I always have custody of the remotes, mainly because OH is registered blind and can't see which button is which. He can watch footie whenever he wants and I sometimes watch it too. If I don't want to there's other TV's or the internet to keep me amused.
The remote is all mine now but when OH was alive and we replaced our Humax I kept the old remote and secreted it down the side of my chair. It was weeks before OH twigged why the channels would change "on their own" and why the sound always went off when the football came on. I had such fun. ;-)
I can't get near the remote. My granddaughter used to hide the remote when she was small and used to stay over with us. This year she sent him a birthday card which said "Sshhh Grandad is asleep, don't wake him up he'll only put some cr*p on the TV". So I'm not the only one.