It might have aired on 5 January but it was instantly hailed as a contender for TV moment of the year. Egged on by his pal Amanda Holden, the reluctant Alan Carr braved a huge slide at a water park in Corfu called the Black Hole. “It’s pitch black,” warned Holden. “You won’t see a thing.” “Sounds awful,” said the nervous comedian, asking the lifeguard to “Pray for me.”
He proceeded to fall out of his rubber ring and scream all the way down a long, dark tunnel before hurtling head first into the pool. Holden just about recovered from her hysterical mirth to wrap the traumatised Carr in a towel, noting that he looked like “ET on the bike”. Welcome to Amanda & Alan’s Greek Job – the most feelgood guilty pleasure on air.
