These lot make our Friday nights (Picture: Channel 4)

The Gogglebox dream is officially over.

According to one of its stars (who wish to remain anonymous) the show is scripted, the jokes are fake and the whole caboodle is filmed in one night. In fact, we’re no longer convinced these funny people we’ve grown to love even know each other.

The Channel 4 show sees several families cracking out witty one liners as they watch the most popular TV shows of the past week – and apparently it’s all a lie.

The insider claims the cast are told which scenes warrant a big reaction and are made to change clothes and gorge on a week’s worth of snacks so it looks as though they’ve been filmed over the course of the week.




The source said: ‘We don’t film across the week. You set aside a night for filming and it can go on for hours.

‘We also keep changing clothes, food and drinks to make it look we’re filmed on different nights.

‘Sometimes we are told, “Louis Walsh is going to say something shocking on X Factor so we want you to react to that.”

‘If you can’t think of anything, the producers come up with a joke. If you fluff it they film it again.’

Steph and Dom Parker have been approached to star in their own show (Picture: C4)

The cast member also told the Daily Star that they were paid in food and drink for the first series and got around £600 for the second.

But a Channel 4 spokeswoman is having none of it. She said: ‘The Gogglebox cast are filmed for two to three nights per week.

‘We film them watching live television and some that has been recorded. The cast have received fees for their time on every series.

‘The production team do not influence the comments. The reactions are genuine.’

Confused? Yep, we are too.

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