Luton’s leading presenter and celebrity judges separate real homeowners from a panel of fakes in this new reality show. It’s an intoxicating mix of hostility, joy – and ill-advised sofa-licking
There’s a TikTok doing the rounds on Twitter (don’t worry if you don’t know what any of these words mean, they are just in the way of prelude and context) of a young man, Mr B Dylan Hollis – who has been seized by the need to create something called a chocolate potato cake from a recipe found in a cookery book dating from 1912. His incredulity builds as he goes (“Skins stay on?!” “It smells like dentures!” “I bet this recipe is just all the wrong answers on a baking test”). He tastes the finished product and begins to laugh before screaming at his plateful: “You’re not supposed to work! That’s incredible. And I’m mad about it!”
This, roughly, is the same emotional trajectory you can expect to follow while watching BBC One’s latest light entertainment offering, This Is My House.
