Generation Celebrity: The rise of the talentless star.

On tuesday with Helen, she gave us a huge range of newspapers and magazines to inspire us into coming up with our own idea of a story. The first paper that I picked up was tabloid The Sun. Obviously this paper was very celebrity led, with mainly stories of footballers, footballers indiscretions, or their wives and girlfriends. This got me to thinking that, although society has always obsessed over celebrities, they used to be famous for a reason- i.e actor/actress/singer etc. Well there now seems to be a new generation of talentless celebs who have slept with a footballer or been on reality tv, and got their boobs out, and this got me a little riled! So I came up with the idea to do a documentary about that. After a little brainstorming, I remembered the journalist/presenter Dawn Porter, who I really like, and all the shows she had done before had been very hands on documentaries so that she could experience what she was talking about. Therefore my idea was this...

"Dawn Porter: Hack to Wag in 10 days"

Channel 4, 8.00pm, 1 hr long.

Pitch - Journalist Dawn Porter gets to grips with the new generation of celebrity by becoming a wag! Follow her ten day journey from tanning with Danielle Lloyd, lunching with Bianca Gascoigne, stumbling out of London's Chinawhite with the best of them and advice from Katie Price on how to make the front pages of "Hello".

Treatment- Famous writer and journalist Dawn Porter, known for her cutting edge, hands on documentaries, is this time taking on the world of the wags. The nation seems to loathe the celebrity world but yet is still fascinated by it. Dawn wants to find out why this is. Is it as simple as getting a boob job and a fake tan to get on the cover of "Nuts"? Or marrying a footballer so that "OK" and "Hello" will cover your wedding? Dawn wants to discover whether this new breed of celebrity women are just blonde airheads or savvy business women. We send her off to a consultation with a plastic surgeon, and encourage her to stumble out of London's top clubs where the eager paparazzi await, and get her to quiz the WAG's about being role models.

We all ended up doing documentary, sorry simon!