Romesh Ranganathan’s new show Parents Evening came under fire moments after landing on ITV screens with its first episode.
The new series began on Saturday night and featured a host of familiar faces including Alison Hammond and her son Aidan, Carol Vorderman with her son Cameron and Iain Stirling with his mother Alison.
The family duos came together He had to guess how many questions the other could answer correctly, giving viewers insight into celebrity-parent relationships.
But Romesh’s project quickly came under fire after fans decried the questions’ rapid disappearance from the screen.
Some viewers were upset about not being able to play at home and complained about the excessive screen time on the contestants’ faces, commenting on X:
Romesh Ranganathan’s new show Parents Evening came under fire moments after landing on ITV screens with its first episode (pictured last month).
The new series began on Saturday night and featured a host of familiar faces including Alison Hammond and her son Aidan (pictured on the show), Carol Vorderman with her son Cameron and Iain Stirling with his mother Alison.
‘#ParentsEvening keep the questions on screen!’;
‘Do you think about only 3 episodes of this series? #Parentsevening #RomeshRanganathan I just need Romesh and the contestants’ faces in mini screenshots at the bottom of the screen to allow the questions to stay on the screen longer. Too many cuts from main question options.
‘#ParentsEvening quiz shows usually try to let the viewer at home get the answers, but in this case the questions weren’t on screen long enough for us to try’;
‘Obligatory tweet about the new game show: like #ParentsEvening. Yes, the questions should stay on the screen somehow and it’s annoying that they don’t, but you can fix that. I like the format and everything works differently. So far, so good…’;
And that wasn’t the only reason the ITV show came under public criticism, as fans were also shocked by Alison Hammond’s ‘heartless’ comments to her son Aiden.
However, Alison apparently lacked faith in her knowledge of her offspring and while some at home criticized the broadcaster, others were left hysterical.
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While others saw the funny side: ‘Alison Hammond basically saying her son doesn’t know any of the answers makes me laugh’: ‘Haha, brilliant isn’t it? It’s very good to see her with her son, you see how good their bond is.’ : ‘Alison Hammond is wild.’
The family duos had to guess how many questions the other could answer correctly, giving viewers insight into parent-celebrity relationships.
But Romesh’s project quickly came under fire after fans decried the questions’ rapid disappearance from the screen.
Viewers of ITV’s Parents Evening also branded Alison Hammond, 49, “savage” for her callous comments made to her 19-year-old son Aidan.
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Alison shares Aidan with her ex-husband Noureddine Boufaied.
Meanwhile, Romesh recently opened up about how his focus on comedy career almost ruined his marriage.
The Weakest Link host, 46, shared that he and his wife, Leesa, had to work hard to “be truly in love again.”
He explained that his marriage suffered because he put all his energy into his career, leaving very little time for his wife and three children.
Speaking to Gabby Logan for her The Mid-Point (MUST) podcast, he said: “I lived up to the stereotype of ‘I delivered too little’. You’re in and you’re out. I often felt exhausted from working or touring.
‘And he would come back and he just wasn’t very good as a person. My talk wasn’t very good. I would just plop down on the couch.
“You can say you’re tired, that’s fine, but you need to put in some effort and that definitely got away from you.” He sighed: ‘The truth is that you get caught up in things. You have to value the person who is at home more.
‘It’s been months. if not most of the year, when they talk to each other for functional reasons. ‘What will happen to the children tomorrow…’ and those are all your conversations.
“This is what happened to Leesa and me. We stopped investing in our relationship.”
Meanwhile, Romesh, 46, shared that he and his wife, Leesa, had to work hard to “be truly in love again” during a recent candid conversation (pictured with Romesh and Leesa at the TV Awards 2021).
