Channel 5's new show The Gypsies Next Door began tonight and saw a horse living in a garage and insights into life on the road.
The new show follows the lives of families in the gypsy community as they struggle to live alongside conventional styles of living.
In the first episode we meet Johnny and Andrea who are finally moving to a house after living in a caravan in Essex for five years.
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Andrea said the move was welcomed as she found it difficult to adjust to traveller life, she said: "You can't get broadband, electricity or deliveries - it's discrimination. When I lived in a house you could get everything you wanted."
Moving out of a traveller site was a big sacrifice for Johnny as he wanted his kids to grow up in nature, but he has conceded that his children need an education and has one condition about the new house.
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Andrea said: "Johnny, because he is a lunatic, thinks you can have the horse in the garage."
She was concerned about what the neighbours would think, but they were all very welcoming and some even said they would love to own a horse.
The first episode also saw a Nuneaton resident confront travellers who has set up camp in his village.
He tells them that he doesn't want think every traveller is the same, but the village has had a variety of issues, particularly around human waste being left behind.
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Traveller Carol said, as her family tucked into a roadkill banquet: "We do go the toilet in the hedges," explaining that in the community is if frowned upon to use a toilet in their caravan as it is seen as unclean.
She added: "People would talk about me.
"This is how we live, we are who we are, We are a cheeky and we we do go on people's land.
"We don't want to trespass, we don't mean to, we have no home to go to."
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Viewers of the show were divided over the way of life being presented on screen, many taking to Twitter to offer their opinions.
Glamour model and proud gypsy Danielle Mason also appears in the show and defended herself and her fellow travellers on social media.
In one tweet she hit back saying: "People like you are dirty media bully's .... My children are gypsy that's their dad on the TV now... Pure gypsy Romany blood... Christians don't hate on people, you're an embarrassment."
*The Gypsies Next Door continues next Thursday at 9pm, or catch up now on My5.com
