Well I realise I’m a little late to jump onto the ‘reality TV bad’ bandwagon. But after watching Channel 4 on Saturday I’m going try to catch up with that there stagecoach.

I happened to have the misfortune to pick up on a show called Playing It Straight. Now, I think it was a repeat (which makes my heart sink further), and from what I could gather the point of the game show was this:

A load of gay men pretend to be straight so they can make a female contestant fall for them (or at least they must flirt with her) so she pick them thinking they will share the prize, but instead she will have been duped and they will scoop $100,000.

Let’s go through that one more time.

Gay men try and trick someone into thinking they are straight so they can profit to the tune of $100,000.

But we shouldn’t forget the entertainment value.

I mean imagine thinking a gay man was straight. What a ridiculously amusing concept. And since I think there are a couple of straight men in there as well there’s the added hilarity of mistaking a straight man for being gay. Someone call a doctor, my sides are going to split. No wait, they have already, I think that was my gay pride escaping through my abdomen Alien style.

It's not often that I get bothered by reality TV - because quite a lot of the time I can't be bothered with reality TV. So it's reassuring that somewhere deep down within me still lurks something akin to a soul.

Here’s the website - decide for yourself is you think I’m being histrionic.