Romesh Ranganathan‘s new show Parents Evening was criticised just moments after landing on ITV‘s screens with its first episode.
The brand new series kicked off on Saturday evening, bringing in a slew of familiar faces including Alison Hammond and her son Aidan, Carol Vorderman with her son Cameron, and Iain Stirling with his mum Alison.
The family duos teamed had to guess how many questions the other could answer correctly, giving viewers insights into celebrity parental relationships.
But Romesh’ project was quick to come under fire after fans called out the rapid disappearance of questions from the screen.
Some viewers were left annoyed for not being able to play the game at home and complained about too much screen time on the contestants’ faces, commenting on X:
Romesh Ranganathan’s new show Parents Evening was criticised just moments after landing on ITV’s screens with its first episode (pictured last month)
The brand new series kicked off on Saturday evening, bringing in a slew of familiar faces including Alison Hammond and her son Aidan (pictured on the show), Carol Vorderman with her son Cameron, and Iain Stirling with his mum Alison
‘#ParentsEvening keep the questions on screen!’;
‘Think just 3 episodes in this series ??? #Parentsevening #RomeshRanganathan Just need Romesh and contestants faces in mini screen shots at bottom of screen allow questions stay on screen longer too many cut aways from main question options hint hint series 2 changes’;
‘#ParentsEvening quiz shows are usually about letting the home viewer guest the answers but in this case the questions weren’t on screen long enough for us to have a go’;
‘Obligatory new game show tweet – I’m liking #ParentsEvening. Yeah, the questions should stay on screen somehow and it’s annoying that they don’t – but they can fix that. I like the format and it all works otherwise. So far, so good…’;
And that was not the only reason the ITV show was publicly slammed, as fans also raised eyebrows about Alison Hammond’s ‘ruthless’ comments to his son Aiden.
However Alison seemingly lacked faith in her offspring’s knowledge and while some at home slammed the broadcaster, others were left in hysterics.
Taking to X some fumed: ‘C’mon Alison give Aidan a chance poor lad‘: ‘For f**** sake Alison, poor lad’: ‘Alison Hammond really should place more confidence in her son’s abilities’.
While others saw the funny side : ‘Alison Hammond basically saying her son doesn’t know any of the answers has me cackling’: ‘Haha brilliant isn’t she, very good watching her with her son you see how good her bond is’: ‘Alison Hammond is savage’.
The family duos teamed had to guess how many questions the other could answer correctly, giving viewers insights into celebrity parental relationships
But Romesh’ project was quick to come under fire after fans called out the rapid disappearance of questions from the screen
ITV ‘s Parents Evening viewers also branded Alison Hammond, 49, ‘savage’ for her ruthless comments she to made to son Aidan, 19
Taking to X some fumed: ‘C’mon Alison give Aidan a chance poor lad’: ‘For f**** sake Alison, poor lad’: ‘Alison Hammond really should place more confidence in her son’s abilities’
Alison shares Aidan with ex husband Noureddine Boufaied.
Meanwhile Romesh has recently opened up about how his focus on comedy career almost wrecked his marriage.
The Weakest Link presenter, 46, shared that he and his wife, Leesa, had to work hard at ‘being really in love again.’
He explained that his marriage suffered because he poured all his energy into his career, leaving very little time for his wife and three children.
Speaking to Gabby Logan for her podcast The Mid-Point (MUST), he said: ‘I lived up to the ‘delivered very little,’ stereotype. You are in and out. Often I would be knackered from working or being on tour.
‘And I’d come back in and just not be very good as a person. My chat wasn’t very good. I would just slump on the sofa.
‘You can say you’re tired, fine, but you need to be making a bit of an effort and that definitely slipped.’ He sighed: ‘The truth is you get caught up in stuff. You’ve got to appreciate the person who is at home more.
‘There have been months. if not the best part of a year, when you are talking to each other for functional reasons. ‘What’s happening with the kids tomorrow…’ and those are all your conversations are.
‘This is what happened to Leesa and I. We stopped investing in our relationship.’
Meanwhile Romesh, 46, shared that he and his wife, Leesa, had to work hard at ‘being really in love again’ during a recent candid chat (pictured Romesh and Leesa at the TV Awards 2021)
