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community newsUndercover PrincesFriday, 16 January 2009 No self-respecting REALBrightoner should miss the Undercover Princes! The idea is as simple as it is watchable. Three real live princes from India, South Africa and Sri Lanka are looking for love - but to make sure people don't just go for their money or titles they've gone undercover to protect their identities. It's a light-hearted fly-on-the-wall, but the stakes are serious! They're looking for wives, queens and, to make it really interesting, the shy-but-screaming Crown Prince Manvendra has come out as gay and is looking for a life partner... a ballsy thing to do given that homosexual acts carry a ten year prison sentence in India. We get to watch these three as they go about trying to pull in Brighton, as well as the banter that goes on between them in their shared terraced house. Prince Africa Zulu has already read out the often quoted "man shall not lie with another man" passage from the bible, but Prince Manvendra took it on the chin... but it didn't seem to phase him. Prince Remigius comes to the rescue with some more flattering clothes for him and we follow our gay prince to the Aquarium where he instantly gets hit on, and over to Revenge where (as well as spotting lots of familiar faces) we see him enjoying a friendly Brighton welcome. Yes - it shows some of the more salacious elements of gay life in Brighton (the Prince reads out some squirm-inducing personal ads from a gay dating site), but equally we see the seedier side of the straight scene as well... Although this is the first airing for the series - it looks like it was filmed quite a while ago... possibly something to do with the princes not wanting the footage hounding them until it's ancient history. It'll be interesting to see what REALBrightoners pop up on our screens over the coming weeks, and to see if any attitudes towards homosexuality will soften amongst the three princes. If you didn't catch it then crank up BBC iPlayer and watch it! your comments said by Samwell Oooh - loving it! My favourite bit of episode two, which was a corker, was Africa trying to tell Mani that "a lot of gay people will not approve of this ice-cream sucking" - and Mani's response, "I can have strawberry on me. I can have banana on me. It's my way of living". Fabulous!  said by btnian Same as jimmegee. I was cheerfully minding my own business whilst having lunch in Charles Street and Mani comes up and starts chatting.
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said by jimmegee
on Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 7:37pm
I was in Charles Street chowing down on a burger sometime in the summer (it was raining) when "Mani" came in and asked various punters where the groovy gay places to hang out were, bless him.
I am a little concerned by the fact that he claimed at the end of episode one he was "going bisexual". I wonder if we'll all be cheering him on by the end of the series?