I am totally sick and fed up with this!

I'm grateful to have my DH to hold hands with, one day one of us won't be there.

But I understand Phoenix that it irritates you. I hate seeing men with their trousers hanging half way down their bottom, also young women with their sleeves so long their fingers just poke out.

Hands or no hands, I love Location x 3. Last night's couples were both ineffable ordinary and rather boring as were the houses they wanted to buy and their budgets, for the area they were looking at. That's the joy of the program. It is real,'ordinary' people unlike the really peculiar people posing as ordinary that you get on so many other reality tv programmes

My mum and dad who were married 70 years bar one day always held hands when out and about they were not a chocolate box couple by any means and could bicker and argue as much as the next couple but they always did hold hands when out
I don’t watch those programmes and it does sound a bit pucky to see on tv screens if it’s nothing to do with the contents of the programme mind you if it’s just when they walk down the street maybe that’s what they naturally do

Thank you nina

I'm with you phoenix it's so false looking.

BTW H and I often hold hands when out. We have even been known to do it sitting watching TV but who would want to stand in front of a camera crew discussing moving a bathroom upstairs whilst holding hands

Likewise vq. DH and I hold hands regularly when we're out. I can't say I've noticed it on the property shows either. Bet I will now though.?

Oh dear, I have been misunderstood (again).

I have nothing wrong with couples holding hands, if that is what comes naturally to them, it's the awkward looking, walking down the street with the camera preceding them that riles!

Baggs and *Ana to respond to both of your comments in one post,

Baggs of course I could use the off switch, but I actually find the program quite interesting, apart from the aforementioned seeming forced hand holding for the camera!

Ana You say "what a strange thing to complain about" , I refer to up there ^^

We always hold hands. I've never noticed it on those programmes but maybe that's because it's natural to me.

Sorry but we have been together over 50 years and always hold hands. Why should we stop?

And why not? What a strange thing to complain about...

OH and I often take each other's hand when out and about. It's just natural to us.

It´s not only the property-for-sale programmes, it´s the politicians who get me. Mrs. May doesn´t do it and neither does Mrs. Merkel, but the Macrons in France and the Trumps in the US and the Obamas before them and the Bushes and so on. I mean, really? Is this what the public expect? Probably. Otherwise the tabloids would come down on them like a ton of bricks and suggest they were on the brink of divorce. I find it quite odd. OH and I don´t hold hands anymore. Unless we´re crossing a busy road.

Oh... so not totally sick and fed up with. I was misled by the thread title ?

That's us told then, phoenix

saunters off to pour a humming, 'Always look on the bright side of life, de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum.'

Exactly, I can't get exercised by such things , also I don't watch reality tv.

Locate the off switch and apply it.

Yep! We shout at the screen as well. I can forgive them on Escape To The Country because a free holiday is probably worth jumping through a few hoops to please the producer which, lets face it, is bloody difficult when you're holding hands.

But......Homes under the Hammer?? Really??

'You hold the nail dear and I'll hit it. What do you mean, I'm not left handed? Stand still!'

... and breathe.

Chill Phoenix.