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23/06/2015

BBC Three - Freshers, Sex & Suspicious Parents

Two students head off for freshers' week fun, unaware that their parents are watching.

Two young students - Cleo and Joe - fly the nest for freshers' week, unaware that their parents are not quite ready to let go and secretly follow them, watching all they get up to.

Freshers' week - a booze-fuelled week where teens all over the country leave home for the very first time and head to university. For most it's their first taste of real independence and a chance to escape their parents, or so they think... because for two unsuspecting students their parents are not quite ready to let go yet and secretly follow them, watching everything they get up to.

Nineteen-year-old Cleo has had a Christian upbringing in Bedford with single mum Charity. Now Cleo's off to uni in Sheffield with her best friend Rose and it seems there are a few secrets she keeps from her strict mum. Namely, boys. Charity's hoping her daughter can stay true to her upbringing when she's away from the family home, so she's spying on Cleo's first week at uni.

Eighteen-year-old Joe from Northumberland is also going to Sheffield to study history. Joe is mollycoddled by his mum and dad, who get tears in their eyes just thinking about their first child leaving home. They're convinced he can't even boil an egg without their help, so they want to see for themselves how he really copes on his own.

For the parents, letting go is even harder than they thought, but for Joe and Cleo, freshers' week more than lives up to expectations, with big nights out, hangovers, plenty of like-minded students and no-one to tell them what they should or shouldn't be doing.
 
Charity finds Cleo's confidence with the opposite sex shocking, and Joe's parents can't believe his newfound independence. But when the parents reveal they've seen everything, can everyone learn something from the experience?

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