As crazy as Up The Arse seemed at the time, in retrospect it looks like one of those programmes that you'd see on a clips programme on Channel 5, "can you believe that something like this was ever broadcast?"
There may be people here who don't know what we're referring to. With a title "
Totally Jodie Marsh: Who'll Take Her Up the Aisle?" and promo that was a clear allusion to anal sex, what the hell did she expect her family to think about this career move?
As she held "auditions" to meet prospective partners, the attendances were low, and the process was portrayed as a tragedy. When Matt Peacock came into the picture, this seemed to be an upturn, but as a climactic exposé, the final episode consisted of behind-the-scenes type review of the series and the times that we didn't see Jodie manipulating the story (and lying to the producers), including a scene when the producers left the room and left secret cameras to record Peacock challenging Jodie on the lies that she'd told him, and which she expected him to back her up on. He wasn't pleased, and she was a
witch about it.
And then they split after 3 months.
I don't have the videos to hand, but it thought that she appeared in the programme credits as if she had some role in the completion / approval of the programmes - an executive producer or something. I must have misunderstood this, but at the same time, I simply couldn't fathom how she'd voluntarily made herself look (a) a fool and (b) a manipulative liar on TV, for the sake of however much she earned from it. Afterwards, that is more or less what she claimed - that nothing that you see on TV is real, and this was just another example. Peacock had different things to say - that she was a psycho, obsessed with besting Katie Price. I can't confirm this through online references / google, but maybe other tattlers can confirm.
Up The Arse is part of my back story to being a musher, and it's responsible for some of the touchstones / catchphrases that we've re-used ever since; it's where "
Lesbian, blatantly!" comes from, for instance.
the time she didn't know hark was a word despite her massive intelligence and almost being a doctor, or a lawyer... whatever. The time her 'best friend' was murdered and she fell to her knees crying "whyyyyy meeee".
