The World According to Gogglebox. Gogglebox
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BAASIT: I hate Dictionary Corner. They’re a right bunch of know-it-alls. They’ve got a flipping dictionary in front of them; of course they’re going to get it. |
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| LEON & JUNE, LIVERPOOL | |
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JUNE: Passion: P-A-S-S-I-O-N. |
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LEON: Piss is on as well: P-I-S-S. |
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UMAR: Noel Edmonds is a game show host of things that aren’t game shows. They all say they’ve got a strategy. What’s the strategy? Just pick a box. It’s ridiculous. And there’s no banker there on the other line. |
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| THE WOERDENWEBERS, THE WIRRAL | |
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VIV: I’d go on Deal or No Deal. Yeah, I have a strategy actually. I know what boxes I’d pick. ’Cause I play it on the phone. |
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SANDY: I can’t do it. I only learnt it the other day. I think it’s boring. I can’t be arsed waiting for the banker to tell me this and tell me that. And don’t get it twisted. The banker’s always going to be right. They always say it’s like gambling, isn’t it? Casinos always end up winning in the end. |
Stephen & Chris
BRIGHTON
Stephen, 43, and Chris, 38, are hairdressers
and first met eleven years ago. Stephen spends
a lot of time at Chris’s bungalow near Brighton,
where they love a takeaway in front of the telly.
Chris shares his home (and often his sofa)
with his enormous cat, Ginge.
HOW DID YOU MEET?
STEPHEN: We were working in the same salon as each other about eleven or twelve years ago. Then he left and went somewhere else, and I left, and when I came back to Brighton about three years ago, we met up with each other again.
CHRIS: You started chatting to me on Grindr, didn’t you?
STEPHEN: Yeah. And we started seeing each other. But it didn’t really work out. It finished just after the first series. It was only four episodes, but it fucking ruined it.
I do take the piss out of him a lot and I think, when we were together, you took it to heart a bit, didn’t you?
CHRIS: Yeah. Because the thing is, if you’re supposed to love someone, why would you rip the piss out of them the whole time?
STEPHEN: Entertainment, dear.
CHRIS: For you. Not for me.
STEPHEN: There’s twenty-four hours in a day: I get bored. But it did make me feel bad because I felt like a bully.
CHRIS: We’re much better as friends, anyway.
STEPHEN: I still take the piss as much, but you just say, ‘Shut up.’
HOW DID YOU GET ON GOGGLEBOX?
CHRIS: This woman walked into the salon and said she was looking for someone to take part in a TV programme, so I went running over and went, ‘Oh my God! Tell me about it! Tell me about it!’
STEPHEN: Fame-hungry bitch. I wasn’t interested at first. I just thought, it will sink without trace. And then he said, ‘They’re paying us,’ and I went, ‘All right, I’ll do it.’
Chris and Ginge, the big pussy
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOURSELVES ON SCREEN?
CHRIS: It was a bit strange at first, because I think people had said, ‘You’ve got to be careful what you say, because you’re going to be on TV, it’s going to be out there,’ so in the first one I was really quiet. And people were, like, ‘That’s not you.’ But you overanalyse things in your head and you think, I can’t say that because you know, it might go on TV and I don’t want people to think that I’m nasty or I’m rude or …
STEPHEN: I didn’t give a fuck.
CHRIS: Yeah, but you don’t give a fuck anyway.
WHAT WAS YOUR
FAMILY’S REACTION?
CHRIS: My sisters absolutely love it. Tune in every single week.
STEPHEN: