Three famous faces get their fertility checked, and go on a journey to combat the troubling fall in sperm counts. Although they draw the line at kneading their own scrotums …
In the last 50 years, sperm counts have dropped from an average of 100 million of the little terrors swimming merrily about in every millilitre of ejaculate to an average of just 48 million in today’s ersatz man-brew. Many of those, according to results we are about to receive courtesy of the three volunteers in Celebrity Save Our Sperm, are not swimming too merrily either. At the moment, one in every six couples has trouble conceiving and if sperm counts continue on their current trajectory we will be looking at infertility as the norm within a very few decades.
Can matters be – uh – taken into one’s own hand and improved on an individual basis, asks this surprisingly sober, but not sombre, celebrity-fronted documentary? And, because deadlines make better telly, can it be done in 10 weeks?
Celebrity Save Our Sperm is on Channel 4.
