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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Frances Ryan

Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip: the choice of presenters for this travelogue is utterly baffling

The Kemps star in Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip.
Driven … the Kemps star in Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip. Photograph: Sphere Abacus

If you’re someone who believes the celebrity travelogue genre has been pushed too far, Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip (Monday, 8pm, Channel 4) is here to push you to the edge. Then continue pushing until you’re falling off a cliff into the Irish Sea.

It is unclear why exactly the producers chose Martin Kemp and his son, Roman, to take viewers on a tour of Ireland. Which to be fair, the two men address in the first three minutes. Martin lived in the country briefly in the 80s during his Spandau Ballet era, we’re told. His mum “always said” she was half Irish but – as Roman points out – the family did an ancestral DNA test and they’re actually Germanic.

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