Marbella Belles On ITV1
They’re bold, bronzed and bleached to their roots. Meet five British women who’ve turned their backs on the UK for the sun-kissed stretches of the Costa del Sol.
Marbella Belles – a new six part documentary series for ITV1 with narration from Dennis Waterman – gives a glimpse of life in that little bit of Spain that will be forever England.
All five women have different lives, but share one thing in common. They have escaped the high streets of Essex, London and Leeds to re-establish themselves along the rich golden mile in luxury resorts Marbella and Puerto Banus.
Among them is lady of leisure, Lisa Johnson, who has a one-year-old boy called Blue. Retirement has come early for the high maintenance Essex girl thanks to her husband’s hefty bank balance and round the clock help from maid, Lin-Lin. Lin-Lin sees to the less glamorous aspects of motherhood like changing Blue’s nappy and feeding him while 38–year–old Lisa keeps up to speed with her rigourous beauty schedule.
Louise Marriot owns the beauty salon that Lisa spends a lot of her time in – Posh – which stands for ‘P****d Off, Stressed & Hormonal’. Louise upped sticks and left Buckinghamshire for Marbella with her three children after a string of failed marriages and is now embarking on her second salon, 2 Posh, and a new romance with a very wealthy ex pat called Jeff.
With such wealth and exuberance it’s vital the belles look their best and Louise Truelove, or Truelove as she’s known, focuses her time on the more permanent side of cosmetic enhancement, as a patient co-ordinator for an exclusive plastic surgery clinic. Truelove moved to Spain after the love of her life left her for “a 53-year-old grandmother.”
Party girl Jo Alexandrou arrived in Spain six years ago for a holiday and ended up staying for good becoming a fixture on the Puerto Banus party circuit.
Reflecting on her first year on the Costa, Jo says: “We’ve got High Society magazine out here, like the Spanish ‘OK’ or ‘Hello’, and I was in it every month partying!”
And last but by no means least is Barbara Fawcett or ‘Barbs’, who arrived in Spain two years ago and owns posh café Madhatters, which serves up the best traditional English food. Barbs has never married and believes she will find her Mr Right on the Costa.
Marbella Belles provides a snapshot insight into what it’s like living the high life in the posh town of Puerto Banus, where designer shops and celebrity hideouts line every street and being preened and beautifully turned out is essential.
The women are determined to bag themselves a man with a loaded wallet. It’s a place to see and be seen – where a bad hairdo or a chipped nail is a cardinal sin!
They’ve run to the sun to better their lives but is life on the Costa all they thought it would be?
This series will air on Tuesday 20th March on ITV1
Chat about this on the Unreality TV Forum »
Loading ...
WELL DONE SHERLOCK,YOU MAKE LIN LIN VERY UNHAPPY. ME JUST TRY TO MAKE A BITTER AND TWISTED THREAD A LITTLE MORE LIGHT HEARTED. WHY YOU CALLED HAPPY GO LUCKY, SHOULD BE BITTER AND TWISTED
Cor blimey happy golucky get the poker outa ya arse, what did she do to you
except steal your boyfriend. Suggest you limeys with the sense of humour failures look in the mirror and see who`s having the last laugh.
ME TOTARY AGLEE WITH YOU,PERCIVAL!HAPPY GO RUCKY GET A RIFE.
I wonder ?
are LIN LIN and Percival actually the notorious, frieky, poxy and quite mad Marriot ??
Which other cretins could possibly defend mad Marriot so sadly?
The truth is now out folks, so just accept fact, and eat humble pie.
P.S. I am certainly NOT whom you guess. What a PILLOCK you are!
Y’ know Lin Lin ( you sure are NOT Phillipina )
You are simply as big a con and fraud as Louise marriot.
Me? I am so overjoyed to know that mad Marriot shot herself in the foot by appearing in the TV farce.
Mmmm. Life could not be so sweeter!
Thanks once again dumb Louise…..
MADAM HAPPY GO RUCKY, YOU SURE HAVE ISSUES, YOU ARE LIGHT. I NO PHILIPINA BUT THEN AGAIN YOU SURE AINT HAPPY GO RUCKY EITHER. IF YOU LEAD MY EARRIAR POST I WANT TO EAT HER AS WE ALL KNOW WHAT WE ALL EAT IN PHILIPINES. GET A RIFE AND JUST ENJOY THE PLOGLAM FOR WHAT IT IS. BYE BYE
Hey Lin Lin,
I have never watched the programme ( life is far too short )
But like so many decent folk, I do know mad Marriot, and we all understand why the sad lady is so demented and rejected.
She has no defence to these facts.
Do you Louise ? ( silly girl! )
I CANNOT COMMENT ON SOMEONE I DO NOT KNOW, THOUGH I MUST AGLEE WITH YOU SHE HAS COME ACLOSS A RITTLE ODD.BUT LIKE YOU SAY “RIFE TO SHORT” LEMEMBER, IF SHE HAS DONE WLONG THEN WHAT COMES ALOUND GOES ALOUND.
to the LIN LIN poster – racial sterrotypes are so amusing, perhaps you could pretend to be one of those darkies next?
SOLLY STEVE, ME NO LACIARIST, YOU PERHAPS CONFUSE ME WITH MY GOOD FLIEND PING PONG. ME JUST TLYING TO BLIGHTEN UP A LATHER SAD FORUM. COME ON NOW EVERLYBODY, GLOUP HUG! RIKE HAPPYGORUCKY SAY “RIFE TOO SHORT”. NOW ME HUNGLY. IT LUNCH TIME. HERE SPOT, HERE BOY.
Of course I am sure that the editing on this programme has portrayed the ladies on this programme in a far worse light than what they normally are.
Nevertheless some of the behaviour witnessed has been embarrassing and tarnishes the image of most Brits who are decent people.
Lisa has come off the worst as she continued to smoke and drink when pregnant and then sadly lost her child.
What will not help their cause are people rushing to defend them on here who appear to be completely illiterate!
I am really sorry marbella bells is over I will miss seeing Louise marriot MAKING A FOOL OF HERSELF and may be her rich Boyfriend might find the consience to support his ill estranged wife as she struggles to bring up her kids on social welfare benifits back in england.
Hey Valky.
well, the programme sure does not portray mad Marriot in a worse light than she actually is. This towrag of a woman has a long string of fraud, deceptions, and theft from decent people who were initially unaware of her nasty and unlawful ways. Marriot is bereft of morals, steals other folk’s belongings, fails to pay bills and swears like a true moronic lunatic.
Her good points? She is out of the UK, and unlikely to return, as it is most likely that the VAT lads et al are after her dues.
I’d give her a further month or so with luckless Geoff, before he finally discovers what a TRUE SUCKER he has been. Geoff IS a decent sort – just vulnerable now.
Hey Lin Lin wanna be my pen pal?? Sad ol`Go lucky seems to have run out of steam and now the show is finished who next is going to be the victim of such vitriol? (watch this cyberspace) and hey go lucky hang onto your nicks nicks and watch out your boyfriend doesn`t get nicked by a Louise lookalike, I mean there`s not accounting for taste even if the eyes are a bit poppy outy. Oh well………….Or say what Lin Lin ,say I set you up with a blind date with Geoff? could be the answer to all your prayers, a better tasting woof woof at a classier restaurant, Watch out Puerto Banus!! Its Geoff and Lin Lin on the windscreen of the latest Chelsea Tractor.
Hey Percy.
would it surprise you if you were told that I may be a bloke ?
And Yes Harry, the clever TV lads HAVE found in Sad Marriot, someone who is the perfect foil. I’d guess that Marriot was selected simply because she is so obviously dumb enough to see what a FOOL she makes of herself, so very often.
We all fear for how her dear girls may turn out. Surely never like Loopy Louise.
P.S. so good to see the rain behind us. Now for a real HOT summer. Stay posted at P.B. ladies !
Louise,
I dont know what the truth is and I dont care, I think you and Jo (the Karaoke queen) are great and you are the sexiest thing on a tuesday night for me (any night actually)
Keep at it girl and if you dump Geoff, let me know where the queue starts!!!
Dave xx
Dave old son. Let’s get real here.
Louise Marriot can never dump G. He is her gravy train. She survives by parasitic suction to well-off men. Just like Geoff.
This has been her M.O. for almost 15 years. A woman like she, is plainly held together by artificial means: plus a lot of bottle.
Can you not see how fake the person is Dave? Inside and outside.
Boy ! you sure gotta be DESPERATE !
i only must agree with rocksteady
my wife told me story all about this neurotic woman yes. she is very bad news for good man
how come she is very lucky all the time she has no magician
why is she bad mouth with swearing all the time
sad old dave, seems there is no queue for louise so you go straight to the front very brave or very stupid if you ask me, think the long suffering geoff , is not so wealthy after all, good luck and be afraid very afraid….
I am moving to spain in a couple of months time so I may be lucky.
I think shes hot.
Thanks Carmen
Sad? Nope. Just retiring at 44 to spain and planning to set up home. May even run my businesses from there but planning to let others do the work. Need a nice, pleasant, sexy girl and thought she was the mark. It would never happen with her anyway as she is lovved up with Geoff.
Good luck to her but if it all goes pear shaped….
And good luck to all of you too.
Well i agree with you Dave, Louise M is gorgeous, so get in the queue behind me! I’d take her out anytime and buy her whatever she wanted given the chance to be going out with her!
Thanks Ste
But you got a reply from Louise!! Lucky Bstd!
Envious of Chingford
Hey there Ste and DaveRave!
If any of the other comments on this site are even half true, you two certainly seem to be gluttons for punishment! But nice to see Louise M with a fan club at last! Makes a change I say!
Good luck to both of ya and may the best man win!
Britney,
Yeah right LOL
Like I will hear from her!!!
DaveRave,
LOL! Well, you never know – never say never! Just nice to hear some light-hearted, positive comments in the face of all the ugly statements we’ve heard so far!
Best of luck with the move to Spain.
so nice that its ended on such a nice note everyone being so nice to the lovely louise………….. what is wrong with you all ……
Lovely? Ha Ha – Wouldn’t quite go that far! Think it must be the heat going to their heads. They’re not used to it in the UK!!!!!!
Yes it was very entertaining and even a little sad (for all the poor children involved) but life goes on here in Marbella. And everywhere else. Nowhere’s perfect but I think life is what you make it and here you can do well if you work hard and mix with the right people. Of all the 6 shows the comments that stick most are the ones L M made to her poor daughter when she arrived at the airport. How can you not see your child for six bloody months when Easy Jet is SO cheap?? She looked like a lovely girl. Good luck to all of them and keep smiling Jo! We love you. Actually, I have met her and she is a really lovely person.
OMG ! I hear this series is up for a BAFTA in the Light Entertainment category. Are they that desperate ?!!
No! I don’t believe it!! They must be that desperate.
got to agree with wonder,LM needs to get her prioritys sorted out,not the way to greet your child at the airport maybe she prefers to look natural with her own hair etc, just a thought………………
True, Carmen.
…and I bet being 15 years old and being called “tubs” by your mother (after 6 months away) went down wonderfully as well! I agree, her daughter looked lovely.
How great to see the TV critic – Jaci Stephen, Mail on Sunday – slate this horrendous programme. She is right – “a load of vacuous plastic women talking about nothing.” Lord defend us from any more useless info about Truelove’s huge big blue veined boobs let alone any more close ups of them squashed into tiny tops that a cute 20 year old should be wearing – quite disgusting – does she think this makes her a Marbella Belle?? She should check out what the word Belle means – they all should, becsuse none of them have anything going for them in that department let alone in the personality area. They should all check into that cosmetic clinic and get a face transplant!!! Hopefully we never have to hear that screeching common voice of Jo’s aagain or listen to her cheap boring shopping trips buying stuff for herself – who cares? Or see the truly failed swearing “business woman” Louise and her incompetent dispirited salon staff – useless as a mother too it seems. Only eclipsed by the utterly utterly awful “Lisa” with a mouth like a sewer and a face to match. Poor poor Lin Lin and that beautiful little baby boy whose name she can’t remember. Even Jaci Stepehn agress with comments above that Barbara should not be aligning herself with this stupid ignorant charmless bunch of depressing ‘past it’ women. The men in their lives must be really really desperate!!!
@Asheley: Sorry to disappoint you but the producers have already been back to Marbella and plans are afoot to film a 2nd series in the Autumn/Fall. There’ll be a change to some of “the Belles” but doubtless the replacements will be equally entertaining.
And what’s wrong with oggling someone’s tits if they want to show ‘em to the camera ?
The NOTW, I think it was, did a two page spread on Lisa and disclosed that her old man was a lotetry winner.
Oh Boy !
some lads are just plain dumb.
So many books have described factual accounts of man meeting woman, after man sees woman, and man hears woman.
Man ties up with woman, then regrets it for a VERY VERY LONG TIME INDEED.
Sure L.M. is hot. Hot headed and eternally “on heat” with the neurotic notion that since she loves herself, others must also.
The uneducated and ruthless woman that is Ms. Marriot can only truly be assessed, AFTER meeting her.
And what a wrinkled frump, wrapped in too tight fabric she is !!!!
Other than poor poor Geoff, find a genuine friend of Louise hereabouts, and you’ll be able to find that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Yet, her unfortunate children are the innocents who will suffer in the long term, due to her selfishness.
So Dave, think it over man !!!
L.M. is the ultimate loser !
I hear what you say savedaveparade but…she is still with Geoff and happy so I dont get a look in. Seriously, I hope she pulls POSH back from the brink and makes a go of it. Its possible and I think all the negative digging and back (and front) stabbing is a waste of energy. She needs to ignore it, it serves no one.
She needs to get her skates on if they are filming another series!!
dave why dont you set up a fund so people can donate there hard earned cash to the save posh campaign, you could be the first to show your true generosity, how about it.
I now know there are other people out there that Cruella Deville aka POSH has p….. off over the years ! I have had great satisfaction reading spineless comments about her ! Long may it continue ha ha !
I recognise you POSH ?
OK folks.
let us end the sordid episode on the foul-mouthed, clueless parasite that is Ms. Marriot.
She IS licking her wounds. We see her ( all too often ) and we guess that her unstable mind may push her over the brink, if she gets more of what ought to have been coming to her years back. Her life is BORING in the extreme, as she has NO real friends. Geoff is a nice boy who has yet to cotton on to his sad future, if he stays the course. Few men have. they’re lucky! Count your pennies Geoff old chap. Louise already has !!
Its strange that so many people are saying ’she did this’ and ’she did that’ without any details. Seems like jealousy to me.
Face it shes well fit and everybody is jealous! Sexy little thing that she is!
You can take a girl out the gutter but you can’t take the gutter out the girl. Heard the sad cow has been on BBC2 yesterday claiming to have 5 salons in the UK. Too late POSH to keep lieing to save your face… UR ruined ha ha
Has any body been to the marbellabelles website ???
What is the URL/web address?
And then…they were all gone!
I heard on the grapevine that Louise Marriott has started work in porn movies.
Not to sure whether this is correct just that she has f**ked over loads of blokes for money she may as well make a movie career out of it.
Yeah…I heard the same.Amazed they employing someone with a crumpled face, buckteeth.No turn on!Maybe an over 40,s movie is in demand.She has had more p….. than a second hand dartboard…this I know !