FAKE babies are great. You can dress them up and they never soil their clothes or grow out of them. Brilliant. Unfortunately, at the end of C4's Fake Baby doc, I still wasn't convinced.

The show followed couples as they bought, cared for and dressed up their pretend offspring.

Christine revealed: "You feel like somebody when you have a baby. I can walk down the street now and nobody looks at you." With the fake baby, they'll cross the street. Meanwhile, Sue travelled to Washington to pick up her "perfect" open-eyed smiler named Sophie. Wrapped in bubblewrap and delivered in a packing box, Sophie was more like something from a horror flick.

With baby bottles filled with fabric conditioner to look like milk - "it doesn't go mouldy" - and more prams than a Mothercare sale, Christine went from strange hobby to plain strange.

It was weird but wonderfully compelling viewing.