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The Grewal family reveal all about living their life in the spotlight for the latest household to embrace the live-in documentary

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The Family in the spotlight

Published: Wed, 04 Nov, 2009,

The Family in the spotlight

The Grewal family are opening their front door, and their lives, to the cameras.

The Bafta award winning documentary The Family returns to our screens and this time we meet three generations living under one roof with a wedding to be planned and another grandchild on the way!

The Grewal family join Holly and Phil to reveal all about living their life in the spotlight.

The Grewals, a British Indian family from Windsor, are a fun-loving and lively family. For two months the family were filmed by cameras placed in every part of their house, capturing some of the most dramatic and exciting months of their lives.

The Grewal family were found by chance. The production team had visited a theatre company to find a suitable family, and they got talking to the eldest son of the Grewal family, Sunny. Sunny suggested lots of families he knew who would be good for the series, but when he started talking about his own life the producers were hooked!

At first, Sunny says, they welcomed the cameras mostly because they thought they'd get "a really good wedding video" but neither the wedding nor the birth went totally smoothly. There was a dark cloud over the wedding because of disharmony in the bride's family, and Kaki, the Grewal's daughter, suffered a life-threatening illness and gave birth prematurely.

Mum Sarbjit says: "These people from the TV coming round and filming us, it was funny. Then they said that it was happening, it was real. We had to live in a hotel for two weeks while they put all the cameras in."

Living with the cameras was difficult at first. Sarbjit says her husband showed off for the cameras whilst he mocks that she used to emerge from bed "looking like Victoria Principal" with make-up already on. None of them however, could keep it up for long: "Whenever you turn the cameras turns with you," says Dad Arvinder. "But after a while we didn't even know the cameras were there because you have to get on with your regular life."