The Times - UK (2022-02-16)

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star of The Only Way Is

Essex confesses that she

started cutting herself

when she was 13 and

continued to do it for

decades. “I wasn’t self-

harming to kill myself,”

she says. “It was a

release.” Collins is still

unclear why she did it,

so she talks to a

therapist and her

friends and family in an

attempt to confront her

demons head-on.

Gemma Collins:

Self-Harm & Me

Channel 4, 9pm

Last year, during her

appearance on Piers

Morgan’s Life Stories,

Gemma Collins showed

Morgan her scars from

self-harming as she

recalled suffering from

depression after having

an abortion when she

was about 20. In this

frank film the former

officially anointed by

Jay-Z. It works best as a

portrait of vulnerability,

of talent in the

wilderness, and of a

tentative figure playing

megastar to a camera.

The trilogy runs to four

and a half hours

(reportedly cut down

from 320 hours of

footage), apparently

becoming more

sanitised as it goes on.

Kevin Maher

desperate to be signed.

The sweet scenes with

his mum, Donda, are

the most affecting and

constitute the few times

when West stows the

swaggering demigod

persona. Mostly,

though, he’s on an

inexorable rise that

culminates in part one

with a Roc-A-Fella

recording deal and a

triumphant Chicago

concert where he’s

documentary’s co-

director, who decides,

from that moment

onwards, to chart

West’s career rise over

the next two decades.

The hard graft is the

subject of much of the

first part. We get Kanye

rapping in his New

York apartment,

fiddling with future

tracks and then glad-

handing record

company bosses,

always on the verge of

self-parody and is oddly

engrossing, especially

when captured on

camera at a Chicago

birthday party in 1998.

Here, the 21-year-old

fledgling producer is

already fantasising

about world

domination. We know

this because he’s filmed

by a friend, Coodie

Simmons, a former

comedian and the

Viewing Guide

Joe Clay

Jeen-Yuhs: A

Kanye Trilogy
Netflix

This intimate
biographical
documentary
of Kanye
West is indecently
watchable. West’s
chest-beating
braggadocio seems

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7.30 We Are England Regional

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10.35 Judy (15, 2019) Judy Garland is

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their children, Lorna and Joey. Crippled

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12.25am Question of Sport With Osi Umenyiora, Nat

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including the gold medal match in the women’s ice hockey

7.00 Winter Olympics — Today at the

Games Clare Balding and guests look

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with notable gold medals up for grabs

in the men’s slalom and women’s

1500m short track speed skating

8.00 Great British Menu The three

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courses and desserts, with each dish

taking inspiration from 100 years of

British Broadcasting. At the end of this

episode, another chef will be sent

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9.00 Inside the Factory Gregg Wallace

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the heart of Somerset, where over a

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10.30 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s

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11.15 Louis Theroux’s Forbidden

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12.15am Sign Zone: The Caribbean with Andi and

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7.00 Emmerdale The danger for Billy

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7.30 Coronation Street The nurse tells

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8.00 Paul O’Grady: For the Love of

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With one suspect arrested, the race is

on to find the missing pieces of the

puzzle before the killer escapes.

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10.00 ITV News at Ten

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10.45 Peston Political magazine show

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major interviews with MPs, topical

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perspectives from viewers, experts and

key players throughout the programme

11.45 The John Bishop Show Comedy chat

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3.50 Unwind with ITV. Daily escape 5.05-6.00 Tipping

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8.00 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It

Phil Spencer catches up with a couple

from Cambridgeshire, who three years

earlier could not agree what to do with

their three-bedroom semi (AD)

9.00 Gemma Collins: Self-Harm & Me

The reality star opens up about her

struggles with self-harm, talking to

family, friends and her therapist

as she attempts to understand

the events that triggered her

behaviour. See Viewing Guide (AD)

10.00 Mega Mansion Hunters The

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lauded for their performance —

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11.05 First Dates: Valentine’s Fred Sirieix

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12.05am Celebrity Hunted (r) (AD)

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8.00 Subway: How Do they Really

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9.00 22 Kids & Counting With half-term

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entertained. Meanwhile, there is

a “pie-off” on the seafront in

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10.00 My Lover, My Killer New series.

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11.05 Skin A&E A hairdresser is determined

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the bronze medal match in the women’s ice hockey.

Presented by Hazel Irvine and JJ Chalmers 3.00 Winter

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6.00am Good Morning Britain. Magazine featuring news,

current affairs and lifestyle features 9.00 Lorraine.

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10.00 This Morning. A mix of chat, lifestyle features,

advice and competitions. Including Local Weather

12.30pm Loose Women. Another helping of topical

studio discussion from a female perspective, featuring

interviews 1.30 ITV News; Weather 2.00 Dickinson’s

Real Deal. David Dickinson and the team travel to Duxford

in Cambridgeshire, where David Hakeney comes across a

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and son, a father and daughter, and a couple compete in

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down a choice of four chutes in the hope of winning

a £10,000 jackpot 5.00 The Chase. Bradley Walsh

presents as four contestants work as a team to take

on one of the ruthless Chasers and secure a cash prize

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neighbours, who are leaving west London for Cumbria (r)

12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch. Weekday magazine

show hosted by Steph McGovern 2.10 Countdown. Elaine

Paige joins Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner 3.00 A Place

in the Sun. Ben Hillman meets a Kent couple (r) 4.00

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6.00 The Simpsons. Homer and Marge try to spice up

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6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. The broadcaster

and guests discuss the issues of the day, with co-host

Storm Huntley joining him for phone-ins and reading out

viewers’ correspondence 12.15pm Nightmare Tenants,

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from previous episodes, including a man living in

horrendous conditions, and a landlady whose tenants

stopped paying the rent (r) 1.10 5 News at Lunchtime

1.15 Home and Away. Felicity proposes a way that she

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2.15 FILM: Dead Over Diamonds — Picture Perfect

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danger and an unexpected death. Crime drama starring

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day (r) 6.30 Celebrity Eggheads. With Martin Roberts,

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