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Reality-TV's Here! And It Ain't Pretty!
NEWS REPORTS
Jerry Springer meets the Ozzy Osbournes, Coronation Street comes to Southall?
　
Meet the Grewals - a British family who agreed to be filmed 24 hours a day for a "ground-breaking new documentary". With three generations under one roof, they will become the first British Asian household to feature in a fly-on-the-wall reality show.
The three generations of Britons star in the second series of British Channel 4's The Family.
The series will include the birth of a child as well as the colourful Indian wedding of Mandeep Grewal, known as Sunny (the "House Joker"), and his girlfriend Gursharonjit, or Shay.
Sunny, 33, and Shay, 24, were wed at the registry office in 2005 but the ‘traditional‘ ceremony is great TV.
But Shay is emotional as she tells of being disowned by her family. She says: "My mother didn't want me to be with Sunny. I haven't spoken to her for five years. If I had been dying she wouldn't know."
A recruitment consultant with the City, daughter-in-law Shay has been with the Grewals since falling out with her mum.
Sunny, a dyslexic, dreams of being a film director.
Dad Arvinder, 54, of Windsor, Berkshire, is a joke-loving former actor with traditional views. He is shown ordering wife Sarbjit to make him food as he watches TV at home in Windsor - like an Asian version of The Royle Family's Jim. But they share lighter moments in the series, starting next month.
Nairobi-born and a lively, upbeat head of the household with some forthright views, Arvinder says: "It is how I run my family in my house."
His missus Sarbjit, 55, is a couch potato. Born in India and wed to Arvinder for 35 years, she shows her love in her cooking.
There's also son Tindy, 23, seen sneaking back after partying. He talks a lot about girls but claims he is a virgin.
During the series, daughter Gurdip/Kaki, 32, and hubby Jeet, 36 - a puppeteer and actor who gave up Bollywood to be in England with Gurdip - have their second child, son Jaskaranjeet. The birth is a series highlight.
Their first, Bhavika, 2, is the first grandchild in the family and simply the apple in everyone's eye; she is fussed over by all.
The ‘documentary', depicting the Grewals as they go about their lives around the clock, starts on November 4, 2009.
[Based on reports from The Sun and Mark Jeffries of The Mirror]
October 15, 2009