Why oh why does anyone actually like or watch this show? Me? I can’t stand it. Why? Because it’s been on since God was a lad and they may as well have recorded just one show that they then did the graphics/telly magic equivalent of photoshopping on other faces… in other words, it barely changes – nothing new happens except there are different contestants. Mind you, I think some of the contestants have in fact been there waiting their turn since time began.

Indeed, some of them, I suspect, have in fact fossilised.

The lady in the clip that follows, Mary, was probably about 12 when she first joined the panel of hopefuls, but the really funny bit about her time on in the ‘crazy chair’ as Noel calls it, was that the poor old dear – and she is a very sweet lady – had no clue that she’d won for a few seconds and I have to admit, loathe though I am to admit it, it brought a tear to my eye when she realised what amount she’d won… Click on the Read More link to see the clip… Read more & comment »

Vacuous, empty-headed, inane… and those were just the good points of this immensely awful show.

Ex-Atomic Kitten Jenny Frost presented the Endemol produced show, which – for the lord only knows why – began its second series and was billed as the “world’s first make-under show.”

Ultimately, the idea is to transform “OTT girls and boys into natural beauties” and before and after each make-under, the public – surprise, surprise – vote as to whether they would rather snog, marry or avoid the people in question…

Notice a trend at all? Whenever Endemol is involved in anything, there’s a phone vote… always. Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure I’m not. Read more & comment »