From Slapper To Dapper! (Snog, Marry, Avoid?)

Member Name: T4imbo3107

Product:	Snog, Marry, Avoid?
Date:	03/07/09 (221 review reads)
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Advantages: Being given a lesson they truly need to learn.

Disadvantages: Some of thenm look like clowns or drag queens!

This is one of them shows that you didn't really know anything about until you start watching it. The emphasis is simply to make a person look a lot better after they have been "re-styled" than what they did before; in effect they are given a make under.

The contestants they take part in Snog, Marry, Avoid seem to all have one thing in common - they all worship Jodie Marsh! The effects of this are basically they wear little apart from layers of make up that in my opinion mask their inner beauty and make them look like some horrific drag artist.

The program lasts for 30 minutes and in that time they usually go through three people, who has to be said are in dire need of help in the way they dress and also act accordingly due to the way they dress as well. The interesting thing about this is that they are confronted by a computer named POD (Personal Overhaul Device). Voiced by an actress POD delivers some quite cutting remarks, the subject is taken through a number of questions that the public have been asked about previous to the interview between the person and POD. You are also given a brief synopsis of the person and see then getting ready for a night out, which in some cases can take literally hours to leave the house. Strangely it also seems that the nightclub the participants go to is usually the same one as well.

Holding this all together is Jenny Frost, ex- Atomic Kitten member, who fronts the show in a quite natural and friendly manner. Referred to as The Frost by POD, she meets up with the people after the make under has been performed and sees if the change has been upheld or if they basically went mental with the make up again and returned to the void of the past. With POD doing the business with the person involved the make under really does wonders for the subject in the limelight, not only do they look a lot better, but they look quite stylish as well. Again feedback is received from the public as well as their views are given as to whether they would Snog, Marry or Avoid. As you can imagine the end result looks a lot better than what we had to begin with.

For a show of that can be considered mediocre in terms of reality or cult viewing in some areas it does tend to reflect what you tend to see in some London nightclubs. Usually the ones that have the paparazzi hanging about ion the door However it is noticeable, due to the fact that some outfits are literally no more than here lengths of Sellotape, the lengths that some of the contestants go to get noticed with the way they dress sense borders on tragic wannabe to get noticed.

Also the show has a number of celebrities taking place in the show; I say celebrities as these are usually someone like ex-Big Brother contestant Chantelle Haughton or z-listers like Jay Nicholls who was the subject of an ITV documentary Britain's Biggest Spenders and someone who regularly pops up in the Sunday Sport. So whether these people are here to sort there lives out or to just get some air time on TV is questionable, somehow I think recognition comes in to it more than anything else.

In Season One, the main person that almost all the females said that they were influenced by was Jodie Marsh, and in Season Two Marsh appeared on the show and went through the POD process. Although Marsh looked a hell of a lot better than when she started, it was obvious she had a wig on as originally she had her hair shaved at the side and magically this disappeared. In the after interview with Jenny Frost at the end of that show, Marsh had returned to the way she had been dressed before which I thought was a complete waste of time. It was also funny as POD gave her a right mouthful of abuse when the studio lights came up; I think Marsh was a little taken aback at being described by POD as "her arch nemesis".

Between the participant slot, Frost gives tips on fashion such as how to safely remove sticker from soles of heeled shoes or make up removal. I can safely see that this means nothing to me at all as I can safely say with hand on heart that I will never ever feel the need to do these things. This shows to me that the show is not really aimed at men to watch, the majority of people that appear on the show are female and even though there have been a few males on the show, they have usually been changed back to their original appearance or POD has said that they cannot be helped!!!

Shown on BBC3 at various times and never really shown in the same time slot twice the show is entertaining and can be viewed as an alternative to the other rubbish that the mainstream channels continuously turf out. I tend to watch this on-line as well as the BBC iPlayer has the back episodes available. I can see its appeal to the age bracket that BBC3 are attempting to capture with this show as well and although its not a program that people would talk about on the train the next day, it is thought provoking enough for the people taking part to get the message to dress down and make sure the right parts of the body are on the inside rather than dangling outside with an outfit rather than just accessorizing various areas with minimal amounts of cloth or even feathers!

The phrase "ten foot barge pole" does cross my mind as well as the public that are asked their opinions of a person.

For some reason I actually find this entertaining as I just sit there laughing at the way these people are frankly cringing at the time and the effort that is shown on screen to how far they go with fake tanning, make up, glitter, hair extension and basically cringe at what I see on screen. The average age of the females on the show is between 21 and 30ish. I say 30ish as I suspect that some are hiding the genuine facts. One person even came out to say that they spend over £1200 a month to look this good. Ironically she never went out in clothes at all and looked like a Tango woman that men weren't to sure about approaching.

To sum up, I enjoy watching this just because it is sometimes so bad that it's actually so good. Its just interesting to see how bad the people on the show actually dress to get attention, in fact when you see them on a night out you don't see them with any good looking men hanging around them as its usually the club hangers that seem to get the idea these girls are an easy target, which given the manner that some dress are projecting the entirely wrong image completely and I think that this is the primary message that the show is genuinely attempting to get across with what it is trying to achieve.

Remember only Superman gets away with wearing his pants on the outside!

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