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To think Charlotte Crosby is completely right here

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Fedup1223 · 24/04/2021 11:20

She posted the below statement in response to channel 5 tv show made called “Celebrities what happened to your face”.

To think Charlotte Crosby is completely right here
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rainbowthoughts · 24/04/2021 16:44

The fact is she wasn't the first to have a documentary made about her over use for surgeries, Michael jacksons had numbers documentaries, Pete Burns and someone said Simon Cowell was the week previously

Not being the first doesn't make something acceptable.

where was the outrage then?

I don't know. People are talking about this because the person the show was about had made a statement regarding it. Lack of 'outrage' also doesn't make something acceptable. It's awful that anybody has a show deduce to their appearance.

Fedup1223 · 24/04/2021 16:45

@Bythemillpond that’s awful. Wtf is wrong with people.

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Footloosefancyfree · 24/04/2021 16:46

rainbowthoughts

Why is it different because she's a woman and Simon Cowell a man he was on last week?

rainbowthoughts · 24/04/2021 16:48

@Footloosefancyfree

rainbowthoughts

Why is it different because she's a woman and Simon Cowell a man he was on last week?

I didn't say it was different, what do you mean?

Footloosefancyfree · 24/04/2021 16:50

Where was the thread when it about Michael jackson or Pete Burns or the fact last week there was one about Simon Cowell?

Fedup1223 · 24/04/2021 16:51

I feel differently about, say female politicians, sportspeople, journalists etc (and Mary Beard!) who are ridiculed for how they look when it is completely irrelevant to their job, but this isn't the case here.

Right ok so it’s ok to make an hour long tv show slagging off some people’s looks and weight, but not others.

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rainbowthoughts · 24/04/2021 16:53

@Footloosefancyfree

Where was the thread when it about Michael jackson or Pete Burns or the fact last week there was one about Simon Cowell?

Oh. Well I never wrote this thread. The OP did it because they saw CC response to the program being aired. You can hint all you like at this being unfair but it literally happened because of CC statement. I haven't ever seen the show so I am not going to make a thread about it, regardless of who the 'subject' is. I can however reply to this thread because of the context being the statement by CC.

Howyoudoingirl · 24/04/2021 16:56

I'm torn about this. Yes it must be very hurtful to have your face mocked /critiqued. But this woman was the presenter of a show where people were given 'revenge tattoos'. She was always having a good laugh when the reveal happened.

Fedup1223 · 24/04/2021 17:22

@Howyoudoingirl

I'm torn about this. Yes it must be very hurtful to have your face mocked /critiqued. But this woman was the presenter of a show where people were given 'revenge tattoos'. She was always having a good laugh when the reveal happened.
Fair point. But I suppose at least they had chosen to go on the show. Was it actually revenge tattoos or just mates tattooing each other (with some quite shocking results)? I’ve not seen it.
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Coyoacan · 24/04/2021 17:26

You don't have to know or like someone to know that an hour-long programme devoted to criticising their looks is just wrong

IrishMamaMia · 24/04/2021 17:33

I don't and wouldn't watch this kind of trash TV but the I find the kind of surgery she's had sad and alarming and can see the voyeuristic interest for a tabloidy trash channel like this to be honest. It's wrong but I think it's a bit like the girl who cried wolf to be honest. It's a hard hearted attitude but I can't muster sympathy for someone who by their public image and platform almost advocates this kind of surgical work.

Ostryga · 24/04/2021 18:00

A woman can look any way she wants. She can do what she wants. Obviously I know plastic surgery isn’t always the answer, and it is dangerous for young women and girls to see this as ‘the norm’.

But no one should be vilified for having filler. No one. And especially not on prime time tv for an hour.

It’s not hard hearted to have those views, it’s misogynistic.

IrishMamaMia · 24/04/2021 18:12

A woman can look any way she wants. She can do what she wants

True. I'm glad she's happy with how she looks now which is great. However if I was featured on that show I'd have a hard, cold look at the ethics of the practitioners who treated me and I'd be calling them out publicly and legally before moving on to calling out Channel 5. But as she says she's 'happy'.

Fedup1223 · 24/04/2021 20:07

@IrishMamaMia

A woman can look any way she wants. She can do what she wants

True. I'm glad she's happy with how she looks now which is great. However if I was featured on that show I'd have a hard, cold look at the ethics of the practitioners who treated me and I'd be calling them out publicly and legally before moving on to calling out Channel 5. But as she says she's 'happy'.

I’m not sure that she is happy with how she looks - that’s part of what makes this so so awful.
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littlepattilou · 25/04/2021 13:24

FYI. This vile show has been removed from Channel 5's streaming service now, and they have apologised. So it looks like the flurry of complaints did the trick.

Kudos to anyone who complained!

uk.yahoo.com/news/channel-5-removes-controversial-documentary-172117147.html

Fedup1223 · 25/04/2021 13:55

@littlepattilou good update. Glad they’ve at least acknowledged something is wrong with it.

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Redrum2222 · 25/04/2021 14:12

Great update! I like Charlotte, its awful when tv and newspapers do this to people! Men or woman it makes no difference.

TheQueef · 25/04/2021 14:18

Good news Pattilou
I hope Charlotte gets a little comfort from knowing people, not just her fans either, are upset and angry at this bullying.

The ginormous difference between Cowell/ Madonna and Charlotte is about £50.000.000.
They can hit ch5 with their purse.

Crimeismymiddlename · 25/04/2021 14:26

Of course she is. It is bizarre to me that this programme got made. Why would anyone watch an entire programme on someone’s face. It is mean spirited and nasty. I make the effort to not comment of people’s appearance unless it is to say they look nice and would never ever comment any decision to change features, it is so rude, also who are we to judge. I have Botox and fillers myself-would never admit though as no one’s business. I might have a personal opinion on how I feel about her face, but she seems like she has really sorted her life out, is happy and this programme really smacks of trying to bring her down to a basic level again.

Slatkater · 25/04/2021 15:16

@artquejtion

I had never heard of her before this thread and I haven't watched the programme, but if I am honest, I am torn about this.

I looked at her instagram and she is posting images that are heavily filtered, altered and she is unrecognisable from the photos someone posted above, and that is all she is famous for.

Personally, her instagram account is utterly unhealthy, hundreds of her followers posting how beautiful she is, yet everything about her images are fake, her plastic surgery is extreme and she is not beautiful in the least, in the photos above, she was a lovely attractive girl before she did what she did.

I think she is doing more harm in a broader sense, hopefully the programme has addressed that aspect of her, although the title is not pleasant at all.

At the end of the day, it is NOT such a bad thing that these 'influencers' are being exposed and called out on on the extreme measures they are taking to make money and the fakery of it all.

People like her are the very last people who should be calling out anyone for image shaming.

Good post, I saw her on The Circle recently and was shocked at what she has had done to herself. When you see her without all the Instagram filters and soft focus as someone upthread said she looks disfigured. How many of her 'fans' has she made to feel inferior about how they look, has she 'influenced' to take the same route as her. Only she does not look like the images she is promoting on Instagram. Calling out that program is hypocrisy on her part.
SofiaMichelle · 25/04/2021 15:19

@artquejtion @Slatkater

I completely agree, too.

artquejtion · 25/04/2021 15:59

I watched the programme, I think it really is a worthwhile discussion to expose the reality of what these influencers really do look like and what they have done to their faces and the hypocrisy of what they are 'selling' to earn a living, in her case it is totally extreme.

That being said, it was not a good production and I think the title is particularly unpleasant. The narrator was awful, referring to her as 'rubber lips Charlotte' and something else demeaning that I can't recall, totally unnecessary.

The rest of the programme was informative, the cosmetic surgeons were all very measured and articulate, in how they explained what work she had done and explaining why the work she had done has made her look so awful, they didn't touch on mental health aspects of it nor the massive desire for attention and celebrity, (for doing nothing)

The person commenting on Sly Stallones cosmetic procedures made me laugh, she had more plastic surgery than Sly and his mother put together, she was ridiculous looking with huge filled cheeks and lips, so ironic. I really don't know how the producers could have used her, without commenting on HER awful cosmetic surgery.

Hopefully, there will be more educational programmes in a similar vein, but not the way C5 did it. This ridiculous form of vaucous celebrity needs to exposed for what it is.

Givemecoffeeplease · 25/04/2021 18:14

You can complain to Ofcom here

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