Trinny and Susannah go OTT in web parody (VIDEO)

Trinny and Susannah go OTT in web parody (VIDEO)
Trinny and Susannah go OTT in web parody (VIDEO) (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Style gurus Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine have confessed their new online spoof series gave them the freedom to act 'over the top'. The duo said they decided to make the 'mockumentary' What Trinny And Susannah Did Next because they 'wanted to try something new', but admitted they found the lines blurring between their everyday selves and their comic personas. Susannah told the Guardian: "This is so different from anything we've ever done, or anything that's out there. "But it's almost like going to another planet, and not really knowing where you are. It's an exaggerated version of ourselves, but you still find yourself thinking, what's real and what's fake? "The lines between reality and fiction are so blurred. We felt the freedom to be ourselves, but to go over the top." The first episode of the series, currently showing on iVillage.co.uk, shows the pair as washed-up versions of themselves, desperately vying for endorsement deals while bickering with each other. But despite their move into comedy, Trinny said fashion was still an integral part of her life. She said: "Even my basic, basic wardrobe is still pathetically colour co-ordinated. It just is. That is just me. I would never go out in tracky bottoms and a baggy T-shirt. "I enjoy waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Who do I want to be today?'."

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.