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WHERE WERE YOU WHEN Eurotrash first hit our screens - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity WHERE WERE YOU WHEN Eurotrash first hit our screens By You Magazine - July 28, 2019 The show pushed the boundaries, remembers its voiceover artist Maria McErlane. My first impression of Channel 4’s Eurotrash was, ‘How on earth will they get away with this filth?’ There were so many boobs, bums, naked Germans and poo enthusiasts, it felt far too racy for British television. Antoine De Caunes (left) and Jean-Paul Gaultier presented the Friday night show. Image: Channel 4. The show was conceived to throw light on the amusing pastimes of our European chums. It featured short filmed segments of the more outré areas of life, linked by French hosts Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier, while garish graphics flashed and scantily clad dancers twirled around the studio for no apparent reason. Antoine presented a segment called Sit on Me, where a half-naked model or porn star would do exactly that and jiggle up and down on his lap while a plinky-plonky jingle played in the background. Different times, eh? Eurotrash’s genius idea was to revoice the original language of filmed participants into English but with very strong regional dialects. For example, a dubious-looking fella discussing his passion for dressing as an adult baby was somehow more acceptable – and accessible – when delivered in a broad Brummie accent. While the dubbed script had to reflect what was being said, any elements of sleaze were eliminated with humour and a cheeky postcard bawdiness. It was cheap yet titillating television that just about managed to dupe the regulators. Laughing at funny foreigners today would be considered unacceptably xenophobic. There was certainly an air of smug Empire-esque superiority about the crazy antics of many of the participants – pointing and sneering at the sort of things we Brits would never do (yet very much enjoyed watching when we got back from the pub). Cult viewing it may have been, but it spawned many copycat programmes over the years. Did it change the nature of British TV? Possibly – but not necessarily in a good way. Also that month… ImageSPACE/REX/Shutterstock Sydney was chosen to host the 2000 Summer Olympics. The leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Yasser Arafat, signed the first Oslo peace accord with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (Will Smith) scored a number one hit with ‘Boom! Shake The Room’. Members of the Anti-Federalist League formed the UK Independence Party (UKIP). One Direction star Niall Horan (above) was born in Mullingar, Ireland. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved