Well, I watched last night with my mum, my sister and my brother. Or should I say that I watched through my fingers.

As much as I may like my accent, it sounds twenty times worse on recording, especially on TV, and especially when the ‘plazzy’ (plastic) accent is forced – we see this a lot with people from Birkenhead, otherwise known as Plazzy Scousers, if you’re in a foreign country with them, their faint Scouse accent is magnified ten-fold.

So, it wasn’t just the squeaky voices, it was the awfully scripted scenes, the very, very ‘Desperate’ girls and the fact that half of the cast aren’t even from Liverpool.

I was tweeting as I was watching last night, plus checking Facebook and the general consensus was – it’s awful. My friends, mostly from Liverpool, all agreed. I even got a text from a friend who lives in London, she thought the same and I gave another friend, from Birmingham, the permission to hurt me if I ever watch it again. He so kindly reassured me that that’s not how I come across – I pray that he wasn’t just saying that to spare my feelings.

The first episode is set around Juice FM’s Style Awards, and local ‘celeb’ Amanda Harrington is hosting an award this year; she was nominated last year, as she frequently told us throughout the episode, but she didn’t win.

We see Amanda and Chloe – Abbey Crouch’s cousin – walking through the City Centre in their rollers, a frequent thing in Liverpool. I will admit that I do it too. But that’s not the shameful part, it’s the people who ask to get a picture with the model. Cringe. Surely they were paid to do that?!

The first character we meet is Jodie, the beautician who is back from London and ready to ‘Grab Liverpool by the scruff of the neck’. Then there is the married gay couple who own the salon that Jodie will be working in, Chris and Mark. Joe – who I’m assuming is meant to be the equivalent to Mark Wright, a player in his own right and he can’t seem to shake off Layla. In my opinion, the most Desperate girl on the show, why on earth would she ask to get in the taxi with him at the end.

Then there’s Joe’s ex, Elissa, we find out that Joe cheated on her and they both of course still have feelings for each other… Watch this space. Elissa’s pal Jaiden – the most brutal blogger in Britain, sorry mate, never heard of you. But he redeem the show slightly at the end, telling Amanda: “Your extensions are shit.” Classic.

Then we have the beautiful blonde sisters Gill and Debbie, Joe’s mates Danny the DJ and Adam. George who we have yet to get anything from, all we know is he has money. Then there’s Sam, Danny’s ex and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge look-a-like. And last but not least, Sean – who wasn’t actually in last night’s episode. He’s a real life footballer and Abbey Crouch’s brother, so at least we can expect that he’s going to have some drama with the girls.

However, I will not be watching this. Thankfully it’s only an eight-part series and if the bad reviews keep on rolling in like they have, I can’t see a second series being made, thankfully.

What’s your opinion? Did you like it?