Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe

Snapshot · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe

S12 EP51: The Ransom Is My Ego

Explore episode Jun 30, 2026

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TikTok Purchases, Walking Pads & World Cup Jersey

At 11:12 · chapter starts 9:30

Rob reveals his home office is being renovated, displacing all its contents into his wife Lou's Pilates room — which is now filled with TikTok Shop impulse purchases that never get used. Chief among them: a walking pad (under-desk treadmill available from Decathlon for about £90) and a wobble-board machine of indeterminate purpose. Josh looks it up and is shocked by the price of real treadmills. The segment ends with Rob revealing his World Cup attire: a Planet Hollywood London American football jersey, found in a charity shop, which Josh identifies on the first guess by simply naming the naffest thing he could think of.

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