OK so this one strictly isn't a film but a TV program I am absolutely loving right now.... MADE IN CHELSEA... I love it! When the Hills ended there was a massive gaping hole in my TV watching schedule that simply could not be filled, until now. I had tried to make several attempts at watching TOWIE but I have never been able to make it to the end of an episode, something to do with the people, accents, tans and general hideousness of the program. It just didn't have that what seems like ordinariness (is that a word?) to which I could try and relate... not that I am saying my life is anything like the people's in The Hills and Made In Chelsea but there is something that seems a bit more normal, saying that though...
Made In Chelsea is HILARIOUS! There is the ongoing love triangle going on between Caggie, Spencer and (wait for it....) FUNDA!!!! Who calls their child Funda? It sounds like an STD... but other than the ridiculous name these 3 seem like pretty normal people to me, Spencer and Funda live together in a normal looking Chelsea flat where you don't get much for your money and Caggie is an aspiring singer/songwriter, although the singing wasn't amazing and well her first gig was a bit Karaoke with no song writing skills put on show.
Then there is Spencers friend Hugo, who seems to like to play match maker and Caggie's friend Millie Mackintosh a bit of a flirt....
Francis Boulle and Fredrick Ferrier are two really really young looking lads about town (maybe I am just getting old?!?) Francis works in the diamond industry but only ever seems to be getting his portrait painted and saying the most stupid things.... Why get your portrait done with a blow up globe and a pineapple in hand??? Because it represents success in the 18th century... join the real world! He seems to be utterly infatuated with Caggie but she is way out of his league. Freddie is a model/student.. looks about 16 and seems to be a bit of a ladies man.
Amber Atherton and Rosie Fortescue haven't had much character development and seem over pretentious in a show where everyone is pretentious! Hopefully there is more to come...
The next 4 characters seems to have an absurd relationship dynamic, there are best friend Cheska and Binky (nicknames!) who don't seem to quite be acceptable by everyone previously mentioned.. there seems to be a bit of snobbery going on. They are friends with Ollie who is an incredibly metrosexual straight man!?! maybe bisexual!?! who knows? who cares? it is pure entertainment.. he dresses for attention, curls his eyelashes, fake tans for an all over glow and tosses his mane of hair every time he is in shot. I don't know if the hair fiddling comes because it keeps getting in his way... maybe he should consider tying it back or wearing a hairband?!? Ollie is in a relationship with Gabriella Ellis, a pouty mouthed greek who has way better hair than Ollie and seems a lot more comfortable in this relationship than he does. In this group there have been some corking lines:
"Charles Dickens wrote Winnie the Pooh, right?"
"We know you have always wanted a onesie..."
"Those eyelashes look exceptional..."
"I really feel like my hair has gone downhill lately..."
All very hilarious, some pretentious, snobby people with a dislike for High Street and anyone outside their circle, with so few brain cells between them that I don't there could be one successful career made. I LOVE IT!!! It makes me feel smarter just watching them!
