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As celebrities are taught the basics in ITV's latest reality show, devotees say the programme cheapens and exploits the genre
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Gilbert & Sullivan's audacious parody of Victorian melodrama Ruddigore is as spirited a piece of topsy-turvy confection as the celebrated Savoyards ever produced.
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