I saw a trailer for this programme, Filthy Rich and Homeless, on BBC3 last night. It could be an interesting experiment:
In Britain today, the rich are getting ever richer. They live a life of privilege, comfort and security that only a tiny few of us will ever achieve, and that many of us can barely even dream about. So what do you give somebody who has everything?
Nothing.
In Filthy Rich and Homeless, five of Britain’s wealthiest people take part in one of TV’s most hard-hitting and controversial experiments ever – lliving the life of the homeless on the streets of London for ten days solid.
Guided by homeless experts Rebecca and Craig (pictured above), the five wealthy volunteers will be faced with the very harsh realities of life for those who have nothing.
Filthy Rich and Homeless. Coming soon to BBC Three
I think rubbing a bunch of rich people’s noses in how the rest of us live or have lived is something we can all get behind. With any luck someone’ll bittorrent it and non-UKians can watch it too.
But “Guided by homeless experts Rebecca and Craig “? Having a tour-guide – not exactly the authentic homeless experience, is it? I have my doubts about this whole exercise; it could be nothing more than an alternative form of rich-kid gap year, the streets of Tottenham instead of the beaches of Thailand. “Oh, yah, it was like, rilly, rilly authentic.”
But until I actually watch it I’ll withold my opinion.
