![]() ![]() "It looks like I'm crying about the fact that she's done that, but I wasn't. However, according to Jayde, that scene was also manufactured by the producers. Jayde ends up in tears, telling the cameras her step-mum's an "idiot". Aside from telling Jayde, on TV, that she might divorce her dad because of Jayde's behaviour, she also tries on a red dress for the party – even though Jayde's already told her that all guests have to wear silver. Something that makes Jayde's episode stick out among the others is that her step-mum comes across as quite mean. Jayde's step-mum tries on a red dress for the party, despite the dress code being silver for everyone who isn't Jayde. "If I'm out in a crowd, boys that I'm not particularly friendly with – but who would have seen the show or would have had friends that came to the party – will take the piss." ![]() "Even within my own community there was a fair amount of ridicule that I received, and to be honest, still do to this day," she says. "I've never not read a contract at least three times over since."Īside from having an MTV crew in her house for a few days a week for a couple of months, Hayley also found the backlash after the show difficult to handle. ![]() But, by that point, it was too late and we didn't have any rights," she says. She tells me: "We were promised that we weren't going to be seen as spoilt brats, and it was only really once the contract was signed and it started to play out that we actually realised what was going on. Hayley says she's convinced it's being manipulated by the show's producers that has given her an edge in the business world. Now 27, she works as a yoga instructor after selling off the PR and events company she founded. Her party included a dessert-only buffet and an N-Dubz performance, and at the end of the episode she was given her own flat. Hayley Grossman was also 18 when she appeared on the show. So then they edited it to make it look like I was ignoring her." "But the reason why I said that to her is because they wanted me to say something naughty instead. "That was annoying, because I'm not actually disrespectful to my mum," he says. But he says that was another effort to make him look as spoilt as possible. "He just said to me, 'Andre, is it better to get the sunglasses or feed a child in Africa?' And I said to him: 'Feed a child in Africa.' Then he said: 'No, there's too many of them, buy the sunglasses.' Instantly I went straight to Harrods and I bought them."Īt another point, when Andre's mum calls him from the venue on the night of the party, it looks like he ignores her while she repeatedly shouts his name because he's busy moisturising his hands. At one point, he was unsure if he should buy some exclusive Louis Vuitton sunglasses for the night, so called a producer for advice. However, Andre claims, a lot of his worst behaviour on the show was encouraged by its producers. He did other weird shit for the camera, too, like getting a stick-on of his face for his family's black cab in the run-up to the party. The taxi once owned by Andre's family, with his face and name splashed on it. The UK show tended to offer disappointment rather than opulence: spotty teens swinging around offy bags full of WKD bottles to "Heartbroken" in a decked-out under-18s venue.īut what's it like to be publicly-shamed on a reality TV programme when you're still basically a child? I asked some of the poor souls who appeared on the show to share their stories. Plus, a lot of them weren't actually turning 16, but somewhere between the ages of 13 and 18. This meant that the kind of people who did appear on the show had loads of money, but not enough to buy out a Hilton hotel for the night, or to pay Beyoncé to rock up for a sing-song. In America, wealth is always something to brag about, even if you're the President, but in the UK, if you're genuinely minted, you're also likely to have learned an aristocratic etiquette that will stifle any urge you have to appear on television at a Disney-themed party that you paid for with your own money. However many times MTV tried to get a kid to drawl "This is gonna be the best party evuuur," they could not make places like Litchfield look like places like Los Angeles. In comparison, the British version was basically rubbish. ![]()
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