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From Mark Wright in Snowdonia to Anton and Gio in Spain – haven’t we suffered enough from male celeb travel shows?

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Stop! You there! Are you a man of a certain age who enjoys staring off into the middle distance? Do you wish to exhibit your mid-life male bonafides but wish not to merely stuff a sock down the front of your trousers and call it a day? Were you also very famous 10 or 15 years ago? The navel-gazing travel show may just be the answer for you.

Throw a dart at a copy of the and you will inevitably land on one of numerous new holiday programmes presented by celebrities with no have road-tripped through France, Scotland, Finland and Greece. Italy has come under sustained attack: made tiramisu there, ’s Giovanni Pernice and Anton Du Beke raced each other in three-wheeled taxis in Sicily, and his daughter Dani have sampled the country’s eateries (“Not as good as Pizza Hut,” the older Dyer grumbled). Between all of this and Brexit, Europe surely has even more reason to despise us.

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