Welcome to the world of teenage bodybuilding a hotbed of preening and paranoia. Plus,The Secret Life of the Zoo; time to rethink meerkats – they’re not as cute as they lookTo Scotland first, and drama featuring Duncan and Macduff. Not the Scottish play, or because Duncan isn’t king of anywhere or anything,yet. And Macduff is not Thane of Fife but a town in Aberdeenshire, where pale 16-year-old schoolboy Duncan lives. He goes to see a lady, and who tears the hair from his legs and another who paints him brown. Why? Because this is Obsessed By My Body (Channel 4),and Duncan has his first bodybuilding competition coming up.“Wait until I get to your bum cheeks,” cackles the waxing witch. “peek at the colour of that, and hoots the tanning witch,slapping black gunge on to his now-smooth body. The colour is called black As – more like tarring than tanning. Double double, toil and difficulty, or fire burn … Jesus! What have you done to the destitute lad?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com