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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Lee Grimsditch

'Toughest' seaside resort TV show portrayed New Brighton as 'Scouse Riviera dogging hotspot'

Illicit goings on in country parks and unsavoury items, including dead animals, floating in the Mersey all feature in an early 2000s "documentary" on Britain's toughest seaside resorts.

The trash TV show called - unsurprising enough - Toughest Seaside Resorts in Britain was broadcast on Sky One around 2005. Narrated by Ralph Little, star of early Noughties hit sitcoms The Royal Family and Two Pints of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps, the show aimed to expose the steamier side of Britain's holiday resorts through interviews with deliberately hand-picked "colourful" characters with no end of outlandish tales to tell.

There's little doubt those that featured on the show were encouraged to play up for the cameras and reveal their worst misdemeanours and not spare the details. The show also followed the trend of other 'toughest' based TV shows made at the time, including Toughest Pubs In Britain and Toughest Villages In Britain.

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