Fresh On TV!

For those of you who love a good gossip – we’ve had a couple of appearances on the box recently!  If you missed us on TV then you can see it all again here, just follow the link attached to this blog.

On our first appearance, Fresh’s very own Keely Silver was invited into the Lorraine studio last week to have a chat about Jackie Green, one of the Miss England entrants.  Lorraine has met Jackie before as there’s something very extraordinary about the stunning Jackie, she was once a boy and went through gender re-assignment when she was just 16.  Jackie is, in fact, the youngest ever in the UK to have gender re-assignment, and now she is the first ever transsexual to be entered into this prestigious competition.

Fresh scouted Jackie at the Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model Show in the autumn of last year when she was invited to have her photograph taken for Miss England.  As you can see by the photographs attached, she makes a truly striking and statuesque model. 

The great part of this story is that Jackie has always wanted to be a model; with her superb height it was hard for us not to miss her at the Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model show and following our scout, Jackie is now part of the photographic rounds of the Miss England competition. If she gets through, she goes into the semi-finals.  Jackie could very well find herself in the finals of Miss England if all goes according to plan for her!

When Jackie was asked what it would mean to her to win, she says that it would be an amazing experience and will show how transsexuals are very normal – it will also give confidence to young adults and teenagers everywhere who have been in the same position as Jackie, before her life-changing operation.

We wish Jackie, along with all the other entrants, the very best of luck!

Also spotted, earlier this week, was the brains behind Fresh, Charlie Kaufman on Channel 4’s 15 Kids and Counting.  The episode was aired on 24^th January focussing on the Lewis family from West Parley, Dorset.  One of their 12 daughters, Chantelle was last year’s Miss Portsmouth.  The show included footage from the Miss England semi finals where we spied Charlie taking professional photographs!

Anyone want an autograph?!