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Jan 18, 2012

Take Me Off — I’ve got a criminal record

You may well have seen the recent media furore about people with a criminal record being “allowed” to appear on the popular TV show Take Me Out. I wrote about a similar issue (at that time, it was the ITV show Red or Black) back in September 2011,

Got a record? Forget winning a gameshow then!

The recent media furore (seemingly fuelled quite a bit by the coverage in the Mirror) around Nathan Hageman, who won the £1 million prize on the first show of ITV’s new (rather pathetic) gameshow, Red or Black, has touched on a number of fundamental…