for Mussolini and Hitler and Trump.
42:02There's an element in all of us which wants an adventure.
42:05With respect, you're sitting in a far nicer place than me to have that adventure.
42:11Well, I don't think that, no, I wouldn't agree at all.
42:13You know what you are.
42:15You're out of class.
42:16Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.
42:18I can't sleep.
42:20The greatest thing in this country, I might be wrong, is the NHS.
42:23The NHS will be finished with five hours.
42:25Two billion pounds a year is spent on legal cases.
42:30How much? Okay.
42:31How much was spent on bombing Iraq?
42:34I haven't a clue.
42:35You haven't a clue?
42:35Do you know why you haven't a clue?
42:36Because when we bomb brown people, we don't care how much it costs.
42:40When people are running at you, George, you can't say, oh, fuck me, it's 10p a bully.
42:45I give up, actually. I really do. I give up.
42:53Ben, hold on. Don't go bully.
42:55With dinner over, Sir Ben is far from satisfied.
43:01Why would you do that?
43:02Don't talk down to me.
43:03It's infuriating.
43:04I'm having it rammed down my throat by woke people.
43:08Oh, woke.
43:10George's politics are wearing thin on the Lord of the Manor.
43:13Bollocks.
43:14Ben, let's talk on an equal footing.
43:16Let's talk on an equal footing.
43:18I've got to have a peel.
43:20I'm going to go to bed and be awake all night with him rolling around and me snoring.
43:24Yeah, great.
43:26I want my phone.
43:28There's the rules.
43:29No, it's my house.
43:30I want my fucking phone now.
43:33I've got problems.
43:34Well, we've all got fucking problems.
43:35The pair's mobiles are being held by the producers in an effort to make them focus on each other.
43:40You don't like the word no.
43:41I spent 12 years in prison with people who didn't like the word no.
43:44We used to actually have a saying of what part of fucking no don't you understand?
43:48Come on, stop moaning.
43:51I have to check what's happening in the world.
43:53You've been really clear about not having any phones.
43:56I'm not messing.
43:56I mean it.
43:57I want it.
43:59Are you going to get it or not?
44:00I'm not, no.
44:01Get my phone.
44:02No.
44:03Okay?
44:04Right.
44:05Hold on, Ben.
44:05Think of me.
44:06Ben, Ben.
44:07I know you're angry, but don't call me everywhere.
44:09No.
44:09I'm not messing with me.
44:10I'm not a Jack Russell.
44:11I don't think they'll fucking tell me what I'll fucking do in my own fucking house.
44:15I'll fucking tell them.
44:16They'll fuck with me.
44:17They're a bunch of woodders.
44:19Ben.
44:19What's going on?
44:20Oh.
44:20Where's John?
44:22Don't drag me.
44:23Where's John?
44:24No.
44:25Come on, John.
44:25John.
44:26John.
44:26All right, let's go up.
44:27There's no corner.
44:28I'm not.
44:29I'm not.
44:29You're going to take your hand off my camera.
44:30Yeah, yeah.
44:31Lock the door, John.
44:32John, lock.
44:33I'm all right.
44:34Lock the door, John.
44:35That's fine.
44:36That's right.
44:36You tell them, John.
44:38Goodbye.
44:39Out the way.
44:42We've got cutters.
44:43We can cut it anyway.
44:45Sure you want to do this?
44:46Yeah.
44:46Are you sure?
44:47I've got no choice.
44:49Don't treat me like that in the own house.
44:51I can tell them.
44:52Right.
44:53I don't want to be part of all this.
44:56He's mad at us.
44:58I did my bit.
45:01I think he's a bit off more than he can chew.
45:03Pressure's a funny thing, mate.
45:05It was all just getting to him.
45:07And I think it sounded like a sexy idea, being handcuffed and fucking being on national television and all that.
45:13But when you've got to pay the men and you've got to actually fucking do it, it's a different ball
45:17game.
45:17Nice meeting you.
45:18You're handcuffed on.
45:19I know.
45:19Not mine.
45:20I'm my handcuffs on.
45:22I'm sorry, but I'm in command in my own house.
45:27If I say I want it, I want it and I get it.
45:30So I'm cuffed.
45:31I got my man, John.
45:33And he got the ball cutters and he can't uncuff me.
45:36You think I'm just an old pussy, you know, and an easy roll over.
45:41But actually, I'm a street fighter.
45:44Sorry about that, but I am.
45:46George is a tough guy.
45:48I think secretly George is quite right wing.
45:51But he pretends he's Karl Marx, but, you know, we don't take any notice of that.
46:00I think I can look myself in the mirror.
46:03I think I've done the working class proud.
46:05People always underestimate the Cockney.
46:08And I could just, behind me back, hear me mum pissing herself laughing.
46:13And saying, I'm so fucking proud of you son.
46:15Good Moorish.
46:33Yeah!
46:38Yo!
46:46Are you ready to join me in my little game?
46:48I'm a massive prude.
46:50I make gay porn.
46:52Stuck in the middle with you.
46:58People that are working cannot afford to live.
47:01Well, where are they?
47:02They're here. It's me.
47:04Enough! I won't tolerate it, lady.
47:10This is about survival.
47:12I'm with you. Get every step of the way, mate.
47:16I need to get up. I need to be left alone.
47:19God love you. I'm amazed that you've survived this.
47:24Remember why we're doing this, though?
47:26I don't care, Ace. It's not worth it to me.
47:28If I win, she wins.
47:47I don't care.
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