Category — Ladette To Lady Au

Tonight’s recap could have been one word – Yawn. This series has gotten tired, and extremely boring. It is more about emotionally damaged girls rather than ladettes. Where was any ladette behaviour tonight, it  was all about watching quail eggs being peeled, and seeing girls get into cars with their knees held together.

Brat Camp is so much more interesting  for seeing transformations of troubled teens. Mrs Schrager and Mrs Harboard indulging in pop psychology is irritating. They think that they can solve Kayla’s issues about her being in foster care since she was nine. Mrs Schrager gave us this insight “she is scared she will be asked to leave”. I think her issues are a bit more entrenched than that.

However on the plus side the girls do appear to be more motivated about making changes to their lives once they get home. How long this lasts would be interesting to know.

The aim this week is to start their social transformation – for the girls to rein themselves in.

What happened with the girls this week:

Samantha McCleod whose signature party trick is the wet pussy shot, and post party trick is puking thinks that by going on the show and holding herself better will get her a better quality guy. She has a little crush on a gentleman named Charlie. So when she misses out on going on the car rally with him she is not motivated to keep things on track in the kitchen.

21 year old Shari is a construction worker who does not like authority, and but does like flashing her boobs. She got in trouble for failing in her duties as a drink monitor. That is she over poured the gin, and then lied about it. Tear started rolling when she was caught out.

I quite like 23 year old Donelle mine worker, as she doesn’t like “dumb bitches”. Not that she gives us a definition of who they are. The other thing is she does not hold back from whacking a guy when he grabs her on the arse. Not a Mrs Harboard recommended way of handling this issue, but nonetheless extremely effective.

The main even of the episode was a car rally. Three girls were picked to participate in the rally and the rest had to prepare the picnic. The three that got to go on the rally were Donelle, Shari and Jessica.

At this stage the episode got extremely tedious. The girls were late in preparing the picnic. Considering they only had two hours to make meringues, bread, quiche, pork pies, and quails eggs I thought they did well to only run 1 and 1/2 hours late.

Anyway Samantha got in trouble for sitting down at a picnic blanket even though she was invited. I am not sure if it was that breach of etiqutte or the fact she did not run the kitchen properly which was the reason behind her elimination.  Personally I thought it was a bit unfair.

The girls better be skanky this series, because in the first season the Australian girls were not as skanky as the ones in the UK version, they are just out of control.

I found the first episode to be a tad formulaic – the girls were the “worst the teachers had ever seen”, all the girls had drinking problems, and then to liven things up alcohol was introduced. I think some of these girls would do better on Celebrity Rehab or at least enter the twelve step program.

A lot of the show tonight felt set up particularly the opening scenes in the airport car park, and on the bus to the school.

However Letitia needing to go to the toilet did appear genuine. Letitia whose vices are drinking (naturally) and fighting, became justifiably agitated. It appears she did not wet her pants, but I would have thought it was lady like to stop the bus to allow someone to relieve themselves.

The week started off with a de-metalling of the girls, with some the girls taking out so many piercings I am surprised they got through the metal detectors. Piercings these days appears to have morphed into some sort of body mutilation.

There were the usual classes elocution, etiquette, and flower arranging given by post-menopausal women, who even though they are “ladies” appear to not very happy and extremely uptight.

After finding out the girls are going to be hosting a garden party, they then had a lesson in how to make a delicious punch. Yes you can see where this is going.

The lesson was hosted by a very hunky Viscount Harris. One thing I noticed this time was the lads were a bit better looking, I wondered if it was the economic times in the UK, and they needed to supplement their trust funds.

Needless to say Mrs Harboard then left the girls alone in the room after the lesson to clean up. Yes this was standard Ladette To Ladies fare. They skulled drinks, and hid booze. Letitia took the fall for one of the missing bottles and had to clean two bathrooms.

At the garden party Jessica a 19 year old who is a stripper with an exhibitionist streak managed to score a lad. In forty minutes of TV she managed to show her breasts, flash her butt, suggest lewd things with a phallic symbol to the Viscount, snog a guy, and cry twice. This girl will be on the show for awhile. NW last week stated that Jessica has changed her ways since she returned home. She is now living with her parents, has broken up with her girlfriend and has been in a movie. If she has gone from ladette to movie star those wannabe actresses in the Beauty and the Geek House will not be happy.

We were also introduced to Kaila who is a drinker as well as unemployed whose misdemenour was chatting back in cooking class.

Donelle is a super fit girl who likes drinking and getting aggressive she seemed to be not taking it too seriously and managed to get in trouble a few times.

Shari  a hard drinking construction worker who likes taking off her clothes, managed to latch onto a lad at the garden party, and was caught jokingly flashing her underwear at him. NW said that this former private school girl has dated two men at once without either of them finding out about it. Gosh if that is ladette behaviour, half of the girls in Sydney would be sent to Eggleston Hall.

She was another one who broke down in the elimination interview. Which are not really interviews but just the teachers telling you how awful you are.

We were not “introduced” to all the girls tonight so hopefully they will get more screen time next week.

Letitia was the one to be eliminated, and she was pretty non-plussed about it.

The first episode of the show was not enthralling however they did manage pique enough interest to ensure me tuning in again next week.

Who Magazine has an interview with Nicole Mitchell who was crowned the winner of Ladette to Lady. In the interview she reveals how Ladette to Lady has changed her life. She says she will not be going back to her previous profession of stripping and is currently studying horticulture.

I liked Nicole she had a certain vulnerability about her and I was glad she won. But maybe to shed her ladette image she may need to dump her boyfriend who is currently in jail for armed robbery. (Rolls eyes).

TV Week also has an interview with her.

Here in TV Week is an interview with Skye where she says her english gent will be coming out in August. Also she says she said she was arrested the first night she was in England. Why did we not see that? Also she says that she would not pose for Zoo mag, I could swear she is on the cover this week. I will check it out.

Also Here is Kristyn’s who was the runner-up of the show. We did not really get to see much of her on the show, and really the interview is probably just as boring.

I have to confess I teared up when it was announced that Nicole had won the first season of Ladette To Lady. It was obvious she was going to as her story was the best from foster child to lady.

Who cares if it was rigged it was lovely for her to obtain this achievement as she really wanted it.

On the round table discussion most of the judges thought Skye Laris had done a good job but they thought she was acting. This could be true as she is currently on the cover of Zoo magazine in her underwear. Hardly lady like behaviour.

Apparently Nicole wants to study horticulture now. We will find out what the others are up to in a reunion special to be screened next week.

I thought it was a bit weird the aussie families were dressed very casually for such an auspicious occasion, they looked exceedingly out of place.

Anyway the TV Week reveals the lady like behaviour stopped once the ceremony finished.

Skye wanted to get drunk once the ceremony was over. Nicole apparently did an impromptu strip on the bus on the way to where they were staying. Also she had to excuse herself half way through dinner to go to bed as she had too much to  drink.

Sky had better legs and stayed up with her beau leuan and her dad.

Ladette to Lady will come to its conclusion next Tuesday and Sarah Brunton, one of the more mature and sensible Ladettes got punted this week.

Here is an exit interview in TV Week with Sarah where she said she had had enough of being in the house. Lucky for her she now knows  how to pluck and cook a guinea fowl.

She has also started a blog called Ladette Sparkette, I think once the show is finished we should get some great insights into life at Eggleston Hall.

Well the Ladette To Lady producers procured a Prince for the masked ball. He is obviously an impoverished one ,as why else would be appear on the show.  Like our own Australian royalty, Prince Lorenzo, expect to see him serving chicken or beef on a Qantas flight soon.

The main sub-plot of the show was Skye burgeoning romance with rugby player and trainee doctor Lueane. I kind of got the feeling she was taking seriously what was being poked at her in fun. More information on this romance is here.

Sarah Brunton seemed to rebel all week, first by not wearing the posture brace, and then spending the night hanging out with the boys. What sort of mischief did she get up to? Anyway she dug her own grave by not helping the other girls with the breakfast for the boys after their sleepover and she was eliminated.

The last episode is next week Nicole, Kristen and Skye will be the ones making their “debut”.

This week’s challenge for the ladettes was to host a dinner party for people from society. I wonder if  Skye’s new beau was one of the guests at tonight’s shindig.

TV Week reports that Skye has captured the heart of one of the gentleman who was on the show. Apparently she is madly in love with Leuan Walker who she met on one of the challenges. “I’ve been screaming every second I mention his name,” Skye reveals.

They met at the cocktail party on week one but did not take any notice of him until one of the other soirees.

“Me and Leuan were out the front drinking a bottle of whiskey. I just started talking to him and thought,’Alright!’ she laughs. “I thought he was a gentleman, well-mannered and a sweetie. It just went from there and we’re dating. He’s so cute!”

She is planning on moving to the UK on a work visa.

 Skye had other challenges this week other than hooking a guy, she was made the school prefect for the whole week. Which meant if something went wrong she would be responsible for it. The other girls were persecuting Sky as she has previously not treated the other girls with respect.

For the first time in the series we got to see Krislyn a girl who has the usual problems with the booze and biff. She does look much better with her flapper style bob rather then the cheap blonde dye job she had before the show. She was one of the girls giving Skye a hard time, but other than that she did nothing memorable.

Just as I was getting  a bit bored with the episode they introduced the wine tasting, and told not to get drunk. I think the producers would have been very disappointed if they had stayed sober. They all got stonkered. Zoe seemed to be particularly bad. But to be fair they were left with Bollinger I would have been drinking heavily as well.

The cook Mrs Shrager counselled Zoe about her alcohol problem and told her not to drink. Why don’t they take her to the village AA meeting.

Also there was a witchhunt for the missing alcohol which of course was found by the school princiapl Mrs Harboard. Some of these ‘plotlines’ in the show are very obvious.

The dinner party was uneventful the food looked fantastic. The souffle looked sensational even though it was a bit late.

Zoe was a surprise elimination (to her at least). She was told to go and deal with her alcohol issues. Hopefully she will conquer those demons.

Next week they said a Prince would be at the masked ball. has Prince Lorenzo flown over to be a special guest? 

I am not sure the Ladettes are worse than the english lot, I remember them getting up to a whole lot of naughtiness.  However Channel 9 must be thinking it is a sucessful show as they are currently casting for new series.

I am glad the girls did not have to pay for their haircuts, as they were styles you would see on fifty year old women. This show is trying to snuff the life out the Ladettes. Bianca who ended up being eliminated was told to quiten down.

However if you quiten down to much you get criticised like Kristyn did for being too placid.

Tonight’s episode really did not show much bad behaviour at all unless you call butchering all those cakes comes under that definition.

It was a night of revelations.

Nicole, who I really like, revealed she had had a tough upbring. I really felt sorry for her. But I also like her spirit and personality.

Sarah was upset whilst doing the flower arranging as it reminded her of death and she revealed her sister had died 18 months ago.

Bianca was the one who was eliminated, and she went home gracefully. 

The show has had a ratings drop so it will be interesting to see if Channel 9 will continue with the second series.

 ”I feel you are trying to turn us into decorated fuck dolls for the pleasure of men.” sparkie Sarah Brunton said to Eggleston Hall cook Mrs Scragher.

This was just about confirmed when two older “gentlemen” were talking to girls about the hunt and said when Sarah was cracking the whip  “take her to the bedroom right now.”

Nicole the petite stripper who knows  a thing or two about sleazy men quite rightly got angry and upset and said they were not gentlemen.She also could have pointed out they were old enough to be the girls father.

The etiquette seemed quite non-plussed and told the angry Nicole “Men are all the same”. So is it up to the women to modify their behaviour, but the men can behave how they wish? Like Danny Nulliah blaming the Victorian bushfires on women having abortions it appears that it is always the women’s fault.

Even at the same hunt party the older sleazy men were trying to get the ladettes drunk, and when Nicole started stripping all the men got leary looks on their faces. You would have thought none of them had seen breasts before. Not that she stripped that far down.

Having said that I got slightly bored this episode as they were all pretty well behaved and I kept on hoping for some outrageous drunken behaviour to lighten up. If I want to see a pheasant plucked I’ll watch Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall at the River Cottage on the Lifestyle Channel. 

Emily was eliminated the reason given because she was boring and stupid. Her  problem was she was showing no ladette behaviour something confirmed in this interview with her in TV Week

Also here is an elimination interview with TV Week whose stay at Eggleston Hall did not change her as her aim now is to pose for FHM or Zoo mag.