Elliot Lawry

So UK audiences love maths from all over the world.

They love Aussie maths and they're very keen on Maths UK.

The UK loves Australian shows.

There's something about the way we produce TV here that just it's received well.

It just hits well.

Before we move on, can I ask, are you a maths watcher?

I watched the early seasons of Maths.

So it's been going for 13 years here.

I watched maybe the first five seasons semi-religiously, but then I got quite bored of it and it just got so sensationalized, which we'll unpack a little bit later.

But yeah, it's for me, it was a bit like drag race.

Like I needed to take a break.

Okay.

That's important context.

We do have these claims that have come against the UK version of the show this week that

How did we find out about them and what's actually being alleged?

So these allegations aired on Panorama.

That is a long-running current affairs and investigation program on the BBC.

It's kind of like the BBC's version of Four Corners that we have here on the ABC.

Now, they published an investigation by a BBC reporter whose name is Noor Nanji, and she investigated the UK version of maths and found allegations from three women who

who appeared on the show at different times and all said that they were subjected to sexual violence by their on-screen partners, by their so-called husbands during filming.