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Ross Kemp

If anyone’s been watching Ross Kemp In Afghanistan, you’ll probably know what I mean by that headline.

Here we have a former EastEnders actor putting himself squarely in the firing line (literally) by joining up with the Army in Afghanistan. It’s a surprisingly good programme, which is both interesting and also quite sad - to hear from some of the soldiers’ family members on how they feel about their son/husband/dad going to war is quite unsettling.

The thing that truely surprised me was how dangerous it must have been for Ross Kemp to be there. Before the series began I envisioned him seeing battle from a far distance and possibly riding in a tank or something, but instead we see him nearly getting shot! It must have been brown trousers time for him on more than one occassion, but I can also imagine that the actual soldiers might have been a little pissed off about having to make sure some luvvie didn’t end up getting killed.

The show is running off the back of Ross Kemp On Gangs, which, as the title would suggest, was Ross Kemp meeting gangs. He did meet some very dangerous people during the making of that programme - one gang in fact set him on fire as part of a welcoming ceremony (something even Wimbledon probably wouldn’t have attempted back in the Crazy Gang days)!

Getting back to the Afghanistan thing though, it makes you remember that there’s still fighting going on there. We very rarely hear anything on the news, or read anything in the papers about it, but watching this reminds you that it is all still very real.

If you haven’t seen Ross Kemp In Afghanistan yet, it’s on Sky One at 9pm on Monday (and repeated about a billion times on Sky Two and Sky Three throughout the week).

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