It is with some regret that we must announce the first trailer has arrived for what might be the most awful thing to hit British TV screens since Keith Chegwin bared all for Channel 5’s Naked Jungle in 2000 – Discovery+’s Meet The Rees-Moggs.
The former cabinet minister signed up with the streamer to make a documentary about him and his family earlier this year in an apparent bid to reinvent himself as a chortlesome national treasure rather than, say, a nasty, entitled hedge fund millionaire turned hard-right politician.
And what fun it looks! The trailer shows one of the Rees-Mogg clan’s flunkeys ironing the boss’s boxer shorts (“He does like his boxers being ironed,” she says, as if it’s the most normal thing in the world”), although the shock value of this is less the ironing and more that Rees-Mogg wears boxer shorts. Rather than y-fronts. Or a 19-century chastity belt.
“I hope I don’t get a cease and desist letter from Johnnie Boden,” says Rees-Mogg’s heiress wife, Helena de Chair. “Could you please not wear my clothes, you Tory, right-wing, fox-hunting Brexiteer?”
“I think this will be a rather different kettle of fish, actually to the Kardashians,” Rees-Mogg himself concludes, flattering himself by comparing his outing on a little-watched streamer to one of the world’s most successful reality shows.
Perhaps he should note some of the other reality shows on Discovery+ that he’ll soon be sat amongst: You, Me & My Ex (“These couples break the rules and forge new ways to be a family”), Naked and Afraid of Love (“Sixteen sexy singles bare all for love”) and Milf Manor (“Hot single mums hunt for love, but a shocking twist upends everything”). It makes Mogg’s boxers look positively quaint!
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