We'd Do Anything to Be On Tv ; Would You Have a Stand-Up Row with Your Husband Live On Tv, or Be Filmed Having an Intimate Operation? Bizarrely, More and More Women Seem Prepared to Bare All, Sometimes Literally to Have Their Moment of 'Fame'.

Summary

---

Nearly wrecking their marriages on Wife Swap. Approaching men in the street for sex. And having a VERY intimate operation. The women who will happily endure any indignity for 15 minutes of fame.

JENNI CROSS can't recall the actual moment that she fulfilled her dream of becoming a reality TV star. Because when the spotlights were switched on and the cameras started rolling, Jenni was lying flat on her back in an operating theatre.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

We'd Do Anything to Be On Tv ; Would You Have a Stand-Up Row with Your Husband Live On Tv, or Be Filmed Having an Intimate Operation? Bizarrely, More and More Women Seem Prepared to Bare All, Sometimes Literally to Have Their Moment of 'Fame'.

The next 20 minutes of film were surely among the most excruciating and crass ever shot for TV. As the surgeon strived to repair Jenni's incontinence problem with an explicit gynaecological procedure, close-ups of her intimate anatomy were captured to be shared by the nation at a later date.

It was hardly BAFTA-winning stuff, but, incredibly, when Embrassing Illnesses was screened, viewers glimpsed enough of 47- year old Jenni's face to give her the recognition she craved.

She says proudly: 'I was stopped in the streets for weeks afterwards.' What her only son, a 20-year-old student, thought of his mother exposing he...

See the full content of this document

---