Glamour Girls

The Samantha Bond modelling agency is the UK’s leading agency for glamour modelling and counts Jordan as one of its discoveries. Hundreds of girls every year apply to the agency to find fame and fortune and the agency is constantly on the look out for new talent… the face – and body – of tomorrow.

This channel premiere series goes behind the scenes to see just how dreams are made and crushed in a ruthless business.

In the first programme, Louise, who has had success as a model in the past, is forced to consider her future. Elsewhere, teenage model Jenna tries to win back her contract with the agency and glamour girl Amanda Harrington faces a parenting dilemma when she’s offered a once-in-a-lifetime trip to America.

Who says being a model is easy?

Weekdays from 3rd Feb 9pm&9.30pm

Dawn…....Goes Lesbian

Journalist and broadcaster Dawn Porter has the knack of looking into issues that every woman really cares about.

Whether it’s body issues, relationship problems, pregnancy and childbirth, Dawn doesn’t mind getting totally stuck in and finding out the truth, whatever it takes.

In Dawn… Goes Lesbian, Dawn explores her sexuality. Open in the past about experimenting with gay sex, Dawn wants to find out whether her curiosity about women can be developed into full-blown bisexuality.

How do you go about finding out whether you’re bisexual? For a start, Dawn sets herself strict rules – she immerses herself in a women-only world, moves in with gay housemates in Soho and takes a job in a busy lesbian bar.

It’s not all hands-on experience – Dawn also consults experts on female sexuality and takes a scientific test to measure her sexual responses to women.

The results of her experiments are surprising to say the least!

Wednesday 24th Feb, 10pm

Addicted To Boob Jobs

Is it society? Is it the media? Or is it men that drive women to want bigger and bigger boobs?

Whatever the reason it doesn’t seem to stop women wanting boob jobs. Incredibly, around one in five women in the UK having surgery are not first timers. It seems once you have one, you just can’t stop!

In this channel premiere documentary, fashion journo Louise Rose meets women who are not satisfied with having just one operation, but insist on choosing to go back to the operating table again and again. We’re squeamish just going to the dentist!

When Lou was 16 years old she considered having a boob job herself, so she understands why women want bigger breasts. But going under the knife more than once? Why put yourself through it?

To understand, Lou immerses herself in the world of the boob job addicts and meets the women for whom one breast augmentation just isn’t enough.

There’s 23-year-old Charlotte, who has already had five boob jobs and measures 30GG; Kate, a glamour model who’s already had a boob job but wants another; and Rachel, a mum of two, who counts a tummy tuck, lipo and boob job in her procedures.

Lou also meets queen of trash Jodie Marsh to find out why she went for surgery after saying she would never do it.

2nd Feb 10pm

Alesha Dixon- Look But Don’t Touch!

Strictly Come Dancing judge and pop star Alesha Dixon is used to being exposed by the relentless and glaring flashbulb of the press. She appears in gossip magazines regularly and her every fashion selection, hairstyle and change in body shape are scrutinised by an unforgiving gaze.

In this documentary, Alesha confronts her concerns about the increasing pressure on women to conform to an ideal body type and investigates the practice of airbrushing and retouching that has become a staple of magazine photos.

Keen to discover whether these images simply celebrate the female form or whether they make harmful, unrealistic demands on women and society, her journey sees her sitting in on 18-year-old Ellie’s boob job, hearing fashion mag insider Liz Jones and celeb mate Cheryl Cole complain about the beauty industry and appearing on a front cover with her own body beautiful untouched.

Wednesday, 10pm 20th Jan

Jamelia-Who’s Hair Is It Anyway?

Pop superstar Jamelia investigates the burgeoning hair extension industry. Real human hair extensions are becoming as much a part of girls’ beauty regimes as fake tans and everyone from celebrities to schoolgirls will spend anything from £20 to £2,000 to clip, glue or sew another girl’s hair on to their heads.

As a result of a massive recent increase in popularity, the human hair industry has exploded with an estimated £65million being spent every year on extensions in the UK alone.

Now it’s time to find out the truth behind the industry. Jamelia travels in search of the girls whose hair goes into the product and follows a trail of hair back to its roots, on an international road trip from exclusive London salons to a dingy Moscow apartment where men trade human ponytails for cash to the hair-sacrificing temples of southern India. She even has her own extensions analysed using ground-breaking forensic techniques to try and track down the woman whose hair she wore on a recent TV appearance.

Jamelia’s journey brings her face-to-face with some of her worst fears when she witnesses bunches of hair being shaved from toddlers’ heads and meets a 13-year old selling her hair in exchange for pocket money.

Sunday 10pm 31st Jan

Mary Queen Of Charity Shops

The nation’s favourite retail guru, Mary Portas, is back and this time she’s transforming Britain’s charity shops and the way we perceive them.

Many charity shops have become little more than dumping grounds and up to 70 per cent of donated stock is unsalable meaning that the shops themselves end up paying thousands of pounds just to get rid of the rubbish.

All that is about to change.

Mary believes that charity shops deserve a more prestigious place on our high street, and that it’s time that everyone woke up to their potential as shopping destinations.

In order to fully understand charity shop life, Mary is turning shopkeeper and taking control of one store in a bid to increase their profits. Can Mary sprinkle her retail magic and teach the old dears who run it new tricks? Can she overhaul the sad and tired clothes and bric-a-brac that currently get dumped at the shop door? Will it work?

Weekdays 8pm, From Weds 27th Jan