(1) He adds: "Educating Essex was all part of that explosion of all things Essex – Towie and fake celebrities.
(2) It’s more important than ever to be quicker to the punch,” notes Lee, “to have better scouts and have a better line in to what’s buzzworthy in the UK.” However, it remains unclear whether a bigger corporate deal for ABC or its parent Disney is in prospect, like those made by other US companies this year (MTV owner Viacom’s Channel 5 acquisition, Liberty Global and Discovery buying Hollyoaks and Towie producer All3Media).
(3) For most countries, non-native content is nothing unusual, as anyone who has found Towie improbably belching itself out of a hotel telly abroad can confirm, but the assumption had reigned for many years that anything featuring foreign tongues would make Britons squirm away in horror.
(4) Scott Mills: Weekend Anthems is available from iTunes now Mick Norcross (Towie) Photograph: Rex Towie's answer to Brian Potter 1 Nando's vending machine Chicken on Tap!
(5) It's almost saying you can be like this, you don't have to look glossy and like you're off Towie [The Only Way is Essex]."
(6) Also in his sights are the game's governing body ("Just received my weekly warning letter from the FA headquarters"); and the likes of Alan Sugar, former QPR manager Neil Warnock and the entire cast of TOWIE .
(7) Wrestling perfected staged reality years before Towie GH The most offensive thing you can say to a wrestler is that wrestling is fake.
(8) "And in any case shows such as Towie and Geordie Shore are popular for the same reason as Big Brother – characters."
(9) A place that reveres not achievement-free celebrity, but astonishing skill, granite determination and good grace, the land not of TOWIE but of Bradley Wiggins, Nicola Adams and Laura Trott.
(10) Going TOWIE Low on animal costumes and high on fake tans, rarely will you see a better turned out, carefully coiffured and perfectly made-up crowd than at Chelmsford.
(11) W hat I like about this site,” says Grayson Perry as he surveys a scrappy bit of land in Wrabness, north-east Essex, “is they wouldn’t film Towie here.” Flagrant structured-reality slander aside, the largely excellent Grayson Perry’s Dream House follows the process of building a fully habitable and rentable house to Grayson’s artistic specifications, as commissioned by Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project (but don’t let that put you off).
(12) 3 Gaffer tape To put over some of the TOWIE cast's mouths when they talk in a rude manner.
(13) It's not "enhanced" reality, in the sense that Towie (The Only Way is Essex) is, it's just plain reality; but there is a sense of hyper-reality about it.
Tozy
Definition:
(a.) Soft, like wool that has been teased.
Example Sentences:
(1) By measuring the TAME-esterase (N-d Tozy-L-arginine methyl ester) activity of each enzyme and its changes in the course of plasma incubation with the activator, it was possible to estimate the values of precursors of kallikrein, plasmin, thrombin and their inhibitors.