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Kirstie Allsopp

September 2026

  • A man in black T-shirt sits at a desk with a laptop on and looks at the camera

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Dispatches asks Tommy Robinson awkward finance questions

    Matt Shea investigates the far-right activist. Plus: grooming gang victims tell their stories in an important documentary. Here’s what to watch this evening

September 2024

  • Kirstie Allsopp

    Why social workers had to investigate Kirstie Allsopp case

  • Portraits of former prime ministers on the No 10 staircase.

    Brief letters
    A thrifty way to redecorate Downing Street

August 2024

  • A boy with a rucksack at a railway station

    Teenagers at more risk online than Interrailing in Europe, say experts

    Debate follows TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp’s decision to let 15-year-old make independent trip
  • Boy wearing a backpack, waiting at a train station

    Should we allow our children to travel without adults?

    Letters: Readers respond to the news of Kirstie Allsopp being reported to social services after letting her son travel around Europe aged 15, and share their experiences

    • double quotation markOf course Kirstie Allsopp is happy for her 15-year-old to go Interrailing on his own. It’s ‘character-building’!

      Zoe Williams

    • Kirstie Allsopp reported to social services for allowing son, 15, to travel abroad

    • Kirstie Allsopp defends letting son go travelling around Europe aged 15

December 2023

  • Leona Lewis, Fred Sirieix, Mo Gilligan, Allan Mustafa and Joel Dommett on The Lateish Show’s seasonal special.

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    TV tonight: Mo Gilligan throws a raucous Christmas party

  • The ultimate Christmas TV guide.

    Christmas crackers! It’s your ultimate guide to the UK’s best festive TV

January 2023

  • Joanna Scanlan as Sharon and Morgan Hopkins as Dai in The Light in the Hall.

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    TV tonight: bleak but brilliant drama The Light in the Hall

    Joanna Scanlan and Iwan Rheon are on excellent form in this absorbing tale about the mother of a murdered girl. Plus: documentary Ukraine: The People’s Fight. Here’s what to watch this evening

July 2022

  • ‘We just love homes, we really do’ … George Clarke (centre), whose show Flipping Fast gives contestants a £100,000 budget to “flip” homes for a profit.

    ‘Property porn’: is TV’s obsession with home buying fuelling the UK’s housing crisis?

    Despite an unprecedented crisis in home ownership, shows like Location, Location, Location and Grand Designs are seemingly neverending. Might they be to blame for skyrocketing prices?

February 2022

  • Catherine Bennett

    double quotation markIsn’t it a bit rich for Kirstie Allsopp and her like to tell poor people how to live well?

    Catherine Bennett
    The solution to the cost of living crisis is structural, not fatuous tips from the wealthy
  • Living statues at The Hague, The Netherlands

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    This is no time to be clowning around

    Brief letters: Acting the clown | Will Boris survive? | Titled and entitled | Upmarket admission | Young country diary
  • Zoe Williams

    double quotation markNo, Kirstie Allsopp, cancelling Netflix won’t buy a house – in any location

    Zoe Williams
    The TV presenter has said young people who can’t afford their own home should move to cheaper areas and stop wasting money. Why do the middle-aged insist on these senseless attacks, asks Zoe Williams

December 2021

  • Never Mind The Buzzcocks is a comedy entertainment show hosted by comedian Greg Davies, with team captains Noel Fielding and Daisy May -Cooper. The return of the irreverent music quiz with also see the return of its beloved rounds – intros, the line-up and next lines but with a few new bonus rounds and a host of trivia questions and clips thrown in. The tone remains anarchic and subversive in style, shining a light on the music industry and calling it to account. The home, the originator of panel shows where comedy and music merge in wonderful dis-harmony.

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    TV tonight: Never Mind the Buzzcocks comes over all festive

    Greg Davies plays Santa to guest elves Holly Johnson and Lauren Laverne in this seasonal special. Plus: Christmas at Castle Howard. Here’s what to watch this evening

June 2021

  • Notorious cold cases with Prof David Wilson and Emilia Fox ... In the Footsteps of Killers: The Murder of Rita Ellis, Channel 4.

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    TV tonight: reopening a 54-year-old murder cold case

    Emilia Fox and criminologist David Wilson investigate the killing of a teenage member of the RAF. Plus, chasing the drugs in Before We Die. Here’s what to watch this evening

March 2021

  • Composite of old TV sets with images of old TV shows (clockwise from top left) The Sopranos; Only Fools And Horses; Fawlty Towers; Relocation, Relocation; Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    ‘Grange Hill was bigger than Love Island’: the rise of nostalgia TV

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    TV tonight: Jared Harris stars as Capt Crozier in The Terror

November 2020

  • Kirstie Allsopp in Kirstie's Christmas: Quick and Easy

    TV review
    Kirstie's Christmas: Quick & Easy Craft review – deck the halls with DIY baubles

    Let Kirstie Allsopp into your home for this seasonal adventure in cosiness and nostalgia. Plus, you don’t even need to make a thing
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