I probably would watch "The Singing Bee" at least once, but if it's all about embarrassing someone who screws up, I'm not watching it twice.
I caught part of the "What Not to Wear" marathon over the weekend, and had a lot of fun. I did feel sorry for that one woman who had severe sticker shock at the first thing she looked at on Shopping Day #1, so much so that she said, "I can't do this," started to cry, and walked off camera. She did have one of the better hair/makeup changes I'd seen, so that her longer, frizzier hair ended up being curly and glam!
I had a friend submitted to What Not To Wear (I didn't get to participate though), and she ended up leaving before it was over. She said "despite the free clothes, I just didn't want to sit there feeling bad about myself." And she is not sensitive at all. She was excited about it, but she said that they made her feel bad and didn't want to listen to her style.
I want to see a show of clips of people telling off the What To Wear people.
She didn't tell them off, she just said "i'm not doing this anymore" and got on a plane and went home.
I think they've mellowed some of the years. I know there was one episode where the woman only had 1 pair of pants being held together by safety pins and she was trying on skirts and in tears and Clinton seemed distressed for her (they were watching the first shopping day) and said the problem was with the skirt, not her, you take off the skirt and find something else that works. At the second shopping day they gave her a hug and told her some of that.
I always like it when, after a really bad Shopping Day 1, they just show up first thing, instead of jumping out after a while. Stacey & Clinton get much more sympathetic with people who seem genuinely traumatised by the whole thing.
Vortex, wasn't your friend going to be on one of the first US episodes? I can see it taking a while for them to get their act together, attitude-wise.
They had a different guy in the early seasons didn't they?
Yeah, I think Clinton was brought in for just that reason, to tone it down a bit.
They really are a lot nicer than Trini and Susannah (the Brit originals), but I do like the way that T & S manhandle the female makeovers' breasts when they're just flopping around due to bad bras. They're so out there with it!
