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Freshers, Sex & Suspicious Parents

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?

1 hour

Last on

Tue 30 Jun 2015 01:00

Music Played

  • Blacktron

    L.O.V.E (feat. Mario Winans)

  • Zedd

    Stay the night (feat. Foxes)

  • Zedd

    Clarity

  • Parov Stelar

    Booty Swing

  • Charli xcx

    Super Love

  • Sia

    Chandelier

  • Ariana Grande

    Break Free (feat. Zedd)

  • Aloe Blacc

    I NEED A DOLLAR

  • Rihanna

    CHEERS (DRINK TO THAT)

  • Dr Meaker

    Bad Boy Calling

  • Little Comets

    DANCING SONG

  • Chromeo

    Mama's Boy

  • The 1975

    SETTLE DOWN

  • Oliver Heldens

    Gecko

  • 罢颈毛蝉迟辞

    Wasted

  • Icona Pop

    Girlfriend

  • MARINA

    Froot

  • Bastille

    Oblivion

  • Sigma

    Changing (feat. Paloma Faith)

  • The 1975

    THE CITY

  • Echosmith

    COOL KIDS

  • John Newman

    OUT OF MY HEAD

  • ODESZA

    WHAT'S MY NAME

  • Katy B

    Tumbling Down

  • Ella Henderson

    Beautifully Unfinished

  • Samuel Sim

    OMINOUS ARRIVAL

  • Iggy Azalea

    New Bitch

  • James Bay

    Let it go

  • Duke Dumont

    I GOT U

  • The Drums

    I can聮t pretend

  • Arctic Monkeys

    DO I WANNA KNOW

  • Kwabs

    Walk

  • Jessie Ware

    Tough Love

  • Gabrielle Aplin

    PANIC CORD

  • Lily Allen

    The Life For Me

  • DJ Fresh

    Flashlight (feat. Ellie Goulding)

  • Avicii

    Wake Me Up

  • David Guetta

    Lovers on the Sun

  • London Grammar

    Strong

  • The Pierces

    KINGS

  • RHODES

    Home

  • Lily Allen

    22

  • 补濒迟鈥怞

    BREEZEBLOCKS

  • Rae Morris

    CLOSER

  • George Ezra

    Blame it on me

  • JOHN TRUDEAU

    STARING AT IT

  • MAGIC!

    Rude

  • ODESZA

    All we need 1986

  • Ben Stone

    Bubbling Idea (feat. JOHN TRUDEAU)

  • 补濒迟鈥怞

    Left Hand Free

  • Paloma Faith

    Ready for the good life

  • Rita Ora

    I will Never Let You Down

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    The deer and the wolf

  • Clean Bandit

    Rather be

  • Calvin Harris

    Summer

  • The Magician

    Sunlight (feat. Years & Years)

  • Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj

    Bang Bang

  • CLAIRE BATCHELOR

    CURIOUS-CAT-UNDERSCORE

  • Mat Andasun

    An odd welcome

  • Ben Parsons

    Petty Crime

  • FAMY

    A Ho A Hand

  • Lily Allen

    I could say

  • James Dorman

    Sweaty Palms

  • James Dorman

    TIP TOE TOM

  • Netsky

    Running Low

  • Jessie Ware

    Devotion

  • Cash Cash

    Take me home (feat. Bebe Rexha)

Credits

Role Contributor
Narrator Russell Tovey
Production Company RDF Television
Executive Producer Jo Scarratt-Jones
Executive Producer Denise Seneviratne
Executive Producer Catherine Welton
Director Jim Warren

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