Beautiful People, the comedy series inspired by the eccentric childhood of style guru Simon Doonan about growing up in suburban Reading, has been recommissioned for BBC Two.

The series gained wide critical acclaim, and featured a cast that included Olivia Colman, Meera Syal, Aidan McArdle and Samuel Barnett.

It also brought together youngsters Luke Ward-Wilkinson and Layton Williams who stole the screen as the teenage Simon and his best friend Kyle – better known as Kylie.

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Olivia Colman, Meera Syal, Aidan McArdle, Layton Williams, Samuel Burnett and Luke Ward-Wilkinson star in Beautiful People, a comic memoir based on the story of Simon Doonan, who was born in Reading but is now creative director of the swankiest store in New York, Barneys. Each week, the narrative moves between New York City, “now”, and Reading, “then”. Read more & comment »

From the creator of Gimme Gimme Gimme and the producer of Absolutely Fabulous comes Beautiful People, a six-part comedy series for BBC Two exploring what it’s truly like for all of us to be fabulous via starry ambition, youthful optimism and one very loving, yet very dysfunctional, family.

Beautiful People is written by Jonathan Harvey (Gimme Gimme Gimme, Beautiful Thing) and based on the best-selling wild childhood memoirs of Simon Doonan, Creative Director of Barneys, New York.

This glittering and hilarious series delves inside Simon’s youthful memories and his desire to escape suburban Reading and live amongst the ‘beautiful people’ – from his perspective as a window dresser in a New York department store.
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The Minogue sisters are rumoured to have recorded a special duet to be used as the theme tune for new BBC Two sitcom, ‘Beautiful People’.

The Sun reported that Dannii and Kylie recorded their own version of the ABBA hit, The Winner Takes It All.

The pair have dueted on stage before, have a nosey at this clip of the pair singing ‘Kids’ together on Kylie’s Showgirls tour.