Former Prime Minister tapped up by TV bosses for fly-on-the wall documentary about life after Number 10
FORMER Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been offered his own fly-on-the-wall TV show.
Pitched somewhere between The Osbournes and Keeping Up With The Kardashians, it would see the Tory politician at work and play with his wife, Carrie and the rest of his family.
The potential deal comes after Boris was also offered a place on reality juggernaut I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! in 2023, which his spokesman turned down.
A TV insider said: “As unlikely as it sounds, an At Home With show has become a more realistic prospect for high-profile politicians ever since Jacob Rees-Mogg made his own one this year.
“Meet The Ress-Moggs was generally well received when it aired a few weeks ago on Discovery+ and Boris even got several name checks in that series. So producers have clearly adopted the nothing-ventured-nothing-gained approach and contacted the former premier on the off chance he might go for it.
“It just goes to show how, more than two years after leaving Downing Street, there’s still huge interest in BoJo. As well as being a politician, he has the profile and personality that makes him a celebrity in his own right.”
It’s not known which production company has approached Boris’s team, but there is hope that filming could start as early as next year.
Surprise projects
A bidding war would most likely break out between channels and streamers keen to buy up the rights to the show, and it’s believed Channel 4 and Netflix would be the parties most interested.
As well as Rees-Mogg, there have been several politicians who have taken on surprise TV projects.
The most obvious are former Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Reform MP Nigel Farage who went on I’m A Celebrity in 2022 and 2023.
A spokesman for Boris declined to comment on his latest TV offer.
Perfect error for Judi
JUDI Love thought she had a stalker when This Christmas director Richard Curtis sent her a gift.
The Loose Women star reveals on Big Fat Quiz Of The Year 2024 – airing tonight at 9pm on Channel 4 – how Richard gave her a Love Actually keyring which referenced a scene from his 2003 romcom.
She tells comic Rob Beckett: “I thought it was a stalker.
“I got the gift and I didn’t know who it was from and I called the police. I got my front doors changed, changed my locks.
“I didn’t know his signature. And the keyring said ‘To me, you are perfect’.”
Host Jimmy Carr laughs: “So someone said ‘To me, you’re perfect’ and you went, ‘Well, this guy’s clearly a nutter’.
Maya’s panel so classy
THE MASKED Singer’s panel have spilled the beans on new judge Maya Jama.
The Love Island – who is stepping into Rita Ora’s shoes on the ITV1 show – will be seen for the first time on the new series next Saturday.
And Maya has been a big hit with the show’s old hands.
Jonathan Ross revealed: “Maybe I send her too many funny Instagram links. We swap music and have a gossip.”
Mo Gilligan shared: “Maya knows a lot of people because she’s been in the business a long time.”
And newly blonde Davina McCall added: “She’s gone in at the deep end and is smashing it!”
Maya added: “I’ve found it really fun – I never know what’s going to happen each day, it’s been such a laugh.
“It did feel like the first day at school vibes. They are all legends in their own fields and each show felt like I was at the coolest school ever.”
DIANE'S ORDEAL
LAS Vegas certainly lived up to its rowdy reputation when Diane Morgan filmed her mockumentary Cunk On Life.
I can reveal that heavies had to step in after the actress was almost attacked on the streets of Sin City.
Diane, whose one-off special airs on BBC Two on Monday, said: “It was so busy, and everyone’s naked and p***ed.
“I was there in my tweed coat, looking like a lunatic.
“And one guy, as we were filming, made eye contact with me.
“Then I caught his eye, and he came over to me, this drunken guy. He was going to go for me and the security guys launched at him.”
Diane added that things felt so tense, she worried she was “going to get shot at”.