TOWIE Triumphs at BAFTAs!!

The Only Way is Essex... Well Reem!
Let's be honest, TOWIE is trash TV. The best kind of trash TV, I might add, and that is in part what has made it such a great programme.

So, I am thrilled that it won at the BAFTAs last night- the category voted for by viewers of course, because it wouldn't have stood a chance otherwise.

The BAFTAs are like the Oscars you see, so by right of passage awards go to the gritty TV shows and beautifully crafted period dramas by the bucket load.

And while we may watch them, nothing is quite so thrilling as an episode of TOWIE! I just hope this doesn't change them, because the beauty of the show is that they are just normal people.

Well, about as normal as you can get for Essex...! I loved Sam and Lydia's dresses last night, but Amy and Lauren rather let the side down I'm afraid.

Amy's attempt at being Belle from Beauty and the Beast left her looking a bit like a burnt piece of tinfoil, while Lauren's dress was just a bit too jazzy for my liking.

Sam underplayed it in white Diane von Furstenberg, while Lydia looked the most elegant in a metallic floor-length number.

Well done girlies... now onto the next series. I have an Essex shaped hole in my life!

Made in Chelsea: It ain't no TOWIE!

Ollie Locke from E4's Made in Chelsea
Whoever thought featuring a load of posh totty on a TV programme, billed as the anti-TOWIE, clearly doesn't have a clue.

By the third ad break I was looking desperately for something else to watch- Made in Chelsea was just blah. Literally, all fur coats and no, er substance!

The characters were all thoroughly un-likeable and although Ollie does have an uncanny knack of behaving like a posh Joey Essex, even that couldn’t save the first episode.

It could get better, but would you actually care? I will compare it to TOWIE because even E4 were shameless in the fact that they were copying this formula.

You care about Arg breaking Lydia ’s heart, you totally want Lauren to bin Mark and you absolutely think ‘Reem’ should be put in the Oxford Dictionary.

Who can honestly remember anyone’s name or storyline last night from Chelsea? My only LOL moment came when Ollie tried to deflect a relationship question by saying he loved his date’s eyebrows.

I can’t believe any of the girls are willing to be seen with men who have better hair than they do! Seriously, they were rocking some seriously long, conditioned barnets- maybe that is indeed the way in Chelsea .

As for the self absorbed twit who said Topshop was unacceptable, as was any form of high-street clothing… prepare to be loathed from here on out.

Grr! I was so unbelievably frustrated and offended by last night’s episode and yet I'm pretty certain that was not the reaction E4 were hoping for.

I think they thought the tongue-in-cheek formula of Essex would work and yet you just ended up not giving a toss about any of them, while feeling intensely jealous of their lifestyle.

Will I watch next week? Well, we’ll see if I calm down between now and then me thinks...