OLIVIA Attwood has revealed how her husband Bradley Dack reacts to the very saucy footage in her ITV series Getting Filthy Rich.
The programme, which is now in its fourth series, sees Liv delve into the world of kink and how creators monetise fetishes to make, in some cases, megabucks.
Her latest series begins next Monday with an episode on celebrity OnlyFans creators and goes on to more extreme material including an ex-military veteran who sells his stinky socks and men who like having their privates kicked.
Nothing is off the table, though the editors earn their money by artfully hiding the most X-rated material from view.
It might make some husbands a little uncomfortable, but professional footballer Brad isn’t one of them.
In fact, Liv can’t quite believe how laidback he is when she shares details of the intimate footage.
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She says: “When I come home or I text him, and he’s like, ‘what are you up to?’ And I’m like, ‘just literally watching this guy get kicked in the balls’. He still to this day will be like, ‘oh Liv, whatever’.
“And I’m like, ‘why would I lie? You’ve seen the series. Like, I’m not lying’. Like he always thinks I’m exaggerating.
“And then when I start getting rough cuts of the show and I’m like, ‘come here, look at this’. And I’ll be like, ‘I remember that day you told me that I was just pulling your leg or exaggerating’. So it’s like, he still doesn’t fully believe me until he actually sees it.”
Liv really is in the thick of it, with little separation between her and the performers.
“I’m literally watching that like two metres away,” she says.
“I thought I couldn’t be shocked anymore, because I think I’ve seen so much,” she continues.
“But yeah, I’m speechless so many times this series, and I’m enlightened, and I’m shocked, and I’m learning things.
“I have to say, I think this is probably the most shocking series to date, if I’m honest. I think we cover some really unusual, quirky areas, and then we go kind of deeper into areas that we’ve actually already covered, but in a different way.”
Open-minded Liv parks her feelings to one side for the programme, determined to ensure the guest stars are portrayed in a neutral light, neither endorsing or criticising their lifestyle choices.
“I think the way people’s fetishes are, there’s no limits to what people are into,” she says. “And I think every time I think I’ve heard the thing that I think me personally, and I’m no judgment ever, then we find the story where I’m like, ‘okay, no, that, that is not the most unusual thing this is’.”
The one topic she was hesitant to explore was the world of foot fetishes, but she knew the demand was there and bit the bullet.
“We met with this guy who was kicked out of the army for creating OnlyFans content,” she says.
“And he’s selling his really dirty socks for crazy money. When he had the socks off his feet, the whole room stunk and someone would buy them for hundreds of pounds. Like it’s stuff that is really hard for us to get our head around, but people are into what they’re into.”
The Love Island star wanted to break new ground this series and flex her journalistic chops.
She did a deep dive into the Las Vegas sex industry, meeting strippers, escorts and performers, embracing Sin City’s seedier side.
What unfolded sounds reminiscent of the Hangover with Liv indulging in the wild night life and awkwardly standing shoulder to shoulder with her producer pals as porn stars did their thing right in front of them.
Explaining her attitude to the Stateside trip, she says: “You know what, I’m going to just really be an investigative journalist. I’m going to drink and I’m going to spend money.
“And they’re like, ‘you don’t have to do that’. I was like, ‘no, I want to, as a journalist, to get the full experience’. So there are lots of lols in that episode where I was like really trying to ingratiate myself in the Vegas culture.”