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How to Save a Grand in 24 Hours: it’s Queer Eye – but with lint rollers

Anna Richardson and team help couples save money with some intriguing life hacks, in a show that will have you reaching for the bicarbonate of soda

Channel 4 has realised something, and that is: Anna Richardson giving people a firm, fair talking to makes for great TV. That explains the enduring success of Naked Attraction, which arrived five years ago as a sort of Eurotrash-style curio – “Really?” we said. “Cocks out and everything?” – and has evolved into a fixture of ambient, late-night, “no-don’t-turn-it-over” TV. Now she’s back, telling kind British families with credit card debt to stop spending £1,300 a month in Tesco, and guess what: it’s good TV again.

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