60 SECONDS: Jodie Marsh
Jodie Marsh became a tabloid favourite when she started wearing belts over her boobs at London clubs. She went on to appear in TV shows Club Reps and Celebrity Big Brother. Her latest project, Totally Jodie Marsh: Who Will Take Her Up The Aisle?, sees Jodie trying to find a man to marry for a pre-booked wedding in September. It starts on Sunday at 10pm on MTV.
How’s the manhunt going?
I’ll be honest, at this stage things are going s***. There is a lack of genuine men. It’s true when they say the best ones are married or gay. I hate men right now. I’m stressed. I’m a woman on the edge.
You want a fetish wedding. Have you bought the gear?
The wedding’s booked but I don’t want to give the details away. This is a real wedding and it’s going to be a real marriage, so I’m having what I want on the day. However, it’s not going to be a normal wedding.
Fewer men turned up at the auditions than were expected. Were you disappointed?
No. It’s not like The X Factor. Lots of people want to be famous for singing, not many want to be famous for marrying someone famous. It took us all day to get through the 20 people who turned up. We spent 45 minutes with some of them. In Cardiff we had a couple of guys who’d flown from Cork to meet me, so you have to give them time. It was so draining I couldn’t have coped with any more. We’ve moved on to speed and Internet dating now.
If one of our readers wanted to apply to be your husband what qualities would he need?
I don’t want a celebrity boyfriend. I just want a nice, normal guy who can offer me a lifetime of happiness. Someone who isn’t in it for a laugh, who isn’t after fame, who just wants to share my life with me and love me for who I am. Someone who isn’t interested in the image the press portray of me.
What are the most common misconceptions about you?
true ever been printed?’ – apart from what I’ve written in my autobiography. They make out that I’m partying and drinking all the time but actually, when I do drink, I only need two vodkas and I’m on my back. I’m a lightweight. I’m into bungee jumping, skydiving and riding motorbikes but that never gets written about. All you ever get to hear about is the partying and skimpy outfits.
I want to get married this year, I don’t want to be a haggard old bride walking down the aisle at 45
Are you worried that MTV will make you look ridiculous in this programme?
I don’t trust anyone in TV after I was on Big Brother. I thought they’d show me as I am – a nice, caring person, a successful businesswoman, a confident, opinionated person, all mixed with a bit of insane behaviour. They didn’t, so I’m wary of being filmed and edited but if I want a career in this industry I have to get on with it. I don’t want to give the job up because I enjoy it. I could just buy a bar abroad anonymously but I’d probably get hunted down and they’d still print pictures of me. I can’t win. I may as well keep doing it and take the money.
The programme is being broadcast as you’re filming. If you don’t like the first episodes it’s too late, isn’t it?[/color]
Yes, take the scene in the first programme, with my family. It made it look as if they aren’t supportive of what I’m doing but they are. Of course, my parents want me to meet a nice man and settle down and have babies. I’m daddy’s little princess and mummy’s little baby. I want to get married this year, I don’t want to be a haggard old bride walking down the aisle at 45. I
You call a journalist a ‘fat lesbian’ in the first show and say you wanted to punch her. Have you been more careful since?
I’m just being myself. The woman really gave me a grilling but they can’t show the whole interview. They just showed my abuse towards her, saying that she’s jealous and not as goodlooking as me – which I think is true.
There are websites dedicated to slagging you off, do you read them?
No. It’s the same as magazines and the radio. The last time I had the radio on I was having a cup of tea with my mum and some d***head DJ started saying: ‘Jodie Marsh is an old trollop.’ I turned it off and haven’t had it on since. If something negative is being said, I ignore it because it just depresses me.
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