CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews this weekend's TV: These shameless show-offs were in their element amid Rome's splendour By Christopher Stevens Published: 20:02 EDT, 26 May 2024 | Updated: 20:26 EDT, 26 May 2024 e-mail View comments Rob And Rylan's Grand Tour (BBC2) Rating: Pay attention. This is a basic lesson in how to be a celeb. You'll never make the A-list if you don't learn the difference between 'peacocking' and 'boating'.
Strutting between the fountains of Rome, the city they called 'a narcissist's paradise', Rylan helpfully explained the finer points of showing off to Rob Rinder, on their Grand Tour. 'Peacocking,' he said, 'is when you try and lord it about, just to prove to everyone what you are.' Boating was rhyming slang, he explained, a term for flashing your wealth and swaggering as though everyone knows your 'boat race', or face.
Rob and Rylan have been boating with a vengeance ever since they arrived in Italy, and I'm not talking about their gondola ride in Venice As they arrived in Rome for the final episode of their arts-and-sparkles travelogue, they were riding in a horse-drawn carriage Read More CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Vicky McClure's terrific as a woman on the edge in this ominous thriller If I've understood him right, peacocking is a way of getting noticed, boating is for those who are already sure of being seen. Rob and Rylan have been boating with a vengeance ever since they arrived in Italy, and I'm not talking about their gondola rid.