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{{Short description|British reality show}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox television
| image        = Ladette to Lady.png
| genre        = [[Reality television|Reality]]
| narrated     = [[Lucy Briers]] (2005–08)<br>Ben Gooder (2009–10)
| country      = United Kingdom
| language     = English
| num_series   = 5
| num_episodes = 27
| location     = [[Eggleston Hall]] (series 1 to 4)<br>Hereford Hall (series 5)
| runtime      =
| company      = RDF Television
| network      = [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]
| first_aired  = {{start date|2005|6|2|df=yes}}
| last_aired   = {{end date|2010|8|6|df=yes}}
| related      = ''[[Aussie Ladette to Lady]]'' 
}}

'''''Ladette to Lady''''' is a [[Reality television|reality-based series]] that aired in the United Kingdom on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] between June 2005 and August 2010.

==Overview==
The second series of ''Ladette to Lady'' was aired in the United Kingdom in October 2006 on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]. The show had viewing figures of 4.45 million to 5.41 million, winning its timeslot each week.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/weekreports.cfm?report=weeklyterrestrial&requesttimeout=500 |title=barb.co.uk |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329144324/http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/weekreports.cfm?report=weeklyterrestrial&requesttimeout=500 |archivedate=29 March 2007 }}</ref> A third series followed in 2008, although it was originally planned to air in 2007.

''Ladette to Lady'' was cancelled by ITV on 11 April 2008, but returned in June 2009, featuring Australian, rather than British, ladettes. The series featured the original staff and school.

''Ladette to Lady'' returned on ITV for Series 5 on 20 July 2010. The series saw the return of the familiar staff. However, instead of [[Eggleston Hall]], where all the other series have been featured, this series is based in Hereford Hall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/reality-tv/ladette-to-lady-returns-itv/|publisher=|access-date=27 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821174128/http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/reality-tv/ladette-to-lady-returns-itv/|archive-date=21 August 2008|url-status=dead|title=Ladette to Lady Returns, ITV &#124; Unreality TV}}</ref>

The series has been parodied on ''[[The Charlotte Church Show]]'' as ''Lady to Ladette'', in which, conversely, prim and proper girls are taught by [[Charlotte Church|Church]] and some of her raucous friends to behave in a more ladette-like manner.

==Premise==
The series follows a group of [[lad culture#Ladette|ladette]]s, who are given an old-fashioned five-week course in learning how to behave like a traditional "lady". They are sent to [[Eggleston Hall]], a [[finishing school]] for women in [[Teesdale]], which was specially reopened for the show. In the first series, there were ten ladettes, while the second series featured eight ladettes.

Whilst on the premises they are required to wear the school's uniform: a turquoise tweed suit, a white blouse, [[court shoe]]s, and a pearl necklace. This uniform has varied.  They are taught under the supervision and guidance of five instructors and are given various tasks in [[deportment]], [[elocution]], [[flower arranging]], [[etiquette]] and [[cookery]]. Other skills include needlework, ballroom dancing, riding [[side-saddle]], drawing, and so on.  However, if they can't live up to the standards of ladylike behaviour, they will be expelled. One participant is expelled at the end of each episode, so by the end of the programme there will only be three left. Then the teachers must decide upon one winner, depending on who they think has improved the most and how they performed in the final challenge. However, all three finalists receive an Eggleston Hall diploma.

==Teachers==
The teachers at Eggleston Hall run a very strict routine and are extremely well experienced in their particular subjects. The teachers who taught the ladettes at Eggleston Hall were:

*Gill Harbord - [[Principal (school)|Principal]] series 2-5, [[floristry]] teacher
*Elizabeth Brewer - [[Etiquette]] and social protocol teacher
*Kate Forester - [[Elocution]] teacher series 1-2, 4-5
*[[Rosemary Shrager]] - Vice Principal and [[cookery]] teacher
*[[Vanessa Hooper]] - [[Dance]] teacher
*Lady Elizabeth Devenport - Deportment teacher series 4-5

===Former===
*[[Jean Broke-Smith]] - Principal for Series 1
* Caroline Sherwood Roberts - Elocution Series 3
* Rachel Holland - Deportment Series 3

==Series One (2005)==
===Final challenge===
For the ladettes' final challenge, they had to hold a [[fashion show]]. At the fashion show were their family, friends, eligible bachelors, the failed contestants, and the teachers from Eggleston Hall. The girls were marked on [[Human position|posture]], grooming, [[elocution]], [[floristry]] and [[cookery]]. The girl who was judged as the most improved would win a [[sports car]] with a value of £20,000, however, the fact that the winner would receive a car was unknown to the finalists. The eventual winner of ''Ladette to Lady'' 2005 and the sports car was Hayley Brisland from London.

===Contestants===
*Hayley Brisland ('''Winner''')
*Michelle King (Runner-up)
*Rachael Carter-Eagleton (Third)
*Clare Randall
*Jessica Upton
*April Duncan
*Sarah Jane Gregory
*Sarah Newman
*Jemma Gunning
*Sarita Bhardwaj

==Series Two (2006)==
===Final challenge===
The ladettes' final challenge was to pass themselves off as real ladies at a [[debutante ball]]. The Debutantes' Ball was attended by a number of eligible bachelors, [[Lord]]s, [[Ladies]], select [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocrats]] and all of the teachers from Eggleston Hall. They were marked on their [[Human position|posture]], grooming, elocution, [[confidence]] and their capability to hold a conversation. The overall winner of ''Ladette to Lady'' 2006 was Victoria Jenkins, who impressed the teachers with her charm and final transformation. A close runner-up was Clara Mayer who later became a chalet girl.

===Contestants===
*Victoria Jenkins ('''Winner''')
*Clara Mayer (Runner-up)
*Frances Rowe (Third)
*Laura Hearsum
*Louise Porter
*Rebecca Squire
*Angela Mott
*Emma Phillips-Martin

==''End of Term Report''==
Several months after series two of ''Ladette to Lady'', all of the ladettes from both series one and series two were invited back to Eggleston Hall, along with teachers Gill Harbord, Rosemary Shrager and Liz Brewer, in order to see how the ladettes had changed and how they had progressed in their lives.

During the ''End of Term Report,'' Clare Randall, who during series one was a heavy drinker, revealed that she had had a baby, reformed her life, and quit drinking [[alcohol (drug)|alcohol]] altogether. Michelle King from series one, as a result of the teachings of Eggleston Hall, was able to progress further in her life with more confidence. However, there were those who had not improved; to the surprise of the teachers, the winner of series two, Victoria Jenkins, still had her old job and had not progressed with her studies.

==Series Three (2008)==
The ladettes' final challenge was to be presented as debutantes to their parents, to give a speech and to dance the waltz. They were required to answer questions from select [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocrats]].

The overall winner of ''Ladette to Lady'' 2008 was Nicole Elouise Hart, who reacquired her love of horses. All the contestants were given lessons in riding [[side-saddle]]; she excelled at this and was offered the opportunity to compete after the conclusion of the series. She later went to [[Cairns]] to promote the Australian series and was used in the introduction shots.

Also notable was the reintroduction of Series Two contestant Louise Porter, who in the interim had begun a career as a [[glamour model]].

===Contestants===
*Nicole Elouise Hart ('''Winner''')
*Holly Clements (Runner up)
*Louise Porter (Runner up) (she was also in the second series)
*Simone Webber
*Neema Mattaker
*Kelly Simpson
*Amber Jaques
*Laura Waude
*Charlotte Donohue

==Series Four (2009) (a.k.a. ''Aussie Ladette to Lady'')==

===Episode guide===
{{main|Aussie Ladette to Lady#Episode Guide - Series One (2009)}}

===Contestants===
*Nicole Mitchell, (21) from Sydney ('''Winner''')
*Skye Harper, (21) from Brisbane  (Runner-up)
*Kristyn Gohrt, (21) from Western Australia (Runner-up)
*Sarah Brunton, (29) from New South Wales
*Zoe Irons, (19) from Adelaide
*Bianca Stevens, (23) from New South Wales
*Emily Biggs, (19) from Victoria
*Maria De Corrado, (23) from Melbourne

===Series Reunion===
In the final episode the principal and vice principal travelled to Australia to catch up with five of the participants three months after the graduation. Zoe had started volunteering at an animal centre in Adelaide and had sorted out her alcohol problem, Sarah got a new job, and Nicole quit her old job and was about to start a horticultural course, but Kristyn and Skye had not seemed to change.

===Controversy===
Series Four brought with it controversy in several members of the support cast quitting filming or being fired. Reports in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''{{'}}s Mandrake gossip column stated that Charles Lush, a self-styled baron, who appeared as the school governor, was asked by [[RDF Media]], the production company, to quit filming after they found his name on list of [[British National Party]] members during filming for the series.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5526011/Very-Non-U-Two-etiquette-experts-quit-Ladette-to-Lady.html Very Non-U: Two Etiquette experts quit Ladette to Lady] ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''</ref>

William Hanson, etiquette expert, also quit filming after only one day, stating that the programme was 'detrimental to promoting good manners and etiquette' and that the so-called bachelors were just as bad as the girls with a few of them already married.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5613786/Why-Laddette-to-Lady-is-very-Non-U.html Why Laddette to Lady is very Non-U] ''The Daily Telegraph''</ref>

==Series Five (2010) (a.k.a. Aussie Ladette to Lady)==
Series Five premiered on 20 July 2010 on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] (except [[STV (TV channel)|STV]], where it premiered on 17 August 2010). Like Series Four, this series again features ladettes from Australia. The setting was moved from Eggleston Hall in North East England to "Hereford Hall" near Wales. Hereford Hall was a country house hired specifically for the show and not a functioning school, although that is how it was presented in the show.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/jul/21/ladette-to-lady-reality-etiquette Ladette to Lady reality etiquette] ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref>

===Contestants===
*Donnelle Goemans, (23) from Western Australia ('''Winner''')
*Shari Linney, (21) from Perth (Runner-up)
*Jessica Shaw-Walford, (19) from Melbourne (Runner-up)
*Kaila Edwards, (18) from New South Wales
*Kelly Johnson, (21) from Victoria
*Kerryn Armstrong, (24) from Queensland
*Samantha McLeod, (23) from Queensland
*Letisha Hapimana, (21) from Brisbane

==Transmissions==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Series !! Start date !! End date !! Episodes
|-
|'''One'''  
|2 June 2005 
|30 June 2005
|5
|-
|'''Two'''  
|28 September 2006  
|26 October 2006
|5
|-
|'''Three'''
|22 January 2008  
|26 February 2008
|5
|-
|'''Four'''  
|2 June 2009 
|7 July 2009
|6
|-
|'''Five'''  
|2 July 2010  
|6 August 2010
|6
|}

* Series 5 was aired 17 August 2010 – 21 September 2010 in [[STV (TV network)|STV]] region

==International broadcast==
The series has also been broadcast in the United States on the [[Sundance Channel (United States)|Sundance Channel]], in Australia on both [[The LifeStyle Channel]] and the [[Nine Network]] (Series 2 and 3, after Series 3 finished showing on the Nine Network, it aired one episode of ''[[Bad Lads Army]]'' the following week before cancelling it and showing Season 1 of ''Ladette to Lady'') as well as the [[ABC Television (Australian TV network)|ABC]] (Series 1), New Zealand on [[Prime (New Zealand TV channel)|Prime]], [[Sweden]] on [[Kanal 5 (Sweden)|Kanal 5]], Poland on [[TVN (Poland)|TVN]], [[Denmark]] on [[TV2 Zulu]], [[Israel]] on Channel 8, the [[Netherlands]] on [[RTL5]], Canada on [[Cosmopolitan TV (Canada)|Cosmopolitan TV]], [[Estonia]] on [[Kanal 11]] and [[Kanal 2]], [[Belgium]] on [[Vitaya]] and Norway on [[NRK1]] and [[NRK3]].

==International versions of the series==
The ''Ladette to Lady'' format has been adapted for other national versions around the world.
: {{Color box|#98FB98|border=darkgray}} Currently in production
: {{Color box|#F4C2C2|border=darkgray}} Currently not in production

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
! colspan="2" | Country
! Name of series
! Network
! Seasons & winners
! Number of episodes
|-
| style="background:#F4C2C2;" |
| {{AUS}}
| ''[[Aussie Ladette to Lady]]''
| [[Nine Network]] <br>[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] <small>(season 2)</small>
|
Season 1 (2009): Nicole Mitchell<br>
Season 2 (2009): Donnelle Goemans
|
13
|-
| style="background:#F4C2C2;" |
| {{NED}}
| ''[[Dames in de Dop]]''
| [[RTL 5]]
|
Season 1 (2007): Anna Jonckers<br>
Season 2 (2008): Michella Koxs<br>
Season 3 (2011): Meron van der Schaar
|
62
|-
| style="background:#F4C2C2;" |
| {{POL}}
| ''[[:pl:Projekt Lady|Projekt Lady]]''<br>
| [[TVN (Poland)|TVN]]
|
Season 1 (2016): Patrycja Wieja<br>
Season 2 (2017): Roksana Gac<br>
Season 3 (2018): Magdalena Lubacz<br>
Season 4 (2019): Liubov Miruk <br>
Season 5 (2020): Dagmara Czerwińska <br>
Season 6 (2021): Agata Łabuda
| 69
|-
| style="background:#F4C2C2;" |
|rowspan="2"|{{RUS}}
|''[[:ru:Пацанки (реалити-шоу)|Patsanki]]''
|rowspan="2"|[[Friday! (TV channel, Russia)|Friday!]]
|
Season 1 (2016): Yulia Kovaleva<br>
Season 2 (2017): Tatiana Buraya<br>
Season 3 (2018): Anna Gorokhova<br>
Season 4 (2019): Diana Chragyan<br>
Season 5 (2020): Anastasia Petrova<br>
Season 6 (2021): Tatiana Kashirina<br>
| 
105
|-
| style="background:#98FB98;" |
|''[[:ru:Новые Пацанки|New Patsanki]]''
|
Season 1 (2022): Kira Medvedeva<br>
Season 2 (2023): Svetlana Tokarova<br>
|
34
|-
| style="background:#F4C2C2;" |
|rowspan="3"|{{UKR}}
|''[[Від пацанки до панянки|Vid patsanki do panyanki]]''
|
[[1+1 (TV channel)|1+1]]
|
Season 1 (2010): Yulia Balayeva<br>
Season 2 (2011): Lydia Yunasheva<br>
| 
22
|-
| style="background:#98FB98;"|
|''[[:uk:Від пацанки до панянки|Vid patsanki do panyanki]]''
|rowspan="2"|[[Novyi Kanal]]
|
Season 1 (2016): Galina Poludnevich<br>
Season 2 (2017): Anna Savinets<br>
Season 3 (2018): Yana Kovalska<br>
Season 4 (2020): Yevhenia Mazur<br>
Season 5 (2021): Valeriya Tkachenko
| 
69
|-
| style="background:#F4C2C2;" |
|''[[:uk:Пацанки Нове Життя|Patsanki Nove Zhittya]]''
|
Season 1 (2017): Irina Slyunko<br>
Season 2 (2018): Galina Poludnevich
|
48
|}

==See also==
* ''[[The Girls of Hedsor Hall]]''
* ''[[From G's to Gents]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0445884}}
*{{UKGameshow|Ladette_to_Lady}}

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