Nanna Love: 50 Shades of Granny - TV Review

Shirley and Marge

Channel 5 is creating a bit of a niche in the unemployed and chav Britain documentaries with shows like ‘Benefit Britain: Life on the Dole’ ‘The Benefits Estate’ and ‘ASBO & Proud’. They also gave us Age Gap Love a demure look at younger suitors for the older lady but last night we were treated to Nanna Love: 50 Shades of Granny this time they crossed the pond to America.

To be absolutely honest, I sat through the programme and was not surprised with my reaction. I didn’t mind the old ladies looking for young love if they were happy. It was the granny chasers, I disliked. The two chasers they featured got my back up but it was the smug Kyle Jones who I found the most annoying.

Kyle Jones, regularly criss-crosses the USA visiting is granny girlfriends. One 92-year-old Marge was a picture of granny hood sitting in her granny chair knitting but she lit-up with the arrival of Kyle. Quickly dons lingerie, stockings, and suspenders (a garter belt for you Americans).

"The first time I met Marge," reported Kyle, "I was 28 and she was 87. I noticed her straight away and thought she was hot."

Kyle has multiple grannies on the go, ranging from their 60s to their 90s. "Wrinkles and cleavage to me is real sexy," he explained.

We see them out and about her looking as if she needed a Zimmer frame, she was so unsteady on her feet. Marge was or still is an erotic dancer and I shudder to imagine what the show would be like.

The highlight of the programme was the arrival of Shirley Andrews, if you can call it a highlight. The 80-year-old pensioner who resides in a retirement village, and enjoys knitting and crochet, regards herself as self-confessed cougar who has had sex with over 1,000 men, most over the seven years since she became a porn star.

We are included in the pairs intimate afternoon stroll in a local park were they disappear into the undergrowth and later in another spot where they are disturb by someone out for a walk. Kyle tells us Shirley is the one but they both have a problem as they both have multiple lovers with Shirley having five ‘boyfriends’ all under 30 and loves taking part in porn films she even has a tattoo circling her nipples that reads 'Gang Bang Queen'.

Others involved in the programme same to be happy 68-year-old widow Anna from Ohio has reignited her sexual passion since meeting adventurous Jones. They met on an online dating site a few years after her husband died – much to her daughters’ displeasure.

The response on social media was negative and shocked for the most part with a barrage of discussed.