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“ANIMALS, children, an election and a film crew, what could possibly go wrong?” said Rees-Mogg. “This everyday story of Somerset folk is fun to film but may be a bit more Fawlty Towers than Downton Abbey.”
The news that former MP Jacob Rees-Mogg is to star in a fly-on-the-wall series following his eight-strong family (plus nanny Veronica Cook) initially struck me with a feeling akin to dread.
Conceivably I would watch the Rees-Moggs feature in a brutal Squid Game-style challenge, or see the brood washed up on a desert island where Nanny Cook finally takes charge (and revenge?) in an Admirable Crichton fashion after enduring the appalling clan for 60 of her 81 years. But that’s about it.
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