That blast of reality will deliver quite a shock to Britain's heavily indebted households.

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The genre has become more about shock TV than reality TV, said Steve Carbone, who runs the spoiler site Realitysteve.com.

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This new horrible reality of being disabled is a shock.

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Then reality set in and Asia went into shock.

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It will get worse before it gets better as the shock of the tragedy wears off and the reality of a brother lost forever sets in.

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But in a couple of days' time when he is more reflective, because there is a shock and anger at the moment, a sense of reality will set in.

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"After the shock of the Munich performance, the Greece game was a little bit of a reality check for us after all the euphoria, " added Keown.

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