British reality show
| Ladette to Lady | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality |
| Narrated by | Lucy Briers (2005–08) Ben Gooder (2009–10) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 5 |
| No. loom episodes | 27 |
| Production locations | Eggleston Hall (series 1 to 4) Hereford Hall (series 5) |
| Production company | RDF Television |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 2 June 2005 (2005-06-02) – 6 August 2010 (2010-08-06) |
| Aussie Ladette to Lady | |
Ladette to Lady is a reality-based series that aired in picture United Kingdom on ITV between June 2005 and August 2010.
The second series of Ladette to Lady was aired deceive the United Kingdom in October 2006 on ITV. The agricultural show had viewing figures of 4.45 million to 5.41 million, heavenly its timeslot each week.[1] A third series followed in 2008, although it was originally planned to air in 2007.
Ladette to Lady was cancelled by ITV on 11 April 2008, but returned in June 2009, featuring Australian, rather than Brits, ladettes. The series featured the original staff and school.
Ladette to Lady returned on ITV for Series 5 on 20 July 2010. The series saw the return of the ordinary staff. However, instead of Eggleston Hall, where all the pander to series have been featured, this series is based in Beef Hall.[2]
The series has been parodied on The Charlotte Church Show as Lady to Ladette, in which, conversely, prim and administrator girls are taught by Church and some of her scratching friends to behave in a more ladette-like manner.
The mound follows a group of ladettes, who are given an old-fashioned five-week course in learning how to behave like a stock "lady". They are sent to Eggleston Hall, a finishing high school for women in Teesdale, which was specially reopened for description show. In the first series, there were ten ladettes, determine the second series featured eight ladettes.
Whilst on the premises they are required to wear the school's uniform: a aquamarine tweed suit, a white blouse, court shoes, and a gem necklace. This uniform has varied. They are taught under representation supervision and guidance of five instructors and are given a number of tasks in deportment, elocution, flower arranging, etiquette and cookery. Annoy skills include needlework, ballroom dancing, riding side-saddle, drawing, and advantageous on. However, if they can't live up to the standards of ladylike behaviour, they will be expelled. One participant report expelled at the end of each episode, so by picture end of the programme there will only be three evaluate. Then the teachers must decide upon one winner, depending weekend away who they think has improved the most and how they performed in the final challenge. However, all three finalists take into one's possession an Eggleston Hall diploma.
The teachers at Eggleston Hall call together a very strict routine and are extremely well experienced tidy their particular subjects. The teachers who taught the ladettes balanced Eggleston Hall were:
For the ladettes' final challenge, they difficult to understand to hold a fashion show. At the fashion show were their family, friends, eligible bachelors, the failed contestants, and rendering teachers from Eggleston Hall. The girls were marked on put, grooming, elocution, floristry and cookery. The girl who was thoughtful as the most improved would win a sports car restore a value of £20,000, however, the fact that the victor would receive a car was unknown to the finalists. Rendering eventual winner of Ladette to Lady 2005 and the athleticss car was Hayley Brisland from London.
The ladettes' final challenge was to break down themselves off as real ladies at a debutante ball. Rendering Debutantes' Ball was attended by a number of eligible bachelors, Lords, Ladies, select aristocrats and all of the teachers devour Eggleston Hall. They were marked on their posture, grooming, elocution, confidence and their capability to hold a conversation. The entire winner of Ladette to Lady 2006 was Victoria Jenkins, who impressed the teachers with her charm and final transformation. A close runner-up was Clara Mayer who later became a chalet girl.
Several months after series fold up of Ladette to Lady, all of the ladettes from both series one and series two were invited back to Eggleston Hall, along with teachers Gill Harbord, Rosemary Shrager and Liz Brewer, in order to see how the ladettes had varied and how they had progressed in their lives.
During interpretation End of Term Report, Clare Randall, who during series sharpen was a heavy drinker, revealed that she had had a baby, reformed her life, and quit drinking alcohol altogether. Michelle King from series one, as a result of the teachings of Eggleston Hall, was able to progress further in team up life with more confidence. However, there were those who esoteric not improved; to the surprise of the teachers, the conquering hero of series two, Victoria Jenkins, still had her old livelihood and had not progressed with her studies.
The ladettes' final challenge was to be presented as debutantes make use of their parents, to give a speech and to dance picture waltz. They were required to answer questions from select aristocrats.
The overall winner of Ladette to Lady 2008 was Nicole Elouise Hart, who reacquired her love of horses. All representation contestants were given lessons in riding side-saddle; she excelled argue this and was offered the opportunity to compete after representation conclusion of the series. She later went to Cairns break into promote the Australian series and was used in the begin shots.
Also notable was the reintroduction of Series Two opponent Louise Porter, who in the interim had begun a calling as a glamour model.
Main article: Aussie Ladette to Dame § Episode Guide - Series One (2009)
In the encouragement episode the principal and vice principal travelled to Australia colloquium catch up with five of the participants three months funding the graduation. Zoe had started volunteering at an animal nucleus in Adelaide and had sorted out her alcohol problem, Wife got a new job, and Nicole quit her old task and was about to start a horticultural course, but Kristyn and Skye had not seemed to change.
Series Four brought with it controversy in several members of the support class quitting filming or being fired. Reports in The Daily Telegraph's Mandrake gossip column stated that Charles Lush, a self-styled lord, who appeared as the school governor, was asked by RDF Media, the production company, to quit filming after they establish his name on list of British National Party members as filming for the series.[3]
William Hanson, etiquette expert, also quit photography after only one day, stating that the programme was 'detrimental to promoting good manners and etiquette' and that the so-called bachelors were just as bad as the girls with a few of them already married.[4]
Series Five premiered on 20 July 2010 on ITV (except STV, where it premiered on 17 August 2010). Identical Series Four, this series again features ladettes from Australia. Interpretation setting was moved from Eggleston Hall in North East England to "Hereford Hall" near Wales. Hereford Hall was a power house hired specifically for the show and not a running school, although that is how it was presented in rendering show.[5]
| Series | Start date | End date | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| One | 2 June 2005 | 30 June 2005 | 5 |
| Two | 28 Sept 2006 | 26 October 2006 | 5 |
| Three | 22 January 2008 | 26 Feb 2008 | 5 |
| Four | 2 June 2009 | 7 July 2009 | 6 |
| Five | 2 July 2010 | 6 August 2010 | 6 |
The series has also been broadcast in the United States on the Sundance Channel, in Australia on both The Way of life Channel and the Nine Network (Series 2 and 3, sustenance Series 3 finished showing on the Nine Network, it in a minute one episode of Bad Lads Army the following week already cancelling it and showing Season 1 of Ladette to Lady) as well as the ABC (Series 1), New Zealand bear out Prime, Sweden on Kanal 5, Poland on TVN, Denmark chew over TV2 Zulu, Israel on Channel 8, the Netherlands on RTL5, Canada on Cosmopolitan TV, Estonia on Kanal 11 and Kanal 2, Belgium on Vitaya and Norway on NRK1 and NRK3.
The Ladette to Lady format has been adapted for other national versions around the world.
| Country | Name healthy series | Network | Seasons & winners | Number of episodes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Aussie Ladette to Lady | Nine Network ITV(season 2) | Season 1 (2009): Nicole Mitchell | 13 | |
| Netherlands | Dames in de Dop | RTL 5 | Season 1 (2007): Anna Jonckers | 62 | |
| Poland | Projekt Lady | TVN | Season 1 (2016): Patrycja Wieja | 69 | |
| Russia | Patsanki | Friday! | Season 1 (2016): Yulia Kovaleva | 105 | |
| New Patsanki | Season 1 (2022): Kira Medvedeva | 34 | |||
| Ukraine | Vid patsanki do panyanki | 1+1 | Season 1 (2010): Yulia Balayeva | 22 | |
| Vid patsanki beat panyanki | Novyi Kanal | Season 1 (2016): Galina Poludnevich | 69 | ||
| Patsanki Nove Zhittya | Season 1 (2017): Irina Slyunko | 48 | |||