Gogglebox’s Giles and Mary brutally critiqued The Masked Dancer as only they could

If anybody had said that a television show about ordinary people watching television and discussing the shows could ever be a smash hit, we’d probably have told them just to drive the taxi and cut the chat – but that’s what happened with Gogglebox.

One pair of viewers from the show, Northern Irish Mary and her public school-educated husband Giles, have become firm favourites for their *coughs* unusual outlook, which is perfectly illustrated by this recent clip.

Gogglebox Giles and Mary watching a dancing prawn being unveiled as Stacey Dooley in The Masked Dancer is somehow one of the most brutal criticisms I have ever seen on the show. pic.twitter.com/DBxZGnyQI6

— Nick Walker (@nickw84) September 25, 2022

“I would hate to be in a nursing home and have this on in the background and die to this.”

“Imagine if your last memory of this world was that prawn dancing.”

It’s completely on brand – and tweeters loved it.

Charles and Camilla are pretenders – this is the real King and Queen. https://t.co/aO4FCT9ay6

— Alex (@alexbreeze) September 25, 2022

As someone periodically forced to endure The Masked Nonsense, this tickled me. https://t.co/UD7M7nkvih

— Caroline Dodds Pennock (@carolinepennock) September 25, 2022