What Not to Wear

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This article is about the UK version. For the American version, see What Not To Wear (US Version).

What Not to Wear is a makeover reality television show presented by Lisa Butcher and Mica Paris.

The show originated on BBC Two and was hosted by Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine, who also co-authored several books based on the show. Following ratings success, it moved to BBC One. In April 2006, it was announced that Butcher and Paris would take over as presenters of the BBC show, after Woodall and Constantine signed a contract with ITV.

Every episode features an "ambush" style confrontation and makeover of a man or (more often) a woman who has been nominated by their friends as particularly unfashionable. The subject has their current fashion sense evaluated. The presenters take particular regard to the subject's body-shape and self-image (with the help of a 360 degree mirror cabinet) and determine what will work best for them. The subject is then given £2000 (about $1200 less than the American version) to go shopping for a new wardrobe, which is supposed to be in accordance with the advice they have been given. Although they are free to spend how they wish, they are spied upon and counselled on the ways of fashion by the show's two hosts.

The UK version of What Not To Wear has been broadcast in the US on BBC America. Constantine and Woodall have been guest fashion/makeover experts on the Oprah show.

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[edit] US Version

Main article: What Not To Wear (US Version)

An American version airs on TLC and is hosted by Stacy London and Clinton Kelly.

[edit] Popular Culture

A lethal far-future version of the show appeared in the Doctor Who episode Bad Wolf. Set in the year 200,100, Constantine and Woodall provided the voices of killer androids Trinn-E and Zu-Zanna'."