Get a Life (UK TV series)
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| Get A Life | |
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| Format | Reality, |
| Starring | Jodie Marsh |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 (as of March 20th). |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Living TV / Living2 (from 13th March 2007) |
| Original run | 1st March 2007 – present |
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| Official website | |
Get A Life is a Living reality television show hosted by Jodie Marsh, which premiered March 1st 2007. The show consisted of five shy, nervous, unconfident and low self-esteemed participants who want to change their personalities for the better. Each of the 5 participants is assigned a mentor – someone they aspired to be like, at the top of their social ladder, confident, with a positive outlook on life. The mentor's job is to motivate their protégés throughout the show, giving them words of wisdom and encouragement.[1]
It was reported by the website Digital Spy[2] on March 16th that Living had cancelled the show after just two episodes. However a 3rd episode aired on Living2 on March 20th.
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[edit] Format
The ten contestants reside in a large house for the four week duration of the show's filming. There are five bedrooms, each one containing a participant and their mentor. The group is regularly driven to various locations and tasked with specialised teamwork-oriented challenges on which they are later graded. Once a week, an expert arrives at the house to teach a "masterclass" on various things the contestants need to improve upon. After four challenges, someone will be asked to leave the house. Each episode is an hour long (including adverts), except for the first episode which was an hour and a half.
Ironically, the contestants are awarded points based on how well they perform in the challenges, and so the person with the least points would logically be the one most in need of the help being given on the show. Yet it is the person with the least points that is dismissed.
The contestants are filmed at all times, and also have access to a diary room in which they can vent their true feelings.
[edit] Series 1
[edit] Participants
| Name | Description |
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| Sol Mehmet |
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| Paul Hover |
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| Anneka Dalrymple |
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| Esther Oluwatobi |
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| Matthew Fair |
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[edit] Mentors
| Name | Description | Mentor to |
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| Nick Westwood |
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Sol |
| Rob Moore |
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Paul |
| Pam Anand |
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Anneka |
| Lucy Crowne |
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Esther |
| Jermaine |
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Matty (initial mentor) |
| Adrian |
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Matty (replacement mentor) |
[edit] Episode One
[edit] Synopsis
Aired March 1st 2007. The first episode spanned the first six days in the house. Two challenges were performed, with one masterclass in between. The first challenge was a military style obstacle course, including swinging over a pool of water on a rope, crawling under barbed wire and climbing a wall. The first masterclass was about general confidence, and saw the participants writing their flaws on six boxes. They then arranged these boxes like a wall that metaphorically stood between them and the rest of their life, and proceeded to demolish that wall. Finally, the second challenge took place in an old Elizabethan home, Kentwell Hall. The contestants were given a tour by its owner Patrick Phillips, after which the participants were each assigned a room in which they had to play the role of tour guide.
Everyone seemed to bond well with their mentors, except for Matty. He and Jermaine were constantly at odds with each other, with Jermaine feeling that Matty wasn't grateful for the help he was providing, and Matty feeling that Jermaine wasn't interested in helping him at all. They appeared to leave things amicably after the second challenge, but at 6am the next morning Jermaine unexpectedly left the house. Matty was told he would have another mentor, Adrian, by the start of the next challenge.
At the end of the episode, four of the five pairs were in joint second place with 6 points, with Anneka and Pam taking the lead with 9 points.
[edit] Scores
| Team | Challenge 1 | Challenge 2 | Total |
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| Sol & Nick |
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| Paul & Rob |
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| Anneka & Pam |
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| Esther & Lucy |
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| Matty & Jermaine |
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[edit] Episode Two
[edit] Synopsis
Aired March 8th 2007. The second episode covered days 7 and 8. Comedian Mark Dolan visited to conduct a masterclass on heckling, in which first everyone had to insult each other (in a roleplaying context) and then give as good as they'd received. Then, the contestants split off into their pairs to conduct the following individual roleplaying scenarios:
- Matty as his new mentor Adrian's boss, needing to fire him
- Esther having to defend her place in a supermarket queue to pusher-in Lucy
- Anneka needing to kick flaky lodger Pam out of her apartment
- Paul having to deny Rob, an obviously lying customer, a refund on a mobile phone
- Sol having to tell proud father Nick that he'd decided not to attend Oxford University
This episode also gave focus to the possible relationship forming between Paul and Anneka. He told her he liked her as more than a friend, but then confused her by withdrawing. Footage of them both in the diary room at separate times was spliced together to show that they both like each other, but assume those feelings aren't returned because she thinks she's a "loser" and he thinks he's a "minger". Afterwards, Anneka wrote him a love note on the back of a torn up cereal box.
At the end of the episode, Anneka and Pam were still in the lead with 12 points, while Esther and Lucy were lagging behind in last place with 8.
[edit] Scores
| Team | Challenge 3 | Total |
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| Sol & Nick |
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| Paul & Rob |
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| Anneka & Pam |
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| Esther & Lucy |
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| Matty & Adrian |
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[edit] Episode Three
[edit] Synopsis
Aired March 20th 2007. The third episode covered days 10, 11 and 12. Celebrity stylist Ashley Rossiter visited to conduct a masterclass on style in preparation for the next day's challenge. Unfortunately, Adrian decided that Matty was not what he'd been expecting and that he could not help him. He and Matty went to Jodie, and Adrian confessed he wished to leave. Unfortunately, the show would not provide Matty with a third mentor, and as a result he was asked to leave the house as well. This goes a long way towards explaining why Matty was the only contestant to not be ask to be interviewed for the Living website at the end of the show's filming but then again the show's producers did in fact treat him badly for the short time he was in the house.
The next day, the remaining four mentors were taken to a shopping centre to buy a new wardrobe for their charges. Each had a budget of £100, and needed to get something appropriate for a dinner party to be held that night. They were also tasked with incorporating the style advice given to them the previous day. Meanwhile, the four contestants stayed at the house to receive hair and makeup from a professional stylist. The dinner went well, with almost everyone displaying a previously unseen level of confidence. That night, on Rob had a talk with Paul about his relationship with Anneka, and the possible ramifications it might be having on their level of commitment to the show. The following night, after the challenge's scores had been announced, Paul told her he wanted to "cool down" whatever relationship they'd been having.
At the end of the episode, four of the five pairs were in joint second place with 14 points, while Esther and Lucy were lagging behind in last place with 13. This would have meant Esther's dismissal from the house, but as Matty had already been asked to leave earlier in the episode, she gained a reprieve.
[edit] Scores
| Team | Challenge 4 | Total |
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| Sol & Nick |
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| Paul & Rob |
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| Anneka & Pam |
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| Esther & Lucy |
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[edit] Reviews
- 4 March 2007 - "Jodie On A Loser" [1]
[edit] Notes
Due to poor viewer ratings the show was moved from its prime original slot of Thursdays at 8pm on Living to Tuesdays at 10.30pm evening on Living2. Living2 chose to show only one episode on March 20th 2007.
