McKeith Alert

Good lord. There we were, expecting the new series of Shameless to be Tuesday’s pick of the TV, and then wham! Dreadful dietary dwarf Gillian McKeith popped out of the box and started chasing the general public round a shopping centre, taunting them with vials of salt and test-tubes of gastric juices, bearing more than a passingl resemblance to the minute, red-anorak-clad killer from Don’t Look Now. Like a violent version of Delia Smith mixed with an angry Jim Henson fraggle, Gillian is a truly terrifying creation and we rather quite like her.