Love Island is mindless but one modern show is genius – here’s what I’d rip into if TV Burp was back, says Harry Hill
thesun.co.ukHARRY Hill is glad that he isn’t making TV Burp anymore - so that he doesn’t have to watch "mindless" Love Island. The comedian, whose Bafta winning series poked fun at television programmes for 11 years until it ended in 2012, thinks reality shows just want contestants with "less and less clothes" these days.
Speaking to The Sun, the 57-year-old entertainer also reveals Simon Cowell was considering bringing back the flop X-Factor Musical I Can’t Sing, which closed after just six weeks in 2014.
Father-of-three Harry’s daughters Kitty, 25, Winifred, 24, and Frederica, 18, watch Love Island, so he keeps up with the goings-on in the villa.
He says: "I have watched bits of Love Island, my kids love it. It seems slightly mindless to me." It is, for him, yet another degraded copy of the Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall show Big Brother.
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