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Big Fat Gypsy Wedding dressmaker bags own series

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

‘Big Fat Gypsy Weddings’ star Thelma Madine is to launch her own reality TV series.

In the new ‘Apprentice’-style show, Thelma will teach 15 traveller girls how to create the outlandish dresses featured in the Channel 4 documentary last year, with the eventual winner bagging a permanent job in her Liverpool boutique, Nico.

Thelma told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “We will have a little factory and I will train the girls up. Gypsy girls don’t normally have jobs but with me they have a chance to see how their dresses were made.”

However, if ‘Big Fat Gypsy Weddings’ star Sam Norton’s wedding attire is any indication of what’s to be expected in the new series, the dressmaking newbies will have their work cut out.

The 17-year-old’s wedding dress weighed in at a colossal 196lbs, and was fitted with fairy lights and robotic butterflies.

Under order of Thelma, the bride’s “something new” turned out to be a fire extinguisher – just in case Sam’s over-the-top dress exploded.

Thelma said at the time: “I am still worried about the fire issue so we’ve decided we will take a little fire extinguisher with us just in case. All that combustion, it could just go up in flames.”

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Traveller girl vows to be as big as Cher Lloyd when she auditions for this year’s X Factor.

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

A traveller girl has vowed to be as big as Cher Lloyd when she auditions for this year’s ‘X Factor’.

Olivia Ayres – who has been tipped for stardom after winning a gypsy singing contest called ‘Big Night’ last year at the age of 14 – is determined to win the ITV1 talent show and is going to ask last year’s star and fellow traveller Cher Lloyd to help her.

The 15-year-old wannabe said: “Cher is amazing and a real inspiration to us gypsy girls. She is strong and confident and determined to make something of her life. She got a lot of abuse and was called a pikey for her heritage but she stood up to all the bullying and, if anything, was all the better for it.

“She went to Los Angeles to record with will.i.am and did so much amazing stuff. She shows we’re not all stuck in caravans with nothing else to do.”

Like Cher, Olivia grew up on a caravan site and although her family are now permanently based on a plot of land in the Midlands, they spend six months of the year travelling the UK.

Olivia’s family are convinced she has what it takes to become a star, and will impress all the judges when she auditions.

Her mum Lisa told the Daily Star newspaper: “She’s a bright girl, confident and mature. People think that she’s got so much talent. She’s proud of her gypsy roots. She won’t let that get in the way. We are certain she’ll blow Simon Cowell away.”

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Travellers Got Talent to storm TV screens

Monday, March 7th, 2011

The traveller community is hoping a gypsy version of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ could be the next big TV hit.

‘Travellers Got Talent’ will showcase the skills of gypsy singers, dancers and rappers in a Simon Cowell-style show, which will allow people to demonstrate their wacky talents.

Last summer, hundreds of performers with Romany and Irish roots took to the stage as part of a nationwide talent contest in Sussex – which was judged by Seamus Cullen from BBC One’s ‘Any Dream Will Do’ – and TV bosses are now reportedly keen to transform the event into a huge hit.

Organiser Jake Bowers, of the Gypsy Media Company, admitted he has already received a huge amount of interest from telly chiefs.

He told the Daily Star newspaper: “When I was approached regarding the ‘Big Fat Gypsy Weddings’ series, I mentioned I had organised ‘Travellers Got Talent’ last year. People were very keen on it. There was a lot of interest in it.

“Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities are perceived to be guilty of many things, but capable of nothing. But the final and the regional finals that led up to it quash that myth.

“They have all demonstrated that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller young people, in particular, have talents, skills and abilities that are largely unrecognised by the world beyond their communities.”

Meanwhile, a Channel 5 executive has confirmed while there are no plans for such a show at present, they could be open to the idea of ‘Travellers Got Talent’ in the future.

The spokesperson said: “We have no plans to develop a show of this nature. But we can’t say what is going to happen in the future.”

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