It must be tricky for a comedian to be upstaged by his own mother, but when Romesh Ranganathan brought mum Shanthi along to film travel series Asian Provocateur, she stole every scene.
And he, and the nation, loved it. The pair live a stone’s throw from one another in Crawley, south west of London, and now that his mum is a bit of a celebrity herself (she’s very excited to be interviewed, much to the enjoyment of Romesh), he’s enlisted her to star in almost all of his shows.
And it’s clear she wears the trousers. She’s starred on Judge Romesh, joined him for her dream American road trip and now she’s on the second series of The Ranganation, the premise being Romesh asks topical questions to a whole host of different people, celebrities and
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