In 2014 werd in Amerika (waar anders?) de realityshow I Wanna Marry Harry uitgezonden. Twaalf knappe jonge meiden werden naar Engeland gevlogen, waar ze op een indrukwekkend landgoed kennismaakten met een roodharige jongeman. Inderdaad, prins Harry. Althans, dat dachten ze. In The Bachelor of Buckingham Palace vertellen niet alleen twee oud-deelnemers over dit krankzinnige avontuur, maar ook Matthew Hicks, die werd gekozen uit zo’n honderd potentiële prins Harry’s en voor zijn rol moest leren paardrijden en stijldansen. Saillant: hij was niet eens een geboren ginger, maar verfde zijn blonde haar rood.
This is the inside story of one of the world’s most bizarre and ballsy reality dating shows. In early 2013 a group of twelve unsuspecting American women were flown to a sumptuous Elizabethan estate in the heart of the Berkshire countryside, where they competed for a chance to win the affections of one of the world’s most eligible bachelors. “Oh my god,” shouts one of the contestants as their suitor arrives by helicopter, “That’s Prince Harry!”. The Bachelor Of Buckingham Palace tells the gripping, entertaining and unsettling story of how Fox duped a group of women into believing they were dating a man who was fifth in the line to the British throne.
Financial Times: “A hoot”
The Guardian: “Wild”
Podcast Rex: “You will want to listen to the whole show in one sitting”
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‘I Wanna Marry Harry’ makes its prime time debut. Things do not go as planned. Scott begins to question what we really mean when we call something “reality” TV?
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