![]() A woman called Autumn arrived for a three-week stint referred to here as a “residency”, which made it sound like Celine Dion doing a concert run in Las Vegas. The comedy was in the gap between the fantasy and reality – the women posing for sultry website pictures, then sitting down in their stripper heels (and, boy, did the director love shots of those heels) for a natter and a McDonald’s Happy Meal while Kath put a wash on. It was an excuse for a fly-on-the-wall show portraying the sex trade as a bit of seaside postcard fun. Of course, that’s not really what it was about. Three individuals have been arrested on charges of operating a high-end brothel network in Massachusetts and Virginia with a clientele that included elected officials, military officers and. The hook for the programme was Kath and Jenni’s campaign to legalise brothels because, apparently, “this traditional business is more under threat than ever before”. The police turn a blind eye but the council could close them down at any time. While sex work is legal in England and Wales, brothels are not. Mother and daughter team Kath and Jenni run the massage parlour in the city’s red light district. So this was the television equivalent of copying a cleverer kid’s homework. The brothel in question, City Sauna in Sheffield, has already been the subject of a near-identical and slightly better Channel 4 film called A Very British Brothel. ![]() ![]() What was so very Yorkshire about the premises in A Very Yorkshire Brothel (ITV)? The accents? The fact they’re always putting the kettle on? Would you ever get a programme called A Very Warwickshire Brothel? Forgive me, but we Yorkshire folk can be touchy about these things.Īnyway, five minutes into the programme I realised why they’d come up with the title. ![]()
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