Poor Little Rich Girls
Encyclopedia
Poor Little Rich Girls is a UK
reality television
program that allowed women from very different profession
s and classes
to switch places to see how the other half lives. The six-part series, directed by Iain Thompson and produced by Simon Kerfoot and Helen Royle, first aired in 2004 on ITV
. The premiere episode, in which model
Natalie Denning
trades places with trainee hairdresser
Katie Wakefield, was "pick of the day" by The Sun
for "Best Reality".
and model Sassy Porter and cleaning woman Leanne Rodrigues, who was subsequently offered a modeling career of her own, and between model Katie Downes
and toilet cleaner Michelle McManus.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
program that allowed women from very different profession
Profession
A profession is a vocation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain....
s and classes
Social class
Social classes are economic or cultural arrangements of groups in society. Class is an essential object of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, economists, anthropologists and social historians. In the social sciences, social class is often discussed in terms of 'social stratification'...
to switch places to see how the other half lives. The six-part series, directed by Iain Thompson and produced by Simon Kerfoot and Helen Royle, first aired in 2004 on ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
. The premiere episode, in which model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
Natalie Denning
Natalie Denning
Natalie Denning is an English glamour model.-Career:Natalie Denning first found fame in the British reality TV series Poor Little Rich Girls and has since gone on to pose topless in many of the major British lads mag's including Nuts, ZOO, Loaded and Maxim...
trades places with trainee hairdresser
Hairdresser
Hairdresser is a term referring to anyone whose occupation is to cut or style hair in order to change or maintain a person's image. This is achieved using a combination of hair coloring, haircutting, and hair texturing techniques...
Katie Wakefield, was "pick of the day" by The Sun
The Sun (newspaper)
The Sun is a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and owned by News Corporation. Sister editions are published in Glasgow and Dublin...
for "Best Reality".
Premise
During the two-week taping of each show, the women not only take on one another's jobs, but also inhabit each other's homes and cut off all contact with their own friends and family. Episodes included a swap between DJDisc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
and model Sassy Porter and cleaning woman Leanne Rodrigues, who was subsequently offered a modeling career of her own, and between model Katie Downes
Katie Downes
Katie Elizabeth Downes is an English glamour model and Page Three girl.Downes was born in Liverpool, England. She has appeared in nearly all of the British lad mags, and has been on the cover of Loaded, Maxim, Nuts, and Zoo Weekly...
and toilet cleaner Michelle McManus.
Further reading
- Review of debut, The Sunday Mirror