While everyone's gone mad for the Royal wedding, CH4 are airing an alternative tomorrow night, the marriage of Irish travellers Mary and Paddy.
The 23-year-olds, who have been together for three years, hope that their wedding will rival Kate and Wills' in the glamour stakes, but organising a wedding in three weeks its inevitable there will be tears and tantrums.
Mary commissions the famous Thelma and her team to make her dream dress complete with 40,000 crystals, the most Thelma has ever used, and an 18ft train. They work around the clock to get the dress finished and please the bride. But its the wedding cake that doesn't go quite to plan, as the cake makers struggle to find enough tables to hold the masterpiece.
On top of that, the bride arrives an hour late to the church, accompanied by her maid of honour, young sister Margaret, five other bridesmaids and two mini brides, who wear sugar pink. Bet that isn't Kate Middleton's colour choice?
The couple, who actually married a fortnight ago, are now enjoying their honeymoon.
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Jamie's Dream School- The cracks start to show
You can take the concept out of school but you can't the pupils, leant Jamie as the kids continued to run riot in the Dream School.
Even acting head John cracked under the pressue, telling Jamie 'I can't sleep. Over the last two days I've been more stressed than over the last two years in my job. If I'd of known it would have been like this I wouldn't have done it.'
'The harder it is the greater reward', reminded Jamie. 'But I will cry with you at the end of the four weeks if it's (outcome) not perfect.'
The kids' disruptive behaviour also caused the new teachers- Professor Mary Beard, Latin, and former Poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, to nearly pack the job in after one lesson. Fortunately for Jamie, they stuck it out, with Sir Michael making his poetry class optional, kicking the rowdy pupils out of his lesson, and Prof Mary asking the teens how they thought she could control their bad behaviour, which helped get them on side.
The Dream School also lost one pupil, LeToya, who agonised over whether to continue with the scheme. After deciding not to quit, her one-year-old daughter came down with chicken pox. LeToya was crushed.
Next week Cherie Blair and Daley Thompson try their hand at teaching, plus the students observe a real-life surgical procedure, beats reading a text book!
Even acting head John cracked under the pressue, telling Jamie 'I can't sleep. Over the last two days I've been more stressed than over the last two years in my job. If I'd of known it would have been like this I wouldn't have done it.'
'The harder it is the greater reward', reminded Jamie. 'But I will cry with you at the end of the four weeks if it's (outcome) not perfect.'
The kids' disruptive behaviour also caused the new teachers- Professor Mary Beard, Latin, and former Poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, to nearly pack the job in after one lesson. Fortunately for Jamie, they stuck it out, with Sir Michael making his poetry class optional, kicking the rowdy pupils out of his lesson, and Prof Mary asking the teens how they thought she could control their bad behaviour, which helped get them on side.
The Dream School also lost one pupil, LeToya, who agonised over whether to continue with the scheme. After deciding not to quit, her one-year-old daughter came down with chicken pox. LeToya was crushed.
Next week Cherie Blair and Daley Thompson try their hand at teaching, plus the students observe a real-life surgical procedure, beats reading a text book!
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