Viewers of Gone to Pot were cracking up last night at the moment Pam St Clement smoked a spliff with a group of nuns.
It was the highlight of what seemed on the surface like a really bizarre concept for a TV show – perhaps dreamed up after a few too many dodgy substances!
Whoever would have thought that sending Pam St Clement (Pat Butcher from EastEnders), Linda Robson, John Fashanu, Christopher Biggins and darts player Bobby George on a psychedelic bus tour getting high around America would make great TV?
Whichever ITV creative it was, they were bang on the money as fans flocked to watch the stars in this documentary.
And they took to Twitter in their droves to call it “TV gold” and “The greatest TV ever.”
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The highlight of the piece was undoubtedly the surreal sight of Pat Butcher tucking into a freshly rolled joint in the company of a group of nuns.
The nuns – known as the Sisters of the Valley – grow cannabis at their farm in California, and use some of the products to create medicines.
They’re also partial to rolling some up to smoke, which is where Pam got involved.
After ex-footballer John Fashanu declined, fearing for its effects on his personality, and Christopher Biggins also passed due to asthma, Pam grabbed the joint and took a puff.
She said: “That first puff with the nuns, after a few minutes you just get a lovely relaxed feeling.
Later in the show, at an art class where getting high was encouraged to promote creativity, Pam again took a big hit from a bong – a glass tube used for smoking marijuana.
And this time she hilariously said: “I thought I was taking a little bit, but obviously I wasn’t. I got the most extraordinary fit of giggles.”
During a dinner where marijuana was an ingredient, Christopher Biggins, unable to smoke, took some by eating it in ice cream and ended up getting so unwell he had to go to bed.
He said he was experiencing dry “cotton mouth” and zoned out so far he couldn’t respond to any of his celebrity mates, to the delight of viewers at home.
The documentary did have a serious side – it was aiming to find out how medical marijuana could be helpful, after becoming legalised in certain places in the USA, and all of those taking part had conditions that reports suggest could be eased by taking marijuana.
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It was really perfect TV – both informative, entertaining and hilarious. We can’t wait to see what happens in the rest of the series.