Miss Naked Beauty

I'm baffled at this programs popularity with women. I haven't seen anything as exploitative and hypocritical towards the female species since Alf Garnett put his feet up! The irritating Gok Wong should be ashamed of himself for being involved in this. In fact once Channel Four have fired the world's un-funniest comedian in Russell Brand they should fire Gok, too! I'm just stunned those women's groups haven't kicked up about this like they bored and grumpy pensioners have over Ross and Brand. The idea of the show (so they say) is to find a 'female ambassador' for women to go around the country to promote normal women and natural beauty. Fair enough. I'm sure ...  Read the complete review

There has been a lot of comment on this show in the papers at the weekend, mostly negative, well, all negative actually. The idea is that the show will find a natural beauty queen, someone empowering, feisty, representative and comfortable in their skin. All very laudable. However, the way the show goes about this and the odd logic behind the whole thing add up to a rather strange programme. It's only a TV programme, I know that, and any programme attracts wannabes and the desperate for attention. An alternative beauty pageant sounds like a good idea, is hosing down a couple of dozen women in an empty pool? Lingering on the contestants who are ...  Read the complete review

This aired on Channel 4 on 28th October 2008 at 8:00pm and will continue to every week until Miss Naked Beauty is decided. This is hosted by the one and only Gok Wan of "How to Look Good Naked", who is accompanied by Myleene Klass of Hear'say fame. Miss Naked Beauty is the ultimate 21st century beauty contest between 12 "normal" women of all different shapes and sizes. They must undertake different tasks to stay in the game. The show began where all 12 contestants had to be photographed intimately, framing and zooming in on their least favorite body part. For some women this was a nightmare, and one girl even had a panic ...  Read the complete review