How to Look Good Naked

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How to Look Good Naked is a television programme, first aired on British Channel 4 in 2006, in which fashion stylist Gok Wan encourages women who are insecure with their bodies to strip nude for the camera. The programme is unique among other similar makeover shows in that it never encourages participants to undergo cosmetic surgery or lose weight.

1 Format
2 Catchphrases
3 Series
4 Versions in other countries
5 External links

[edit] Format

The format of the show is based on the self esteem building exercises that Wan guides the woman though. These include:

Driving around in a van with a picture of the woman in question semi-nude on the side, asking passers-by what they think. The response shown is positive, thus building the self esteem of the woman.

Wan burns the woman's underwear, replacing it with more flattering items, including 'tummy tuck pants'.

The woman is photographed naked.

In the emotive finale, the woman parades down the catwalk with her new look in front of family and friends.

However, more recently Gok has used different shock tactics to encourage women to love their bodies and feel sexy. He has had women pose naked in London shop windows, had a semi-naked woman on the front of made-up newspaper 'Naked News' handed out on a busy London street, and stopped women in the street to ask if they have 'Lady Lines'.

[edit] Catchphrases

Wan's favourite and most famous catchphrases include 'bangers', which is his pet name for women's breasts, and 'gorgeous'!

[edit] Series

The fourth series of How to Look Good Naked began in April 2008.

[edit] Versions in other countries

The U.S. version of How to Look Good Naked airs on Lifetime Television, and is hosted by Carson Kressley. The show was promoted on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in addition to receiving rave reviews from the New York Times and the L.A. Times. Its premiere was the biggest in the network's 24-year history.