ITV’s new reality show My Mum, Your Dad has been billed as “a middle-aged Love Island”. It could have been titled Love Handles Island, but we live in times too tremulous and fearful for such humour to be countenanced. A wasted opportunity, for sure, but the show manages to grasp other opportunities offered by the casting of reality contestants who have got a bit of reality under their belts before being ushered on to our screens to live a heightened version of it for 10 episodes.
Set in a “stunning countryside retreat”, it’s overseen by the middle-aged-but-with-invaluable-cross-generational-appeal-that-must-have-ITV-execs-weeping-with-gratitude Davina McCall. No one does it better – and in this case I suspect no one else could do it at all.
