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to assume this programme is just a piss-take?

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theuninvitedguest · 20/06/2010 20:19

Just flicked through the channels and found Viva channel showing the worst programme ever 'My Super Sweet 16 UK'.

The behaviour of this 16 yr old brat is outrageous, she is an A1 bitch to her dad and stepmum. He buys her anything she wants (think £17k car), Prada clothes, etc etc. I am staggered that kids like this exist. Aaaaaargh!!

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southeastastra · 20/06/2010 20:20

and remind me why this country is in trouble financially again?

hairytriangle · 20/06/2010 20:20

What really psses me off is that they show this crp on the telly, so that people will somehow thing it's acceptable!

diamondsandtiaras · 20/06/2010 20:40

they show this crap because people like you give them good viewing figures

Kevlarhead · 20/06/2010 21:14

SEA, MSSS is about US teenagers.

This is the blessed Charlie Brooker's take on it.

He describes it as an "Al-Quaeda recruitment video", which I'd agree with.

Kevlarhead · 20/06/2010 21:14

SEA, (AFAIK) MSSS is about US teenagers.

This is the blessed Charlie Brooker's take on it.

He describes it as an "Al-Quaeda recruitment video", which I'd agree with.

Kevlarhead · 20/06/2010 21:15

Arses! Double post!

lolapoppins · 20/06/2010 21:25

I've seen it too. Spoiled brats who have been handed the world on a plate since the day they were born.

The way the ungrateful buggers speak to their parents - ds would get a kick up the backside for his 16th and nowt else if he dared speak to me like that.

Meglet · 20/06/2010 21:27

Have you seen them sing yet? The girls think they are Mariah / Whitney / Leona wannabees.

fecking hilarious, get ear plugs.

toccatanfudge · 20/06/2010 21:29

you're watching VIVA - of course it's going to be shite

lolapoppins · 20/06/2010 21:31

Meglet - I love the ones where they try and perform. You'd think it would bring them down a peg or two really. The sense of entitlement is amazing.

IsGraceAvailable · 20/06/2010 21:37

I love shows like that - in small amounts I saw a Beauty & The Geek (US) re-run lately. At one point, the Beauties all sat round in deep shock, going "We're dumb! We don't know anything!" They were in tears, poor things.

Never mind; they cheered themselves up by reminding one another they each had a "talent" - singular

muggglewump · 20/06/2010 21:44

I watch that sometimes.
The kids on it need a good smack amount of discipline.

I've had trouble with my DD, but I hope that she won't speak to me like that when she gets to that age.

Well, there'll be no party if she even dares!

Mumcentreplus · 20/06/2010 21:48

unfortunately tis true...

confusedmummie · 20/06/2010 22:03

i have no idea where in the UK they live, i live in uk and have to earn etc for my lack of money, and if i spoke to my mum like it i would have slapped legs, i hate the spoilt brats who gets evrything through mummy and daddy and have you seen 1 when the girl comes to party on a elephant and gets a hummer looking thing for her 16th (obviously) and drives away with it? insurance etc sorted i spose yeah right! takes the p%ss

flibbertigibbert · 20/06/2010 22:33

The worst episode I saw featured a boy going to his party in a swanky car with all his friends. They passed a homeless man and the boy shouted out of the window 'hey you bum, I'm in a $400,000 dollar car." Vile.

It is entertaining though, in the same way that 'Katie and Peter' or whatever it's called now is. It makes you despair at the world but you can't help but watch.

EvilTwins · 20/06/2010 22:39

I know for a fact that it's real - a year or so ago, I was having my hair done, and half the staff were working with a TV crew and a hideous, spoiled teenager, doing the dry run of her big makeover before her party. There wsa a safari (or jungle) theme and she came downstairs from their posh upstairs room with a horrid teeny animal print dress on and her hair looking like some kind of bizarre termite mound. All us normal people were sniggering like mad. She looked utterly ridiculous. My lovely hairdresser filled me in on the details - all vile and awful. Apparently she was a nasty, spoiled little madam with a very rich mummy and daddy and a host of nasty, spoiled little friends.

darksideofthemooncup · 20/06/2010 23:40

ooh Evil was she meant to look like a Zebra? If so I saw that one and it was unbelievably cringey

EvilTwins · 21/06/2010 10:43

Yes, that's the one!

ILoveGregoryHouse · 21/06/2010 10:49

Grace I accidentally saw 5 minutes on Beauty and the Geek. I was literally open-mouthed with shock.

5Foot5 · 21/06/2010 13:24

Oh God it is awful isn't it?

A few months back DD had a friend for a sleepover and the next morning they were watching this on the TV. There was some appalling child who was making a big thing about giving out the invitations for her party - i.e. arriving at school in a limo and then ceremoniously seeking out the "A-listers" to give them their invitation. It wa made loudly and publicly clear that only these "A listers" would be going.

The details of the party and the requirements of this little madam just got worse and worse. For instance all the guests would be required to do a particular dance so they all had to go to a special class in advance to make sure they got it right and all the girls had to have their hair done in a particular way so it would look right on the photos.

After sitting and seething for a while I had an outburst about how shallow and spoiled they all were and how a cook out in the country would be much more fun. Thankfully DD grinned and agreed with me but to my horror her friend just looked dreamily at the TV and said "Oh I would like to be an A-lister!"

DastardlyandSmugly · 21/06/2010 13:51

The US version is much worse than the UK one.

staranise · 21/06/2010 14:11

I saw the US one this weekend where the 16 year old was auditioning the waiters for her party by making them strip off so her and her horrid friends could pass judgement on how tanned or toned they were!

It seemed that the whole point of the party was to have a VIP area from which she could exclude 90% of her classmates. Nice.

And I'm not sure whether this made it worse or more excusable but the girl had been brought up in abject poverty only to be adopted when she was 14 by a super-rich couple who were literally spoiling her rotten even though her mother spent the whole programme rolling her eyes and trying to apologise for her daughter's appalling behaviour. It was all deeply depressing.

VuvuzelaPlenticlew · 21/06/2010 14:17

Hopefully they'll grow up and be deeply ashamed, and the fact that it's all been captured for posterity will be punishment enough for their hideousness.

I remember that Charlie Brooker piece -- never seen the programme but it did make me curious in a car-crash sort of way.

gramercy · 21/06/2010 14:27

I quite like these programmes. I feel like an anthropologist.

My guilty pleasure is to get up really early on a Saturday, get a steaming mug of coffee and watch Teen Cribs. Those houses! Those kids! Extraordinary.

sazzlelou · 21/06/2010 16:13

Oooh i'm watching an episode now on MTVShows.

She is hideous and needs a good slap talking to