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Daisy Wyatt

@daisy_wyatt

Daisy Wyatt is writer and TV columnist for the i paper; previously digital culture news editor

Features

What's it like to work as a hot cross bun tester?

Ross Kemp's Britain
Reviews

Ross Kemp's Britain, Sky 1 - TV review: A hard-hitting documentary

King of the hill: Max Vento plays Joe in 'The A Word'
Reviews

The A Word, BBC1 - TV review: A drama overshadowed by the soundtrack

Features

What's it like to work as a gynaecologist?

Sarah Lancashire as Catherine Cawood
Reviews

Happy Valley, BBC1 - TV review: Never veered into soapy sensationalism

In the hot seat: Barack Obama and his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, in the Oval Office in 2009
Reviews

Inside Obama's White House,BBC2 - TV review

Fashion & Beauty

12 best plus-size bras

Love & Sex

What's it like to work as a matchmaker?

Home truths: the Ashby-Hawkins, with Giles Coren (centre), in 'Back in Time for the Weekend'
Reviews

Back in Time for The Weekend, BBC2 - TV review

Losing the plot: Michael Socha doesn't cut much of a hero as Lewis
Reviews

The Aliens E4 - TV review: A dystopian world with modern trappings

Features

Meet the woman who drinks 70 glasses of wine a day for a living

Born To Be Different
Reviews

Born to Be Different, Channel 4 - TV review: A life-affirming watch

Metal gurus: Lyndsay and Terry Walker in 'Scrappers - Back in the Yard'
Reviews

Scrappers - Back in the Yard, BBC2 - TV review

Reviews

Scrappers - Back in the Yard, BBC2 - TV review

Metal gurus: Lyndsay and Terry Walker in 'Scrappers - Back in the Yard'
Tech

What's it like to work as a special effects compositor?

James Norton as Sidney Chamber in ITV's new series Granchester
Features

James Norton on Christianity, Hollywood and 'posh actors'

Whiter shade of pale: the bedrooms are neutrally decorated
Hotels

Como The Treasury, Perth, Australia - hotel review

Lifestyle

How to earn a living as a couponer

Lifestyle

How to earn a living as a couponer

Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge in 'Mid Morning Matters'
Reviews

Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters, Sky Atlantic - TV review

Shady guy: Taylor Lautner and Greg Davies in 'Cuckoo'
Reviews

Cuckoo, BBC3 - TV review: Offbeat show heralds BBC3's online rebirth

Features

What's it like to work as a perfumer?

Channel 5's The Great British Benefits Handout
Reviews

The Great British Benefits Handout, Channel 5 - TV review

Kitchen sink realism: 'Happy Valley' is jam-packed with drama in every scene
Reviews

Happy Valley, BBC1 - TV review: Gritty, heart-wrenching and brilliant

The pledge to extend the NHS to a seven day service has proved controversial, with data about weekend deaths fiercely contested
Health News

Locum doctors and nurses accused of 'ripping off' NHS

Lifestyle

Inside the working world of a crime scene cleaner

Features

What's it like to work as a private investigator?

The pledge to extend the NHS to a seven day service has proved controversial, with data about weekend deaths fiercely contested
Health News

Locum doctors and nurses accused of 'ripping off' NHS

Lifestyle

Inside the working world of a crime scene cleaner

Features

What's it like to work as a private investigator?

Obsessed With My Body
Reviews

Obsessed with My Body, Channel 4 - TV review

Reviews

Obsessed with My Body, Channel 4 - TV review

Obsessed With My Body
Home truths: the Ashby-Hawkins, with Giles Coren (centre), in 'Back in Time for the Weekend'
Reviews

​Back in Time for the Weekend, BBC2 - TV review

Sugar Free Farm
Reviews

Sugar Free Farm, ITV - TV review: Mostly silly, but effective

Check them out: Bobby George, Rosemary Shrager, Roy Walker, Jan Leeming, Sylvester McCoy, Patti Boulaye, Wayne Sleep, Miriam Margolyes in 'The Real Marigold Hotel'
Reviews

The Real Marigold Hotel, BBC2 - TV review

Features

Meet the builder who'd never dream of wolf-whistling

Features

Meet the builder who'd never dream of wolf-whistling

BBC2's Barely Legal Grafters
Reviews

Barely Legal Grafters, BBC2 - TV review

Warning sign: Siddhartha Dhar featured in 'The Jihadis Next Door'
Reviews

The Jihadis Next Door, Channel 4 - TV review

Features

What's it like to work as a sewage flusher?

Stella
Reviews

Stella, Sky1 - TV review

Death becomes him: the master of manipulation returned in 'Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge'
Reviews

Pushed to the Edge, Channel 4 - TV review

Jenny Gilbert prefers not to wear a traditional top hat
Features

What's it like to work as an undertaker?

Jeremy Kyle
Reviews

The Kyle Files, ITV - TV review

The nature of the yeast: Annie Gray and Alex Langlands present 'Victorian Bakers'
Reviews

Victorian Bakers, BBC2 - TV review

Picasso is the most forged artists Dr Maza sees
Features

Inside the life of a painting authenticator

Christmas

What's it like to work as a Christmas tree light untangler?

Christmas tree farmer Hans Alexandersen
Christmas

What's it like to work as a Christmas tree farmer?

Christmas

What's it like to work as a Christmas tree farmer?

Christmas tree farmer Hans Alexandersen
James Corden in That's So Last Century
Reviews

That's So Last Century, Channel 4 - TV review

Deadly disorder: serial killer Joanna Dennehy was among the extreme personalities profiled
Reviews

Meet the Psychopaths, Channel 5 - TV review

Deputy prison governor Alli Black
Lifestyle

What's it like to work as a prison governor?

Power to the People, BBC4
Reviews

Power to the People, BBC4 - TV review

Power to the People, BBC4
Reviews

Power to the People, BBC4 - TV review

Sweet talk: The presenter was inspired by Swiss traditions
Reviews

Kirstie's Handmade Christmas, Channel 4 - TV review

Sex worker and fierce dominatrix Laura Lee
Love & Sex

What's it really like to work as a dominatrix?

The Truth About Child Sex Abuse
Reviews

The Truth about Child Sex Abuse, BBC 2 - TV review

Buttoned up: Andrew Gower (left) as Mark and Toby Jones as Roger in Capital
Reviews

Capital, BBC1 - TV review: A well-acted satire with a sinister touch

Board game tester Paul Grogan
Games

What's it like to work as a board game tester?

Footballers, Sex, Money: What's Gone Wrong?
Reviews

Footballers, Sex, Money: What's Gone Wrong? BBC3 - TV review

Medicine show: the White family featured in ‘Doctor in Your House’
Reviews

Doctor in Your House, Channel 4 - TV review

Lifestyles of the rich and famous
Features

What's it like to work as a nanny for the super rich?

Masterchef: The Professionals
Reviews

MasterChef: The Professionals, BBC2 - TV review

Case closed: Laurence Fox, Mali Harries, David Warner and Kevin Whately in 'Lewis'
Reviews

'Lewis' is dated, safe, predictable and will be sorely missed

Science Museum curator Emma Smith
Culture

What's it like to work as a museum curator?

Culture

What's it like to work as a museum curator?

Science Museum curator Emma Smith
Antony Gormley
Reviews

Imagine: Antony Gormley – Being Human, BBC: TV review

Up and running: 'The Secret Life of Four-Year-Olds'
Reviews

The Secret Life of Four-Year-Olds, Channel 4: TV review

The programme’s amateur potters, such as Sandra, are all nice, normal people, which makes for comforting viewing
Reviews

The Great Pottery Throw Down, review: Innuendo to match 'Bake Off'

Fashion

What's it like to work as a bra designer?

Fashion

What's it like to work as a bra designer?

Professional tea taster Nick Gandon samples up to 300 cups a day
Food and Drink

What's it like to work as a professional tea taster?

Reviews

Professor Green: Suicide and Me, TV review: an emotional documentary

Happy families: a rare moment of calm in Channel 4 romcom ‘Catastrophe’
Reviews

Catastrophe, TV review: the rudest romcom on television is back

The world of St George's Hospital is not all about baronets and Oxbridge wine sellers
Reviews

24 Hours in A&E, Channel 4 - TV review

Out and about: Mawaan Rizwan presented 'How Gay Is Pakistan?'
Reviews

How Gay is Pakistan? BBC3 - TV review

Health & Families

What's it like to work as a dog behaviourist?

JK Rowling is releasing a new Harry Potter story about Dolores Umbridge
Features

The Robert Galbraith story: How JK Rowling was uncovered

Educating Cardiff
Reviews

Educating Cardiff, Channel 4, TV review: Coral stole the show

Scandichic: Nicola Walker as 'Stevie' and Stellan Skarsgård as John River in 'River'
Reviews

River, BBC1, TV review: Hard to feel sorry for thisScandi-chic police

TV & Radio

Born in the Wrong Body, review: Sensitively handled and heartbreaking

Far right group Britain First protest against the Islamification of the UK
Reviews

We Want Our Country Back, review: Britain First have admirable tactics

Electro duo Disclosure perform at the Apple Music Festival on Friday 25 September
Reviews

Disclosure at Apple Music Festival - review

News

Netflix confirms Black Mirror series 3 will air on streaming service

Liv Tyler says she feels like a 'second class citizen' in Hollywood at the age of 38
News

Liv Tyler: 'I feel like a second class citizen in Hollywood aged 38'

Sam Smith has released his Spectre theme tune 'Writing's on the Wall' in full
News

Sam Smith releases Spectre theme tune in full

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark
News

Poldark filming disrupted by fans eager to see Aidan Turner

Liv Tyler says she feels like a 'second class citizen' in Hollywood at the age of 38
News

Liv Tyler: 'I feel like a second class citizen in Hollywood aged 38'

Sam Smith has released his Spectre theme tune 'Writing's on the Wall' in full
News

Sam Smith releases Spectre theme tune in full

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark
News

Poldark filming disrupted by fans eager to see Aidan Turner

Jeremy Irvine as lead character Danny in Stonewall
News

Stonewall director: Hero had to be 'straight acting' to appeal

Art assistant workers cover up with gold leaf to mask anti-Semitic graffiti on the vandalized sculpture "Dirty Corner" by British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor in the Versailles castle in Versailles, outside Paris, France. The controversial red trumpet-shape
News

Anish Kapoor's 'Dirty Corner' to be covered in gold leaf

The Strictly Come Dancing 2015 contestants
News

First official Strictly Come Dancing songs revealed

Baroness Karren Brady, Lord Alan Sugar and Nick Hewer are returning to judge the 20 new Apprentice candidates
News

Everything you need to know about the new Apprentice series

Narrated by a child, Millennium Children at times felt like an educational resource from a secondary school geography lesson
Reviews

Millennium Children, BBC1 - TV review

On song: Restless Symphony featured in 'The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone'
Reviews

The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone, BBC2: TV review

U2 perform at the MTV EMAs
News

U2 Stockholm concert evacuated due to unspecified 'security breach'

Jon Hamm with his Emmy for best actor
News

Jon Hamm finally wins best actor Emmy for Mad Men

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