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Secrets of South America
SERIES 1 - 1. EXTREME BEAUTY QUEENS: SECRETS OF SOUTH AMERICA
BBC Three: Wed 5th Feb 9pm - 10pm
Repeat: BBC Three Tomorrow 12:35am
Repeat: BBC Three Tomorrow 3am
If you think Britons are obsessed by physical perfection, prepare to be appalled by this behind-the-scenes look at the Miss Venezuela beauty pageant. From the eight-year-old girls attending Saturday “beauty school” to the waifish contestants sewing mesh onto their tongues to prevent the consumption of solid food, the competition is a vulgar misdirection of energy, ambition and resources in a country where millions of people live in filthy, food-deprived slums.As well as spending time with the insecurity-ridden contestants, presenter Billie JD Porter meets pageant judge and national hero Osmel Sousa, a vile man who believes that beauty is a 23-inch waist and feminists are bitter “ugly Betties”. Absurd and horrifying in equal measure. www.radiotimes.com
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