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Evening Standard
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William Mata

Changing Ends on ITVX review: a pantomime look back at Alan Carr’s life

“You won’t believe this, but I often get branded as camp,” Alan Carr says not long into Changing Ends, a sitcom about his formative years.

He also gets called other, far ruder, things in the ITVX series, but the comedian and (in this case) narrator is always self-deprecating in his fullness of himself. Anyone who has seen or heard Carr for any longer than five seconds might suspect how he would probably rub up against his grumpy football manager father in eighties Northampton. Problems fitting in? Issues being himself? The ultimate ability, thanks to the support of those who believed in him, to find himself and become one of the country’s most ubiquitous performers? Yes, it’s all here. But in case you had any doubts, here is the full account anyway over six episodes.

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