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Catch up on Body Shopping, Home of the Year, Sophie White & more

Catch up on Body Shopping, Home of the Year, Sophie White & more
Catch up on Body Shopping, Home of the Year, Sophie White & more

The RTÉ Player team share their top picks to watch on RTÉ Player this week. 

What’s Trending? 

Body Shopping

In our selfie and celebrity obsessed world, it’s tempting to view our bodies as changeable or temporary. Want bigger breasts? Tired of your nose? Want to change that chin? Signing up for some 'body shopping' is a very daunting but accessible experience.

For men, Body Shopping looks at male breast reduction and how hair transplants are becoming more acceptable.With no GP visit necessary, it's easy to sign yourself up to going under the knife without asking the right questions. 

In this series, Dr. Ciara Kelly meets some people who are taking their first steps on that path, exploring why they’re doing it, how they’re doing it and if, in the end, it makes them any happier? Watch now on RTÉ Player.

What's New? 

Recipes For Actual Real Life with Sophie White

Have you reached ‘peak married’ status? Lost a friend to the cult of ‘Crossfit’? Or has the recent arrival of a new baby left a sleep shaped hole in your soul? Sophie White’s new RTÉ Player show Recipes for Actual Real Life, has the perfect recipe to deal with life’s problems.

Learn how to make yummy recipes such as Sweet’n’Sour Chicken, gooey S’Mores French Toast and the easiest Chocolate Cake ever with the witty Sophie White.  Watch now on RTÉ Player 



What Not to Miss?

Super Garden

Super Garden returns for a brand new series, featuring five budding garden designers who are competing to showcase their green-fingered talent at Ireland’s premier garden festival, Bloom. Each of the designers will be allocated a real garden to transform, with real challenges to overcome.

The decision of which Super Garden will be recreated to represent Woodies and Cuprinol at Bloom 2017 lies in the hands of the Super Garden Judges; Gary Graham, Leonie Cornelius and Monica Alverez.  

The first episode sees successful business owner, mother and horticulture student with dreams of becoming a successful garden designer, Ashling Harrison revamp the garden of student, Oran Grainger and his super mum, Anna as a surprise for her 50th birthday.  Watch now on RTÉ Player


What’s Coming Up?

Home of the Year Finale

Following weeks of anticipation, each of the homeowners aspiring to be crowned the winner of Home of the Year came together for the very first time at Palmerstown House in County Kildare to learn the judge’s decision as to who would win the coveted title.

Excitement built as judges Declan O'Donnell, Hugh Wallace and Deirdre Whelan considered every last nook and cranny of the distinctive dwellings. Take a look at each of the finalists and take a tour of the 2017 Home of the Year now on RTÉ Player.  

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