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Returning: Beautiful People

A new series of the UK comedy is coming soon with guest stars Dana International, Elaine Paige and yes, Dannii Minogue.

Good news for fan of UK comedy Beautiful People, with a new series to air later this month.

Guests for these episodes from 2009 include Eurovision star Dana International, Elaine Paige and yes, Dannii Minogue. The series inspired by the memoirs of fashionista Simon Doonan enjoyed a recent rerun over summer.

Simon Doonan (Luke Ward-Wilkinson) returns to Reading from New York with a broken heart to find that his mother, Debbie (Olivia Colman), has taken in a couple of Polish women. An object in his old bedroom reminds him of his younger self.

Young Simon’s teacher sets the class a project on genealogy and a rather extraordinary picture emerges. Simon’s mother and father (Aidan McArdle) and their lodger, Auntie Hayley (Meera Syal), each give him conflicting memories of his parents’ wedding day. It finally emerges that due to a series of mishaps his parents have never actually been married.

Far from despondent, Simon and his best friend Kylie (Layton Williams) set about designing and preparing for his parents’ wedding. All goes well until his mother discovers that his father, Andy, is spending his stag night at their local pub’s Enya homage night. It was Enya who inadvertently prevented their original wedding.

Finally mum and dad are married; Kylie and Simon are bridesmaids and all including blind Auntie Hayley dressed in Nazi uniform take part in a ‘Sound of Music’ themed wedding ceremony. The reception is interrupted however by calamitous news from Simon’s sister, Ashlene (Sophie Ash), and Auntie Hayley.

It airs from 9:30pm Wednesday March 24th on ABC1.

7 Responses

  1. Thanks for letting us know. Just discovered ABC1 is also currently showing the second series of Moving Wallpaper on Friday nights. Wish I knew they had been showing it.

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