There's nowhere in the world to beat Haworth in summer, says the man who gave up Florida for Brontland.

Paul Calvert, one of the stars of raunchy TV series Miami Uncovered, returned to his home village last week. As the temperature rose he decided to give up Florida for British weather, home cooking and his girlfriend's arms.

Paul's pal Nigel Smith came home several weeks ago but Paul stayed in Miami with Jonathan Broadbent when their six-month visas ran out. Paul, 24, says Jonathan plans to stay until August but may return earlier if the temperature becomes unbearable. He says: "Even winter in Miami is hotter than our summer. When I left it was getting to 95 degrees. It was a 40-minute drive to work and the windows didn't open."

Paul says life in Miami wasn't always the non-stop fun depicted in Sky TV's fly-on-the-wall documentary about life for Brits in the sunshine city. He says: "They filmed us for 40 hours and picked out what they wanted. Some times you look an idiot - they're not going to show three sensible lads from Haworth!

"There's so much to do on your doorstep if you want to. But we were working six days a week and it was hard - we might not finish till eight thirty.

"The worst thing about coming back home was going into the Job Centre. Over there we had our own house and a car."

But Paul says he is glad to be back in the family home at South View, Haworth, and seeing his girlfriend Miriam Wilson, who lives in nearby Bronte Street. He says: "It was really good to see my mates too." Paul is also looking forward to watching live football again instead of paying £15 to watch it at strange hours in a bar.

He wants to go back to Miami on holiday but does not see himself settling there for the foreseeable future. "I want to keep this as an adventure," he says.

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