Alexa Chung (May 2006 - June 2009)

[DiamondSea]

Some Freshly Squeezed screencaps. There won't be any more for a few months because Alexa is taking a break from the show for the summer.

[femmefatale18]

thanks for those freshly squeezed pics, she looks dreamy

and oh no...i hope that 'daisy' isn't going to take her place, she's so annoying

[DiamondSea]

Originally Posted by femmefatale18

thanks for those freshly squeezed pics, she looks dreamy

and oh no...i hope that 'daisy' isn't going to take her place, she's so annoying

You're welcome, and yes, I think Zezi will be filling in for Alexa

More details about the documentary

I work in Primark and have had mega talks and extra training all weekend to deal with the backlash of this!

Basically the C4 programme broke the law by secretly interviewing Primark employees in UK stores without hiding their identity (pixelated faces etc lol) and Primark lawyers got it pulled. Whilst it is slightly factually incorrect (at least that's what the managers say) they cannot pull the programme for this reason. It has been pulled because it broke the law regarding the interviewed employees.

It WILL be back on, the prog makers are going away, editing those bits (covering the identities of the employees who were secretly filmed) and then will be back on the schedule, in a week or two.

digitalspy

Alexa appears briefly at the start of this video from the Wall
http://www.bbc.co.uk/thewall/video/v...ideo_220.shtml

[fairy]

omg is she wearin the dress from the NME awards on Freshly Squeezed? didnt Alex puke on that?

[DiamondSea]

Originally Posted by fairy

omg is she wearin the dress from the NME awards on Freshly Squeezed? didnt Alex puke on that?

Yes, it is the NME awards dress that she was sick on. I'm sure she has washed it

Channel 4 pulled a potentially controversial documentary about the business practices of low-cost clothes stores, called The Devil Wears Primark, from its schedule last night for editorial reasons.

The show, which was scheduled to air from 9pm to 10.40pm on Channel 4 and is fronted by presenter and former model Alexa Chung, looks at the conditions in the foreign factories that supply cheap clothing to high street stores for UK companies.

"It is a complicated programme and we took an editorial decision with the production company [Betty TV] that it simply wouldn't be ready in time for yesterday's transmission," said a spokeswoman for Channel 4.

According to a description of the programme in the Radio Times the show aimed to look at the price to be paid for buying low-cost clothing.
"Alexa Chung uncovers what conditions are really like in the Indian factories that supply some of the UK's leading budget clothes retailers," the Radio Times billing said.

"She then sets up her own fashion 'sweat shop' in London's West End."
The show, which was replaced by movie repeat Without a Paddle, was also scheduled to be repeated tomorrow night at 11.10pm.

"We plan to show the programme at a later date," the Channel 4 spokeswoman added.

guardian

[fairy]

ooh she was sick on it...i thought Alex anyway yeah but i wouldnt wear it again in public when ppl know that i was sick on THAT DRESS

[lisasparty]

I saw the Baise-Moi t-shirt in Liberty's underwear section a couple of weeks ago!

[Amywilliams]

^Really! Thanks for the info! Do you know the designer?

[Hye Park Lover]

Originally Posted by fairy

ooh she was sick on it...i thought Alex anyway yeah but i wouldnt wear it again in public when ppl know that i was sick on THAT DRESS

Dear Fairy, but that is a 500 pounds Charles Anastase dress that you speak so lightly of! (Admittedly, only half of the cost by the time Alexa had purchased it...)

Because of Charles Anastase and the delightfulness of that dress, after a hefty dry cleaning bill, parading that dress out again in public is like a frolic in the park.

Easy peasy.

[Ghostwerld]

Does anyone have the photo of her front row at topshop unique with kelly osbourne, nick grimshaw etc. and they're all wearing black leather driving gloves ?

[lainasda]

i just found out what baise-moi means..!

[antoine_soy43]

Originally Posted by fairy

ooh she was sick on it...i thought Alex anyway yeah but i wouldnt wear it again in public when ppl know that i was sick on THAT DRESS

She actually wore that dress in an episode of 'The Wall' already...so it's the 2nd time she's wearing it in public after the whole puking incident. I like that she's confident enough to wear it out again (twice)...

Has this been posted:
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source: olsenpapworld

[DiamondSea]

Yes, the picture is one of the Oxfam adverts.

I haven't seen the picture of Alexa wearing black leather gloves, I'm curious now!

Channel 4 pulled from its weekend schedule a potentially explosive documentary about low cost high street clothing, called The Devil Wears Primark.

The late decision to replace the programme, an expose of Indian clothing factories, with a movie repeat prompted speculation it had been axed for legal reasons. But insiders insisted the decision was taken because the documentary, due to run for 100 minutes, was not finished.

The Sunday evening programme, fronted by model turned TV presenter Alexa Chung, was to ask whether there was "a terrible price to be paid for £2 T-shirts and £8 dresses" in stores such as Primark. It promised to lift the lid on the buying practices of cheap clothes stores, through a mixture of hidden camera reporting in India and an attempt to replicate the conditions discovered.

For the experiment, which has echoes of other recent Channel 4 hits such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's attempt to recreate conditions on a chicken farm, Chung recruited 15 Primark shoppers to work 70 hours over five days for 15p an hour in humid conditions.

Producer and director Jo Burge, who is making the show for independent producer Betty TV, was said to have gone undercover at Indian suppliers and subcontractors "apparently revealing unsafe, unhygienic conditions, unpaid overtime, verbal bullying and possibly even child labour".

It is understood the broadcaster feared a rival BBC crew was making a documentary on a similar topic and so brought forward the transmission date. When it appeared producers would have to rush to complete the documentary and with no sign of the rival broadcast in the schedules, the decision was taken to pull the programme.

Primark declined to comment.

guardian

[NajiyF0714]

If the shirt was in the lingerie section of a store, then maybe it was KiKi de Montparnesse, because I have a pair of her underpants that read Baise-Moi in cursive script. I haven't yet checked her website, but...just a suggestion.

[lainasda]

the photo of her with the leather gloves is in the may edition of vogue (UK), i've got it now but i don't have a scanner i'll try to get a photo of it