ITV viewers complained about the decision to air a programme about the plight of the English upper-class trying to keep their country piles afloat at a time when families are struggling to pay the bills.
David Hintz, butler to Alexandra Sitwell and her husband Rick of Renishaw Hall, in Derbyshire, jokingly compares his job to looking after pigs on Keeping Up With The Aristocrats.
Upper-crust families who have inherited four of England s grandest country piles offer a look at what goes on behind closed doors in Keeping Up With The Aristocrats, a three-part ITV series.