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Daily Mail, Tuesday, August 13, 2019Apart from all that flogging, Kate,
I’m sure Great-Gramps was lovely
DATING AGENCY OF THE NIGHT:
Baked bean tasters Catherine
and Joanne have clocked up a
total of 55 years at the Heinz
plant in Wigan, they told Nadiya
Hussein on Time To Eat (BBC2) —
and both met their husbands
there. Beanz meanz romanz!T
he question is, Kate,
was it worth it? having
commandeered the
Beeb’s formidable his-
tory unit to research
your family tree, did you like
what you learned?
Though the genealogy show Who
Do You Think You Are? (BBC1)
regularly attracts A-list guests, it’s
not usual for an Oscar-winning
actress to approach producers and
plead to have her ancestry
chronicled. But fulfilling the wishes
of her mother Sally, who died from
ovarian cancer in 2017, Kate
Winslet did just that.
executives must have been
praying the Titanic star had lost
relatives in some ocean liner disas-
ter, or at least have one who worked
as a merchant seaman on the
transatlantic floating palaces.
No such luck. The best the
archivists could discover was a
pitiful Swede who was imprisoned
for stealing potatoes to save his
family from starving 180 years ago.
Being a Scandinavian peasant
didn’t sound like much fun, though
life expectancy in the frozen north
is even lower now thanks to all the
serial killers — if you believe in the
Scandi-noir crime TV epidemic.
Kate kept her side of the bargain,
welling up or shrieking with
excitement at all the appropriate
moments. Perhaps she was
genuinely heartbroken at the
thought of her great-great-great-great-grandma being too malnour-
ished to feed her baby... but since
Kate has also won emmys, Golden
Globes and BAFTAs for her acting,
we’ll never know for sure.
She looked less than delighted to
discover her three-times-great
grandfather on her dad’s side, a
Grenadier Guardsman who
administered Army discipline with
the cat-o’nine-tails and who later
became the chief warder at
Dartmoor prison, overseeing the
regime of hard labour.
Kate tried to tell herself that he
was probably a very nice man —
apart from the flogging.
Devotees of the show won’t be so
sure, if they remember the episodes
featuring Twiggy and Tracey emin.
Both discovered ancestors who
were sentenced to bouts of hard
labour — gruelling punishments,
such as turning a crank-handle
that churned a drum filled with
gravel. To make the task even more
exhausting, warders such as Kate’s
‘very nice’ Great-Gramps could
tighten the handle: that’s why
they’re still known as ‘screws’.
This was an unusually picturesque
edition of Who Do You Think, withWho Do You Think You Are? HHHHI Born Famous HHIII
CHRISTOPHER
STEVENS
LAST NIGHT’S TV
the red churches and blue lakes
of rural Sweden.
And those penniless Swedes
did come up with a marvellous
storage idea — straw-filled holes
in the wall, next to the chimney-
breast, for keeping babies snug
in winter. Ikea could market
something like that.
It was all much more interest-
ing than anything Born Famous(C4) could muster, as Spice Girl
Mel B’s eldest daughter
Phoenix, 19, was sent to learn
about her mother’s upbringing
in eighties Leeds.
According to Scary Spice, she
was dragged up in a slum, with a
prostitute for one next-door
neighbour and a drug-dealer for
the other. That’s surely what C4
bosses were dreaming of, whenthey commissioned this grinding
slab of boredom.
The only frightening moment
for Phoenix came when two lads
on bicycles did wheelies as they
rode past. I hope nothing else on
TV this year is more dull than
watching Phoenix do a shift at a
pizza restaurant as a waitress
‘like Mom did’.
Scary’s own mum showed her
granddaughter round the real
childhood home, a good-sized
house in a friendly neighbour-
hood. Gran called it her
‘mansion’, and she and Grandad
saved up the £1,000 deposit by
both working overtime every
weekend for a year.
What self-respecting pop star
would admit to that?TELEVISION
appearance, but here, she learns how far
some will go in order to change theirs, and
sees a surgeon about her ‘rotten old jowls’.
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