Commerababe

The singleton son is a monk now!

Bonnybute

Becuase it's not a soap, it's their lives..

moneypenny20

But that's not how it's portrayed. They (the producers) have edited to such an extent that stuff they are talking about comes over as being about something else. For example the classic clip of Mandy Skeggs moaning about white hearses - she wasn't, she had been talking about other stuff as well as the hearses and they changed it to make her sound like a constant whinger. And the Rachel Russell being a bitch to the guy she was with, you heard nothing about what he had done and was doing, they had him come across as poor hard done by and treated like shit when in actual fact she was responding to the fact that he was being a total shit 24/7.

Were it a film about their lives unedited then it wouldn't be soap like. As it was, it was, in the main, untrue and therefore became soap like.

Amazulu

A friend of ours saw the Skeggs woman in a Perth supermarket a few months back. She was with a different bloke to the one in the series and looked really rough.

mum01753

ooooooooooooo gossip!!!!!
I love it, lol

scrubbedexpat055

Hi, They have now become citizens and are in the process of moving to Queensland. The shop was always a means to an end, regarding citizenship.

Unfortunately, during filming Brian had a bust up with the producer and hence went fishing whenever possible to avoid the whole process.

Overall they have been very happy, but as said they hope to move to Queensland to run a small farm.

Pete

Bonnybute

So you know everyone on the show, including producers etc, were you an adviser to content perhaps, highly paid?

BAY

It was probably a different woman

Amazulu

Why?

Tracker

of course its all edited to make
good tv.

northernbird

I have some friends who appeared on the latest series of Wanted Down Under. While they came out in a favourable light they said the editing was downright criminal. They were in Perth for 10 days filming condensed into 45 minute show.

jules

I saw the husband at my work with a different woman a few days ago

tscw1

The producers of 'documentaries' can be very misleading when they are talking to someone they would like to make the documentary about.

I was nearly involved in one, I was interviewed about a medical condition I have and I believed it would be an informative programme explaining the ins and outs and containing interviews from several sufferers of it, but after thinking about it declined as I didn't want to be forever known as the person off THAT programme with THAT condition.

They continued with the documentary but showing only one person and his struggles, but it was really poor, I remember thinking then I had a lucky escape.

You are going out to millions (or thousands in a Place Down under's target audience) and you are at the mercy of the people who produce and sell it to put whatever spin they think will sell it.

Chris

Bonnybute

I loved it, and thought it was a brilliant programme.

would love real updates, from the show though, I'm sure, lots of people, would like to know, who stayed and who left etc.

but it was brilliant entertainment, and wonderful insight, to every issue, faced with emmigrating.



I'm sorry to hear, some people were unhappy with editing, but it was great viewing.

moneypenny20

ho ho ho. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell you what is going on on these programmes and when some of the people involved have come on BE in the past and explained what happened, when how etc etc I tend to make my own mind up about such things. It is pure entertainment and you enjoyed it - it's not real life, get over it.