• Gutted ;> had to sit and watch the whole Gok Wan show “how to look good naked” with Jourdie ….I bet lots of other men pretended not to be watching too…The thing I like about it is that it shows real women…not fake airbrushed silicone bimbos…keep it up Gok ; >> and be proud ladies…very proud…beauty is in the mind and soul and the odd flaw makes you sexier. Its also refreshing to see girls who arent up themselves with a “look at me,look at me” attitude…Gorgeous but cant see it in the mirror…but by the end of the show they just begining to drop their barriers….excellent TV

• Celebrity Jungle…I think Peter Andre backhanded the clinic where Katie price just had her lips plumped up…my god she looks freaky…they are dreadful…Scareyyyyyyyyyy…..she used to be gorgeous…now….just RUFFFFF.

• Jourdans tosspot History teacher…who incidently I think is a complete plank and not fit to teach teenage girls, caught her just outside the school gates with friends at lunchtime and has given her an hours detention on Friday night…He really is a knob…she was about 2′0 over the boundary…he  is so so anal…rules are rules Mr Phillips…get a grip Mr…If she was 5 maybe but she 15 going on 21.

And Fatty Kerry Katona Shows Her Green Eyes

I’m A Celebrity: ‘Katie Price will not be queen of the jungle’, says Kerry Katona

Kerry Katona, the former winner of I’m A Celebrity, has slated Katie Price for returning to the jungle. The reality star hit out at Jordan for being “everywhere” and claimed that the glamour model will never steal her crown. She told OK! magazine: “There’s just too much Katie everywhere. “I don’t know what going into the jungle will do for Katie’s career. It’s not going to make anyone like her any more or any less. “She won’t be queen of the jungle.” However, Kerry doesn’t rule out her own return to I’m A Celebrity and says she would sign up to the new series to “pay the bills”.

The mum-of-four went on to reveal that she considers herself a member of “Team Pete” because she thought Jordan’s handling of the divorce was “disgusting”. Kerry said: “I saw a clip of Katie kick off at Pete and it’s disgusting. I love Pete, I’m Team Pete all the way, he’s a sound guy.” The 28-year-old also attacked Jordan’s relationship with Alex Reid, labelling it as a “rebound thing”. She said: “Personally I don’t think it will last, it’s definitely a rebound thing. “Mark has tried on my clothes on holiday p***ed up as a joke! I don’t know if Alex does it as a joke or not, but each to their own.”

How To Keep A Woman Happy….It’s not difficult to make a woman happy.

A man only needs to be:

• a friend
• a companion
• a lover
• a brother
• a father
• a master
• a chef
• an electrician
• a carpenter
• a plumber
• a mechanic
• a decorator
• a stylist
• a sexologist
• a gynecologist
• a psychologist
• a pest exterminator
• a psychiatrist
• a healer
• a good listener
• an organizer
• a good father
• very clean
• sympathetic
• athletic
• warm
• attentive
• gallant
• intelligent
• funny
• creative
• tender
• strong
• understanding
• tolerant
• prudent
• ambitious
• capable
• courageous
• determined
• true
• dependable
• passionate
• compassionate

WITHOUT FORGETTING TO

• give her compliments regularly
• love shopping
• be honest
• be very rich
• not stress her out
• not look at other girls

AND AT THE SAME TIME, YOU MUST ALSO

• give her lots of attention, but expect little yourself
• give her lots of time, especially time for herself
• give her lots of space, never worrying about where she goes

Never to forget:

• birthdays
• anniversaries
• arrangements she makes

HOW TO MAKE A MAN HAPPY

• Show up naked
• Bring beer

Poor Ole Roy

Didnt Tony make a stupid mistake whilst trying to Kill Roy Cropper last night??

He left a knife that he had stolen from Roys cafe,covered in his own blood…by the side of the canal….doesnt take Sherlock does it ??

X Factor Rigged ? Surely Not

You know the amazing unburstable bubble that is Jedward? Well, someone’s just tried to burst it. Big style. A mysterious X Factor “insider” has claimed that sound technicians were forced to turn down the twins’ vocals during their performance of Under Pressure… well, Ice Ice Baby, really… on Saturday’s show – or they’d get the sack. Ooooooooh, dramarama-tastic. “It is totally outrageous – and unfair to the other contestants,” says someone who sounds like they’ve got a bit of PMT. “It is cheating. The only time the sound levels on the mics were lifted was when they were rapping. I  am disgusted. A work colleague of mine was threatened with the sack before Saturday’s live show.” “Every week session singers come in to the studio to record backing tracks to some of the contestants’ songs. The twins have had backing vocals on all their live performances so far. The sound crew are always told to turn the levels of their mics down so their vocals are mostly covered by the backing singers. We are used to tweaking levels, it is part of their job but what we were asked to do on Saturday was beyond a joke.” They added, in full Points Of View mode now (ask your mum), “It makes me truly sick that we are part of this manipulation.” Unsurprisingly, the official X Factor line is that Jedward haven’t received any special treatment. “All the contestants sing live on Saturday night and are given an equal amount of technical support,” says a spokeslady. So, the plot thickens.

Talkin Of Freaky Lips

Eighties singer Pete Burns shows how smoking a cigarette can be a real drag. The former Dead or Alive frontman, who has undergone extensive plastic surgery, appeared to struggle to hold it between his pumped up lips as he lit up outside a west London café yesterday.

Freak !!!

Hippos 1—-Croc 0

Their bone-crushing jaws, 24 razor-sharp teeth and armour-plated skin are enough to ensure most animals keep their distance.  But, as our incredible pictures show, even crocodiles are no match for a herd of angry hippos. This young reptilian predator paid the price for swimming too close to a mother and her calves while they bathed. As 50 hippos gathered into a defensive circle around them, the crocodile panicked and raced over their backs in a bid to escape.

It was the last mistake he ever made. The beast’s defences were no match for the maze of angry mammals, who proved their bite is every bit as lethal as his. The spectacularly rare battle of the beasts was captured by Czech wildlife photographer Vaclav Silha. He had set up his camera on the banks of the River Nile in the Serengeti national park, Tanzania, when the unbelievable scene unfolded before him. But the 45-year-old got more than he bargained for when a colossal fight broke out between the group and a sneaky crocodile he had spotted earlier. ‘Mutual respect between these animals means fights occur very rarely,’ he said. ‘One of the only reasons you might see a conflict is if the hippos have young and they think the little ones are under threat. That’s exactly what happened here.

‘The incautious croc got too close to a female who had calves and the whole group gathered into a defensive circle around them. It was a strong message for the crook to clear off. ‘I have absolutely no idea why but the crocodile suddenly raced across the backs of the hippos. I think it might have panicked and thought it was a possible escape route. I couldn’t believe my eyes. ‘It was the worst choice the reptile could ever have made and it was definitely its last. ‘The island of hippos suddenly erupted with teeth and all I could see was the crocodile being repeatedly crushed in their huge mouths.’ Described as one of the most aggressive creatures in the animal kingdom, an adult hippo can apply several tons of pressure in a single bite. ‘Even the toughest crocodile could not have withstood being repeatedly bitten like that,’ said Mr Silha, from Prague. ‘There was no way for him to escape. I few seconds later his lifeless body slipped below the water and I didn’t see him again.’

Even More de Jour

Brooke Magnanti, the research scientist who confessed to being Belle de Jour, the £300-an-hour call girl, broke off contact with her father after she discovered he was sleeping with prostitutes.“I cannot say for certain until I speak to her, but it may have affected her. I guess she came to the realisation that prostitutes are just people, it’s not the stereotype that people often seem to think,” he said. “They are people with good hearts who have had problems in their lives and have fallen down. Often because of a bad family life or bad relationships or suffering violence, they have low self-esteem.” Miss Magnanti, 34, lifted the lid on one of the literary world’s best-kept secrets when she unmasked herself as the former prostitute behind a best-selling diary. She made a cryptic reference to her father’s use of prostitutes when she confessed to her past in a newspaper at the weekend, describing him as “a bit of a do-gooder… who helps women”, adding that if she broke the news to him in person about her secret past she might start by saying: “You know all those lovely streetwalkers that you try to help?” Mr Magnanti, a gardener who lives on the west coast of Florida, explained what his estranged daughter had meant by the comment. “After Brooke left high school and went to college, her mother and I got a divorce, which was very upsetting to me. “At that point I started to see prostitutes. There were a few that I befriended and two that I had a relationship with who even moved in with me briefly. I tried to get them to stop using drugs and stop working as prostitutes. “Drugs and prostitutes go hand in hand in most cases, though apparently in my daughter’s case it was quite the opposite, thankfully.” Mr Magnanti still professed to be shocked about his daughter’s past. “It’s broken my heart. No parent wants to hear that. I was very proud when she got her PhD. She is a very intelligent girl and I wish she had become well-known under different circumstances. I would rather things had worked out differently but it’s her life to live.” Miss Magnanti, who was born in Florida and came to England to study for a doctorate at Sheffield University, has said she turned to prostitution after moving to London, where she found she could not afford to pay her rent. Miss Magnanti’s decision go public as the author of The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, which was turned into a hit ITV series starring Billie Piper, has been supported by her colleagues at Bristol University. But her confession has outraged a former boyfriend of seven years, who was known as “The Boy” in diary. “Brooke has outed me to my family and friends without giving me any warning. She never asked if she could write about our life together and I feel humiliated,” he said.

I for one find the whole story a testimony to Ms Magnanti, she didnt sponge off the state or whinge or moan, she did something about it and she and her family should be proud of her.  Her detractors should be aware that Miss Magnanti is carrying out vital research into children’s cancers.

Sad Story Of The Day

French woman marries boyfriend one year after he died

A woman in France has married her boyfriend of six years – a year after he died.

Magali Jaskiewicz and Jonathan George had planned to wed at their local town hall in November 2008, but he was killed just two days before the ceremony in a motorcycle accident. Ms Jaskiewitz, 32, used a little-known section of the French civil code that allows posthumous marriages if all the formalities for the wedding were completed before one of the partners died, including the setting of a date. She proved to officials that she and Mr George had been living together since 2004 and that they shared a bank account. She also provided a photo of the wedding dress she had bought to wear to their wedding. Standing alone in the aisle at the town hall, she was “married” to Mr George at a ceremony attended by 30 family members and friends in the village of Dommary-Baroncourt, in eastern France, on Saturday. Around ten posthumous marriages are carried out each year in France, French interior ministry officials said.

7 Reasons Not To Mess With Children

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said, ‘When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah’.
The teacher asked, ‘What if Jonah went to hell?’
The little girl replied, ‘Then you ask him’.
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A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work.
As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.
The girl replied, ‘I’m drawing God..’
The teacher paused and said, ‘But no one knows what God looks like.’
Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, ‘They will in a minute.’
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A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.
After explaining the commandment to ‘honour’ thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, ‘Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?’
Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, ‘Thou shall not kill.’
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One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.
She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, ‘Why are some of your hairs white, Mum?’
Her mother replied, ‘Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.’
The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, ‘Mummy, how come ALL of grandma’s hairs are white?’
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The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.
‘Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer, she’s a lawyer,’ or ‘That’s Michael, He’s a doctor.’
A small voice at the back of the room rang out, ‘And there’s the teacher, she’s dead.’
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A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, ‘Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.’
‘Yes,’ the class said.
‘Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn’t run into my feet?’
A little fellow shouted,
‘Cause your feet ain’t empty.’
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The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:
‘Take only ONE . God is watching.’
Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.
A child had written a note, ‘Take all you want. God is watching the apples.

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The top ten most irritating phrases:

1 – At the end of the day

2 – Fairly unique

3 – I personally

4 – At this moment in time

5 – With all due respect

6 – Absolutely

7 – It’s a nightmare

8 – Shouldn’t of

9 – 24/7

10 – It’s not rocket science

I love Gok Wan, I do. He raises the self-esteem of women who are on the floor with self-loathing with his enthusiasm and glorious joie de vivre. It makes me cry when he hugs a woman so tenderly after she’s talked about her mastectomy. And frankly, it’s such a shock to see a man (or woman, Trinny and Susannah, I’m looking at you) on TV looking at women’s bodies who has not a whiff of misogyny about him. And, as an ample breasted woman, it’s nice to see a chap so utterly enthusiastic about bangers.

But, and there is a big but, the problem is, Gok is so enmeshed in the fashion world, that there are dodgy assumptions that he never questions. For example, whilst it may be true that high heels lengthen your legs and make your ankles look slimmer, it’s also true that they bugger your knees and lower back and are horribly uncomfortable worn for any length of time. They stop you going about your daily business on foot, make you more likely to use the car. They also mean you can’t run away if you’re mugged, and also (and I’m talking to you at the back, Victoria Beckham and Sarah Jessica Parker) that you can’t really get down and play with your kids (ok, I can see the attraction of that). But Gok never has to walk for thirty days in anyone’s Jimmy Choos does he? It’s not him we’re looking at – he’s playing dress-up with real life Barbies.

It is fantastic to encourage women to love and accept themselves, but this self-loathing does not just come from within. It comes from a society where women are every bit as responsible as men for subjecting girls and women to a constant and highly critical gaze, where plumpness, imperfections and aging are despised, and weight loss is celebrated with the hysteria of a dodgy cult.

It’s all our fault, and we need to do better. In the meantime Gok, appearance matters, of course it does, and I’m with you all the way on getting a great bra, but lay off with the constant high heels eh? A girl’s gotta walk tall you know.

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Yes ladies, it is now the time to watch what we eat, dye the grays and wax places we have not waxed since last winter. It is the time of the Christmas party. And, it’s not just any Christmas party. It is the party where you represent your man. A party where woman smile yet say horrid comments in their head about the fashion choices made that evening. I hate the sad old, “hi, nice to meet you” crap. I enjoy the food and free booze. I especially like showing off my dance skills to songs like, baby got back and let’s get married.

Let’s talk clothes. I will share with you several looks which are quite popular and trendy this christmas. These looks include hot pink blouses paired with a black skirt. Hint ladies… Imagine that your crotch represents the age of 16 years old and your knees represent the age of 45+ years old. The older you are the closer the length of your skirt should be to your knees. Be conservative, remember… you are a mom.

The second look is a black dress with a tulled bottom. Again, mind the length. And ensure the tulle is not too puffy consequently making you look like the death of ballet.

Finally, gold sequins. This look is sophisticated and if you are shy and yet want to try this look… maybe go for an all black outfit and wear a gold sequin blazer or even a clutch to give that pop. Hope you enjoy these looks and have fun at that party! Don;t forget to wear your Spanks!

Hot Pink Top + Black Skirt by 30somethingmom featuring Christian Louboutin shoes

black tulle dress by 30somethingmom featuring Forever21

Gold Sequins by 30somethingmom featuring Antik Batik

That time of the season is here. The time when men have a reason to take us out for dinner. What is it about the holidays that spark romance into their manly brains. I don’t care what anyone says… but hot pink is still the look for this winter. not only does pink bring out the colour in a woman’s cheek, but it adds a pop of colour that may ask, “I wonder how old she is?” Remember now. The dress is the focal point so don’t embarrass me and get too matchy-matchy. Keep the accessories in the same tone. I like black, but you can easily do silvers, tungstens, golds, etc. Be daring. Show it off. If he’s lucky there may be more after dessert.

Date Night by 30somethingmom featuring Nine West shoes

From SFX Magazine

America is to get its own version of cult BBC3 smash hit show Being Human. Syfy has ordered 13 episodes of the show about the house-sharing ghost, werewolf and vampire which will be made by RDF Media USA, currently best known for making US versions of reality shows like Secret Millionaire, How To Look Good Naked and Wife Swap. Now it seems Being Human is in for a culture swap.

The British series is produced by RDF subsidiary Touchpaper TV, and is currently filming its second series (though the cast has taken time out to record a Halloween message. A few years back, the BBC showed Syfy (or Sci Fi as it was back then) the script for the pilot of the British series, hoping to get the US network to come aboard as a co-funder, but the deal fell through.

“It turned out great as we can now do an American version,” reckons Syfy president Dave Howe. “We’ve always been keen on vampires and werewolves, and we loved the originality of Being Human, the fact that the fantastical creatures in it are very young, accessible and charming.”

Howe also stresses that Syfy will not “slavishly replicate the British version,” and sees it as a potential companion piece to Sanctuary, with which it shares similar subject matter.

How To Look Good Naked is een programma van het Britse Channel 4, met Gok Wan. Een van de afleveringen gaat over ondergoed.

The bad news is this show is not about Kelly Brook getting a role in London West End play ‘Calendar Girls’ in which she has to appear naked…

Kelly Brook.

Kelly replaces June Brown, aka Dot Cotton in Eastenders, in the popular London West End stageplay.
Almost a straight swap then…

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This evening, on returning home from my second day of intensive post-grad journalism training at the Univeristy of Westminster, I sought solace in a sausage sandwich and a recorded episode of hit Channel Four series How to Look Good Naked.

I’m sure many of you know the formula: girl feels fat and ugly, girl puts on surprisingly large white pants and goes off to see Aunty Gok, who swaps said pants for strange tubular girdle contraption and gradually strips away every last vestige of girl’s shame until she re-emerges, tanned, coiffed, and ready to flaunt her newly-embraced flab down a Bluewater catwalk. A fail-safe formula for a long-running series.

Of course the formula contains some glitches: naturally girl is originally neither particularly fat nor ugly, for as we all know not even Gok Wan can polish a turd, and of course it is not always easy to believe her tearful assertions at the end of the show that she has completely overcome all previously held body image issues. Nevertheless, the message is still the same: in order to realise your full potential, you must first completely humiliate yourself in front of as many people as humanly possible.   Preferably with no clothes on.

So it really didn’t come as that much of a surprise this week when cheeky-chappy Gok encouraged Claire, a somewhat retiring air hostess from East Sussex, to bury her face in the bosom of an amply endowed stranger, all in the name of self-empowerment. “Go on, get stuck in!” he gaily ordered the hapless woman as he cheerfully thrust her head into another woman’s cleavage. I have to say she looked rather shocked. And so was I.

In fact, I began to feel rather uncomfortable. Not, I assure you, because I am particularly prudish or at all against female self-empowerment, but rather because something about the situation had begun to seem worryingly familiar. Having spent the last 48 hours being transported into the confusing and sometimes terrifying world of the fledgling journalist; giving impromptu presentations, writing up interviews in 15 minutes flat and chasing complete strangers down the street to gain soundbites for a new story, I felt a sudden kinship with the beleaguered air hostess.

Not, I hasten to add, because I personally have indulged in any such similarly invasive tactics in my first week of training, I’m sure you’ll be relieved to learn.  But perhaps instead because there is a part in all of us, on embarking upon a new chapter in life, or a challenge that seems particularly insurmountable, that becomes like Claire, plunging her face right into that woman’s décolletage.

We’re face to face with that cavernous bosom and we know there’s every chance we’ll be humiliated, that we’ll lose self-respect, and that it stands every chance of being a thoroughly unpleasant experience.  But at the same time we also have to hold onto the hope  that with any luck we’ll come out of it new and improved, knowing that if we can survive this, we can survive anything.

And sometimes there’s really no other option but to dive right in.

I thought that would get your attention, but first let me make this clear from the start this is purely hypothetical, I am not asking for photos of naked genealogists, honest.

Last night I happened to see part of How To Look Good Naked on Channel 4, the presenter Gok Wan was trying to get people to join his Naked Army and have a photo taken of their group of friends or colleagues naked, in the style of The Calendar Girls. So basically people doing everyday things or taking part in their hobbies, with carefully placed items covering any private bits. There are a few examples on the How To Look Good Naked website. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what size or shape you are, or even what sex you are, just so long as you are prepared to show you are not ashamed of your body as it is.

This got me thinking, what if it was a calendar of genealogists? or geneabloggers?

Would you be prepared to do it? If so, how would you like to be photographed? Where would you be (provided you could get permission), what would you be doing? and what props would you use? Don’t worry I am not going to ask you to prove it (I have far too much to do already to organise a photo shoot and publish a calendar).

For my own part I know my body is not perfect, but I think it would be such fun to take part. I can see myself in a record office leaning over a large table, examining the detail of an early map with a magnifying glass.

Come on don’t be shy, let us know whether you would be brave enough to bare all!

I won’t lie, I’m really excited!!!

How to Look Good Naked is so much better than any of the fashion-centred shows out there.

Back on tonight at 8pm on C4.  Can’t wait!

Sometimes there is something going on more profound than I first realise. I get grumbly about television sometimes, and How to Look Good Naked has been grumbled about from my lips. And yet… Gok Wan is an interesting character, both irritating and intriguing, and seems to be truly likeable. Yes, he is a walking cliché, which is annoying, but then  as I am probably something of a walking cliché myself, I probably shouldn’t grumble.

Gok Wan

And actually, I realise when i come down from my high horse, the aim of How to Look Good Naked, unlike a lot of other fashion shows, is actually (just about) admirable. To take ordinary, lumpy bumpy skinny knobbly low self-esteem people like you and I and help them to be free from their negative self-image.

And that got me thinking. What if there was a power greater even than Gok wanting to do the same thing, only bigger. And that got me writing.

how to look good naked

exposure may be the greatest fear so we cover up with layers
fearful of  standing naked exposed
vulnerable
so discomforting it is a form of torture
to degrade and to shame privacy placed in public view
yet still we are obsessed
addicted  to the private worlds of strangers
claimed as our right to see
to know
to photograph
and then to laugh
our own discomfort plain to see
our pain at our own imperfections
leading and driving us to laugh and so destroy ourselves

come before me says the Ancient
naked as you came
naked as you were born
so you will stand again
my eyes will see straight through to your soul in turmoil
cut through the crap to the unknowing you cover with confidence

yet still says the Re-Creator
I will renew your souls,  your hearts
I will shower you with rain that your dry cracked hearts be fresh
I will clothe you in goodness
array you in a robe of purity
I will make you white as snow
so when you stand before me at the Final Day of Love
you will stand Naked and Beautiful
bare to the soul
yet Unafraid
Unashamed in the garden of your Maker
the Source of Life

allow this
desire this
love this
that you may truly know
how to look good naked

© 2008 Kevin Lewis

I met up with my friend Liz and her children today at Bluewater and noticed that there was some filming going on. Ever curious, we snuck up and saw that Gok Wan was filming “How To Look Good Naked”. Well, ever the photographers, we grabbed our cameras and (with permission), snapped away!

I can’t remember if I posted about this before, but since I’ve been on such a rant about bras lately, I thought I should make everybody aware that there are episodes available for free on Lifetime’s website of Carson Kressley’s amazing show How to Look Good Naked.  

Basically, “How to Look Good Naked” is Carson Kressley’s rah-rah cheerleader act put to work on unsuspecting women with low self-esteem, and when I say low self-esteem, I mean, these women wear thick wool sweaters in the summertime because they can’t bear to bare any skin at all.  

The first thing Kressley does is persuade them to strip down to their bras and panties and look in a mirror.  Some of them cry.  It’s high drama.  Woo!  Let’s hear it for American television!  

Then he parades them through a bunch of reality-check exercises, like, how big is your butt… really?  

He takes most of them bra shopping and proves that the right undergarments can help them look better in clothes.  

And then he, of course, takes them clothes shopping, because number one, that’s what Kressley does, and number two, that’s another opportunity for product placement on the show.

Finally, the women have gained enough confidence by the end of the 22-minute episode to do a nude photo shoot!  Of course these nude photo shoots are tasteful and flattering and involve a complete hair-and-makeup-makeover with professional stylists.  

The whole premise starts to wear a little thin after a few episodes, but I think it’s laudable that Lifetime puts real women’s bodies, unretouched, on television so that everyone can see and realize that nobody actually looks like an airbrushed model – not even the models themselves (obviously, because nobody’s following them around with an airbrush and Photoshop software package all day).

Jeg elsker programmer som “10 years younger”, “Extreme Makeover”, “How to look good naked” og lignende. Mine favoritter er uten tvil de hvor mennesker får operasjoner og blir dritfine og alt det der, men likevel er min “favorittprogramleder”/”mentor”/uansett Wan Gok, fra “How to look good naked”. Han er fantastisk på alle måter, jeg har skikkelig lyst til å være bestevennen hans. Det er ingen operasjoner i programmet, og det er på en måte mottoet også. Og tenk at denne søtingen har veid  133 kilo. Han har slanket bort halve seg selv!

Worried that Channel 4 might have cornered the titillation disguised as confidence boosting market with How to Look Good Naked, BBC Three launched their effort last night with the interestingly titled Naked Estate Agents.

Typically estate agents don’t figure very highly in professions people want to see naked but the BBC have managed to find a selection of women far from the mini driving overly gelled hair male stereotype.

The five women are given a ‘radical’ self confidence boosting course from Psychologist Emma Kenny and image consultant Jonathan Phang.  The course involves a wide range of exercises ranging from healing rifts with estranged parents to bungee jumping all culminating in a naked cat walk show.  Perhaps the most bizarre part of the whole program is the audience for the cat walk show (including their parents) clapping and cheering as their offspring parade naked in front of them.

It’s difficult to describe in so few words just how bad this program is and the fact the licence fee is being used to fund it is even worse.  If you want to watch a program to help boost your self confidence then look elsewhere, if you want to see naked flesh than just watch the final ten minutes on iPlayer and in the coming weeks you can look forward to ogling naked beauticians, office workers and nurses.