{"id":316886,"date":"2023-09-21T02:11:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T02:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularindinews.com\/?p=316886"},"modified":"2023-09-21T02:11:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T02:11:12","slug":"celebrity-race-across-the-world-roland-white-reviews-last-nights-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popularindinews.com\/celebrity\/celebrity-race-across-the-world-roland-white-reviews-last-nights-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Race Across The World: ROLAND WHITE reviews last night's TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taxi to Norway? Not even a pop star’s budget will stretch to that: ROLAND WHITE reviews last night’s TV<\/h2>\n

Celebrity Race Across The World<\/p>\n

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Norfolk And Suffolk: Country & Coast\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Four teams began a 6,200-mile journey from the Moroccan city of Marrakesh to Tromso in Celebrity Race Across The World (BBC1)<\/span><\/span>. But they first had to answer a tricky but vital question: where the hell is Tromso?<\/p>\n

None of the contestants could place the Norwegian city at first, although somebody thought the spelling looked vaguely Scandinavian.<\/p>\n

Celebrity Race, which was postponed after the recent Morocco earthquake, is a game show and double geography rolled into one, which is both a benefit and a flaw.<\/p>\n

It means there\u2019s plenty going on, but with four teams taking different routes it\u2019s sometimes hard to keep track of who is where. But the photography is stunning: even a late-night bus station looked like a film set.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s always one annoying character on these shows, and All Saints star Mel Blatt is shaping up nicely for this prestigious position.<\/p>\n

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Celebrity Race Across The World sees four teams racing from the Morroccan city of Marrakesh to Tromso in Norway<\/p>\n

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All Saints star Mel Blatt (right, with mum Helene) was so unaccustomed to budget travel that, by her own admission, she takes a chauffeur-driven car to the shops<\/p>\n

She is so unaccustomed to budget travel that \u2014 on her own admission \u2014 she takes a chauffeur-driven Mercedes to Sainsburys. Her horror at the thought of a bus was a treat to behold.<\/p>\n

Luckily, she is travelling with her resourceful mother, Helene, who speaks French and Spanish and has served in the army.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, she wasn\u2019t Mel\u2019s first choice. Perhaps this is because Helene isn\u2019t impressed by Mel\u2019s world: \u2018Snooty people who have nothing to say except I\u2019ve got a mention somewhere and I\u2019ve got this car.\u2019 Ouch! Thanks, Mum.<\/p>\n

Still, they were first to the checkpoint hotel in Pinhao, Portugal. Perhaps it was thanks to those expensive taxis, which will soon eat up the \u00a369 daily budget.<\/p>\n

Formula 4 driver Billy Monger and sister Bonny were second, even though she admitted: \u2018We have no skills whatever.\u2019 And Billy walks on prosthetic legs after a 130mph crash in 2017. So if they\u2019re in a hurry, poor Bonny is stuck with the bags.<\/p>\n

TV weatherman Alex Beresford wants to win, but his dad, Noel, wants to chill and enjoy the journey. Could be trouble there.<\/p>\n

Last in were McFly drummer Harry Judd and mother Emma. She\u2019s delighted to be spending time with Harry, who left home early to start his music career. \u2018It\u2019s bloody marvellous,\u2019 she said. I predict that Emma will be a big hit.<\/p>\n

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Bill Nighy served as narrator and guide for Channel 5’s Norfolk and Suffolk: County and Coast<\/p>\n

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Channel 5’s Norfolk and Suffolk: County and Coast featured colourful stories from people living across East Anglia<\/p>\n

In a world where everybody is screaming for attention, Norfolk And Suffolk: Country & Coast (Ch5)<\/span> was like a comforting mug of cocoa \u2014 with perhaps a squirt of cream if we\u2019re feeling naughty.<\/p>\n

Bill Nighy was our narrator and guide, although the rather exuberant script was more in Laurence Olivier\u2019s line. Enunciate after me: \u2018As dawn breaks across Norfolk and Suffolk, we journey to meet those who call this majestic landscape home\u2019. That could almost be poetry.<\/p>\n

The next thing we knew, we were paddling down the River Stour and talking to Fred from the Sudbury Canoe Club. Fred looked just a little self-conscious, which is a rare and wonderful thing in modern television.<\/p>\n

Lighthouse keeper Patrick Tubby was the same, although it\u2019s understandable in his case because he was dusting his lantern at the time. It\u2019s almost impossible to look modern and sophisticated while dusting an 18th-century lighthouse.<\/p>\n

And who knew that the Norfolk resort of Cromer is a hotspot for surfing, despite being on the chilly North Sea? \u2018Ideal conditions for first-timers,\u2019 said a surfing coach who teaches first-timers. Well, he would say that, wouldn\u2019t he.<\/p>\n