DO YOU ever watch a TV programme, particularly a reality TV programme, and find yourself asking: “Why on earth did they take part in this?”

Sometimes, even bad appearances on such programmes can generate the right reaction. Take The Hotel (Channel 4, Sundays, 8pm). The last series was set in the Lake District and portrayed a run-of-the-mill holiday hotel as a modern representation of Fawlty Towers. Yet the owners insist it’s the reason why their bookings went through the roof.

You hear similar reports from people who’ve starred in The Hotel Inspector (Channel 5) and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (Channel 4).

But if you were a self-confessed control freak, would you appear on a programme in which you handed over the entire planning of your wedding to two unknown celebrities?

That’s what PA Nicole did. Why on earth would a self-confessed control freak like Nicole – and I say self-confessed because she mentioned it at least once every two minutes – want the happiest day of her life to be set up by two celebrities?

Maybe her Essex-boy partner Luke put her up to it. However, I suspect the pair were expecting a higher quality of celebrity than they were landed with when they appeared on Celebrity Wedding Planner (Channel 5, Fridays, 10pm).

Nicole said she hoped for Cheryl Cole. Luke – who like most estate agents looks like the last bloke I’d want to buy a house off – wanted David Beckham, who he admitted he had a man crush for.

They got Raef and Stuart Baggs, failed Apprentice candidates, instead.

Both “celebrities” revelled in the fact they knew nothing about planning weddings. Baggs claimed to have never been to a wedding.