My Mad Fat Diary

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Darren Evans as Danny Two Hats, a resident of the psychiatric hospital and later, due to the death of Tix at the end of series one, Rae's friend. Epstein, Robert (20 January 2013). "TV Review: My Mad Fat Diary". The Independent. London . Retrieved 22 January 2013.

My Mad Fat Diary by Rae Earl | Waterstones

Series two is the darkest of the three sets of episodes, and it pretty much pushes this teenage friendship group to its breaking point. At one stage, three of the group aren’t talking to each other and another goes missing because they’ve got in with the wrong crowd. The stakes get pretty high at some points, too, the show isn’t without a sense of danger.The funny, sad and compelling diary kept by an overweight teenage girl that became the basis for the British television sensation of the same name available to stream on HULU. The third contender is Karim, Rae’s mum’s boyfriend played by Bamshad Abedi-Amin. In series one, Rae’s mum is helping to hide Karim from the immigration authorities, and Rae is understandably sceptical about his intentions. Over time, though, Karim (who I originally thought was nothing more than a humorous side-strand) really grows into an interesting and engaging character. OMG! Is This Actually My Life? Hattie Moore's Unbelievable Year! (2013) - Fictional diary of a teenage girl who lives in Derby. This book was bit of a let down, really. I just finished the BBC series based on this book and it is brilliant and makes me cry and makes me laugh and I'm in love with all the characters and their realtionships, but the book was just...not enough. I am aware that these are Rae Earl's original diary entries only edited a bit, so I didn't a expect a story with an exceptional plot and no loose ends, but still, the abrupt ending was I bit weird. The second series started on 19 February 2014 and ended on 31 March 2014, with each episode posted on 4oD a week prior to the television release. In November 2014, it was announced that a final three-episode third series would be made, set in 1998. [2] [3]

Sharon Rooney: ‘I’ve always looked the same. It’s never been

Sharon Rooney as Rachel "Rae" Earl, a 16-year-old who has spent four months in a psychiatric hospital. She struggles to hide her mental health and body image problems from her new friends and finds it hard to fit in. Again, I don’t want to go too far into spoiler territory here, but suffice to say My Mad Fat Diary‘s characters are impressively fleshed-out. It’s not a breezy teen comedy, but much more morally ambiguous and intensely dramatic than newcomers might first assume. Heartfelt emotionalityI still have challenging days and I still would have no hesitation in going to get the correct help for that” says Earl. She would and does urge her young readers to seek professional help if they feel they’re struggling: “I tell them ‘you’ve got to go and talk to somebody about this. Don’t be frightened, they’ve heard it all before and worse’. And they honestly will have done.” I give this 4/5 stars, because I was not happy with the end! Not at all! But, like I said, it’s a diary. Things end, and there’s new beginnings. Earl participated in Hard Quiz Live at the Theatre Royal, Hobart on November 12, 2022. Her expert subject was Princess Diana and she eventually won the show, taking away the limited edition brass mug. No. What happened was they kind of petered out at University as I discovered having a life and sex. Then, because if the inflammatory and embarrassing nature of them, I pretty much carried them around with me everywhere. I didn't really look at them, though. Then, in 2001, I was doing a breakfast show on the radio with my husband, and I was cleaning out a room at home, and I was just about to bin them, honestly just about to, and my husband said "What are they?" And I said "These are my teenage diaries," and he said "Okay, we're going to read them out on air." So we did, every day. Obviously the radio version was highly sanitised, what you can read out at 8:10am is fairly limited. You've got to limit the amount of distressing mental illness or hardcore sex. But in the book, we could just go for it. So I didn't really look at them in the intervening period at all, but when it came to publishing them, I went through them and was delighted, horrified, a mixture of many emotions.