One of the gypsy girls employed by dressmaker Thelma Madine for her BFGW spin-off show, Thelma’s Gypsy Girls, has claimed that the reality show is making her and her peers out to be “freaks.”

In an interview with the Sun’s TV Biz, Bridget Deadman, one of ten travellers who’re starring in Thelma’s Gypsy Girls, said, “Thelma wasn’t interested in teaching us anything.

“It was just a freak show which made us look violent, tarty and stupid. At times it was like being on Jeremy Kyle.”

Angry 17 year old Bridget went on, “Every stereotype there is about gypsies was pushed to the hilt, and Thelma and the camera crew seemingly ignored anything that didn’t fit that image…” Read more & comment »