The “real” Farage only ever does anything that will benefit Farage. He used to openly boast about screwing the expenses as an MEP and has the nose for a grift. His appearance on this show is all about trying to reignite his political ambitions, either within the Tory Party or with Reform. He wasn’t at the Tory Party Conference by accident and Johnson Snr is already talking about using his “talent”.
His “talent” is telling lies to the gullible and getting them to swallow them hook, line and sinker. He is the poor man’s Trump or Boris Johnson. He knows what his target audience wants to hear and serves it up with cherries on top, all the time using it to inflate his own ego, position and bank balance.
Given his lack of personal airtime I can well believe that he has been heavily edited so far. If you are going to pay a man like Farage to ramp up your ratings at least let him speak, but have another heavyweight there who can call him out on his level.
These people always tell you who they are. He said to another campmate earlier that you get more airtime if you do trials. His plan from the start was to put himself in the shop window. It isn’t working for him so far and ITV haven’t got their money’s worth. Perhaps they have got cold feet by the backlash when he was originally announced?