0:00:02 > 0:00:04This programme contains strong language
0:00:04 > 0:00:08North of the city centre, a little known Manchester suburb called Harpurhey.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11They say the area's just full of rough families.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13I don't think it's such a bad place.
0:00:13 > 0:00:17Ten years ago, a Government report branded it the most deprived neighbourhood in England.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20- It's a simple question I asked! - Yeah, and I'm trying to answer it!
0:00:20 > 0:00:22Things have got a bit better since then,
0:00:22 > 0:00:25but life round here is still no bed of roses.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26There's one of them local expressions,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28they'll steal the shit out of your arse.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Not cos they want it, just so that you haven't got it.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Half the people have no qualifications...
0:00:34 > 0:00:37and antisocial behaviour is rife.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39- Are you the neighbour from hell? - Probably, yeah.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42People round here might not be the poshest,
0:00:42 > 0:00:44but they're not lacking in spirit.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47That's why we call ourselves the dysfunctionals.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49They're just trying to get on with life,
0:00:49 > 0:00:50be themselves...
0:00:50 > 0:00:52I ain't driving the van like this.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54..and follow their dreams.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56I could be like a different person when I'm acting.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00'Tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03For one long summer, the young people of Harpurhey
0:01:03 > 0:01:05let us into their secret world...
0:01:05 > 0:01:08# I have a penis I shake it in the morning... #
0:01:08 > 0:01:09..sharing the good times...
0:01:09 > 0:01:12- Megan Fox eat your heart out. - ..and the bad.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Hello! Go and find another street to go and terrorise!
0:01:15 > 0:01:19This is how it really feels growing up the hard way.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21Youse might think you know people like us,
0:01:21 > 0:01:23but you don't know nothing yet!
0:01:31 > 0:01:34This week -
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Amber's taking time out of the launderette to go to Magaluf
0:01:37 > 0:01:40for a drink-fuelled holiday with eight of her mates.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42People have said, "Where are you going?" I said,
0:01:42 > 0:01:44"Magaluf," and you see 'em go...
0:01:44 > 0:01:45Yeah, someone in work,
0:01:45 > 0:01:49I went, "I'm going to Magaluf with nine girls." He went, "Good luck!"
0:01:49 > 0:01:51We meet market trader Jamie who's planning to
0:01:51 > 0:01:53marry his girlfriend, Lucy.
0:01:53 > 0:01:58I hate dressing up like this. Weddings my arse!
0:01:58 > 0:02:01And there's Chris, whose relationship with cider
0:02:01 > 0:02:04threatens to break up his romance with girlfriend Nicki.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08I could not get out of bed in the morning and not have a drink.
0:02:08 > 0:02:09It's never going to happen.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22At the heart of the community is Harpurhey Market,
0:02:22 > 0:02:26where locals come to get everything from double beds to double D bras.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31Yeah! My go.
0:02:33 > 0:02:3619-year-old Jamie works here with his mum, Donna.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Have you got about four quid, Ma?
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Jamie's got a bit of a reputation on the market.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47She loves me. Uh-oh! Her on the market over there. Oh!
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Don't think so.
0:02:49 > 0:02:54Jamie, he's like a gigolo, that's what we call Jamie.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57What makes me happy is a good shag.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01Ah, there's nothing better than a good shag! That makes me so happy.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Despite his Casanova tendencies, Jamie's been in an on/off
0:03:06 > 0:03:09relationship with Lucy for three years.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12When are you gonna put a ring on her finger? That's the main thing.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14I hope you're happy. Come here.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17Two nights ago, Jamie unexpectedly proposed to Lucy
0:03:17 > 0:03:20and he's asked mate JP to be his best man.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22So, go on then, what makes you want to do this?
0:03:22 > 0:03:23Well, love at first sight.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Maybe not for you, but it was for me.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28I just come in pissed as a fart, walked through the door,
0:03:28 > 0:03:30I thought, "Boobs. Boobs."
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Boobs first like, nothing more.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Aye, yeah. I'm definitely a romantic, yeah.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38If I'm with someone I love and that I really like
0:03:38 > 0:03:41and I really want to make an effort with, I am a romantic, yeah.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Don't get me wrong, he don't buy
0:03:43 > 0:03:49blooming flowers or chocolates, but he does make you feel special.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51- Ah.- Hello, Mam.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54- That's your mam, innit? - Yeah, that's me mam.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57How do you feel about Lucy taking on...
0:03:57 > 0:04:01I'm not going... cos I don't like her family.
0:04:01 > 0:04:06But it's not about the family, it's about your son and her being happy.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08I can't see it.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11I don't dislike you. I think she's got a good heart,
0:04:11 > 0:04:13I think she's a bit...
0:04:13 > 0:04:16- Weird.- Bit...- Weird. - How would you put Lucy?
0:04:16 > 0:04:19- Funny. - A bit stupid some days.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22At the moment, they're all lovey-dovey, right?
0:04:22 > 0:04:24I do love Jamie.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27I know you love Jamie, but Jamie does not love you enough.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31I know a leopard never changes its spots and he won't.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33- Aye, I will.- Bullshit.- Aye, I will.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36He has gotta be 100% he won't bed another girl
0:04:36 > 0:04:39because I'll tell you now, he will.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42- I won't! We will surprise everyone. - Good luck.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44But I'll tell you now, I'll bet me arse on it,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47you ain't gonna be with him in six months of your marriage.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50People have always said to me, "You won't do this, you won't do that," but I've proved them
0:04:50 > 0:04:53all wrong every time they've always said it to me.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56I've proved them wrong every time.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59I know you love him, Lucy, but I'm not too sure he loves you that much.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02Course I do, I wouldn't have said it otherwise.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11North of Harpurhey Market, Moston Lane is home to
0:05:11 > 0:05:13the Wishy Washy launderette.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18All this is old-school, everything.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23This ain't worked about... three years.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25That looks a bit dangerous in there.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28I can see the flames coming through.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30It's owned by the Wakefield family.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32I did this.
0:05:32 > 0:05:3818-year-old Amber, her sister, Maddy, stepdad, Paul, and mum, Karen.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41It is fair to say that it could do with a lick of paint.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45Five dryers are broke, three washing machines are broke.
0:05:45 > 0:05:50The back office is just full of graffiti and me mum won't
0:05:50 > 0:05:54decorate it because the way people treat it when they come in there.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Customers, they love us and they hate us.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00We've had a guy who was leaving and "Ah, see ya! See ya, buddy!"
0:06:00 > 0:06:02And all that, "See ya later."
0:06:02 > 0:06:06Soon as he walked out the door, you heard the guy go, "Nobhead."
0:06:06 > 0:06:10I've never known a place with so many village idiots in it, honestly.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Mad.
0:06:12 > 0:06:13Ow!
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Amber's just finished college
0:06:15 > 0:06:19and is now facing the prospect of summer stuck in the launderette.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21'I find it really boring.'
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Please be a bit gentler.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28Hopefully we win the lottery, get a bit of money and move abroad.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30We don't care about the launderette then.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40A mile down the road is a local newsagent.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Er, £3.38. Ta.
0:06:42 > 0:06:48It's run by 26-year-old David with his boyfriend, David.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51David, can we just check if we've got any lids in the cellar?
0:06:51 > 0:06:55We bought the shop in September 2008.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58We both sold our cars, got rid of the house
0:06:58 > 0:07:02and it were just like a total redevelopment of our lives.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06You get the odd...the odd homophobic abuse, no, comment,
0:07:06 > 0:07:07but that's about it.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11In the beginning, we got arm-robbed four times in one year
0:07:11 > 0:07:14and I think people were just testing, cos we'd only just
0:07:14 > 0:07:16moved in, and obviously you've just gotta fight back, ain't you?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Me best friend.
0:07:19 > 0:07:20HE LAUGHS
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Schoom!
0:07:23 > 0:07:28By day, David services the estate with his convenience food.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31But by night, a transformation takes place.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Right. Time to get the belly warmers on.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43- David.- Yeah?
0:07:43 > 0:07:44Pass us me head.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54Meet Diana Dior, David's drag queen alter ego.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00Diana's a regular on the gay scene in central Manchester,
0:08:00 > 0:08:03but David's never dared to introduce her to local people.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05I love my area.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09My area's fantastic, but if Diana was to walk through
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Harpurhey in full drag...
0:08:12 > 0:08:16I think she'd get shot, or bricked, or bottled.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20But David's decided it's time for Diana to stop
0:08:20 > 0:08:23hiding above the newsagent.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27In two weeks, she'll be appearing in a drag show in a neighbourhood pub.
0:08:30 > 0:08:36Obviously it needs a massive revamp for a camp drag show.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40They've never had a drag show as such,
0:08:40 > 0:08:44so I'm a bit like nervous about what the audience are going to do.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47I want to show them what actually goes on in the gay life.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51I didn't choose to be gay, I was born it.
0:08:51 > 0:08:55This is who I am, accept me or don't.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05Harpurhey Market is open for business four days a week.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08A man's work's never done.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12That glittery red one.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Today, 18-year-old Amber's here with her best friend Codie.
0:09:15 > 0:09:16- Are they 50p?- Yeah.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19That's good. Let's get these bad boys.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22To escape the boredom of the launderette, she's booked
0:09:22 > 0:09:26a package holiday to Magaluf with Codie and seven other friends.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29I look like something off Star Trek.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Holiday is like, literally, six days away.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34This six days is gonna go so slow
0:09:34 > 0:09:38and I'm gonna be sat in my room like, "I need to go on holiday!"
0:09:38 > 0:09:41People have said, "Where are you going?" I've said, "Magaluf,"
0:09:41 > 0:09:43- and you seem 'em go... - Yeah, someone in work...
0:09:43 > 0:09:46someone in work, I went, "I'm going to Magaluf with nine girls,"
0:09:46 > 0:09:48and he went, "Good luck!"
0:09:49 > 0:09:50Every summer,
0:09:50 > 0:09:54hundreds of young people from the area head off for a week in the sun.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55Hurry up, Maddy.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59'This area, it's a dump. It's scruffy, it's depressing.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02'You look around and think, "God, get me out of here."'
0:10:02 > 0:10:04I do like Harpurhey cos I've lived there all my life,
0:10:04 > 0:10:06but I think it's good to have a break.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08It don't matter where you live, you could live
0:10:08 > 0:10:11in the most perfect area ever, but you just need
0:10:11 > 0:10:15somewhere different cos if you're around somewhere too long,
0:10:15 > 0:10:18you just...you seem to just get used to it and get a bit miserable.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Let me taste this one. Whose is this?
0:10:23 > 0:10:25That one's mine. Get off, you cheeky!
0:10:25 > 0:10:27First, the girls are going out for a night on the town,
0:10:27 > 0:10:29to get some drinking practice for Magaluf.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32MUSIC: "Pound The Alarm" by Nicki Minaj
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Ugh, not trusting that.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Their Spanish adventure will be their first holiday
0:10:40 > 0:10:42without their parents.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45- Are you going to meet a boyfriend tonight?- Not before Magaluf.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47No, don't need one before Magaluf.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49No, we don't need one before Magaluf.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52You gotta stay single for Magaluf, haven't ya?
0:10:52 > 0:10:54You've got to, ain't ya, really?
0:10:54 > 0:10:55One, two, three, go!
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Bye!
0:11:12 > 0:11:16I'm so scared about Magaluf. It's just making me...
0:11:16 > 0:11:19It's aged me, ageing me each day, thinking about her going.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22Oh, I can't handle it! In fact, I wish I could cancel it
0:11:22 > 0:11:25and say, "I've not paid for your holiday now. You're not going."
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Honestly, it's that bad.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29You might think, "A bit mad that. Everybody goes on holiday,"
0:11:29 > 0:11:30but no.
0:11:30 > 0:11:35Amber's nothing like I was like. I was wild. I was really wild!
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Yeah, she's grown up into a good kid, Amber.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41I just need to get a little bit of water.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56Despite his mum's concerns, Jamie and Lucy have
0:11:56 > 0:12:00decided on a short engagement and want to get married in four weeks.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Long as I can turn up in my mankini.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05You're not turning up in a mankini, Jamie, I'm telling you.
0:12:05 > 0:12:06- I am.- You're not!
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- And a dickie bow and a hat. - You're not!
0:12:09 > 0:12:10All right, we'll see.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Do you want it during the week or on a weekend?
0:12:13 > 0:12:17Whatever day they've got. It don't work like that, does it?
0:12:17 > 0:12:22No, we tell them, we can tell them the day and see if they're booked.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Why don't we do it the week after your birthday?
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Don't know. I'll be busy meself, won't I?
0:12:27 > 0:12:31I want my relationship to be like my mum and dad's relationship.
0:12:31 > 0:12:37They've been together since 16, 17. They've been married 50 years.
0:12:37 > 0:12:42Can't be bothered really with a fucking honeymoon, as they call it.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45A cheap hotel in town, that'll do me.
0:12:45 > 0:12:4915 quid, Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt. There you go.
0:12:49 > 0:12:50I love Jamie so much
0:12:50 > 0:12:53because my choices have been wrong in the past.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57One relationship that I had was abusive.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01'He battered me. It was very hard.'
0:13:02 > 0:13:05'It took me a very long time to trust another lad.'
0:13:08 > 0:13:11When I met Jamie, it just felt right, that I could trust him,
0:13:11 > 0:13:15you know, he'd be there for me no matter what.
0:13:15 > 0:13:19He'd keep me safe. He'd look after me.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Are you happy with everything, the way it's going?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24I'm very happy. If I weren't happy I wouldn't do it.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39- So are you changing that one? - Yeah, show me that one.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41- Yeah?- Yeah. - To go with that.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Stooshe, Gaga...
0:13:43 > 0:13:44To go with that.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Dolly, right. Oh, Liza Minnelli wig.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Is that... Is that... What size?
0:13:51 > 0:13:54David's drag show is only a week away,
0:13:54 > 0:13:57so he's come to Rochdale, shopping for outfits with his mum, Sue.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Have you got any more of them in large?
0:13:59 > 0:14:05When you see him, you wouldn't think he was a lad, honestly.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08You know like you can see some men that are dressed up
0:14:08 > 0:14:10and you know straightaway that's a guy, right,
0:14:10 > 0:14:15you know what I mean? But him, I bet he's had propositions.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16Susan?
0:14:16 > 0:14:17Yeah?
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Do you have any black dye?
0:14:19 > 0:14:22- Black dye?! - SHE LAUGHS
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Just get a black pair of stockings.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Oh, yeah. Proud? Love him to bits.
0:14:28 > 0:14:33Our David is our David. He's a unique person, him, I think.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Don't know where he gets it from, cos, like...
0:14:36 > 0:14:40I mean, I'm not shy or owt like that, but he's...he's fab, him.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42He's game for anything, our Dave.
0:14:42 > 0:14:47And my arms are gonna be here, so we'll have to fix these with some...
0:14:47 > 0:14:49And false hands.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53False hands and then obviously fake tits come out,
0:14:53 > 0:14:55with water guns inside, then you spray...
0:14:55 > 0:14:58And you squirt everybody in the audience.
0:14:58 > 0:14:59..the pub.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02When I came out, my mum picked me up from work
0:15:02 > 0:15:04and I got very, very upset in the car.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06She started asking me, "What are you crying for?"
0:15:06 > 0:15:10and I just said, "I'm going out with one of me friend's best friends,"
0:15:10 > 0:15:13and she went, "Oh, what's she called?"
0:15:13 > 0:15:19So I said, "Richard," and it were like... She just looked and...
0:15:19 > 0:15:23it were dead funny, but they... they've accepted all the way
0:15:23 > 0:15:30and stood by me and guided me and just...like, 100% top parents.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33I suppose some people disown their children and....
0:15:33 > 0:15:36- Well, they do, don't they? - Do you know what I mean, it's...
0:15:36 > 0:15:39- We've seen one or two what's... - Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41..closed the door on their family.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44- You can't do that. I mean, at the end of the day they're your kid. - He's my son.
0:15:44 > 0:15:49They're our kid, our daughter and son and they're other people's daughters and sons.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53- I'd give him me life.- So how they can turn round and say, you know,
0:15:53 > 0:15:57"I don't want to know you any more," I can't understand that.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04Amber? Are you awake?
0:16:05 > 0:16:06Codie?
0:16:07 > 0:16:11It's the morning after the night before and, as usual,
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Codie's woken up at Amber's house.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16RISE AND SHINE!
0:16:16 > 0:16:17GROANING
0:16:17 > 0:16:19SHE GIGGLES
0:16:19 > 0:16:20I bet it's like seven.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23No, it's about half ten.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25Oh, what youse doing?!
0:16:26 > 0:16:27Did your date go well?
0:16:27 > 0:16:30He's actually got a really nice friend and I was telling Amber about him.
0:16:30 > 0:16:35- Looks a bit gay, though. - I don't think he does.- Bet he's good-looking then, ain't he?
0:16:35 > 0:16:38She always goes for the guys and leaves me with the gay friends.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Right, so what else happened?
0:16:40 > 0:16:43That was it, and then he just drove me home.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45No, he didn't, he drove you here.
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Yeah.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49It's like um, a second home, Codie's second home, our house,
0:16:49 > 0:16:51or should I say first home.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54'She just walks in, picks drinks out the fridge,'
0:16:54 > 0:16:58she'll even come and get in bed with me and lie next to me, just watching telly with me.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01'I'm gonna start charging rent. Got to do.'
0:17:01 > 0:17:03It's another fucking girl in the house,
0:17:03 > 0:17:06as well as the three that I've got. Know what I mean?!
0:17:06 > 0:17:08'I think it's cos she fitted in with our family so much,'
0:17:08 > 0:17:11she's kind of like adopted us.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13- Did he kiss you or you kiss him? - He kissed me first.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16My relationship with my mum was a bit rocky, like.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19'Most of my childhood was going to prison visiting her,'
0:17:19 > 0:17:24but I...I looked forward to going to a prison, like...I looked forward to
0:17:24 > 0:17:27where they check you with the dogs or you put the hand on the thing,
0:17:27 > 0:17:29I looked forward to going through there and getting, like...
0:17:29 > 0:17:33and going to the vending machine or going to the little toy area, like.
0:17:33 > 0:17:34Yeah, you wasted it.
0:17:34 > 0:17:39'My mum's problem was she was on drugs, cocaine and then needles,
0:17:39 > 0:17:41'like, in your arm,'
0:17:41 > 0:17:44and to feed the habit of the drugs she was stealing.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47'My mum wanted me, but she wasn't allowed me at the time,'
0:17:47 > 0:17:52so, um, my grandma had to take me in and there was a whole, um, thing about
0:17:52 > 0:17:56the carers were gonna come and take me away to go to foster care.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58'My grandma and granddad are really important to me,'
0:17:58 > 0:18:00like they...they did bring me up.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Devil child, sign of the cross on ya, burn a cross on your head!
0:18:04 > 0:18:05Get off! Put that finger near me.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08'Amber and Karen's relationship, I was jealous of it, like,'
0:18:08 > 0:18:12just a normal typical mum and daughter, who were just like sisters.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15But it was a bit upsetting, but it's happy that I could speak to them
0:18:15 > 0:18:19and joke around with them and just be part of the family, really.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22It don't look really nice, Mads.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Taste it!
0:18:24 > 0:18:27'She generally finds us all homely.'
0:18:27 > 0:18:30She likes the fact that my mum's... can be like her mum,
0:18:30 > 0:18:34like that. My mum's like her mother figure.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37Just iron those for me and then you can go.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40Then you can go, Karen, just think.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- I ain't ironing all them. - Yes, please!
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Get off! I can't iron them, can I, if they're on there?
0:18:46 > 0:18:51Er, there is like that closeness probably round our way, where people, you know, step in and help,
0:18:51 > 0:18:56you know, they've brought somebody else's kid up for 'em, rather than them go into care.
0:18:56 > 0:18:57Like Codie's granddad's took her on.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59Family structures have changed.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02It's not like when I was a kid, it was your mum, your dad,
0:19:02 > 0:19:06your brothers, sisters, and you all ate tea at a certain time an' all.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07No, that's totally gone.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Don't pull.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18It's only been two weeks since Jamie proposed to Lucy,
0:19:18 > 0:19:22but this morning she's moved out of the flat they share together.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26You know why Mummy's upset, don't you, baby, about Daddy.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27Where's Jamie?
0:19:27 > 0:19:31Where's Jamie? Jamie's a ... idiot, ain't he?
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Yes, he is.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38He goes out, left his phone upstairs and I answered the phone.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40She said, "Is Jamie there?"
0:19:40 > 0:19:42so I said, "No, he's not here."
0:19:42 > 0:19:43She went, "Who's that?"
0:19:43 > 0:19:46So I said, "His fiancee, why?"
0:19:46 > 0:19:49So she said, "Well, he's been seeing me," he's been doing this,
0:19:49 > 0:19:50he's been doing that.
0:19:50 > 0:19:54So...we've decided to call it a day.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58I can't... I cry meself to sleep at night.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02He was me true love, my heart belonged to him.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06I hope we can sort things out, we'll start talking again,
0:20:06 > 0:20:09but...I don't know, we'll just have to wait and see.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22Down at the market, Romeo Jamie is fighting off other admirers,
0:20:22 > 0:20:25like fellow stallholder Sue.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Am I wanted, dearest?
0:20:28 > 0:20:30I want you to be my man.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33# I'm your man... #
0:20:33 > 0:20:36- No. Seriously.- No. Right, I'll have a think about it.
0:20:36 > 0:20:41- I don't want anyone else. - I know. I know. - I've got to tell you summat as well.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Me ex come down the other night, but I told him.
0:20:44 > 0:20:45That I'm with you.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48That's fine, I'll chat with you about it and that, course I will.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51- So he's...what you call it, he's gone.- Yeah, yeah.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55- For good.- I'll have a chat with you about it.- And I told your mum.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58Yeah. That's fine, yeah, respect you for it, course I do, yeah.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01- So there you go.- Right, I'll have a chat with you in a bit. Right?
0:21:03 > 0:21:05'Jamie is immature at the moment.'
0:21:05 > 0:21:10He still thinks sometimes he's a child and he can play games and...
0:21:10 > 0:21:13play with people's feelings, and it's not acceptable.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17- I'm gonna ask you a very serious question.- Okey-dokey, then.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20And you've got to be truly honest.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24- In the two-and-a-half years you've known Lucy...- Yeah? - ..have you any feelings for her?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26No. Not any more.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Why was you gonna marry her?
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Don't know, a moment of madness, weren't it?
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Pressurised into it, moaning at me. "Are we gonna get married?!"
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Do we fucking have to?!
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Yeah, but, if you're not with her, why agree to it?
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Just to shut her up, and plus she was getting paid that week.
0:21:41 > 0:21:45- You're cruel to her. She's not... - It's not my fault, though, is it?
0:21:45 > 0:21:48It is when you keep bringing her down. Tell her not to come down.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51- I told her!- Tell her there's nothing between youse!
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Once I told her I was fucking gay, just to get rid of her.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Yeah, but she knows you're messing about.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59You need to tell Lucy straight, "There is nothing between us, Lucy."
0:21:59 > 0:22:01There's nothing between us, Lucy.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04- You... - SHE SIGHS
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Fucking listen to me, seriously.
0:22:06 > 0:22:10- Give me something to fucking throw at ya.- Listen to me. You're starting to...
0:22:10 > 0:22:14- Seriously, you're starting... - You're starting to annoy me. - You're starting to annoy me. Hmm.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17- You think I'm joking? - You think I'm joking?- Move.- Move.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20- Listen to me.- Listen to me. - You're a wanker.- You're a wanker.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Stop it now, come on!
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Argh!
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Do I think I'm a bit cruel to Lucy at times? Yeah, I do.
0:22:27 > 0:22:32I do, and I feel bad, but I'm probably one of the most immaturest 20-year-olds you could ever meet.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36Some people do get married, you know, good luck to 'em,
0:22:36 > 0:22:38but I'm not ready, I'm not ready.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44To the west of the market is the Embassy Club.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Part of Harpurhey life since the '50s.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51MAN COUGHS
0:22:51 > 0:22:53That's cheating, you.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55No, it's not.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57That's called the law of the game.
0:23:01 > 0:23:0325-year-old Chris
0:23:03 > 0:23:06and 52-year-old Nicki have been together for three years.
0:23:06 > 0:23:07Yes!
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Go on, give me a kiss, then.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18They live together in Nicki's house near Harpurhey.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Got his White Ace.
0:23:25 > 0:23:26Damn right, God!
0:23:26 > 0:23:30If we didn't have that, we don't have nothing. It keeps me fucking...
0:23:30 > 0:23:34- HE WHISTLES - ..sane.- No, you can't survive without that.- No, I can't.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Look at that for skill. Wow!
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Drip.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52That was disgusting, man, you shouldn't do things like that.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54That's not, um...normal.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57I don't know how you can do it, cos it must be rotting your insides.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00- Ah, it's a shame, innit, really. - Killing yourself.- I know, awful.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04- Do I look bothered?- No. - At least I'll die happy.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09Well, let me rephrase that, I'll die looking reem,
0:24:09 > 0:24:13cos I'll just go for me fake bake, I'll have me eyebrows done
0:24:13 > 0:24:15and I'll be pissed in me coffin, so I'm laughing.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19I feel sorry for him, cos of his illness.
0:24:19 > 0:24:24He's killing his self and it's a shame. He's got his life in front of him.
0:24:24 > 0:24:29'He's an alcoholic. He's got something wrong with his pancreatitis and his liver
0:24:29 > 0:24:33'and yet they all say, "Oh, yeah, we'll make appointments
0:24:33 > 0:24:36'"for you to see this person, that person," and they never do.'
0:24:36 > 0:24:40I feel like I'm the only person he's got.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42'We do argue and have bust-ups.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47'It is hard work living with an alcoholic.'
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Oh, don't start again.
0:24:56 > 0:24:57Right, we...
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Chris starts drinking as soon as he wakes up.
0:25:00 > 0:25:05I might be an alcoholic and everything like that, but, um...
0:25:05 > 0:25:10I know what I want and I know about life and I know about normality.
0:25:10 > 0:25:15When I drink that, it makes me feel normal, and when I say nor...
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Well, there's no such word as normal,
0:25:17 > 0:25:20but it makes me feel...normal.
0:25:20 > 0:25:25All I want is a normal life, to be happy, um...to be happy,
0:25:25 > 0:25:29to have a job, and, er, I've never asked for anything else, nothing,
0:25:29 > 0:25:33and never have done, apart from looking...
0:25:34 > 0:25:38..somewhat reem. But not reem. Yeah, that's what I want.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41I do.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57Amber and Codie are packing for their holiday to Magaluf.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00But I've got too many clothes at times.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05This is definitely a more bigger deal to Codie than me.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08She's never been abroad at all, like, she even said she doesn't even
0:26:08 > 0:26:12know if she...if she tans, cos she just doesn't know, she's never been.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14She's excited to go on the plane.
0:26:14 > 0:26:18She's probably down there now, absolutely buzzing.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21I'm taking all these shorts, that little...
0:26:21 > 0:26:25like, boob tubes and stuff, cos you need them on the beach and stuff.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Those are just from...from Primark.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29And this is my beach towel.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31There's a lot in here, so...
0:26:31 > 0:26:34These are all new, cos I've never been on holiday before.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37This was all new to me, buying bikinis,
0:26:37 > 0:26:41so, like, just a plain white one, like, creamy white.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44I've never been on a plane. Like, Amber said that your ears pop
0:26:44 > 0:26:46and you need to, like, suck on a sweet,
0:26:46 > 0:26:49but...I'm scared about that cos she said once that, um,
0:26:49 > 0:26:53her hearing went and she was completely deaf, and she thought
0:26:53 > 0:26:56she'd never be able to hear again, so that's scared me a little bit.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00- All those bikinis, any need for them?- No, no need.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02There's loads in there, as well.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05There's no need. You're only going ten days.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Look at that. How pathetic!
0:27:08 > 0:27:10'It's unbelievable. Clothes all over the place.'
0:27:10 > 0:27:13It looked like a fucking jumble sale, at the end of the day.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Six, seven, eight, nine...
0:27:15 > 0:27:17'They go away for a couple of days,'
0:27:17 > 0:27:18they've got a suitcase each,
0:27:18 > 0:27:21'and I'm not talking about a suitcase where you can zip it up,'
0:27:21 > 0:27:24you had to sit on the fucker to close it.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26'That's the problem with having a fucking house full of women.'
0:27:26 > 0:27:31If you wander off on your own, be prepared to be raped or murdered,
0:27:31 > 0:27:33because that is what they're like.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35They watch for the British.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37They know where the British are, and they watch for ya,
0:27:37 > 0:27:40so don't be thingy, giving them any hassle or
0:27:40 > 0:27:43if they say anything, totally blank the Spanish out, blank 'em.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46- I do, anyway.- Yeah.- I just go... - Totally blank 'em.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49I don't know, I can't warn 'em about anything, really,
0:27:49 > 0:27:50cos they just don't listen.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53They're big women of the world, aren't they? They....
0:27:53 > 0:27:55- We do listen. - You don't. They don't listen.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57You've got my random little sausages everywhere.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Oh, Codie's going on about sausages, nothing about we do listen,
0:28:00 > 0:28:02so obviously they don't listen.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05'I made the girls watch Taken, where these friends go abroad'
0:28:05 > 0:28:08to France and some guys get 'em and they end up in
0:28:08 > 0:28:13like a prostitute ring and, oh, was a really horrible film.
0:28:13 > 0:28:17So I thought that might make 'em a bit aware, do you know?
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Bon voyage, Eng-er-land!
0:28:19 > 0:28:21# And party all night
0:28:21 > 0:28:23# This is how we like
0:28:23 > 0:28:24# To live our lives... #
0:28:31 > 0:28:32Where are you travelling to?
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Magaluf.
0:28:34 > 0:28:35We love ya!
0:28:35 > 0:28:38Bye, Dad.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40- Be careful, right.- I will do.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44And you text me soon as you land, soon as them wheels
0:28:44 > 0:28:47hit the floor, you text me to say you're safe there.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51Love ya!
0:28:51 > 0:28:52They've gone. That's it.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55- Au revoir.- Oh, no!
0:28:55 > 0:28:58This is where the worry starts now, ten days of total worry.
0:29:08 > 0:29:09- Hiya,- you OK? Yeah.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11You ever been to a live drag show?
0:29:11 > 0:29:16Today, David's drumming up local support for his big drag night.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18- What's your dog called? - Called Gizmo.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20Looks a bit like me on there.
0:29:20 > 0:29:22THEY LAUGH
0:29:22 > 0:29:25This is me and that's me name and this is what's going to be going on.
0:29:25 > 0:29:26- Oh, is that you?- That's me.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28Who does your make-up and that?
0:29:28 > 0:29:30- Meself.- Do ya?- Yeah.
0:29:30 > 0:29:31Wow.
0:29:31 > 0:29:35Manchester city centre has a thriving gay scene
0:29:35 > 0:29:38and attitudes in Harpurhey are also changing.
0:29:38 > 0:29:40Yeah, I know quite a few gay people now.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42If you'd asked me, when I was younger,
0:29:42 > 0:29:45it would have been no, but now it's just the norm, isn't it?
0:29:45 > 0:29:47Have you ever been to a live drag show?
0:29:47 > 0:29:50I used to be very one-sided about it, you know?
0:29:50 > 0:29:52'"Oh, poof," you know what I mean?
0:29:52 > 0:29:56'Then you kind of get older and you become more,'
0:29:56 > 0:29:59"If they want to dress up in a frock, cock in frock, it's fine,"
0:29:59 > 0:30:01know what I mean? Cock in a frock, what's wrong with that?
0:30:01 > 0:30:05Men walking round in skirts, stockings, high heels.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07'Nah, it's not my cup of tea,'
0:30:07 > 0:30:09shall we say.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11And it's on this Friday.
0:30:11 > 0:30:15'You do get homophobic attacks and stuff like that, but we're in
0:30:15 > 0:30:19'2012, there's a gay or a lesbian in every single family on the planet.'
0:30:19 > 0:30:21- Is that you?- That's me.
0:30:21 > 0:30:25- Yeah, there's going to be... - Bloody hell, I'm not gay, but I think I'd even...
0:30:25 > 0:30:27What makes you think that I am?
0:30:27 > 0:30:31- I think I'd even take a chance with that.- All right.
0:30:32 > 0:30:38Now David's leafleted the estate, it's time for Diana to do her bit...
0:30:39 > 0:30:42David, are you putting your dark one on?
0:30:42 > 0:30:46..with the help of best friend Sean, otherwise known as Shanice.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48I used to always go out with Sean...
0:30:48 > 0:30:50And I said to you, didn't I...
0:30:50 > 0:30:53He went, "Oh, you should do drag," and then I thought,
0:30:53 > 0:30:55"Ooh, I've never done this before."
0:30:55 > 0:30:58If I had to dress in men's clothes all the time
0:30:58 > 0:31:00I'd just be bored, just boring.
0:31:02 > 0:31:07There's no glitz and glamour or anything to it, just boring.
0:31:07 > 0:31:09Push 'em up.
0:31:11 > 0:31:14'We call it tuck and dive and you have to like'
0:31:14 > 0:31:19push your things up to where they originally was.
0:31:19 > 0:31:23'It don't hurt, it's not painful. And then you pull'
0:31:23 > 0:31:28your thing round and - sshh - tape it.
0:31:28 > 0:31:32There we go, and you get...
0:31:32 > 0:31:34a triangle.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39Get the furs on.
0:31:39 > 0:31:41All fur, no knickers.
0:31:55 > 0:31:57- All right, darling?- All right?
0:32:04 > 0:32:06We're in here, dishing out the leaflets for Friday.
0:32:06 > 0:32:10- For playing Harpurhey, how many numbers are you doing? How long are you doing?- Four.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13We're trying to take Canal Street up there, do you know, like?
0:32:13 > 0:32:16So, we'll see you there on Friday, Vicky, all right?
0:32:16 > 0:32:19'When Diana's out or when she's on stage, it's me,'
0:32:19 > 0:32:21but it's a different persona.
0:32:21 > 0:32:26'It's like I'll do things or say things or act things,
0:32:26 > 0:32:29'sing things that David would never do.'
0:32:29 > 0:32:31We will see you on Friday, yes?
0:32:31 > 0:32:33- Yes.- OK?- Mwah!
0:32:33 > 0:32:37You've built... it's like Frankenstein.
0:32:37 > 0:32:39Right, come on.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51I know I don't have a job and I don't have much money,
0:32:51 > 0:32:53but you've got to iron your clothes, haven't you?
0:32:55 > 0:33:00I'd even iron it before I went to shop and that's just a shop.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03Not only does Nicki take care of Chris...
0:33:03 > 0:33:05- Here you are, Pippet. - ..she also looks after six dogs...
0:33:05 > 0:33:09He's getting on, him, now, ain't ya, Pip?
0:33:09 > 0:33:10He's only got one ball.
0:33:10 > 0:33:11..five cats...
0:33:11 > 0:33:15- Hello. - ..and any number of reptiles.
0:33:15 > 0:33:18To calm him down you can put 'em upside down... Stop!
0:33:18 > 0:33:23..like that, and you stroke their belly like that
0:33:23 > 0:33:25and he'll go to sleep.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28It shows 'em that you're not going to hurt 'em.
0:33:28 > 0:33:30And we just felt sorry for him
0:33:30 > 0:33:33because he's got a deformed lip and he lost a bit of his tail.
0:33:36 > 0:33:39Well, it's a shame, innit, animals being deformed like that.
0:33:39 > 0:33:41People don't want 'em.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44As a kid I found a pigeon.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47Someone had wrapped fishing rope round it.
0:33:47 > 0:33:50It ended up with one leg, but I nursed it.
0:33:50 > 0:33:53I was always bringing them home.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56Chris and Nicki started a relationship
0:33:56 > 0:33:59when he had problems at home and Nicki offered him a place to stay.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01Here.
0:34:02 > 0:34:07'Pets are like your children. I feed 'em, I clean them out.
0:34:08 > 0:34:12I've always wanted kids, but what I've had done, you can't have kids.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17Until the age of 21, Nicki was known as Nigel.
0:34:17 > 0:34:20These are the sort of things that my mum used to have, Polaroid things.
0:34:20 > 0:34:22What's that, there?
0:34:22 > 0:34:24She was one of the first people in the UK to undergo
0:34:24 > 0:34:26gender reassignment surgery.
0:34:26 > 0:34:28I love photos.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30I think a photo can tell a lot of stories.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32Bernard Manning!
0:34:32 > 0:34:34Mum got that signed off him.
0:34:34 > 0:34:36- Who's he? I don't know who he is. - Bernard Manning. Comedian.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38I don't know.
0:34:38 > 0:34:39NICKI LAUGHS
0:34:39 > 0:34:41God, look at that, me mam's ration book.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44What's in it? See what's in it.
0:34:44 > 0:34:46How much you get for your eggs and your cheese.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48Look, ID card. It's me mam's.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51- Aargh, there I am at school! - Let me look.
0:34:51 > 0:34:55First primary school in Didsbury.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57I've seen a picture of you
0:34:57 > 0:34:59and I thought you was quite cute actually as a child, so...
0:34:59 > 0:35:01Are you the fourth person?
0:35:01 > 0:35:04NICKI LAUGHS
0:35:04 > 0:35:05I think I could be psychic.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08Bad memories, they are bad memories.
0:35:08 > 0:35:11'Felt like a girl, acted like a girl, I even played with dolls,
0:35:11 > 0:35:15'but you got bullied for it.
0:35:15 > 0:35:19'I was attacked in the street by other kids or parents.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22'I had to go and see a psychiatrist first,
0:35:22 > 0:35:25'had tests done and then I had it done when I was 21.'
0:35:25 > 0:35:27There you go.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31'People should accept you for who you are, not what you are.'
0:35:40 > 0:35:43The girls are a week into their holiday, and Karen and Paul
0:35:43 > 0:35:46are worried by what they've heard about Magaluf.
0:35:46 > 0:35:50- They call it Shagaluf and what's the other one?- What?
0:35:50 > 0:35:52Yeah, loads of people have said it to me!
0:35:52 > 0:35:55"You're not letting your daughter go to Shagaluf, are ya?"
0:35:55 > 0:35:58That's what they call it, it's a well-known fact.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00And then you get met at the clubs and that with
0:36:00 > 0:36:03sambucas and that, duh, duh, and all races where
0:36:03 > 0:36:05they'll just be piling it down their necks.
0:36:05 > 0:36:09It's not her I'm scared of, it's other people, it's the Spanish.
0:36:09 > 0:36:10'Young kids getting pissed'
0:36:10 > 0:36:13out of their heads, vomiting up on the streets, like, you know,
0:36:13 > 0:36:15running round like stark bollocks,
0:36:15 > 0:36:16'and all that sort of crap.'
0:36:16 > 0:36:20It's not something we vision Amber doing, you know what I'm saying?
0:36:20 > 0:36:23PHONE RINGS
0:36:23 > 0:36:26Karen has been trying to call Amber several times a day.
0:36:26 > 0:36:30'This is the Vodafone voicemail service for 0...'
0:36:31 > 0:36:33Why don't she ever answer?
0:36:33 > 0:36:35And she can't phone out of her phone,
0:36:35 > 0:36:38she kept texting me saying Mum, can....
0:36:38 > 0:36:40- Hello?- 'Hello?'
0:36:40 > 0:36:42- Hello, is Amber there?- 'It is me.'
0:36:42 > 0:36:45Oh, it didn't sound like you. You all right?
0:36:45 > 0:36:48Me voice has gone completely through the alcohol.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51- Through the alcohol? - 'Yeah, really bad.'
0:36:51 > 0:36:52I've been drinking every night.
0:36:52 > 0:36:55Oh, you're going to be poorly when you get back.
0:36:55 > 0:36:59And not only that... No, I've not had one hangover
0:36:59 > 0:37:01and we're going to the booze cruise, aren't we, later?
0:37:01 > 0:37:03More booze.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07They all hear our accent and go, "You're from Manchester."
0:37:07 > 0:37:09Have you had a good time, then?
0:37:09 > 0:37:12- Yes.- All right. Love ya.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14Bye. Love you. Bye. Bye.
0:37:19 > 0:37:20Wow.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22'Her voice has gone through alcohol.'
0:37:22 > 0:37:25I've never heard that in the whole of my life, never.
0:37:25 > 0:37:27I've heard it go through singing and shouting a lot,
0:37:27 > 0:37:29but I've never heard it go through alcohol.
0:37:29 > 0:37:33So they've got two full days and the booze cruise tonight.
0:37:33 > 0:37:36Just hope one of them don't fall in the water.
0:37:36 > 0:37:38LAUGHING
0:37:38 > 0:37:40AMBER SCREAMS
0:37:45 > 0:37:48MUSIC: "Yeah Yeah" by Bodyrox featuring Luciana
0:37:48 > 0:37:52# You think you've got it all worked out
0:37:52 > 0:37:56# But you don't know nothing Nothing, nothing... #
0:37:56 > 0:37:59That boat cruise has made me so drunk.
0:38:00 > 0:38:01Eeurgh!
0:38:01 > 0:38:03# Something, something, something
0:38:03 > 0:38:05# I can teach you a thing or two Yeah, oh, yeah, oh... #
0:38:05 > 0:38:07SHE SCREAMS
0:38:07 > 0:38:10# I can teach you a thing or two Yeah, oh, yeah, oh
0:38:10 > 0:38:14# I can teach you a thing or two Yeah, oh, yeah, oh... #
0:38:14 > 0:38:16THEY CHEER
0:38:22 > 0:38:24Oh, well, at least she's had a good time.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Where are ya?
0:38:29 > 0:38:31I asked you to come and meet me.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35Jamie and Lucy split up two weeks ago,
0:38:35 > 0:38:37over rumours that he's been cheating.
0:38:37 > 0:38:39Jamie, come and meet me, please.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42But Lucy still wants to give their relationship another go.
0:38:42 > 0:38:44Come and meet me, please.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46'I just want to know where I stand.'
0:38:46 > 0:38:50If he's going to say that I'm completely walking away,
0:38:50 > 0:38:52then that will kill me,
0:38:52 > 0:38:54that will break my heart.
0:38:56 > 0:38:58What do you want?
0:38:58 > 0:38:59I was at KFC when you phoned.
0:38:59 > 0:39:03Oh, I'll get me arse wet, ain't I? Suck all that up.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05Jamie, my heart belongs to you.
0:39:05 > 0:39:08- It doesn't.- It does!- Doesn't.
0:39:08 > 0:39:10There is no more us now.
0:39:10 > 0:39:14You need to get used to it, you need to get it in your head and that's it.
0:39:14 > 0:39:17Be your mate, I'll see you about and that.
0:39:17 > 0:39:19I can't be someone's friend who I'm in love with.
0:39:22 > 0:39:24Who I have feelings for.
0:39:24 > 0:39:27It's not happening any more now.
0:39:27 > 0:39:28Eh?
0:39:30 > 0:39:33It's the right thing to do and you know it is.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35You're hurting now, but it is.
0:39:35 > 0:39:37We're never going to be able to get on with it,
0:39:37 > 0:39:40we're always going to be arguing. I need to move on now,
0:39:40 > 0:39:44you need to move on. You'll probably find someone better
0:39:44 > 0:39:47or vice versa, do you know what I mean?
0:39:47 > 0:39:49But it's right thing to do.
0:39:49 > 0:39:51Doesn't seem it, but it is.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53I'm going to go though, yeah?
0:39:53 > 0:39:56I'm busy. Got to prepare for the gig.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59Yeah? See you in a bit then.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01Yeah.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04Ah, fucking arse is killing me now.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08Jay?
0:40:09 > 0:40:10Love you.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22Not the answer I was looking for.
0:40:37 > 0:40:38Ah, well.
0:40:39 > 0:40:42I've tried sorting it out, he won't do it, babe.
0:40:44 > 0:40:49I've met him and I've poured me heart out to him
0:40:49 > 0:40:52and he's still saying that there's no us.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56Yeah.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01I've ruined everything.
0:41:01 > 0:41:05It seems like I'm being a dick with her, but I'm not.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07I'm being honest. It's not going to work.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09We're arguing too much,
0:41:09 > 0:41:13we've not been getting on for ages, so that's it.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16She'll find someone else and I hope she...
0:41:16 > 0:41:18Well, I hope she's very happy with whoever she finds,
0:41:18 > 0:41:22cos she's a good kid, but just not for me now.
0:41:25 > 0:41:26I feel sick.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35Watch.
0:41:35 > 0:41:36'Oh, no!'
0:41:36 > 0:41:39'We've frozen the pictures here because of their shocking nature.'
0:41:39 > 0:41:41'We've got two possible fatals... '
0:41:41 > 0:41:45- Mental.- '..both females have ran out into the carriageway.'
0:41:45 > 0:41:47Some people committing suicide.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50I'd rather watch this than Jeremy Kyle.
0:41:53 > 0:41:55Ooh, dramatic train rescue.
0:41:55 > 0:41:58Would you ever do something like that,
0:41:58 > 0:42:01throw yourself in front of a train or a bus or a car?
0:42:01 > 0:42:02I wouldn't.
0:42:03 > 0:42:06Chris's daily drinking is causing increasing problems
0:42:06 > 0:42:08in his relationship with Nicki.
0:42:08 > 0:42:11'He's got two personalities. He's got a good one
0:42:11 > 0:42:14'and he's got a bad one, and the bad one's mostly coming out now.
0:42:14 > 0:42:19'Cos when he sometimes goes on one, he's nasty, very nasty.'
0:42:20 > 0:42:22DOG BARKS
0:42:22 > 0:42:26Shut up, Chi-Chi, or I'll put you in the fucking microwave and turn it on.
0:42:26 > 0:42:28Tell you what, I'd love to fucking do it, with pleasure.
0:42:28 > 0:42:31- You won't.- Who fucking wouldn't? - You fucking won't.
0:42:31 > 0:42:33I'd stab the little fucking rat thing.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35- Yeah.- Yeah, I would. - And what are you?
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Not a rat, like you.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39I must be a right mug.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42Try and support someone, care about 'em,
0:42:42 > 0:42:44and all they do is walk all over you.
0:42:45 > 0:42:48Chris isn't interested in anyone, only his self.
0:42:48 > 0:42:51That's all he's interested in. His self.
0:42:53 > 0:42:54Get out.
0:42:54 > 0:42:55I will.
0:42:55 > 0:42:56- It's finished.- Good.
0:42:56 > 0:42:58At least I'll be away from you.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00Good! Get away from me, then!
0:43:00 > 0:43:01Good.
0:43:01 > 0:43:03Cos one minute you say you want to be with me
0:43:03 > 0:43:04and you love me and that!
0:43:04 > 0:43:05No, cos you're a mong.
0:43:05 > 0:43:07- Why am I a mong? - Cos you're a mong.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10- Why?- Have you looked in the mirror recently?
0:43:10 > 0:43:12Yeah, I'm ugly like you keep on saying. What are you?
0:43:12 > 0:43:14What are you? I don't know. Move, you scrubber.
0:43:14 > 0:43:16Right, yeah, I am a scrubber!
0:43:16 > 0:43:19- Move. Move. - Get out of me fucking house now!
0:43:19 > 0:43:21Cos all you are is a down-and-out alcoholic!
0:43:21 > 0:43:24And you want everybody to feel sorry for you,
0:43:24 > 0:43:27but you, all you do is abuse people!
0:43:27 > 0:43:30I'm down and out? I'm down and out?
0:43:30 > 0:43:36I've had a fucking belly-full. She's an evil, spiteful little witch.
0:43:36 > 0:43:39Just shit, every single fucking day, the same old crap,
0:43:39 > 0:43:42the same old bullshit, the same old head pecks.
0:43:47 > 0:43:49I can't stand it no more.
0:43:49 > 0:43:51I'm trying, trying to help him, and I can't.
0:43:52 > 0:43:56Slags me off, calls me a freak, everything.
0:43:56 > 0:43:57Can't do it.
0:44:02 > 0:44:05I wanted to help him but I can't.
0:44:07 > 0:44:10But then when I try and help him, I try and get him the help,
0:44:10 > 0:44:12he just turns on me.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19Yeah, she doesn't like it, but she's not going to stop me.
0:44:19 > 0:44:23I'm my own person. No-one can tell me what to do. Nobody.
0:44:23 > 0:44:26The only person who can tell me what to do is myself.
0:44:27 > 0:44:30I think I really started getting into dri...into drink
0:44:30 > 0:44:32when I was about...
0:44:33 > 0:44:35I'd say about 13,
0:44:35 > 0:44:38the same time that I really got into heroin and crack,
0:44:38 > 0:44:41and I used to inject it, and I loved it - and I did.
0:44:44 > 0:44:48And in some weird little way, I miss it - and I do.
0:44:48 > 0:44:51It was just ruining my life, that's all.
0:44:51 > 0:44:55I could not get out of bed in the morning and not have a drink.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57It's never going to happen, and it won't.
0:45:01 > 0:45:02Do I like it?
0:45:02 > 0:45:05No, I don't like it, but is it going to change?
0:45:05 > 0:45:08No, it's not going to change, but can I deal with it?
0:45:08 > 0:45:10Yes, I suppose.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12Not like I like it, though.
0:45:14 > 0:45:15He needs help.
0:45:15 > 0:45:19He does badly need help cos it's splitting us up.
0:45:19 > 0:45:23Er, well, I should say it HAS split us up.
0:45:23 > 0:45:25Don't need it.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27Don't know what to do.
0:45:32 > 0:45:34I don't. Don't know what to do.
0:45:49 > 0:45:50See ya later.
0:45:50 > 0:45:51See ya!
0:45:53 > 0:45:55Tonight is David's drag show.
0:45:55 > 0:45:57I can't see cos of this frigging hair.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00And he'll find out if the locals are ready to embrace Diana.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05# Mysterious girl
0:46:05 > 0:46:07# I wanna get close to you. #
0:46:07 > 0:46:10I am a little bit worried about who's going to turn up
0:46:10 > 0:46:13and who's going to be there, kind of. The people that go in The Waterloo,
0:46:13 > 0:46:17they don't really see anything like that, do you know?
0:46:17 > 0:46:21We've got the one and only Diana Dior drag show tonight!
0:46:21 > 0:46:26For our first guest artist, she's just arrived at the back door,
0:46:26 > 0:46:27we've got Stoosh!
0:46:27 > 0:46:29CHEERING AND WHISTLING
0:46:29 > 0:46:32# Daddy, I've fallen for a monster
0:46:37 > 0:46:41# Somehow he's scaring me to death
0:46:41 > 0:46:43# Oh, yes he is
0:46:43 > 0:46:47# He's big and bad I love him like mad
0:46:47 > 0:46:52# Mama, he's the best I ever had
0:46:54 > 0:46:58# Daddy, I've fallen for a monster
0:46:58 > 0:47:01# He got a black heart. #
0:47:02 > 0:47:05'When I see David up on stage as Diana,'
0:47:05 > 0:47:07there's not a prouder mum
0:47:07 > 0:47:09on this Earth than me.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13# He got a black heart. #
0:47:15 > 0:47:17CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:47:20 > 0:47:24MUSIC: "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)" by Rozalla
0:47:26 > 0:47:30Oh, I'm fucking boiling. Good turn-out, innit?
0:47:30 > 0:47:32We've done the room up. They love the room.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34As soon as people walked in, they went, oh, my God,
0:47:34 > 0:47:37who's done all this? You know. It's something new, innit?
0:47:37 > 0:47:41It's not just your bog standard karaoke Friday night, is it?
0:47:46 > 0:47:49Right, going to have to leave yer. I'm back on stage.
0:47:49 > 0:47:53# There ain't a reason You and me should be alone tonight
0:47:53 > 0:47:56# Yeah baby Tonight, yeah baby. #
0:47:57 > 0:48:01It was a rough, run-down pub, but it went down like a bomb.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06# I'm on the edge of glory. #
0:48:07 > 0:48:11I think the people at The Waterloo are more open-minded now,
0:48:11 > 0:48:15now they've actually seen it and understand a little bit about it.
0:48:17 > 0:48:20The Waterloo pub has never seen scenes like this before,
0:48:20 > 0:48:23but times change - and so do attitudes.
0:48:23 > 0:48:25'I think it's brilliant!'
0:48:25 > 0:48:28I've never seen him before in drag, but it's so fantastic!
0:48:28 > 0:48:30I don't think he's done too bad.
0:48:30 > 0:48:32A lot of people in, they're enjoying it.
0:48:32 > 0:48:34As long as they're enjoying it, it's all right.
0:48:34 > 0:48:36David's fantastic.
0:48:36 > 0:48:38Belting!
0:48:41 > 0:48:44As long as I live, so will Diana,
0:48:44 > 0:48:47and when I die I'll book two coffins,
0:48:47 > 0:48:50and she'll be buried on top of me, with all the make-up,
0:48:50 > 0:48:53wigs, dresses, shoes, you name it, it'll be in the box with her.
0:48:57 > 0:48:59CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:49:11 > 0:49:13Here they are!
0:49:13 > 0:49:16Amber and Codie are back from their Spanish sun-fest,
0:49:16 > 0:49:19and have got to adjust back to normal life.
0:49:19 > 0:49:21We've been barred from everywhere.
0:49:21 > 0:49:24We've been barred from McDonald's, barred from the hotel,
0:49:24 > 0:49:27barred from the nightclub, barred from...
0:49:27 > 0:49:30- Know why we were barred from McDonald's?- Through you.
0:49:30 > 0:49:32Someone robbed a chicken nugget off me,
0:49:32 > 0:49:34but then was dead nasty about it.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36No, you poured a milkshake over his head.
0:49:36 > 0:49:38Yeah, that's when I did that.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40So was it a really good holiday, then?
0:49:40 > 0:49:43It might not look it by our faces cos we're so tired,
0:49:43 > 0:49:44but it was amazing.
0:49:44 > 0:49:46- It was really good. - An holiday to remember?
0:49:46 > 0:49:47- Yeah!- Yes.
0:49:47 > 0:49:51I tan. On holiday I tan. Like, I never thought I would.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53Like, not on my legs. My legs don't tan,
0:49:53 > 0:49:56but on my back, Amber said that sometimes
0:49:56 > 0:49:59when I was walking in front of her, she thought I was Spanish.
0:49:59 > 0:50:00Can't believe we're back.
0:50:00 > 0:50:02I've got...
0:50:02 > 0:50:04It's really depressed me.
0:50:04 > 0:50:08Nothing worse than coming back off holiday to this shit-hole.
0:50:08 > 0:50:09SHE GIGGLES
0:50:09 > 0:50:13They do say, don't they, that Harpurhey's supposed to be
0:50:13 > 0:50:16this really rough place, but then going to Magaluf, over there,
0:50:16 > 0:50:18they're all doing things,
0:50:18 > 0:50:21the police would arrest you if you did it over here.
0:50:21 > 0:50:23Oh, well, no place like home.
0:50:23 > 0:50:26Holiday was more than what I expected, like,
0:50:26 > 0:50:30cos I want to go every year now, to experience all around the world.
0:50:30 > 0:50:31Bye!
0:50:31 > 0:50:33But I don't want to live in Harpurhey all my life.
0:50:33 > 0:50:35Like, some people they stay where
0:50:35 > 0:50:38they've been brought up, but I do want to travel,
0:50:38 > 0:50:40do want to live somewhere else, experience different places,
0:50:40 > 0:50:43but I'm always going to remember where I've brought up and stuff.
0:50:48 > 0:50:51I hope you've not done a mess in here. No, she hasn't.
0:50:51 > 0:50:55Six weeks on, and Chris and Nicki have made up.
0:50:55 > 0:50:58Right, let me borrow your puppies a minute.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00There's been some changes at their house.
0:51:00 > 0:51:04These are the triplets she's had, all three little white ones.
0:51:04 > 0:51:06Chi-Chi has had five puppies.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08And two different coloured ones.
0:51:10 > 0:51:11And although he's still drinking,
0:51:11 > 0:51:14Chris has started seeing an alcohol counsellor.
0:51:15 > 0:51:20I am making...erm, chicken, garlic and wine pasta,
0:51:20 > 0:51:26with a side dish of salad with a honey-glazed dressing.
0:51:27 > 0:51:30And it was reduced to 85p!
0:51:30 > 0:51:34He's totally different, he's totally different.
0:51:34 > 0:51:37He goes and sees an alcohol person, and I'll be proud of him
0:51:37 > 0:51:40if he goes through all this to get help.
0:51:40 > 0:51:43Cos he's not a bad person. It's just the drink.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46I've been drinking about 12 years, daily,
0:51:46 > 0:51:51and I think it's time for me to fucking pop it, I really do.
0:51:51 > 0:51:54I want to be happy, I want to enjoy life.
0:51:54 > 0:51:58I want to wake up in the morning thinking, yeah, I'm ready for today.
0:51:58 > 0:52:02He needs help, so I'm hoping it works.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06But you don't know.
0:52:06 > 0:52:08Keep calm and keep on chopping.
0:52:31 > 0:52:33Smells nice.
0:52:33 > 0:52:34Jay! Jay, stop a minute!
0:52:34 > 0:52:36Smells nice!
0:52:40 > 0:52:45Today, wedding bells are in the air at Jamie's flat.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47I hate dressing up like this.
0:52:47 > 0:52:52There's only ever four rings when it comes to fucking marriage -
0:52:52 > 0:52:57engagement ring, eternity ring, marriage ring and fucking suffering.
0:52:57 > 0:52:59Weddings my arse!
0:53:01 > 0:53:04It's a fucking long couple of hours, just to say "I do."
0:53:04 > 0:53:06Fuckin' hell!
0:53:06 > 0:53:08The flowers have got to go on.
0:53:08 > 0:53:09- Really?- Yes.
0:53:09 > 0:53:11What flowers are they? I'm not wearing a gay flower.
0:53:11 > 0:53:14No, they're not, they're marriage flowers. It looks beautiful.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17It don't look beautiful. I look like a wanker!
0:53:17 > 0:53:19Stop saying things like that!
0:53:19 > 0:53:20Well, how do I look, then?!
0:53:20 > 0:53:22- You look nice.- I don't!
0:53:22 > 0:53:24I look like a fucking fat car salesman!
0:53:24 > 0:53:27Well, that an' all, but you're all right.
0:53:27 > 0:53:31Come on, troopers! Let's have a super-duper day!
0:53:34 > 0:53:37Crimewatch here we come! SINGS THEME TUNE
0:53:37 > 0:53:41The wedding party are heading 200 miles north to Gretna Green.
0:53:44 > 0:53:48But Jamie and Lucy aren't back together, they're just guests.
0:53:48 > 0:53:49He's waiting to marry me.
0:53:49 > 0:53:54Today belongs to Jamie's mum, Donna, who's marrying her fiance, Mani.
0:53:54 > 0:53:56I love my Mani.
0:53:56 > 0:53:59He...he's my... He's my soul mate. I've found him.
0:53:59 > 0:54:02Many years of searching, I've found him.
0:54:04 > 0:54:05I, Donna.
0:54:05 > 0:54:07- Take you, Sajed. - Take you, Sajed
0:54:07 > 0:54:11- As my lawful. - As my lawford...lawful
0:54:11 > 0:54:12wedded husband.
0:54:12 > 0:54:16To have, to hold, from this day forward.
0:54:16 > 0:54:20For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,
0:54:20 > 0:54:21in sickness and in health,
0:54:21 > 0:54:25to love and to cherish, for as long as we both shall live.
0:54:26 > 0:54:29You're now husband and wife. You may kiss the bride.
0:54:29 > 0:54:31APPLAUSE
0:54:36 > 0:54:38It's killing me.
0:54:38 > 0:54:39It's killing me.
0:54:39 > 0:54:44It's hurt, you know, it's breaking me heart because I always...
0:54:46 > 0:54:50When me and Jamie were together, we were talking about getting married,
0:54:50 > 0:54:52you know, maybe a few years down the line starting a family,
0:54:52 > 0:54:56and now I'm here for Mam and Mani's, it's breaking me heart
0:54:56 > 0:55:00because me and Jamie, we won't go down that path.
0:55:00 > 0:55:04Marriage should be for life. Young people think it's fun,
0:55:04 > 0:55:09for the parties, the presents, dresses, hair-dos, nails done,
0:55:09 > 0:55:11but there's a lot more to marriage than that.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13You've got to work at a marriage.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15And that's hard in itself.
0:55:15 > 0:55:17I don't want it.
0:55:17 > 0:55:19'Was it a mistake proposing to Lucy?'
0:55:19 > 0:55:21Yeah. Yeah, it was a mistake.
0:55:21 > 0:55:26On my side mainly, you know, cos I shouldn't have put her hopes up
0:55:26 > 0:55:29like that, and I understand that. She's looking for love.
0:55:29 > 0:55:33She's looking for cock - preferably my cock - and it's not happening.
0:55:36 > 0:55:40My future, I hope it'll be good.
0:55:41 > 0:55:44You know, safe, secure relationship.
0:55:45 > 0:55:47Maybe one day I will get married.
0:55:48 > 0:55:52I'll have me dog there, wearing the little rings.
0:55:58 > 0:55:59Next week -
0:55:59 > 0:56:02At the Wishy Washy, Amber's thinking about leaving
0:56:02 > 0:56:05the estate for a place at drama school.
0:56:05 > 0:56:07'Tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
0:56:07 > 0:56:09WHISTLES
0:56:09 > 0:56:13Delboy Dale's dreaming up ways of becoming a Harpurhey millionaire.
0:56:13 > 0:56:16Just a quick update to let all the listeners know
0:56:16 > 0:56:19me nana is on the way to bingo, so keep your fingers crossed.
0:56:19 > 0:56:20And we meet single mum Nicola,
0:56:20 > 0:56:23whose relationship with her family has reached breaking point.
0:56:23 > 0:56:25Why would I cry over you?!
0:56:25 > 0:56:27Seriously, I should've moved away from yer!
0:56:27 > 0:56:29That's what I should have done!
0:56:29 > 0:56:31# Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
0:56:31 > 0:56:35# This time I'm telling you I'm telling you
0:56:35 > 0:56:40# We are never, ever, ever Getting back together
0:56:40 > 0:56:46# We are never, ever, ever Getting back together
0:56:46 > 0:56:49# You go talk to your friends Talk to my friends, talk to me...#
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