Ladette to Lady - Episode 1

28-09-2006 13:08

All over Britain, ladettes are running wild. For an entire generation of young women binge-drinking, fighting and rampant promiscuity are now a way of life. But we’ve devised a radical solution to this problem. Half a century ago Eggleston Hall was one of Britain’s leading finishing schools. Young ladies used to go there for an all round polish in the social and domestic arts – before making their debut in society. Now the school has re-opened to see if today’s out-of-control young women can benefit from this old fashioned curriculum. An indomitable collection of staff, headed up by floristry tutor Gill Harbord, cookery teacher Rosemary Shrager and etiquette coach Liz Brewer, have got just five weeks to transform eight of Britain’s most shameless ladettes into perfect ladies fit to be presented at a Society Ball.The eight ladettes submitting themselves for transformation are:19-year-old Essex girl FRANCES ROWE, famous for flashing her newly enhanced breasts; LOUISE PORTER, a stunning scouser who’s been sacked from every job she’s ever had and “can’t count the number of fights she’s had with strangers on the streets”; binge drinker VICTORIA JENKINS from Pontefract who drinks every night except Monday and then only has a break because the pub is shut; EMMA PHILLIPS-MARTIN, 22 from Essex, who’s notoriously vulgar; barmaid REBECCA SQUIRE whose sexual appetite has earned her a reputation in her home town of Fleetwood; Chelsea fan LAURA HEARSUM who is extremely proud of her very intimate body piercings; ANGELA MOTT from Essex, page three girl for the Daily Sport, and finally, baby of the group 18-year-old CLARA MAYER, a self confessed tom boy from Kent. Headmistress Jill Harboard feels this year’s girls are the worst yet.“Their sexual behaviour is utterly ghastly,” she says, and etiquette coach Liz Brewer is determined to make them see the error of their promiscuous ways during their stay at Egglestone Hall.“I think if they can understand how they’re cheapening themselves, how they really are slags as far as their sexual behaviour is concerned, if they understand that then they can move forward.”But before they’ve even had chance to unpack, the finishing school’s disciplined regime kicks in and the girls swap their high fashion outfits for a green tweed twin set and pearls. All trace of their former lives must be removed – including piercings. Laura Hearsum has come to Egglestone Hall to learn refinement, but will she confess to Jill Harboard that she has piercings of an intimate nature?