Jean Broke-Smith

Jean Broke-Smith is an English etiquette and grooming teacher. She was the principal of the Lucie Clayton School of grooming and modelling for thirty years, during which time she supervised a curriculum that included etiquette and deportment. Graduates of the school include the actress Joanna Lumley. Prior to that she trained as fashion designer, milliner and make-up specialist.

In recent years Broke-Smith has appeared in a series of television programmes on the subject of manners. She was 'head-teacher' in Ladette to Lady, a reality television programme that faked the curriculum of a finishing school; she was the etiquette expert on The Family, another reality-television show in which a large extended family were sent to live in a large mansion house with a full domestic staff; she was a judge on Australian Princess, a spin-off of an NBC show American Princess, which purported to teach young women how to conduct themselves like princesses and make them fit to marry a prince. She appeared on Faking It, teaching a girl from the north of England to present herself as a society 'lady'; in Snobs; and as an etiquette expert on Britain's Next Top Model.

In April 2011 Broke-Smith came last when she appeared in the Channel 4 series 'Three in a Bed' in her capacity as a bed and breakfast owner competing with two other establishments, making many spiteful comments about the other establishments while offering the least well-cleaned or hospitable property herself.

References

• http://www.channel4.com/programmes/three-in-a-bed/episode-guide/series-2/episode-3 Channel 4 website for "Three in a Bed"
• Javin, Val, A dream of being stuck with a star, Huddersfield Daily, 7 June 2008
• Jean Broke-Smith, Grooming and etiquette expert, biography at First Artist Management
• Jean Broke-Smith at the Internet Movie Database
• Broke-Smith, Jean, Another view: The Boy Friend, The Guardian, July 26, 2006