In a brand new three part event for ITV1, Trinny and Susannah tour the UK to investigate the British public’s bodies in an effort to persuade people the lose their inhibitions and reveal to them what they love and what they hate about themselves.
The girls find out the nation’s vital statistics in a specially commissioned survey for the series, and lead vast body audits at three roadshows across the country in Gateshead, Brighton and Birmingham.
Their aim? To find two extraordinary people, a man and a woman, to represent Britain’s finest forms and be immortalised in a giant naked sculpture on the Sussex downs. More importantly, they must find hundreds of volunteers willing to strip to their bare essentials and be part of the amazing stunt.
Explaining the reason for their latest mission, Susannah says: “Trinny and I are known for dressing people, this time we’re going to be known for undressing people.
“We thought the British public suffered from a negative view about the nation’s body shape - that we’re overweight, unattractive, that we feel pressurised to look a certain way. So we want people to really look at themselves objectively, they’ll then realise that it’s not that way at all.”
“Ultimately we want to create a huge celebration of the British body. There’s always safety in numbers, and if people think they have a body that doesn’t measure up to an ideal what we want them to discover is that they are in fact the average,” says Trinny.
But there’s a catch – everyone who wants to be part of the sculpture absolutely has to get naked.
Trinny says: “I think people should get naked and the reason we feel very strongly about it is we never ask people to do something we don’t do, so we will get naked.
“It’s a celebration on a hillside in the most beautiful English countryside, of saying ‘as you are today is just fine’,” she says.
In order to get to grips with the nations naked forms and compile their body data, Trinny and Susannah arm themselves with a team of experts to help them on the roadshows.
They also reveal some of the most surprising facts unearthed in a body survey of over 2000 people carried out exclusively for the series.
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