[music -- "you areso beautiful"] female speaker: hi! female speaker: are you ok? female speaker: sorryi'm a bit late. i had to pick up the tan. the tan injections. i have run out oftan injections. interviewer: where doyou get them from? female speaker: someonethat sells steroids.
interviewer: are you like acelebrity in liverpool, then? female speaker: no, i'm notwhat you call a celebrity. [inaudible] i do little bits. is it up this way? no. i do little bits liketv and modeling. and got my own websiteand things like that. when anything tends to focusaround liverpool, they always
get me involved. maybe because i representsomething about liverpool, probably. interviewer: what do you thinkyou represent about liverpool? female speaker: i'd like tosay it was vibrancy and enthusiasm, et cetera. but it's probably because theythink i'm quite vain, or something like that. they think liverpool is quitea vain city, don't they?
male speaker: this is facefashion, which is an event in aid of liverpool unites. we are the official charityof liverpool echo. we were formed in the wake ofthe murder of rhys jones. rhys jones was a localschoolboy, who was 11 at the time, and he was murdered. he was caught up in thecrossfire of, basically, gang-related shooting, wherethere was a bullet intended for one gang from the other.
and he got caught in crossfirejust walking home from football practice. interviewer: how much hairspraydoes it normally take to keep it-- female speaker: a lot. yeah, she used a full bottleon the photo shoot we did the other day. a full bottle like that. female speaker: like that big.
female speaker: it was evenbigger, wasn't it? the elnett one. rick vaughn: if you want to dothis differently, you tell me. i'll go on stage and say,good evening, everyone. i'm rick vaughn fromradio city. please welcome my host forthis half of the show. and bring you on stage. is that all right? amanda harrington: yeah, yeah.
rick vaughn: amanda harrington,is that all right? amanda harrington:that's fine. rick vaughn: i'll explainabout the charity angle. ok, and about exactly why we'rehere, how much raffle and all that sort of stuff, thegreat entertainment we got coming up, and all that. and listen to how loud i am andthink, fuck, i've got to be as loud as him. female speaker: no betterwork than charity work.
the kicks you get off it, it'sjust worth more than anything, isn't it? female speaker: sometimes it'sbetter to give than to receive, isn't it? interviewer: how do youtwo know each other? female speaker: we'reactually family. we're cousins. female speaker: i make theclothes, and she models them. interviewer: have yougot a label name?
female speaker: dare to bare. interviewer: dirty bird? female speaker: no, dare tobare, not dirty mare. it's dare to bare forall the dirty mares. female speaker: he said,dirty bird, then. female speaker: it's kindof a wenchy, barn look going on today. interviewer: what madeyou decide to do a wenchy, barn look?
female speaker: it's justhow i was feeling. the fact that you've gotta looklike you've been dragged out of a barn. interviewer: why are liverpoolwomen so glamorous? female speaker: becausewe have no qualms. up here it's any excuse to dressup, even if it's just to go into to town shopping. you gotta wear yourheels to the asda. no qualms in going shopping[inaudible].
female speaker: yeah, i go tobed in my high heels, as well, just in case. interviewer: what do you thinkcould possibly happen? female speaker: someone mightknock me up in the middle of the night. gotta be ready. you think i'm messing! female speaker: when we wentdown to london a few weeks ago, everyone had jeans on.
we had all over-the-top dresseslike my mum's clothes. and we went in themayfair bar, and vanessa feltz walks in. she was like, oh my god,your dress is amazing. and was like asking us. everyone was staring at uswhen we were down there because nobody wearsclothes like that. female speaker: i didanother shoot last night for my calendar.
so that's nearly done. i'm doing a calendar to raisemoney for help for heroes. you know, for the soldiers. i went to an awards with myboyfriend once in london. and there was a group of younglads sitting next to us. and they were soldiers. and some of them had no legs, noarms, and stuff like that. they were only about 18, 19. i just thought it wasjust dead sad.
and i just thought, what cani do to help them and raise money for them, or whatever. and i just came up with this. it's glamorous. it's not like topless oranything like that. it's classy. and it's based on weatherscenes, really. it's all about natureand stuff like that. so it's different.
it's unique. there's one where i'm holdinga big snake in the jungle. and then there's another onewhere i'm lying on loads of ice and stuff like that. another one, i'm comingout of a lily. so it's all based onnature, really. rick vaughn: i'll tellyou what, superb. [inaudible], kid. absolutely superb.
right, ok. so listen, let's get somemore entertainment on. make some noise! [music] male speaker: had thatfor 45 years. that's been 45 years old. all of them have been withme for-- there's my mum's wedding ring. but i think that's why theycall it the bling bling
building because somethingto do with me being the king of bling. so we'll take you through. and on a personal note, wheni was 15, i used to love going in lifts. you'd work the lift yourself. female speaker: whatdid you do? male speaker: well, youhave gates and you'd pull the gates across.
and i was just fascinatedwith these lifts. and those were the days where,you know, chauffeur driven limousines. you could not walk up boldstreet a lady unless you had, maybe, a crocodile handbagand shoes. it was very much likeold bond street. i mean, my parents would neverwalk up bold street. it was too posh. if you went to a tea room, theladies would be in the
pinnies, and the hair,and all silverware. there was the best dressed manin bold street at the time, and i think it went to ahairdresser called antoine. and he came from switzerland. and he used to walkup and down bold street with a poodle. because i had a nightclub calledhollywood in the '80s and we had the riots then. and they were comingdown from toxteth.
and people were riotingfor different reasons. all for people who didn't wantto work, and for people who did work, we wereall penalized. so we lost the shipping becauseof the dockers strikes all the time. so once you lost the shipping,that was really the heart of our liverpool docks, really. and that was a bad time. but the hairdressing industrywas very, very upmarket.
you know, to be a hairdresserin those days was marvelous because it took you fiveyears as an apprentice. these days, it's cut andblow drying, and monkeys can do that. i've got my own lift. come on downstairs. botox should only be eitheradministered by a qualified cosmetic surgeon or a dentist. it's like everything elsein liverpool, you know?
the cowboys start toget onto the-- everyone wants to cutprice each other. i mean, i don't know so muchabout cosmetic surgery. although, i've had a bit. i had it done about10 years ago. and then i was in pantomimewith julie goodyear as the emperor in aladdin. and i couldn't move my face. so when you're trying to expressyourself, acting, i
was like that. well, i couldn't stand thateither like that. interviewer: would youever consider it? female speaker: oh, yeah, male speaker: of course. female speaker: yeah,definitely. i feel like i need it quitesoon, to be honest. interviewer: how oldare you now then? female speaker: 25.
male speaker: i do lovethis lift, you know. are you coming in? feel it going up. female speaker: a lot of girlsin liverpool will get their lips done for any occasion. it's like buying anew dress now. there's a lot of competitionin liverpool with botox and dermal fillers. and the best is tobe reasonable.
and i am probablythe cheapest. interviewer: how much? female speaker: a full lip wouldbe 120, and that's a good price. the botox is it's actuallya botulism. it's a poison that goes intojust the muscle, probably the upper face, frown lines,forehead, eyes. and you inject the muscle, andit just stops it working. interviewer: have you everhad this done before?
female speaker: yeah, i've hadthis done about three times. interviewer: how was it? female speaker: yeah,i liked it. female speaker: you can onlyput so much in, i think. ok, i'll just do a littleon this side here. interviewer: where doesthe hair come from? female speaker: russia,with love. interviewer: is it weird tothink you're walking around with a russian's hair in?
female speaker: no. it's weird to think there's arussian walking around bald. female speaker: we sell 100%human hair, all different qualities, lengths, colors. and we sell curly hair,straight hair, relaxed afro hair. and we also do synthetic, humanhair wigs, lace front wigs, ponytails, all accessoriesand stuff to go with the hair.
this is the most popular colorof blonde because it's different shades. and that's 100% human hair. so it's fitted there. so it gets sewn in. female speaker: i would liketo go to dark because i'm loving katie price's darkhair at the minute. but every time-- i've been wearing a wig,haven't i, for
the last few weeks. female speaker: she ordered abrunette wig, the joanna wig. female speaker: coming to workin the morning, popping a wig on, trying to get used to it. but when i went home,my husband hated it. joanna was my favorite. i was going for joanna. i wanted to be a racy redhead. female speaker: this is thehalf head wig, which
is not a full wig. so when you've got it on, itgoes like about there. and you have all your ownhair over the top of it. interviewer: do youthink the beauty industry is getting bigger? female speaker: yeah,a lot bigger. especially in liverpool. interviewer: what percentageof girls, do you think, in liverpool have hairextensions?
female speaker: ahell of a lot. female speaker: i'dsay about 70%. female speaker: yeah. female speaker: definitely. i can't believe that we're ina credit crunch and how many young girls come in and thinknothing of spending 80 pounds on their hair extensions. they just come in, and theysay, you know what we want because they get it everysix, eight weeks.
and they say, i'll have twopackets of that, and they hand the money over. interviewer: do you goto tanning salons? female speaker: after the bigscare with skin cancer and stuff like that, i have beensticking to false tan. as you can tell. female speaker: i feel, like,really a lot paler now, but i think they're trying to promotethat aren't they? female speaker: and this hasbeen really popular.
most celebrities use it. this is the one thati actually use. it's voted bazaar bestof the best 2009. orange knuckles and whitefingers today. female speaker: we have beentrying to scrub her all morning to get it off. female speaker: we'llbe scrubbing more before i go out. female speaker: yeah
interviewer: why do youfeel the need to be tanned all the time? female speaker: becausei felt dead pale and sick this morning. so when i've got it on, i feellike i've just come back from my holiday when i lookin the mirror. female speaker: when you'vegot pale, fat skin it looks horrible. tan, fat skin doesn't look asbad, on your bum and stuff.
female speaker: i started usingmelanotan about a year ago because i was fed upwith getting spray tans all the time. now, i've tried everykind of a spray tan. like the one i'm using at themoment, which is the su-do tan or the california tan, they'reabout the best of a bad bunch, where they don't reallystart to come off. but no spray tan lastsa week for a start. so nothing's ever permanent.
you can never get a tan that'spermanent or tan that's real. melanotan is like a naturalsource of tanning by making you produce somethingin your body. i still get top ups and getspray tans, of i still put on a bit of instant tan. you know, when i go out? but the only reason i use themelanotan is because it gives you pigments in your skin. it's like a top up for thesunbeds, isn't it?
it's like using a sunbedcream inside your skin. interviewer: does ithave any other effects apart from tanning? female speaker: does it haveany other effects? it makes you feel sick. well, it makes you feelnauseous, like a sort of travel sick. whenever you start using them,you always have your 10ml before you go to bed.
some people only startoff with 5ml. if you have 10ml before you goto bed, you sleep through most of the sickness. but to be perfectly honest withyou, when you start off using them, they make youfeel sick all the time. interviewer: some people getit off the internet. where do you get yoursfrom again? female speaker: i getmine from a-- well, a person.
they don't sell them on show. but if you know a person in agym, they'll probably sell them if they sell steroids. just because it goes hand inhand with injecting yourself with steroids, sort of thing,really, isn't it? it's also not a narcotic, it'slike putting a drug in your body but it's not forsocial purposes. alex large: hi my name is alexlarge, and today we're here at the mr. liverpool contest,here at the plaza cinema.
today we're hoping for a reallygood day as a show for bodybuilders. interviewer: so how's it changedthen over the years from when you used to do it? alex large: pretty muchthe same, actually. there's no real difference,except, really, the standards become higher, obviously, withenhanced performance products. that has contributed to alevel of very, very high standard physique.
interviewer: are theythe polish that are standing out there? alex large: no, i'm talkingabout, obviously, you've got growth hormone involvedand things like that. obviously, the media,newspapers, and coverage is against the bodybuilding sportbecause obviously it involves anabolic steroids. that's the killing point. all right, fella?
colin mathieson: ok, mate? alex large: this is colinmathieson, the owner of the boulevard gym. colin mathieson: pleasedto meet you. alex large: [inaudible] all connected for many years,and obviously, competed for donkey's years. and now all the ladsare following suit. colin mathieson: see the thingis, with bodybuilding, there's
no age limit. people say certain sports andyou'll go, oh, i'm too old to do that sport. now, you couldn't get, like, a40-year old starting squash, or something like that, but ifyou're 40, or you're 50, or even you're 60, to go intobodybuilding, you're doing the same movements with your muscleas a young person. but you're doing itat your pace. so there's no age limit toweightlifting or bodybuilding.
you're not straining yourselfbecause you're not going to excess weights. interviewer: do you mind measking how old you are? alex large: i've toldhim my age. colin mathieson: i'm 59. the proof of the puddingis in the eating. female speaker: youall right, pet? are you outside? ok.
do you want to just nipdown with that? it's for ben. cheers, pet. thanks, darling. yes, lynne's comingdown for you now. steroids are very addictive. on the next day-- when you've been takingsteroids, however briefly, even just after a coupleof days, three to
five days, i'd say-- the next day, when you wake upand say, [inaudible], you actually get to the point inthat day when you feel like, oh, i need to takemy steroids. you actually have thefeeling within you. it's hard to explain, butit's like your body's anticipating the rush. then it's the aggressive,because they're a big man, don't mess with me.
as soon as they start workingout regularly, even if it's just cardiovascular stuff likeregular cycling, anything, that's fine. but some don't doanything at all. and then it just goes toflubber and the anger-- hello? that was my chap. male speaker: steroidsare everywhere. police are using them.
everybody's using them. i'll tell you that, everybody. interviewer: what'sthe expression? male speaker: sted head. that's what they call them stedheads or juice heads. interviewer: when didyou start getting into the steroid scene? male speaker: i startedgoing to the gym when i was about 15.
the people behind the counterdidn't really realize my real age. i was a young kidwith potential. when i first didit, i injected. it kinda hurt, do youknow what i mean? because it's a thickliquid you're putting into your veins. it hurt quite a lot. so when i had been injected,i was just on edge.
just a bit wary, [inaudible] do you know what i mean? i was just a bit scaredand wary, panicky. after i had seen itwas all right. you have six weeks offand six weeks on. after i had seen that it wasok, i felt all right. i started to feela [inaudible]. when i started to take themat the age of 16, i had bad anger problems.
i kicked off. there's something calledroid rage. have you heard of it? i was getting in troublewith the police. violence, i was havingarguments. i was having problemswith my girlfriend. sometimes i was feeling likei was getting suffocated, because my chest was up there. sometimes i couldn't breathe.
i felt like i was in a circus. i would walk aroundtown [inaudible] superstar, he's this,he's that. but what i didn't like about it,in the end, when i started to come off them is the simplefact that you're obviously on steroids. you're not big becauseyou worked hard. you're big because you workedhalf as hard as you should work, and you took stuffto make you like that.
it's abnormal. i felt like a freak show. female speaker: well, it's thewhole thing, isn't it? scousers. it's to become more thanwhat they are. guys are just really interestedin their vanity, and the way they look,and girls, of course. that's where the aspect iswith the younger ones. it's to get the women.
matt fisher: hi, i'mmatt fisher. i'm entering formr. liverpool. it's like a beauty contestfor male and female. you've got to show off yourpersonality, as well as what you should basicallyappeal to be. throughout the night we'llbe modelling beachwear. it's beachwear thatwe've chosen. and then finally it'llbe the suits. over the past two weeks we'vebeen choreographing routines.
so it's kind of like danceroutines, press-ups. interviewer: whatare you doing? matt fisher: i do press-ups. but there's one routine wherethe lads have to do press-ups and one has to jumpover the other. i wish i could actuallyeat at kfc. i'm going to have a tan now,a fake tan, a spray tan, my fake bake. female speaker: this isan inflatable machine.
so i'm going to blow it up, andthen he'll get inside, and i'll start spraying you. interviewer: is that oneof your t-shirts? matt fisher: yeah, thisis one of my t-shirts. it's a model image and i madeit into a chicken because i think this leg looks likea wing, for some reason. so i made her into a chicken. basically, she's had an egg. and the human fries the egg.
i know it's pretty insane, butthat's what fashion's about. it's about making a statement. sizzle, sizzle. yeah, i've got my own websiteat the moment, www.matt-fisher.com. but i've been building it upover the past five months, because as soon as i got here,it was my dream to build up my confidence has grownso much in these past six months, as well.
interviewer: what other beautytreatments do you have apart from spray tan? matt fisher: i don't reallyhave a lot of beauty treatments. i mean, i used tohave facials. i used to have one where i hadto hold a metal stick, and they sent electrical currentson my face. female speaker: if you comeout on a saturday night in liverpool, you'll seeeveryone all tidied
up, hair done perfectly. they've got all thenice accessories. they look amazing. they all look like stars. matt fisher: all sequins,isn't it? female speaker: yeah, theyget dresses made. so you definitely want togo with the dark tan? matt fisher: [inaudible] female speaker: pardon?
matt fisher: aren't youdark to start with? male speaker: three, two, one. now, with your back straight. head up. awesome, good. one. good technique. two, control on the way down. three.
easy? matt fisher: yeah. male speaker: go to thenext weight up. matt fisher: liverpool isvery well known for the football teams. and football lifestylesare very glamorous. and maybe the girls look up tothe glamour models that are already out there, and say,i want to be like that. interviewer: there's a glamorousmodel judging
tonight, isn't there? matt fisher: yeah, amandaharrington. interviewer: do you know her? interviewer: could youdescribe amanda? matt fisher: amanda'sfantastic. she's a really hard-workinggirl. she's very independent. she's gorgeous. she's got blonde hair,big assets.
rick vaughn: bien. senor rick vaughn, amandaharrington. amanda harrington: hello. nice to meet you. male speaker: niceto meet you. jade: oh, wait for me! sorry. jade: i was thinking, in thislift, long enough, you could do full make-up, couldn't you?
hi! are you ok? hi ya. amanda harrington: are you ok? female speaker: yeah,i'm fine, are you? amanda harrington: i'll be withyou now, i've just got to get these pictures taken. i know, but my fringeis on this side. i need to be this side.
male speaker: a headshot. who's the lady in the reddress, by the way? amanda harrington: my friend. male speaker: is thatyour friend? get her in the picture. amanda harrington: jade,do you want to get a picture with me? male speaker: getby the window. get by the window.
because it'll lookreally great. rick vaughn: you've actually meta couple of girls who are what i call grafters. they're actually prepared to getout there and not wait for somebody to rock up with acheque book and say, go and get what you want. they'll fight for everypenny they earn. it's the old saying, isn't it? you judge a book by the cover.
a lot of people do that. especially, with thewag culture, the liverpool culture. and i dare say, there are a lotof girls out there that would love to be hooked upto a footballer or two. wouldn't we all fora nice life. however, when you actuallyscratch the surface of some of the girls and realize abouttheir insecurities, their frailties, they're justnormal girls.
amanda and jade arereal good friends. and everyone would think, well,isn't there a bit of, sort of, animosity in there overwho gets what gig or who gets what magazine. they're from a differentera, where-- i call them young kids. they're not young kids becausei'd like to say we're all the same age, 20 something-- where, for them, history,possibly, isn't a big part of
their lives. it's all about the future. i think kids now would ratherknow about how a selfridges were built, rather thanhow a castle is built. that's life. get with the program. let's move it on. once you scratch the surface,and all the hype around the girls, because they'rereally popular and
for the right reasons. they do lots of stuff forcharity, which nobody even ever talks about because youwouldn't associate the girls with charity stuff. and they'll probablynot even mention it to you guys tonight. they're not like, they'rejust normal girls, who, like us all-- it sounds a bit corny--just want to be loved.
amanda harrington: to be honest,i've been in a couple relationships over the years. when i've been single, i findit hard to meet someone because i don't get approacheda lot, at all, really, never. i mean, i'm not a big head. i wouldn't like to say it'sbecause of the way i look because i'm not like that. well, maybe that's what it is. maybe they are a bitintimidated, i don't know.
i wouldn't like to say, butthat's what my friends has said because sometimes i'vebeen single for ages. and i've thought, why is that? but obviously, maybeit is intimidation. i'm not sure. my mum brought me up on my ownand didn't really have my dad around much. so i think that's what made memore determined in what i do. this is my mum.
female speaker: alwayslooked after herself. always wanted the bestof everything. interviewer: did sheget that from you? amanda harrington: no, tobe honest, my mum's twin sister it is. yeah, my twin sister. my mum's twin is more like me. my mum is not reallythat fussed on. you like nice clothes and stuff,but she's not obsessed
with shopping or whatever. where, my mum's twin is. i think i'm more like my mum'stwin than i am my mum. female speaker: i think someof them should cool down a little bit with the make-upbecause most of them are natural beauties, anyway,aren't they? they really are. but i don't think sheneeds all that. female speaker: well, what'sthe point of having a
personality if youlook terrible? the whole world is basedon appearances, first impressions. that's not the be all andend all of everything, don't get me wrong. but it's first impressions thatpeople have got of people that matter. i don't expect all of thempeople to like the way i look. but i just don't want tolook the same as them.
i look after my appearance inmy own way, not in the way that they look after theirs. this is mark hart. he's a junior competitor, oneof our lads from the gym. he's here today to compete. obviously, he'll have tan on. mark hart: i'll havetan on, yeah. interviewer: what sort oftan will you put on? mark hart: dream tan.
we used the dream tan. last time we used pro tan. interviewer: and explainwhat that is. mark hart: dream tan is likedead thick color, so when you put it on it will belike straight on. not like you've got to developthe other tan that you've got to put on coats and coats. male speaker: it reminds meof the fantastic four or colin mathieson: well,i've never tried it
with a roller before. normally, we just put it on youwith a sponge, put on with your fingers. or you could just dab it on,just rub it in with the hands. so i was just trying with thesponge just to see what the difference was like. male speaker: just slapit on like mud. it's a bit thin, that. colin mathieson: a friend ofmine had suggested did
i want to try it. i had tried jiu-jitsu,i'd tried karate. and bodybuilding ijust got to like. you don't do it for females. a lot of femalesdon't like it. you'll notice it willbe more like a lad would notice your physique. everyone was saying to me lastnight, oh, where have you been, where haveyou been, where
have you been on holiday? i went, no, i haven't. it gives you more confidence. it does give you moreconfidence. and for people who are sufferinga lack of confidence it would be a good thing. this comes off onyour clothes. i comes off in your bed. when you get the tan yousleep on old sheets.
you wear tracksuits in bed. it's uncomfortable. it's sticky. it's tacky. but it looks nice. if was girls who always used thesunbed shops and all that. but now there's a lot of ladswho use sunbed shops. i know it's not a healthy thingand it's not a good thing for underage or--
i can understand them putting anage limit on using sunbeds and sun showers. but for other people, it'sa business, isn't it? you can get injections. melanotan is what it is. but there's reports on that. i've got reports in thegym on the wall. i had a newspaper cutting sayingit's a link to cancer. now, whether it is a linkto cancer, i don't know.
it's supposed to help yoursexual life, as well, apparently. nearly lost my finger then. male speaker: liverpool has, ihave to say, and i've heard a lot people say this, probablythe best looking girls in the country, or not far off. if you travel around thecountry, and i travel around the country quite a lot,liverpool does have some of the best lookinggirls, i think.
and they always make an effortwhen they go out, probably a lot more than other places. it's very fashion conscious. and so i think thatis probably one major, major thing. interviewer: how manyfloors up is it? jade: four. well, we're on oneso we're going to four, so is that three?
four. male speaker: they'renot celebrities. nobody knows them. jade: this is palm sugar. it's the new it placeto be in liverpool. we just think to do the mostamazing cocktails. they do gorgeous shots. and i just think it's just afantastic place for everyone to meet up on a night out.
male speaker: it's very nice. male speaker: if you call meon a friday or a saturday night, any weekend, really,we tend to have-- everyone looks like jade,well, tries to look as good as jade. certainly, liverpoolwomen take pride-- jade: how to make thebest of themselves. male speaker: --lookingafter themselves. it's like almost a competition,isn't it?
have you actually dancedon the bar yet? jade: no, i've had myphoto taken on there though, didn't i? male speaker: in the center. very opulent, luxurious, veryliverpool, lots of swarovski everywhere you look, three and ahalf million pounds worth in the whole place. jade: i just think the lightslook absolutely amazing, don't they?
male speaker: you've gotactually crystals on your business cards? jade: no, my photograph in hereis on my business cards. and everyone says to me everytime i that i get them out, oh my god, how amazingare those lights. male speaker: very sparkly,very liverpool. this is a traditionalgong from thailand. it was meal time for monks,actually it could be heard from miles away.
jade: like that? male speaker: this is where mostof our celebrities come, isn't it jade? jade: yes, it is. male speaker: all thefootballers, the wags. this is definitely yourhigh-end gucci. and downstairs ismore topshop. i don't think anybodyin liverpool takes themselves seriously.
we're all comedians,aren't we? i think we're all a bit real. i think we know where we'refrom and what we do. and i suppose i'm speaking foryou here, on your behalf, you make a lot of effort, in termsof your appearance, and spend an awful lot of moneyon your appearance. but you don't takeyourself serious. you're still a real,down-to-earth girl. jade: oh god, yeah.
male speaker: and through hereis the most popular for the curry and chips. this is typical of liverpool. this is where all the gossip-- this is where you findout everything. anything you want to share withus that's happened here? any gossip? the inspiration behind thiswas all romeo and juliet. obviously, where the two firstmet, and it was romance.
obviously, the liverpool spinon that, with the characters and the humor would be, theyfirst met in the toilet. wasn't that loud, was it? you know, i was born andbred in liverpool. and the i went to thestates to live. and came back, and it wascompletely different. because when i left, it was likeshell suits, curly hair and moustaches. and then came back to alittle bit of style.
and i just think it'sjust evolved. i think in ten years' time,we'll give anywhere a run for their money. amanda moss: the phillycheesesteak sandwich looks nice. but then i've seen halfroast chicken. steak. jade: a reform burger. amanda moss: chocolate fudgecake, followed by steak.
chicken liver pate followedby steak. oh, the burger sounds-- burger. male speaker: are youready to order? amanda moss: i was going tohave a the char-grilled asparagus and then steak. it's got to be cooked and juicy,but cooked all the through to the middle,but not rubbery. i don't want to see blood.
i might have to send itback if it's blood. jade: can i have the duck springrolls please, and the duck breast. amanda moss: that's it. one more drink, and theni'm on diet cokes for a couple of hours. i'm amanda moss, editor oflifestyle monthly magazine, which is the biggest lifestylemagazine for liverpool, the wirral, and southport.
jade approached me and said,why don't i do a fashion column for you. we've got loads of eventsplanned now. and we're gonna just worktogether loads, aren't we? i'm having a cocktail party atmy house just for select vips. we're doing champagne, cupcakes,and jewelry. this is where i sit when thekids are asleep and listen to them all synchronized snoring. this is my littlechill out zone.
lost my drink. don't know where mydrink's gone. well, that's saxon's room. saxon and honey tendto sleep together. well, floyd and albany-- although albany's with me. female speaker: albany'sthe baby? amanda moss: no, darling'sthe baby. saxon!
keep the noise down! why should londonbe the capital of couture and fashion? liverpool has goteverything here. you get to meet lots of peopleand go to glamorous parties like this one. will you go downstairsand be quiet! i mean i'm not even fromliverpool, and yet i've established myself as amandamoss, editor of lifestyle
monthly magazine. i walk into town andeverybody knows me. we've got more fans on facebookthan anyone else. interviewer: how manyhave you got? amanda moss: 1,400. i just want everybody to justknow lifestyle monthly is just the best thing since slicedbread, really. female speaker: liverpoolfashion, it's big hair, curls, jewels and glitter and massiveheels, massive platforms.
i was gonna say, if you're notin heels in liverpool, see ya! female speaker: littleheels, you're getting chucked in the gutter. female speaker: little heelsand you're out of here. female speaker: kitten heelsmake me want to kill myself a little bit. female speaker: the whole moneythat we earn from our shitty jobs, we're going tohave amazing outfits for. it's a babe.
it's a sexy little babe. we love it so bad it hurts. liverpool is a babe. serena stregapede: this ismy dress for tomorrow. a guy called ronnie made this. i've had him up thewall with it. but it looks betteron, anyway. it's just a nice, long fitteddress, fishtail, as well. well, we have to doa swimwear one.
and then after that, we dothe evening wear one. these are one pair of shoesi'm going to be wearing. nice, aren't they? and we've got our pinkstools, as well. and there's tony when he boxedsome russian or something. and that's just some ofhis belts, as well. we're just waiting to get themframed and all that and then put up on the wall. interviewer: how'dyou two meet?
serena stregapede:in our shop. in my work. interviewer: whatwork is that? serena stregapede:i do beauty. interviewer: you've gotyour own beauty place? serena stregapede: i do beautyand that as well. interviewer: do you go in therefor beauty treatments? tony: for some reason, i growmore hair on my back and my chest than i do on my head.
she gets me in there, and says,it'll be all right, it doesn't hurt. so one step, bang! never again. i'd rather go home andjust shave it off. interviewer: was it loveat first sight? serena stregapede:yeah, definitely. definitely, wasn't it? tony: yeah, she's luckyto have me.
interviewer: what do you thinkthe outcome of the competition's going to be? serena stregapede: well,i'd like to win. interviewer: are youhopeful or what? serena stregapede: yeah, very. i'm positive. i'm so positive. interviewer: do you knowany of the judges? serena stregapede: no.
interviewer: this guy we werewith knew three judges. serena stregapede: well, tonyboxed one of the judges, but i don't really know him. because liverpool is such aglamorous city, everyone wants a beauty therapist. interviewer: causesome fellows get spray tans, don't they? serena stregapede: yeah,they do, yeah. tony: i know some fighters, likedave coldwell, who waxes
his eyebrows. and he's taken a little bit of apasting off me, from time to time with getting them done. it's good that he wants to lookafter himself, but come on, you don't need towax your eyebrows. serena stregapede: well, tony,a few years ago came into my shop to see me. and we were bored becauseit was a quiet day. so i said to him, oh whatcan i do, i want to do
something, i'm bored. pierce my ear then. i went, all right, then. and i pierced his ear and he waswalking around with this diamond earring in. tony: it seemed goodat the time. serena stregapede: liverpoollads aren't like that, are they. i know in london and placeslike that they do, but in
liverpool lads don'treally do that. interviewer: one thing the ladsdo in the city, there's quite a bit of steroidsgoing on, isn't there? tony: you know, if you stoodaround, if you go anywhere, you see juice headseverywhere. interviewer: is thatbig in liverpool? tony: certain people, doormen,mainly doormen do stuff like that. i don't know.
each to their own. i'm not going to sit hereand say, don't do it. if they want to do it, it's afree world and they can do what they want. female speaker: i think whatmarcel's achieved in the last year is amazing becausehe's natural now. but i just know thatby the time he's-- i think up until 21, he'll trainand achieve the best he possibly can.
but once he gets to 21, i knowbecause then he'll be in the mister classes. and i know what it entails. interviewer: what's that? female speaker: the misters,it's like up until 21 you're like a junior. but then, when you get past21, you have to go in the misters, which is kind of likethe big men, if you like. and to get like that, i knowhe's never going to --
he won't stay natural because hecan't, because it'd just be a waste of time. it's an awkward subject becausethey have natural organizations, right, wherepeople just go and compete and they are natural. everybody knows that withbodybuilding, most of them aren't natural. but the thing is, they'renot drug tested. it's kind of, like,acceptable, if
you know what i mean. interviewer: why shouldit be unacceptable? female speaker: whyshould it be? interviewer: yeah. people talk about it likeit's a bad thing, but why is it a bad thing? female speaker: the thing is,within the sport, everybody knows who is and who isn't. in the organizations that i knowthey do drug test them.
you only have to look at acertain physique and i can tell which is naturaland which isn't. and so can everybodyelse who's into it. do you know what i mean? interviewer: it's betterto be natural, right? female speaker: the thingis, right, it depends what you want. if you want to lookfreaky, you're never going to be natural.
interviewer: why do you thinkpeople want to look freaky? female speaker: because it'slike the biggest and the best, isn't it? what with the best condition,the best everything. anouska? anouska: yeah? female speaker: comehere please. anouska: no. female speaker: ok, itdoesn't matter then,
i'll close the door. interviewer: is she shy? female speaker: notat all, no. show them your six pack then. interviewer: how doesthat happen? female speaker: she'sjust a genetically muscular, aren't you? but she was training28 hours a week. fridays, she used to doone to eight, all day
saturday and then-- interviewer: one to eight? female speaker: yeah,training. interviewer: as in eighthours a day? female speaker: sevenhours, yeah. interviewer: well, what do youdo for seven hours a day? female speaker: what do youdo for seven hours a day? interviewer: training? anouska: yeah.
anouska: conditioning. female speaker: bodyconditioning, the actual moves, just practisingthe same old routines and things like that. she couldn't, like, go and seeher friends after school. she couldn't do sleepovers,anything like that. so now, she's still doing hergymnastics, but she only does six hours a week. interviewer: it's a big thingin liverpool, isn't it?
female speaker: yeah,it is, actually. interviewer: why is that? marcel: it's a lotbigger lately. a lot of people want to get intoshape because they feel like they need to keep up. there's a lot more people seemto be doing it now than say, five years ago. male announcer: right, thatcompletes the under 18s. closing round, and we'llbe moving on to
the under 21s shortly. male speaker: if you can psycheyour opponents out, well, even better. they might pose a littlebit worse than you. you show off a bit more thanthem and well, you've won it, haven't you? male speaker: if the smallperson looks small behind the bigger person, let the smallperson fight his way through just to try and make them looksmall again, make the big
opponent small. male speaker: if you're goingon that stage, you're going out to win. you can say you're not. you can say whatever, butyou going out to win. male speaker: yeah, just don'tput your head down. and whatever mistakes thatyou pull you can work hard on in the gym. i mean, whatever things thatyou lack on, go back to the
gym and try and buildup on those things. and then come back and try andbeat that better opponent. male speaker: yeah, that'swhat's he's done. well, tried to do, anyway. beat him last time. going to beat him again today. friendly competition,that's all. male speaker: yeah, seewhat the judges say. just see what happens.
it could happen, i don't know. see how they feel. he can try and put me off,but it's not happening. male speaker: everybodybuilder's watched it a million times. male speaker: jay cutler'smy idol. arnie boomed off bodybuilding,full stop. interviewer: what's yourfavorite arnie film? male speaker: i was watchingpredator last night, actually,
to psyche myself up. because they say it's war. that's what it's like. male speaker: we watched a bitof pumping iron just because i brought it down. and then we thought, oh, we'llwatch this, just get a bit, like, in the moment. interviewer: did you everwatch kindergarten cop? male speaker: yeah, i'vewatched all his films a
because from a young age, that'sthe physique that i've found he's brought,for men, to have. interviewer: did you win? male speaker: twice. both of them. male speaker: do you knowwhat i mean, fair enough, he won, he won. male speaker: morecompetitive, do you know what i mean?
it's what we do it for. male speaker: give me a year. we'll probably look up to themas a bit of an idol. we look up going, yeah,we could end up building up to that. fair enough, we're only youngand still growing. work the crowd, that'swhat it's all about, working the crowd. male speaker: it's verydifficult to assess how
widespread melanotan is. it's legal to buyand to possess. or rather, it's not illegalto do that. but it's technicallyillegal to sell it. the kits that were provided overthe internet tended to have only a couple of syringesin them, which isn't enough, even remotely enough, fora course of injections. you know, we're hearing ofcompletely unusual groups of people going into needleexchanges.
so they weren't bodybuildersor steroid users. they weren't heroinor opiate users. they were working mums goingin with their daughters and things like this. it stimulates the receptorsin the skin to produce the skin pigment. one form of it, supposedly,gives you a libido boost within a very shortspace of time. we've had reports ofpeople's genitals
supposedly turning purple. how do you tell them it's abad idea when, from their point of view, at least, whatthey're doing is taking something which is goingto make them look better and feel horny? female speaker: i hate it whenthere's a bubble in it. you see, you can't administerit with a bubble in it. that can kill you. so what you do is you rubthe area where you're
going to put it. and then you grab the bitof skin like that, and then and that's it. you can feel it goingin your system. to be perfectly honest with you,i feel a bit sick off the 5ml i had before. bloody hell, that reallyhurt, that one. a girl has put it intoher stomach before now and nearly died.
she's got the needle, andshe's gone that way, and nearly died. interviewer: becauseshe injected right into the stomach? female speaker: yeah, you'renot meant to do that. i mean, i don't really thinkpeople should be administering needles that aren'tnurses, anyway, to be perfectly honest. the most ones who say, it'snot meant to be about
appearance and all that are theones that are bitter and resentful inside. and they're usuallythe ones that are jealous and resentful. and that is ugly. that's an ugly character. so therefore, not only are theynot nice on the outside, but they're not niceon the inside. and not being nice on the insideis a lot more tragic
than them not being niceon the outside. interviewer: when didyou get that done? female speaker: about five,six years ago now, when liverpool won their fifthchampion's league. regret it a little bit now i'molder because think it's a bit chavvy on a girl now. interviewer: have you been inthis competition before? female speaker: i haven't, no. this is my first year.
so i'm a bit nervous. interviewer: what time did youstart getting ready today? female speaker: i went to mybrother's girlfriend's, and she started doing my hair andmy eyelashes and all that about a quarter to nine thismorning when it all started. i was in the asda at half eightpicking my last little bits of lacquer and everythinglike that up. i've just drove here todayin my rollers. i had to keep on saying to thegirls, every time i was
getting out of the carand in the car, i kept on whacking them. so they're all fallingout now. kept on forgetting to duckmy head when i was getting out of the car. pain's beauty. you've got to do it. you've got to be humiliated. how many times you get peoplelaughing at you when you run
in the shop with them on . like i say, if you want to lookgood then you've got to do this stuff. it's the only way your hair'sgonna stay big, really. female speaker: i said theiranswers all seemed a little regurgitated. no, they do though,don't they? because they say, why doyou want to be a model? oh, i really want tohelp the world.
i want to help people. no, you don't. you just got that off fuckinga magazine or telly. you have all the girlswaiting in here. and then, one at a time, they'regoing to walk through and stand in front ofthe judges here. and the judges are going to beseated on this table with all their, like, scoring boardsand everything. and they're going to get askedthree questions that they've
pre-prepared. and then they're goingto walk out. and the good judges are gonnaslag them off and write down their marks. miss photogenic, miss beautifulbody, miss beautiful hair, miss lovelylegs, miss sexy eyes, that one's hilarious. and then you've got the thirdrunner up, second runner up and first place.
the boys are mr. body fit,mr. stylish hair, and mr. photogenic and then obviously,third, second, first, as well. male announcer: what wouldyou do if you won mr. liverpool 2010? male speaker: party! male announcer: party! who would party withhim afterwards? female announcer: please, makesome noise for all of our contestants.
male announcer: we're gonnacrown mr. liverpool 2010. female announcer: it'schristian williams! male announcer: christianwilliams, congratulations. here's your mr. liverpool! give a special thanksto the judges. female announcer:second place. male announcer: runner-upin miss liverpool 2010. female announcer: it's serena,serena stregapede! serena stregapede: absolutelyover the moon.
i feel like i've won becauseof the way i was and the way i felt. i can't believe that i did comesecond because my nerves were just shot, forsome reason. but i'm absolutely buzzingthat i've come second. i'm gonna go and getbladdered now. male speaker: and i think vanityis the greatest thing in the world. always have done.
and people are vain about mostthings, even if they're not vain about themselves. you have a moral obligationto look smart. i took four youngsters tothe dorchester hotel. it was a hairdressingfunction, right? so when i get to the top ofthe stairs, watch all the television cameras and all thephotographers come over to me. i go to the top of the stairsand sure enough, saw all the lights running over to me.
and they were takingphotographs. and i said to the youngsters,now, tell me why they came over. was it me? or was it the pink suit?
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