Being handcuffed to even your closest friends and family for any extended time would probably drive any of us insane, so it should be no surprise that people handcuffed to strangers end up getting into arguments with them.
Channel 4’s brand new reality TV show Handcuffed does exactly this, pairing up strangers from different walks of life to see how long they can last.
The UK show has some wild combinations, including a self-admitted prudish woman being handcuffed to a Gay OnlyFans creator, as well a self-declared ‘alpha male’ being handcuffed to a feminist.
Some of the combinations however saw conflict very early on, with a 79-year-old Baronet who was handcuffed to an ex-Prison officer shoving a director after they refused to give him his phone.
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In the newest TV episode however, released yesterday 9 March, one of the pairs end up uncuffing from one another after a heated confrontation.
Sara and Nina have struggled since more or less the beginning of the show, with Nina’s first impression of Sara being that she was ‘chatty, animated and slightly annoying’.
Sara is a 55-year-old mother of seven from Northamptonshire and Nina is a 42-year-old hairdresser from London, and the pair lasted just over a day handcuffed to one another.
The show’s £100k prize money goes to whichever pairing last the longest.
In the first episode Nina was forced to listen whilst Sara went to the toilet, with Sara mocking her and the cameras picking up her straining on the loo before a loud splash is heard.
Unsurprisingly this did not lead to Nina and Sara becoming best friends.
In the newest episode we pick back up with the pair, with Nina telling off Sara for leaving tissues on the ground in her flat, with narrator Jonathan Ross saying that she had been ‘nearly pushed to breaking point’.
After Nina asks her to be ‘mindful’ of the tissues she left around the flat, leading Sara to respond claiming it’s not hers and then saying: “I’m more OCD lovely than you will ever be when it comes to tidying.”
Tensions continue after Nina calls that ‘rude’, later saying: “You’re rude, you’re loud, you’re disrespectful, you’re messy.”
This continues as Nina and Sara argue over them pulling one another around, with Nina saying that ‘it’s so challenging, it’s really difficult’ putting up with Sara’s antics.
Things escalate even further when the London hairdresser go to take garbage to the chute, with the mum-of-seven saying: “Might bloody push you down the chute.”
On the walk back from this Sara yelps out before yanking on Nina, saying that she won’t allow her to ‘drag her around like an animal’.
She proceeds to tell Nina to ‘watch her back’, and eventually the pair end up in each other’s faces leading Sara to call for security, saying: “Can I have security in here please? She just got up close and personal in my face.”
The pair are then released from their handcuffs having lasted just over one day and six hours.
Handcuffed episode 1-3 is available to stream on Channel 4 now. Episode four airs on Channel 4 tonight, 10 March, at 9pm.
Topics: Channel 4, TV and Film, TV, UK News
Michael Slavin