Reggie Yates Explains How His BBC Drama ‘Make Me Famous’ Explores The Perils Of Reality TV

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Jake Kanter International TV EditorIn a world in which two Love Island contestants and the show’s host, Caroline Flack, have died by suicide, the questions about the duty of care on reality TV shows have never been louder.

Parliamentarians have held an inquiry, networks and producers have worked up duty of care charters, and now, dramatists are fixing the issue in their creative glare.Reggie Yates has been a presenter on British television for 18 years, and although he has never hosted a purist reality show, some of the formats he has fronted have reality elements, including The Voice UK and Release The Hounds.

In short, he knows this world and it felt like fertile ground for his first TV drama. “I am uniquely placed to tell the story, as.