MI5 has had to warn people applying for secret security service jobs that the life of a spy isn’t what it looks like in TV action drama Spooks.
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“A career in the Service is about brain, not brawn, carefully piecing together vital intelligence to protect the UK and its people,” a source told the Daily Mail.
Britain’s spy chiefs want to recruit more women to MI5, where currently 59% of the staff are men. But it seems Spooks isn’t helping the cause, especially as four of its female stars have been killed in the line of duty.
“Spooks is a great TV show, but the violence can put women off applying for jobs at MI5,” said the source.
When Spooks is aired on a Monday night, traffic to MI5’s website goes up by 300% and seven out of ten of the searches are job-related.
