FIRST LOOK The Neighbourhood

Meet the families and households...

ITV's brand new reality entertainment format, The Neighbourhood, hosted by Graham Norton, launches Friday 24th April on ITV1. It sees families and households compete in a street-sized popularity contest, battling it out for the chance to take home a life-changing £250,000 cash prize.

The Neighbourhood promises to be a gameshow as you’ve never seen it before, marrying high-stakes competition, neighbourhood challenges, and relatable domestic drama to offer a different flavour of reality.

The Neighbourhood will see real-life households from all walks of life move in and live side by side, finding themselves not only neighbours, but also fierce competitors in the ultimate reality showdown.

This is a game the households will live as well as play, as they’ll be with each other 24/7, sleeping and eating in their houses, socialising together and then voting each other out. The challenges they face in public will change the dynamics behind closed doors, and they’ll need to beat their neighbours while still staying popular on the street to win.

In The Neighbourhood, it’s not about keeping up with the Joneses, it’s about beating them!

Speaking about the contestants ahead of the series, Graham Norton said,"I think one of the unique things about this show is that, like a lot of reality shows, we begin with a cast of around twenty people and often it’s really hard to work out who anyone is! But actually, this is really easy because it’s only six households on day one and within that you then discover the different personalities."

"We have a traditional, multi-generational family, we’ve got blended modern families, we’ve got twin sisters and one of their girlfriends, we’ve got a university household where they’re flatmates, so the relationships are all different in each household."

"What I found fascinating was the unexpected bonding between different households. The Uni Boys, I thought - they’re so young, they’ve got nothing in common with the rest of these families but actually, everyone loved them! They played the game brilliantly. Everyone just adored those guys. And actually, it’s not just the households interacting with each other it’s the way the relationships within each household changed as the game was in play."

"There was one family who had fostered a lot of children, and suddenly [in entering the show] the original family were alone and you really saw the relationship between the kids and the parents shifting. That was great and I think that was one of the reasons why they wanted to be in the show, because they realised their kids were about to fly the coop and they wanted to spend time together."

"Equally, The Bradons, they’re siblings but there’s also the mother and then there’s a grandchild and it was really funny to see the way those siblings became almost like children in that situation."

It's time to meet the families and households...

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The Bradons

17-69 from Essex

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The Bradons are a household of five from Essex, across three generations. They’re made up of mum Faye-Marie, her daughter Alicia, sons Lucas and Nathan, and Nathan’s teenage son Zach.

Fay, 69, Teaching Assistant

Nathan, 45, Sales & Trading Director

Lukas, 37, School Head of Safeguarding

Alicia, 29, Sales & Marketing Manager

Zach, 17, College Student

What made you want to apply to The Neighbourhood?

Nathan: I think it was an opportunity for us all to be together, to spend that time intimately within the household because a lot of us are often away with work and things like that. We wanted that opportunity to have that time together, bonding and of course there was the opportunity to win £250,000 which would be very beneficial to all members of the family!"

You live together, so you know each other inside out. What makes you a good team?

Fay: Everybody’s characters.

Lukas: Going into this we think as a family we have varying degrees of knowledge, physical attributes - more so Zach and myself! We’d have Nathan who would talk quite a lot and try to lead from that aspect. Alicia for the humour.

What strategy and game plan do you have for the show?

Nathan: I think what is going to benefit us is that there are quite a few of us. There are a varying degree of skill sets and we all get on very well! I think that will help us to build as a team and do well.

What would you spend the £250,000 on if you won?

Zach: I want to get a new car! And I’m also thinking of going to university as well, so that will help a lot.

Nathan: You’ve got to pay for a wedding, Alicia.

Alicia: Yes! And Lukas has got to pay for a wedding as well.

Nathan: Mine would be a holiday to Ibiza.

Fay: I’m going to pay for an annex to be built. That’s what I would like to do with my money.

What non-negotiable household items are you bringing with you to The Neighbourhood to make your house a home?

Fay: Coffee machine.

Lukas: And a treadmill.

Nathan: Mum can’t live without her treadmill, so we’ll need to pack that and take it wherever we’re going. Alicia can’t live without her straighteners.

Alicia: Curlers, thank you!

Fay: And the mixer for making the cakes.

Alicia: Lukas will take dumbbells and some West Ham items!

Describe your family dynamic in three words.

Fay: Loving, supportive, real.

Lukas: Loving, supportive, loud.

Alicia: Entertaining, supportive, loyal.

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The Kandolas and Samra

24-57 from Bedfordshire

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The Kandolas and Samra are a blended family from Bedfordshire, made up of mum Sunita, her husband Tony, and Sunita’s son Ruben, the youngest of her three children.

Sunita, 52, Learning Support Advisor

Tony, 57, Business Development Manager

Ruben, 24, Hotel Bartender

What made you want to apply to The Neighbourhood?

Tony: We want to do our best to win the show so hopefully Ruben could move out!

Sunita: For me, it was really important to represent our community and to highlight we’re a blended family. Between us we’ve got six adult kids and grandchildren. We wanted to break away from the stigma that Asian women should be a certain way.

You live together, so you know each other inside out. What makes you a good team?

Tony: We have good banter between us!

Sunita: We’re able to have those open conversations, which is essential. Our communication is open. We’d already decided before we went in if there were any sort of challenges, Tony was always going to get nominated.

Tony: Ruben is the intelligent one.

Sunita: I’m a good cook!

Ruben: You’re the moral support, mum.

Tony: She’d have the samosas ready for when we got back!

What strategy and game plan do you have for the show?

Sunita: I was always really adamant we need to be ourselves.

Ruben: We’re very sociable!

What would you spend the £250,000 on if you won?

Sunita: Ruben would buy a house.

Tony: I’d spend it on a box at Arsenal.

Sunita: I’d make sure the children and everybody else was ok! And maybe start my little catering business.

Ruben: I thought we agreed I’d get all the winnings?!

What non-negotiable household items are you bringing with you to The Neighbourhood to make your house a home?

Tony: Our air fryer, badminton rackets, footballs.

Sunita: I brought my whole kitchen! All my Indian spices, my pots and pans, my dosa which you make chapati on and my rolling pin. I even took chapati flour! For me it was my home comforts, because I love cooking.

Ruben: I brought myself, because I wasn’t allowed to bring my Switch!

Describe your family dynamic in three words.

Sunita: Fun, honest and loud! That’s us in a nutshell.

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The Lozman-Sturrocks

29-72 from Darlington

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The Lozman-Sturrock household is a close-knit family from Darlington made up of Christine, her husband Dave, her son Jordan and Jordan’s wife Katie.

Katie, 29, Hairdresser

Jordan, 34, Oil Rig Worker

Christine, 72, Retired Waitress

Dave, 67, Retired Production Manager for a Lighting Company

What made you want to apply to The Neighbourhood?

Dave: To represent the older generation!

Christine: I’m growing old disgracefully. I’m still very, very competitive and that’s what I wanted to show. There is still life in us - we can still take part and have fun. Also, to represent the North! I wanted people to see we’re good people, kind and inclusive. When you get into your 70s, you don’t get many chances to do many firsts. We’re very sociable people and we love being with people.

Jordan: There’s not many people who get to experience what it is like to be cut off from the rest of the world and get to see what it is like to live with your family where you have nothing but conversation to keep you busy.

You live together, so you know each other inside out. What makes you a good team?

Dave: We’re all very competitive. We help each other out with things in general life. We’re always there for each other.

Christine: We have the same values, don't we? We all think the same.

What strategy and game plan do you have for the show?

Dave: We’re going to look at it from the point of view that any decisions we need to make, we’ll make them together. As it’s a new concept, we don’t know what it’s going to be like. I’m not a great watcher of reality television. It’s going to be an eye-opener for me!

Christine: I thought it was a great opportunity to spend time with my family away from everything else and see how we do, really.

What would you spend the £250,000 on if you won?

Dave: Probably some new vinyl records. Some really rare, Northern Soul records.

Christine: I’d go travelling while he’s at home playing his records! I’d be rolled in glitter in Ibiza. Nobody would know you were 72 if you’re on a podium rolled in glitter!

What non-negotiable household items are you bringing with you to The Neighbourhood to make your house a home?

Dave: I think I’m going to take one or two decks and I’ll probably take some vinyl as well. Hopefully give a good vibe!

Christine: My non-negotiables are accessories, especially lipstick and baking equipment - I love to bake for people.

Describe your family dynamic in three words.

Dave: Competitive.

Christine: Volatile! Loving.

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The Pescuds

18-55 from Cambridgeshire

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The Pescud family are from Cambridgeshire and are made up of Paul and Wendy, and their children, Grace and Harrison.

Paul, 51, Drug & Alcohol Service Manager

Wendy, 55, Foster Carer

Grace, 18, Student

Harrison, 25, Bakery Retail Assistant

What made you want to apply to The Neighbourhood?

Paul: We thought about it and we thought it’s going to be really interesting and something different to do. We don’t know anybody who has been on a reality programme. It was interesting and exciting, and especially as it was as a family.

You live together, so you know each other inside out. What makes you a good team?

Wendy: We are a very open type of family. We’re quite laidback.

Grace: That’s not the question!

Paul: I think what makes us a good team is that we are quite different in certain ways. We have, dare I say it, Harrison’s intelligence, Wendy has an awful lot of common sense, Grace is the interesting, exciting and bubbly one and I’m not quite sure what I bring to the table!

Wendy: As a family we’ve always come together. We love playing board games and card games. We like doing things together as a family. The idea of us all going on as a family felt quite secure, that we were altogether. We’ll go along and be ourselves and who we are.

What strategy and game plan do you have for the show?

Wendy: We want to stay under the radar.

Paul: We want to avoid the drama - be nice, friendly and welcoming.

Wendy: Just be ourselves.

What would you spend the £250,000 on if you won?

Grace: I would go travelling across the whole world - every continent.

Paul: If we were to win, Grace has already worked out the calculations of how much everyone gets - an equal share. For our part of it, one of our dreams has always been to have a campervan to travel around Europe. We’ve travelled quite a bit previously - that would be really, really exciting. Harrison, what car are you going to buy?

Harrison: One that I can spend all the money on! Mine would be towards a house deposit or potentially an engagement ring for my girlfriend.

Wendy: A knee replacement while I’m in the Caribbean recovering. Me and Paul always said about travelling around Europe, that would be amazing. And to help my kids have a start in life, that was a major part of it - it’s tough for young people out there.

What non-negotiable household items are you bringing with you to The Neighbourhood to make your house a home?

Paul: We’re going to bring in cardboard cut-outs of our dogs and silly games. We’re definitely going to play some games if we can.

Harrison: My poker set. I took some LEGO sets as well to keep myself entertained.

Describe your family dynamic in three words.

Wendy: Happy. We’re a happy family.

Paul: We’re fun.

Wendy: We’re a kind family. Because of what we do with fostering, we do take the time out to be just us as a family. We do spend a lot of quality time together like going away as a family. We make a priority that when we have gaps in that, we are together and we do things together.

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The Scouse Haus

25-28 from Liverpool

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Louise and Lyndsey are twin sisters joined by Lyndsey’s girlfriend Rosie, all proud Scousers living together in central Liverpool.

Louise, 25, Barista

Lyndsey, 25, Barista

Rosie, 28, Barista

What made you want to apply to The Neighbourhood?

Lyndsey: We always say we don’t want our every day to look the same. I feel like when the opportunity came up we were like, ‘Of course’.

Louise: We’ve got to do it. What other chance would you get to do something as mad as this? Let’s do it.

Rosie: I felt like all of us were sitting ducks in the way that our lives were. We hated our jobs, so something that was going to pluck us out of our everyday life and put us in this simulation for however long - why not?

You live together, so you know each other inside out. What makes you a good team?

Rosie: I think the way we’ve got each other’s backs. Not in a way where we’ll blindly egg each other on to do whatever we want to do, but in a way that we’re close enough to say, ‘I don’t think you should say or do that’.

Louise: We’ve got an interesting dynamic as well with me and Lyndsey being twins and with Lyndsey and Rosie being a couple and me and Rosie being best mates as well.

What strategy and game plan do you have for the show?

Lyndsey: I’d say I’m very hands-on and I suppose the most athletic. Louise is very analytical.

Louise: I’m like, ‘Let's approach this properly’.

Lyndsey: Rosie is the brains and has got the logic behind it all.

Louise: Pub quiz - we’re relying on her!

Rosie: I’d smash a pub quiz, but I think mainly I’ll go with the flow - I don’t think I’ve got a strategy at all.

Louise: Within the game of the show, I think it’s more about wanting to get to know people, isn’t it? Go for the fun of it.

What would you spend the £250,000 on if you won?

Louise: Me and Lyndsey want to take our mum on holiday. She’s a bit ill, so we wanted to take her on holiday and let her see places and make memories. And also use it for our business.

Rosie: Where I am now in my life, I’m hitting dead ends and that money would be life changing for me. I’d be able to put a deposit down on a house, and think about getting IVF treatment to have a baby at some point in my life. And getting married would be a possibility because where I’m at now, it’s not.

What non-negotiable household items are you bringing with you to The Neighbourhood to make your house a home?

Lyndsey: My childhood blanket.

Louise: My pillow that I sleep with every night.

Rosie: My teddy Elvis and my guitar.

Lyndsey: We brought the iconic fruit bowl that’s been through every stage of life with us.

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The Uni Boys

21-23 from Nottingham

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The Uni Boys are a close group of friends made up of Hadi, Kevin, DJ and Fahad, who met during their first term at Nottingham Trent University.

Hadi, 23, Business Student

Kevin, 21, Media Student

Fahad, 21, Journalism Student

DJ, 21, Politics Student

What made you want to apply to The Neighbourhood?

Fahad: When the opportunity came through, I couldn’t say no. I had to pick the right people and these are the right people.

Kevin: This was a big opportunity to take - growing up my brother and mum always told me to take opportunities.

You live together, so you know each other inside out. What makes you a good team?

Kevin: I think we’re all quite different, so when we have conversations we all have something to bring in. I feel like it enhances our dynamic because we’re all funny, we all roll off each other, we’ve got a really good friendship dynamic that other people can see.

Hadi: I feel like we’re all very competitive, everyone’s got different skills - a bit of everything.

Fahad: I think our best attribute is that we all come from the same kind of culture - we’re all African and we all have the same ethics and beliefs. When we come together, it brings the best out of us.

DJ: I feel like we’re all hungry - we’ve all grown up determined to do something. We didn’t have everything given to us on a plate, so I feel like we all have this hunger that we want to achieve something and to achieve it without any sort of handouts or support.

What strategy and game plan do you have for the show?

Kevin: We have no idea what to expect, so we’re going in and going to try and give off good vibes, and hopefully households won’t be jumping to get us out of there!

Hadi: Just take it day by day and see where it takes us.

What would you spend the £250,000 on if you won?

DJ: We would invest in our goals and dreams. I’m trying to do music, trying to put my music out there - I would invest in that. I’d also support my family - I owe them a lot. Spoil myself as well. I think everyone else can agree that we’re going to spoil ourselves!

Fahad: If we win the money, I think we could maybe get a house together and start investing in ourselves. When I came to this country, I didn’t have anything to do after school. I used to work at charity events, so working there helped me fit into the country. If I did win the £250,000, I’d like to give back to the community through the charity because they helped me.

Kevin: I feel like if we did make it all the way, that would be amazing for us. I personally would be able to help my mum pay off the mortgage. I do what I can bit by bit, but I feel like with a larger amount of money I could support her more. For the guys, I’d love to be able to live with them after uni.

Hadi: If we won the money, I’d support my family and the second thing would be to support myself through my journey in the UK as an international. I came here as a stranger by myself. We could invest in this family - The Uni Boys family! We could show the world who we are.

What non-negotiable household items are you bringing with you to The Neighbourhood to make your house a home?

Fahad: We need a football. Family photos that remind us why we’re going onto The Neighbourhood. If we get distracted, those family items will remind us where we come from and why we’re doing this.

Kevin: We’re quite competitive, so I feel like if we bring footballs and stuff we can go outside and have a bit of fun. We’re The UniB oys, we like to have fun!

Describe your family dynamic in three words.

Kevin: Competitive!

Hadi: Ambitious.

DJ: We’ve got a lot of chemistry and work well together.

Kevin: I think we’re all creative. Creative.

The Neighbourhood starts Friday 24th April on ITV1