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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Adam Forrest

Nadine Dorries claims Channel 4 faked reality show by paying actors to play poor people

PA Wire

Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has claimed that Channel 4 faked a reality TV show she appeared on by hiring actors to play poverty-stricken people on a housing estate.

The culture secretary appeared on the reality documentary programme Tower Block of Commons in which she briefly lived on an estate in London’s south Acton neighbourhood.

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