Channel 4 has confirmed that cult late-night TV show Eurotrash will make a comeback for one night only on the evening before Brits go to the polls to vote on whether or not we should remain in the European Union — Thursday, June 23.
In this “édition spécial,” presenters Antoine de Caunes and French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier will remind “their straight-laced British chums” (that’s us) of the “many, varied, and occasionally alarming cultural delights enjoyed by our European cousins,” according to a statement.
Broadcast between 1993 and 2007, Eurotrash took a sexy, kitschy look at the proclivities of our of our continental friends, providing a thrillingly camp take on European politics, art, (naked) sporting events and, erm, beauty standards, with celebrity appearances from the worlds of fashion — including Naomi Campbell, Giorgio Armani, J Alexander and Tyra Banks; music — Björk, Kylie Minogue, Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder; film — John Waters, Lars Von Trier and Pedro Almodovar; and photography — Jean Paul Goude and Ellen von Unworth.
Ahead of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union, Antoine and Jean Paul will showcase a variety of “crazy continentals” from Spain to the Ukraine, to remind the British public that “without them, we really are just a very sad and insignificant little island with bad food and terrible teeth.”
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It’s not the first time Antoine and Jean Paul have reunited since the show stopped in 2007. In fact, i-D got the Eurotrash team together in 2014 to celebrate the opening of Gaultier’s Barbican exhibition with a kilt-wearing dance-off judged by Jade Parfitt, and to reminisce about the time they taught Carla Bruni, future first lady of France, to say “Please put a finger in my ass” in many different languages.