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Beautiful People
Beautiful People

Beautiful People

★ 6.8•2008•2 Seasons•ANIME
DramaComedy

Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire, in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream of escaping their dreary suburban surroundings and moving to cosmopolitan London "to live amongst the beautiful people." The first episode aired on BBC Two on 2 October 2008 and recorded overnight ratings of 1.5 million viewers and positive critical reaction. Episodes are self-contained, but do follow a loose story arc throughout the course of each series. The second and final series finished airing on 18 December 2009.

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Top Cast

Luke Ward-Wilkinson

Luke Ward-Wilkinson

Simon Doonan

Layton Williams

Layton Williams

Kylie Parkinson

Olivia Colman

Olivia Colman

Debbie Doonan

Aidan McArdle

Aidan McArdle

Andy Doonan

Samuel Barnett

Samuel Barnett

Adult Simon Doonan

Sophie Ash

Sophie Ash

Ashlene Doonan

Sarah Niles

Sarah Niles

Reba Parkinson

Meera Syal

Meera Syal

Aunty Hayley

Episodes

How I Got My Vase

1. How I Got My Vase

30m

While at Kylie's, Simon steals one of Reba's dresses and tries it on back at home. Ashlene takes a Polaroid photo of him wearing it and threatens to show it to everyone unless he styles her hair to look like Heather Small's. Debbie finds the dress in the bin, assumes Reba is having an affair with Andy, and fights her in the street. Simon reveals that he took the dress. Debbie tries to quit drinking alcohol but starts again when Andy tells her she is boring when she is sober. Simon sees supposedly-vegan Hayley eating a burger and threatens to tell everyone. To keep him quite, she give him £30, which he spends on a vase that he has had his eye on for a long time.

Aired: 10/2/2008
How I Got My Nose

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2. How I Got My Nose

30m

Simon Doonan, now living in New York, remembers the time auditioning for the school play led to his mother being arrested for assault and the re-enactment of a famous horror film.

Aired: 10/9/2008
How I Got My Beads

3. How I Got My Beads

30m

Simon remembers his mother's experiments with the occult and his grandmother's return from a mental hospital, which saw her change rather radically from the nicest granny in the world. Featuring conjoined twins and a bingo caller.

Aired: 10/16/2008
How I Got My Posh

4. How I Got My Posh

30m

Birthdays have ever been easy for Simon, especially when the whole school finds out what he really really wants. Meanwhile, Ashlene meets a flasher and Aunty Hayley feels loved and a whole lot more.

Aired: 10/23/2008
How I Got My Tongs

5. How I Got My Tongs

30m

A trip to the hairdresser and a fabulous pair of shimmering golden hair tongs prompts Simon's decision to turn Kylie into Princess Diana.

Aired: 10/30/2008
How I Got My Globe

6. How I Got My Globe

30m

A new teacher arrives at school who really may be one of the Beautiful People. Can this really be true? Simon and Kylie finally try to leave Reading for ultra glamorous London. In New York older Simon gets homesick.

Aired: 11/6/2008