Ten celebrities face the daunting challenge of producing a weekly glossy magazine under the editorship of Fleet Street legend Janet Street Porter and the big question is: can they hack it?

The rookie reporters taking part in Deadline are Abi Titmuss, Dean Holdsworth, Chris Parker, Dom Joly, Yvette Fielding, Iwan Thomas, Imogen Lloyd Webber, Lisa I’Anson, Ingrid Tarrant and Blair McDonough .

In Deadline the reporters will have to write the stories, forage for gossip, interview their peers and ‘out-pap’ the paparazzi. But will they able to match the standards required by their experienced editor?

The pressure will be immense as not only are they making an entirely new magazine – it will be inserted into UK’s biggest selling women’s weekly Closer. Read more & comment »

I’ve just finished chatting with Holly Willoughby about the ITV2 show Greased Lightning. While presenting Dancing On Ice, Holly’s also found the time to attend the auditions for Grease Is The Word.

Holly told me that Greased Lightning will:

dig deeper into the contestants and also have a little bit of fun.

From the auditions, Holly says we’ll see a mix of hopeful stage schoolers as well as talented amateurs and the usual contingent of zany auditionees. “Just when you think that all the [I think we can say eccentric - Ed] people in Britain have appeared on reality TV shows!”

I imagined that there might be tension between serious performers and the zanier auditionees. Holly says that this wasn’t the case at all, and most people were similar in how nervous they were - sitting round the waiting room, listening to songs in their earphones for some last-minute rehearsal.

She says that the main difference was that many of the amateurs went all-out for the occassion. “While the stage school boys and girls were dressed discreetly in character, there were some amateurs that came in full 50’s dress, as Teddy Boys with the hair and everything!”

Unfortunately, we still don’t know much more about those who have been shortlisted, but we’re looking forward to another talent based reality TV show. Grease Is The Word promises to be excellent Saturday night TV! The show kicks off on ITV1 and ITV2 on Saturday 7 April.

Thanks again to Holly Willoughby for taking the time out to talk to Unreality TV!

After weeks of hard graft and nail-biting eliminations, the remaining six princesses-in-training head to England and are introduced to a world they have only ever imagined. They dine with royalty, experience the Royal Derby in the presence of the Queen and are courted by three sophisticated English gents – a future Baronet, a member of the exclusive Chelsea ‘party set’ and a young property developer with a secret.

Unbeknownst to our princesses-in-training, the property developer is actually Prince Michael, an undercover prince who will crown one of the girls Australian Princess 2 at a lavish masked ball held at Leeds Castle in her honour. Read more & comment »

Thursday AM

Bows brag about winning the NOW magazine fashion shoot. All girls hold a NOW magazine with their winning pictures in it and start chanting “2-1” to Better Half. Better Half are not happy.

The girls latest challenge is revealed by top make up artist Gemma Kidd. They have to choose and sell a range of vintage clothing on their very own market stall in Portobello Road. The stall that makes the most profit wins.

Shop manager are chosen: Better Half= Charlotte Meares and Bows= Julie Phillips. Manager Charlotte decides that Jadene and Elle will do the challenge and manager Julie decides that Nicola and Krystell will do the challenge

The challenge teams head off to choose their vintage stock and talk tactics.

Meanwhile, Better Half and Bows arrive at shops and the managers hold a meeting to lay out a few ground rules before opening time. But things don’t go according to plan. Michaela doesn’t listen and starts writing on Julie’s white board. And Cassie and Heather gang up on Charlotte and run out of the shop. Julie tries to cope and Charlotte chases after Heather and Cassie to tell them to stop being so mean.

40 minutes late both shops finally open, but can the managers keep their staff in check?

Thursday PM

Bows: Julie is feeling the pressure of becoming manager and is getting very little support; Michaela leaves the till unattended with lots of customers waiting and resorts to hiding in a cardboard box….Michaela loses it more and more and poor Julie just can’t control her.

Better Half: Cassie reads out a fan letter she has been sent from prison!

Challenge teams arrive at the WAGs emporium to choose all the stock they need to sell on their stall. Its first come first served and the girls rummage through the stock, try on some of the clothes and perform a fashion show. Nicola steals a bag from Better Half, but gives it back and all is resolved- the girls leave with 86 items each.

Better Half: Charlotte still can’t get Cassie and Heather under control.

Bows: Julie calls an end of day meeting to discuss how they improve the running of their shop. The girls decide to come to work at 9.30am from now on to clean and get their shop ready for the day.

Friday AM

Bows: arrive at 930am and clear up shop.

Better Half: Charlotte holds a stock meeting – they need to buy more….

While relaxed Bows open up, Jadene tells the girls she is pregnant (more to follow.)

Bows: With the high demand for their Great Ormond Street charity hoodies, Maddy has found that people are selling them on ebay for £250- the girls aren’t happy because the money isn’t going to their charity.

Challenge team price up their vintage stock. Krystell has a phobia against vintage clothing.

Friday PM

Cassie has gone missing and Charlotte doesn’t know where she is. But what an unsuspecting Charlotte doesn’t know is that Cassie has cheekily hooked up with Jadene for a three hour leisurely lunch. When the girls finally come back they all have a big argument and Charlotte starts crying. Jermaine Defoe and Marc Bircham both come to the shops to meet Charlotte and Jadene- but there’s no one there to meet Cassie…

Saturday AM- Challenge day

Challenge girls arrive bright and early (more of the early and less of the bright) at Portobello Market to set up their stalls, and while a resourceful Jadene enlists the help of a passing trader, Nicola disappears for a bit while Krystell can only watch on in horror.

Back at the shops it’s a busy day with record queues right around the block for Bows. It’s good news for Better Half too though as they have their very first queue. Cassie reflects on her argument with Charlotte yesterday, and in Bows the stress of being shop manager is starting to build for Julie. Against Julie’s orders, Micheala leaves the shop to get herself some food

At the market Better Half make their first sale, but things are proving slightly more difficult for Bows as no-one seems interested in their stock. With QPR only around the corner Jadene is benefiting from local support but finally Bows make their first sale.

Shops… Julie tries to enforce her shop manager rules on a very unruly Michaela. Meanwhile Better Half are having a good day and a little girl presents the girls with a poem that she’s written especially for the shop.

Challenge… Better half are learning the art of haggling, and Bows are having trouble giving their stock away!!

Shops… Michaela continues playing up to Julie and leaves the shop to have her nails done at Better Half, causing Julie to break down, sobbing to Nicola on the phone.

Challenge… Nicola wants to go home but Krystell is determined to keep going. They slash prices and finally start selling even though the rain keeps pouring

Tempers hit boiling point at Bows when Michaela erupts after finding out that Julie tells Nicola and Krystall to go home rather than going back to the shop, resulting in Julie and Michaela have a massive row in front of a packed shop and Michaela storming off with her suitcase!

This new series of Katie and Peter is the next chapter in the couple’s celebrity lives. Two years on from their star studded wedding, series 3 follows Katie and Peter as they embark on their world domination tour. Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter is new and exclusive to ITV2, beginning April 2007, for eight weeks.

This new season begins with what was supposed to be the celebration of the New Year but quickly turns into every parent’s worst nightmare when Katie’s eldest son, Harvey, is badly scalded and rushed to hospital. Cameras follow Katie and Peter in the days that follow the accident and hear for the first time what happened and what the couple and Harvey have been going through.

As Harvey’s condition improves Katie is eager to go back to work and her schedule soon fills up with media events and uncharacteristically opens up on national television when she talks about her post-natal depression. Peter, inspired by her honesty, decides to talk about how difficult it was for both of them to cope because of her illness. Though the couple have obviously had their problems, it’s clear to see their relationship is stronger than ever and their competitive streak is made evident with their constant eagerness to out do one another.

While Katie is back promoting her various projects, Peter flies out to Cyprus to collect their son Junior, who has been hidden away from the press. Peter visits the site where his father is over-seeing the building of their lavish holiday home as Katie, with a new baby on the way, is eager to make their new house in England a home. Read more & comment »

Episode eight opens with Little Howard, dressed as a burglar and reaking havok with a security guard at a secured building. Count Arthur Strong speaks of the infamous Egyptian pharaoh Toot-the-car-horn and Andrew Maxwell teaches a class of oriental students the finer points of English culture; queueing, drinking and grunting.

Steve Hughes talks of England having to write a Santa wish list to America; “Dear America, England has been very good this year. We have killed everyone you asked us too, so can we please have some more bombs?”

Emotion Factory continue their scholls tour and this week the team fret abut saying the word “nigger” infront of the students. Perhaps the man that has been painted black with shoe polish might be more offensive. Matt Kirshen and Carey Marx discuss their manhood to great lengths and Katy Brand is propositioned by a drunk camel.

ITV2 Thursday 8 March 11:00 PM to 11:30 PM

After weeks of hard graft and nail-biting eliminations, the remaining six princesses-in-training head to England and are introduced to a world they have only ever imagined. They dine with royalty, experience the Royal Derby in the presence of the Queen and are courted by three sophisticated English gents – a future Baronet, a member of the exclusive Chelsea ‘party set’ and a young property developer with a secret.

Unbeknownst to our princesses-in-training, the property developer is actually Prince Michael, an undercover prince who will crown one of the girls Australian Princess 2 at a lavish masked ball held at Leeds Castle in her honour.

But only one girl will reach the pinnacle. Who will shake off their old life to dance with a real prince and be crowned the next Australian Princess? Don’t miss this real life My Fair Lady fairytale with a sprinkling of the Cinderella story. Read more & comment »

Week two of Princess Boot-camp begins with our girls moving into their very own mansion in Sydney’s dress circle suburb of Woollahra. Jackie O greets the girls as they arrive and invites them to explore their new home.

Stephanie remarks that the house has everything you could possibly want in a mansion, except a Prince! But the girls get a huge shock when Jackie leads them into the main bedroom – already ensconced there is Jean Broke-Smith! Jean informs the girls that she will be living with them 24/7 to make sure they do not waste a minute of their training! Kylie is horrified. Having Jean Broke-Smith in the next bedroom will be worse than Big Brother, in fact it will be more like Big Mother! Read more & comment »

In tonight’s episode, the girls at WAGs Boutique have a surprise visitor. Celebrity Big Brother’s infamous Danielle Lloyd popped into the boutiques last Friday afternoon for some retail therapy. Starting off in Bows, Danielle browsed the racks for the popular Great Ormond Street hoodies. She left after spending a total of £140.98 before popping next door.

Danielle maxed out her credit card in Better Half, spending a grand total of £549.99!

Jadene Bircham, who has just revealed she is pregnant, chatted to Danielle downstairs, asking her if she knew any of the girls next door in Bows:

“I know Nicola obviously cos she goes out with Bobby (Zamora) but I don’t really speak to her. To be honest I didn’t really know many of the girls, just Charlotte who I’d met a few months before I went into the dreaded house,” said a giggling Danielle.

“That’s alright, its one of those things innit,” responded Jadene. Read more & comment »

Katie And Peter are back this year with a new fly on the wall show following their every day lives.

The new series of Katie and Peter is the next chapter in the couple’s celebrity lives. Two years on from their star studded wedding, series 3 follows Katie and Peter as they embark on their world domination tour. Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter is new and exclusive to ITV2, beginning April 2007, for eight weeks.

Charlotte shows off her £63,000 engagement ring

At London Fashion Week, Charlotte revealed to the girls that boyfriend Jermain had proposed to her the night before - Valentine’s Day. Sporting a beautiful £63,000 sparkler, Charlotte gushed that Jermain had proposed on bended knee over a romantic dinner and that she wants an “extravagant big white wedding.�

Better Half win stock from Liverpool boutique Cricket

The girls were set this week’s challenge by Justine Mills, the owner of the original WAGs Boutique - Cricket. The Liverpool shop is a regular shopping haunt of Coleen McLoughlin, Alex Curran and Abbey Clancy. Justine chose 15 up and coming designers from London Fashion Week and the girls from Bows and Better Half had to decide which designer they wanted to stock in their shops. The winning boutique would be the shop that made the most profit by 6pm on Saturday 17 February.

It wasn’t long before Bows sold out of their reasonably priced ‘Elbow’ bags and it looked as if they would win yet another challenge! Better Half took a little longer to sell the expensive jewellery they had chosen but in the end, emerged victorious. The shops have now won a challenge each. Better Half were given £2,000 worth of clothes from Cricket to sell in their boutique at 100% profit. The clothes will go on sale this Thursday. The competition between the two shops is really starting to heat up as the competition becomes more intense each week. Read more & comment »

The girls’ first lesson begins with Paul laying down the law. When he was Butler to Princess Diana, all her staff called her “the Boss�. But now if the girls want to become Princesses they must treat him as the Boss, and follow his every instruction.

Next up British etiquette and grooming professional Jean Broke-Smith gives each girl her special once over treatment and appraises how they walk, talk and sit. Not everyone is impressed with Jean’s opinion! Already Paul picks out two girls with attitude – Kylie and Stephanie. How long will they last in the competition? Read more & comment »

Forget London Fashion Week, Bows Boutique is where all the fashionistas have been heading this week!

The Wags Boutique store has been deluged by queues of eager shoppers today. All were anxious to get their hands on an unlikely fashion item which has completely sold out due to high demand after the WAGs were seen wearing them on their TV show.

The charity hooded sweatshirts designed by Nicola T for Great Ormond Street have become the latest must have. Hundreds of customers from across the country were queuing in their droves to pre-order the coveted hoodie which has had to be rush produced to meet the demand.

Here at Unreality TV we have had hundreds of comments and enquiries from all of you wanting to know if there is a way to get your hands on one of these jumpers without visiting the shops. Well we contacted the girls on your behalf and unfortunately they are much too busy to manage a mail or online ordering system. So if you can’t get down to BOWS boutique, then you aren’t going to get one I’m afraid!

In the seventh week of competition and the girl’s second week in London the four remaining contenders are off to Queens College in Cambridge, to learn all about the art of speaking beautifully and publicly. Paul introduces them to poet RICHARD ARONOWITZ who will teach them all about poetry.

He sets them the task of writing their very own poem about their ‘Princess’ experience. They then join their Beaus for a punting trip on the river but this romantic day trip soon unravels as rival passions amongst the girls begin to surface. It is only one week away from the grand ball where only one of the four will get to wear the crown.

ITV2 Wednesday 15 February 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

The programme features over 40 dynamic performers who demonstrate a mix of stand up and sketches.

The first of its kind on ITV2, the series is shot entirely on location. Each act is unleashed onto the streets of Britain and situated somewhere which echoes their individual style, whether this is a school, church, park bench or a make-shift prison.

Episode four opens with Jason Bryne and his duck bus tour of London where he denounces a South African lady for assuming that he is a stupid Irishman! He also points out some infamous London landmarks such as the ‘life size’ statue of Winston Churchill and the Ritz Hotel where the ritz biscuits are made! ITV2 also has the first televised broadcast of Gary LeStrange’s new musical number where he sings a derranged song in his kitchen.

Little Howard and Big Howard are still telling jokes to the baby in the womb and they explain to the expectant mum that if the baby kicks once then the joke is very funny, but if the baby kicks twice the jokes are rubbish. Little Howard tells the baby a rude joke and of course the baby kicks once!

Paul Sinha reveals his love for porn; his favourite being When Harry Met Scally! Andrew Lawrence instills cheeriness in his audience tonight where he depicts hope to really mean the rankiest type of naievity.

ITV2 Thursday 15 February 11:00 PM to 11:30 PM