Are you sure this isn’t some sort of cool rebrand? “Watch the original show back and were all pretty much in their 20s they just dressed older,” Clark-Neal laughs.
It’s not a life-changing show,” he adds, its basic premise – low stakes and transformation of the mundane – slotting alongside other gameshows such as ITV’s arcade game writ large, Tipping Point.Īs we continue to wander around the set, however, I can’t help but notice that the new contestants are all surprisingly young, and that actually there’s at least two potential six-packs. It’s a show that anyone can take part in, you don’t have to be fit with a beautiful six-pack, you haven’t got to be incredibly intelligent. “I just think we all need a bit of fun in our lives. “Everything’s shit at the minute, let’s be honest,” he smiles. Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstockĭespite the show migrating from that original afternoon slot on ITV – where it aired between 19, and then again for six months in 2007 – to the evening lineup on ITV2, Clark-Neal is adamant the show’s slightly naff charm remains. A contestant said ‘£50 Dale’ the other day,” – hopefully while struggling to peel the sticker off an inflatable jukebox to reveal a cash bonus – “which was the biggest compliment of my career.”ĭale Winton in the original Supermarket Sweep. When people watch, they’ll feel Dale’s still a part of it because of the terminology we’re using. “This is his show and it will always be his show,” he says, “but if I can fill even an inch of his shoes then I’ll be very happy.
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And the store manager – a lanky, sweet-smelling configuration of teeth and bronzer – is none other than reality TV star-turned-ubiquitous presenter Rylan Clark-Neal.įor most people, the original Supermarket Sweep – which involved six contestants, typically named Karen, Lynne, Val or Neil, answering questions about supermarket-adjacent things before going “wild in the aisles” while dressed in bright sweaters – will for ever be associated with two things: sofa-bound school sick-days, and being overseen by the late Dale Winton (pictured, right), whose tradition of fake tan and effortless camp Clark-Neal continues.
Despite the presence of tills, a self-service checkout, a security guard, fully stocked shelves and branded bags for life, this isn’t a real supermarket at all, but the set for the return of classic 1990s gameshow Supermarket Sweep. “I would say it’s like being in Tesco if they were running a club night,” the store manager tells me as we walk up and down its aisles, every product – from the pick’n’mix to the tinned foods – bathed in a headache-inducing glow of pink, blue and yellow lighting. N estled in among a maze of new-build houses in Maidstone, Kent, sits a very different kind of supermarket.
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