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My choice for Pick of the Week this week is the BBC2 documentary How Michael Portillo Becarne a Single Mum. I think this is probably the best programme I’ve scen all ycar.

! don’t usually choose to watch reality TV, but the titłe intrigued me and 1 wanted to find out morę. And I wasn*t disappointed; it was fascinating to see the private face of such a public man.

For those of you who didn’t see it, Michael Portillo volunteered to step into single mum, Jenny Miner’s shoes

for a week. to łook aftet ner house and hor kid? and to take over at her two part-time jobs.

As a 'reasonably rich* MP, Michael Portillo is obviously used to a very different lifestyle in London. He never cooks or cleans or does the shopping - he pays someone else to do all that for him. And he doesnh have any children.

So life as a single mum is going to be a real eye-opener. Jenny Miner has four children, the oldest is eleven and the youngest is cight. Every day, Monday to Friday, she drives the kids to school and then she goes to work at her two part-time jobs, one as a classroom assistant and one as a supermarket cashier - and she doesn’t pay anyone to do her housework for her!

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