OMG! I have just seen 'the only way is Essex' for the first time and...

[runningwilde]

...all I can think is what a fucking sad bunch of twats. Stupid, vacant and totally pointless people - and - OMG! These are real people! There are people like this in real life!

Arghhhh!

Aibu to think like this?! Surely not!

In what context might one use the phrase 'well jel' - could some kind soul enlighten me please?

I love Towie, in fact I own a signed Towie book

I have never watched it (bar the 15 seconds I accidently watched). And the previews ad nauseum.

But every time I switch the computer on to look at online news -OK ,Daily Mail
it's full of photos of the cast (I don't know who's who ,nor do I care enough to find out) .Who's with who/got engaged/broken up etc.

One couple walking down the street in Buckhurst Hill>
OMG, they can walk and chew gum. At the same time
Those acting lessons have paid off.

Clutching, 'I love Towie and thus am well jell that Netto has a signed copy of the book'.

I just don't get the point. Nor that Chelsea thing (yes, I could turn it off, mostly I don't turn it on but was curious...). They just seem to make their eyes go bigger and give each other hard meaningful(?) stares. Don't get that All About Amy thing either. Why, just why, is my television full of morons?

superficial vacuous rubbish

superficial vacuous rubbish

Absolutely! And that's why I love it!

Yeah - we moved to essex when I was young. Elements of this but not much. They've taken the extreme and the wealthy.

The only bit I saw of this programme was in a 'club' (not like any club I've ever been to) and there was this guy on the stairs with a tear in his eye and all these girls with tears in their eye. Very odd.

Never watched it since. I'm off to essex soon and I'll do very essex things like look after ds, take ds to see gps and see some friends, and do some sales shopping.

Nothing like that programme thankfully.

Ok. Stupid question. Is it real or scripted? I watched a bit of it once and was so confused I had to go for a lie down.

It was so bad that I would rather stick pins in my eyes

It's not scripted as such. They know what is going to be discussed in the scenes and are given rough direction about who will speak first and what the subject will be and then the cameras roll and leave them to it.

rehearsed improv?

Yup, the very same. And the locations are produced obviously. The production team know the story arc before they arrive, so they know roughly which scenes they will cut next to each other - so the 'co-incidences' will work. But they will go with new stories if they arise.