Snog Marry Avoid?
| Snog Marry Avoid? | |
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| Presented by | Jenny Frost |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 33 (to 18 January 2011) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC Three |
| Original run | 23 June 2008 – present |
Snog Marry Avoid? is a British reality TV show on BBC Three hosted by Jenny Frost and produced by Endemol. It focuses mainly on transforming 'fakery obsessed' or 'slap addicts' in Britain into natural beauties by stripping them of their skimpy clothes and layers of make-up and giving them a make-under instead of a make-over with the help of POD - the Personal Overhaul Device.
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[edit] Overview
Snog Marry Avoid? has given 'make-unders' to a range of people from Great Britain including celebrities.
Within the world of the programme, POD is a computer that "only understands natural beauty". It conducts a public analysis to ask the public whether they would snog, marry or avoid the participant, as well as another random question which offers those questioned another chance to praise or criticise. After the questions it allows the person to choose their style based on a celebrity and dresses them accordingly. It sometimes orders the person to do a 'deep cleanse' where they have to take off all of their make-up. After the transformation POD will ask the public what they think of the person. The person is then re-introduced to their partner or relative outside the TV studio and their reaction is recorded, generally a positive one towards the more natural look. Later on in the show Jenny Frost will meet with the person to see if they have kept their look and discuss the transformation.
As with many BBC TV programmes, previews are uploaded to YouTube before the programme is screened on TV. The most viewed Snog Marry Avoid? video on youtube is Scotland's No1 Male Barbie which got interest around the world due to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton featuring it on his Twitter page.
[edit] Series 1
The first series aired from 23 June - 28 July 2008. It contained six episodes.
[edit] Series 2
The second series began on 16 February 2009. This series also featured celebrities. In the middle of the show Jenny Frost gave beauty tips called 'Frost's Fixes'. It contained 12 episodes and ended 11 May 2009. The celebrities included:
- Episode 1 - Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle Houghton
- Episode 2 - Jodie Marsh, POD's arch nemesis because of the 'Jodie Clones'
- Episode 3 - Big Brother contestant Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace
- Episode 4 - Jessie Wallace's sister Danielle Mason
- Episode 5 - The Cheeky Girls
- Episode 6 - Michelle Heaton
[edit] Series 3
To promote the third series BBC3 aired a one off spin-off show called Snog, Marry, Avoid - Top 10 Shockers, a count down of the most memorable make-unders on the 15 December 2009. Series three kicked off on 4 February 2010, with an estimated 12-episode series. Celebrities included:
- Episode 4 - Bianca Gascoigne and Andre J.
- Episode 5 - Goldie Lookin Chain
- Episode 9 - Big Brother 2009 (UK) winner Sophie Reade and X Factor contestants Kandy Rain
- Episode 10 - Big Brother contestants Lisa and Mario
[edit] Series 4
Series 4 began on 11 January 2011 at 8pm. There were 12 episodes and it ended on 15 March 2011.
- Episode 1 - The Royal Special - Lady Victoria Hervey
- Episode 2 - The Twins and Emily Kerr
- Episode 3 - Rockstar Spud and Chantelle Louise
- Episode 4 - Sarah Jane Pickles and Hollie Wilkinson
- Episode 5 - Lissy Summers and Abbie Goodwin
- Episode 6 - Family Special - Rooneys and Wanda & Trisha
- Episode 7 - Allyson and Verena
- Episode 8 - POD tries to get the boys from Dirty Sanchez to clean up their act.
- Episode 9 - POD meets a drag artist who wants to be Coco Chanel, but is more like Coco the Clown.
- Episode 10 - POD meets a six-foot glamazon with outsized assets, a geisha with a guitar and a DJ with a penchant for mushrooms.
- Episode 11 - Look-alikes Special - Lady Gaga lookalike Cat Winter becomes less Gaga.
- Episode 12 - Lynne C & Emma C - We meet a weightlifter who needs to lighten up, and a domestic goddess from Wales who likes to flaunt her cupcakes. Plus is it a bird? Is it a plane? Why no, it's Boy Kitten.
[edit] Ratings
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The show has received positive reviews, complimenting its useful beauty tips and 'cliche' gimmick. BBC Three's boss has declared it a 'Roaring success'.
Viewership had climbed throughout the two series', on average over 750,000 people tuning into each of the second series' new episodes. Repeats also gain good ratings, becoming one of BBC Three's top shows.
[edit] International format
A German version started airing in November 2008 on the commercial channel ProSieben.[1] "Love Date or Hate –die ehrlichste Starstyle-Rubrik der Welt" (Love Date or Hate - the most honest starstyle-column in the world) was a part of the weekly showbiz-oriented television programme "red! - Stars, Lifestyle & More", but due to harsh criticism the column was taken off the show after a few months.[2] POD was called Stylomat in this format (portmanteau of the words style and automat).
A Russian version named Redecorating, Russian version (Kosmetichesky remont po-russki) has aired since 23 May 2011 on musical and entertainment channel Muz-TV.
[edit] References
- ^ Official press release, Page 4 (October 2, 2008) SevenOneMedia.de. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
- ^ http://www.quotenblogger.de/tag/stylomat/
