The Marriage Ref
- TV panel show
- ITV1
- 2011
- 7 episodes (1 series)
ITV panel show in which comedians and celebrities help solve real-life couples' relationship tiffs by ruling on who is wrong and right. Stars Dermot O'Leary.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 4
This week, Dermot is joined by comedians Jack Whitehall and Sarah Millican and presenter Eamonn Holmes, who must decide who is in the right and who is in the wrong in a series of romantic tiffs. The panel meet a boyfriend who will not stop playing pranks on his long-suffering girlfriend, and a wife who refuses to stop cleaning in the nude.
The Couples
James vs Sam Brown
The panel decided that Sam should not have to curb her obsessive compulsive cleaning habits.
Keith vs Teresa Barrow
The panel decided that Teresa should be allowed to continue her Donny Osmond obsession.
Gemma vs Craig Bennett-Robson
The panel decided that Craig should stop constantly playing pranks on Gemma.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Saturday 9th July 2011
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
| Dermot O'Leary | Host / Presenter |
| Simon Greenall | Announcer |
| Sarah Millican | Guest |
| Eamonn Holmes | Guest |
| Jack Whitehall | Guest |
| Ivor Baddiel | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Dominic English | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Les Keen | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Christine Rose | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Aiden Spackman | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Dan Swimer | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Gemma Rawcliffe | Director |
| Barbara Wiltshire | Director |
| Paul Taylor | Director |
| Karen Murdoch | Producer |
| Sam Eastall | Producer |
| Gemma Rawcliffe | Producer |
| Russell Balkind | Producer |
| Sam Pinnell | Producer |
| Ruth Phillips | Executive Producer |
| Richard Osman | Executive Producer |
| Paul Taylor | Producer |
| Dan Mellow | Editor |
| Spencer Doane | Editor |
| Dominic Tolfts | Production Designer |
| Mat Osman | Composer |