Why is it so good: well… it depends what you mean by “good”. Usually with team tasks there’s a little bit of tension simmering underneath the surface (Joe Wilkinson watching Katherine Ryan trying to build stuff out of flatpack furniture and just saying “it’s shit, it’s shit” is up there), but here it’s a proper spat, like something out of I’m A Celebrity or Hell’s Kitchen or one of those documentaries about the Labour Party. Alex makes a joke out of it - “Isn’t it nice when people just get along?” - but it’s not an easy watch, with Iain’s needling grumpiness coming across as actually spiteful instead of comically curmudgeonly.
Position in task: Disqualified (not for bossiness, but because Lou Sanders dropped a book) Back in the studio, Iain is horrified - “That… that wasn’t pleasant for me to watch.” The closest the show has ever got to feeling like An Intervention. Classic hands-off Dad.ĩ8: Siân Gibson Travels “Around The World” With Romesh Ranganathan And A Beach Ball (Series 8, Ep 5) Watch out for: Paul Sinha not getting involved in the children’s spat and instead minding his own business by rolling a barrel across the garden. Task: Play a game of long distance catch with this beach ball.
One team member must throw the ball offscreen to another team member who catches it in a different place, and so on over the longest apparent distance.
