Fly-on-the-wall Boy George show kicks off season of “trashy glamour”
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
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Living TV is to go behind the closed doors of Boy George’s life in a new series called ‘Living With…‘. The cable channel will follow the former Culture Club singer to give viewers a snapshot of his day-to-day life, filming both his mother and his friends. The series will also film former Big Brother contestant Jade Goody as she battles with advanced cervical cancer.
Living TV’s director of Programmes, Claudia Rosencrantz said: “We have been incredibly sensitive over this. It was an extraordinary coincidence that we were filming already when it happened.
“It was clear when the whole Big Brother thing happened that there was more to come from Jade. I never thought she was a racist and thought the time had come where our viewers wanted to know what had happened to her. And then this happened.”
Rosencrantz made clear that Goody had set clear parameters within which Living was allowed to film. The show is just one of several in Living’s autumn line-up of programmes offering “trashy glamour”. The channel, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this month, will also be broadcasting Dirty Dancing: The Time Of Your Life, America’s Next Top Model and Grey’s Anatomy.
A new series with the working title Four Weddings sees four brides attending each other’s weddings and judging them. The bride with the best wedding wins a honeymoon.
Another celebrity trash-fix is Pop Goes the Band, in which former pop groups including Bucks Fizz, Dollar, Cleopatra, 911, Shakatak and Visage will be “restored to their former glory through strenuous fitness regimes, painful cosmetic and in some cases, major plastic surgery.”
Living TV, part of the Virgin Media group is available on Sky Channel 112 and Virgin Media Channel 110.
