EXCLUSIVE Britain's first reality TV couple and their happily ever after: A quarter of the population watched Marc and Karen's love blossom almost 40 years ago...
this is what happened next By Jenny Johnston Published: 12:14 EDT, 19 June 2024 | Updated: 12:35 EDT, 19 June 2024 e-mail 7 View comments Remember Spitting Image, the satirical puppet show that was one of the most-watched series of the 1980s? To be lampooned in latex on it, up there with Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and The Queen, meant you had arrived . You were not just a celebrity, but public property, for better or worse. Marc Adams-Jones and his wife Karen not only remember tuning in – but watching puppet versions of themselves on it.
‘It was quite funny, actually,’ remembers Karen, 60, who works in mental health nursing. Marc and Karen are still together today, almost 40 years after becoming the UK's first reality TV married couple on Desmond Wilcox's BBC show The Marriage ‘Our puppets were shown in bed, under the covers, then popping up and going: “How was that for you, love? That was fabulous.” I had a very strong Welsh accent.
Then, all of a sudden, Desmond pops up between us and says: “Can we do it again?”’ Marc, 66, an environmental health investigator, didn’t think much of his own puppet: ‘I think they’d just adapted the one they’d previously used for [the athlete] Daley Thompson. There was a big moustache.’ Desmond, of course, was the late Desmond Wilcox, the documentary .
