Episode 5 People Like Us

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North of Manchester there is a little known sue bush. They say the

area is full of rough families, I don't think it is that bad.

Government branded it the most deprived area in Britain. Things

have got better than 12 years ago, but life around here is no bed of

roses. There is an expression, "they will steal the shit out your

arse", not because they want it, but just sow don't have it. Anti-

social behaviour is rife. People round here might not be the poshest,

but they are not lack anything spirit. We call ourselves

dysfuntionals. They are trying to get on with life, be themselves.

And follow their dreams. I'm a different person while acting.

true a good play needs no epilogue. For one summer the people here let

us into their secret world. Sheeb sharing the good times and the bad.

Go find another street to terrorise. This is how it is to grow up the

hard way. You don't know nothing yet.

This week, market trader Jamie is dreaming of pom stardom, his mum

sun happy about his unlikely mentor. I don't give a shit who or what she

is, ask Belinda what do you get out of it. At the Wish Washy

launderette, burglars broke in through the roof. And the local

Dance School is putting on a show. It is hard work for the teacher,

Kelly. I'm so stressed out. It is market day in Harpurhey. Bargain-

hunting locals four days a week. 19-year-old ladies man Jamie is

well known on the market. A weekend of it. Weekend bender. Get a few

birds, bang them and go home. works here under the strict

supervision of mum, Donna. �35, I need it back today. Jamie hustles a

living buying and selling secondhand goods. I will sell

anything, I sold a woman three irons once, just because they were

different colours. About �50, I sell it for a tenner, come on love,

you are having a bargain for Christmas. Watch.

Jamie could go and buy �20 worth of DVDs, and sell them for �60,

ducking and diving Jamie. Conman of the year.

All the things I buy are legit, you have to buy them and find out for

yourself. But Jamie doesn't see himself on

the market for the rest of his life. He dreams of becoming a

professional singer. Trying to make myself a career in music, but it's

not going too well. I love my music, I would be lost without it. All my

CDs, my promos, all that, done, Bosch, stuck it in. My Take That

autographs, I was always a fan of Robbie Williams, I said have you

heard his earlier stuff, and people said Take That, and I liked them

since. I have a tattoo done. He's dead proud of his tattoo, I was

dead proud when he had it done, because he screamed like a little

girl! I could listen to Robbie Williams's albums all day. He went

through a phase where he thought he didn't have a good voice or he

couldn't dance, he could. That is what I go through. But he can put

on a show when he goes for it. I went to see it, I was screaming it,

I was like a girl, on my own, I was I was like a girl, on my own, I was

like whaaaay. North of Harpurhey Market is Moston

Lane, known locally as a crime hot spot. It is also home to the Wish

Washy launderette. Run by Amber Wakefield's family. Mum, Karen,

step-dad Paul, and sister, Maddie. What is 50 Shades of Grey? A book.

I know, but what's it about? your sister, she's the one reading

it. It is rude. If it is rude, why the hell would she want to read it?

That's what I thought. Awakenings have to deal with

bizarre behaviour from their customers, all of which gets

recorded on CCTV. The third person we have caught weeing in the shop.

There has been a few times someone has weeed in one, I don't know why,

they have just come in to wee in the bottle. We will put it back on

the side and someone has swilled their washing out with wee. We

laugh about it on the camera, but you won't won't be too happy if you

found out. You wouldn't believe the stuff that happens in here. I laugh

at it really. People come in here and nicked our pictures, I was

disgusted. Off goes my pictures, yeah.

You get some really weird people in the launderette. Someone once came

in and had a fight with the machine, didn't kick it, didn't touch it,

just shouted at it. We have had people coming in, taking their old

clothes off, putting them in the washing machines, and putting

underwear on from the lost property basket. Down the road is the Boby

Matrix gym, where appearances can be disreceiving.

It is -- disreceiving. It is not just where lads pump iron, but

where local kids come to dance. Kelly Smart has always dreamed of

dancing. When I'm not dancing I'm Kelly Smart. When I am dancing I'm

someone completely different. Kelly has never had a full-time job.

She has just been taken on for a trial period at Jodie's Dance

School. Whack in. Kelly's an old friend from school, we hung out on

the streets and get up to naughty things, and misbehave. Then we grew

up and lost contact. But I messaged her, and said I have got an opening

for another teacher to be tutored, would you like to do it. She was

like, yeah. If Jodie wasn't doing what she is doing, what will the

young children be doing. They could be on the street, drinking, getting

into trouble, so it is good. She's keeping kids off the street.

Attitude. Once a year, the school puts on a summer show, where all 50

pupils perform. They have been rehearsing for six months, the show

is now only weeks away. For Jodie it has to be perfect. What's up

with you today, what's going on. Go out that door, I don't know what's

going on with you that day. Kelly handles the pressure of the

show, Jodie will take her on full- time and pay her a wage. I have

never done one of these shows before, this is my first one. Jodie

says it is hectic, and some of the children get on late, and some

don't get on the stage. I have to be back stage to make sure

everything is under control and make sure everything is fine.

you teach Tyler. You are going to go like this. We have been doing

rehearsals all week and it looks really, really good. There is still

a few children that are nervous, and keep forget ago few of their

lines and stuff like that. It is going -- forgetting a few of their

lines, and stuff like that. I want my full-time job to be a qualified

dance teacher. I don't want one job here and there, I want to be a

dance teacher, this is what I'm Jamie's taken some time off from

the market to pursue his singing career. Nice to be famous, yeah. I

don't think I would be arrogant if I was famous, I think I would be

cheeky. He has found an unlikely mentor. Hello Belinda. How are you?

I'm fine. In the form of singer and drag Queen, Belinda Scandal.

you ready, flower? I am. Right then. # Call me good

# Call me bad # Call me anything you want to baby

# But I know # That you're sad

# And I know I made you happy # With the one thing that you never

# Baby # I'm your man

I met Belinda going into a nightclub for a beer. I saw this

drag person on the door, come in free booze, that is the worst thing

to say to us, we're in there straight away. We just got chatting

about how she could help me, in baby steps into bigger steps. Yeah,

it is working for me so far. Let's listen back to it. It will

sound awful. # If you want me

# I'm you're man Jamie's musical tastes are quite

similar to mine. They are campy 80s sort of tunes. It is unusual taste

I would say for such a straight, stocky fellow! How did you feel it

went? I don't know, it is weird hearing my voice back again. I

enjoyed it. Really enjoyed it, yeah. Probably sound like a fucking cat

being strangled. No you don't. But Jamie's mum isn't convinced

that Belinda's intentions towards Jamie are good. Listen, he's

working for a transvestite. could be want to go do him over.

I'm telling you, enough is enough. Jamie is back at work, it is time

to face the music. I would like to speak to her first and see what

this entails? It is my fucking business. It is my business and all,

when it is my son. I'm not fucking with her. That word don't mean that,

going off with her, you know going off with her. I would give my life

for him. If he needed a kidney I would give him a kidney. If he

needed my blood to keep him alive, I would do anything for Jamie. You

are a young lad, I want to see where it goes. Mam you are not, it

is my business. We will discuss it another time. We won't, it is

discussed. I want to know what purposes she wants you for?

work. To get myself noticed, she's helping me. Whatever. My mam always

thinks she's right, she's not all the time. Sometimes she's wrong but

she don't admit to it. She's a good mum. That's what she is. She's a

good mum. Half a mile away on Moston Lane

there has been a burglary at the Wish Washy launderette. There it is,

that is the first tile. It is disgusting. You wouldn't think they

would do it here. I never dreamt of someone coming through the ceiling.

All smashed through, we couldn't see any of the machines through

rubble. All over. One minute you were locking the shop and they must

have been up there, ready for breaking through. It must have been

obviously planned. It must have been planned. As soon as I left

here, Ash said, there are three lads outside, two lads there and

one on the corner, shouting over to each other. The thieves stole cash

and property, leaving The Awakenings thousands out of pocket.

They went through everything, and emptied all the service washes, and

took the customers' bags as well. It was totally different when I was

a child, then suddenly kids got given more rights from adults. When

authority was taken away from police, teachers and parents, the

world went crap. We used to get strapped, I did personally, we had

the strap, it was legal in schools. I always say, bring the strap back.

It has become downhill now any way. It is hanging, Moston has got a

really bad lane, it is a mess. crime has just gone up. Well Karma,

what goes around comes around, they will get their comeuppance, won't

they. With Harpurhey classed as a high-

crime, high-poverty area, everyone has their own interpretation of the

law. Dodgy is where you buy a tele, and you plug it in and it goes boom,

that is dodgy. Dodgy notes are they pay you with dodgy notes, and the

Queen's head isn't on it, that is dodgey. You have to do what you do

to get by. If I was running the country, I would stop crime by 80%.

Robberies, really bad ones would have their hands chopped off f they

did it again they would have the other hand chopped off. They can't

do it a third time, they wouldn't be able to nick anything. I would

be horrible. I would be assassinated! I think because some

areas look rough, I think just the way it looks people go, I don't

like the look of that. But you can't judge a book by its cover.

You have to get to know people in there. There will be rough people

and scumy people everywhere you go. It is not just our area, you get it

in posh areas. Kelly has lived in Harpurhey all her life. Growing up

wasn't always easy. You have to learn how to fend for yourself, and

what not. I got a big chip on my shoulder. I had a really bad

attitude. I was getting into trouble all the time. I just was

with the wrong people who were always stood on street corners.

Under-age drinking and smoking, and young guys would rob car, we would

joy ride round estates in cars. Stuff like that. Kelly still lives

on the estate, just ten minutes walk from the house she grew up in.

This up here is my mum. And this is my dad, when he was in the Fire

Service. That means a lot to me that. My mum died 12 years ago. You

know it has been hard, it has been hard for me without her. My dad has

had to be my mum and dad, you know. It was just basically me and Kelly

since her mam died. Everything that her mam used to do, I had had to

take it on. So there is a special bond, I think, between me and Kelly.

She had cervical cancer, she fought it for years as well. One year she

would find out she was in the clear, a few months later it would come

back. Then she was clear for a few more months, then a year later she

found out it came back. When I got to the age of nine or ten, it got

worse and worse from then. My mum was just getting really

tired of all these operations and medication, in and out of hospital.

She just wanted to be left. She died when I was 12. The only that

upsets me now is I don't remember the sound of her voice, at all, at

all, I try to think of it and I can't. I'm getting emotional. I'm

OK. I know that she had a tough time with her mum passing away. And

she kind of got into bad crowds and things, when she first started with

me, she was one of those people that would get up and it didn't

really matter what she did for the rest of the day. I think her coming

to us has kind of helped her have a purpose.

As night falls on Harpurhey Market, the stalls are packed away and the

area is deserted. But three miles away in Manchester's gay district,

the fun is only just beginning. Despite his mum's concerns, Jamie

is spending even more time in the gay village with his mentor,

Belinda. Come on girls, free shots, free entry girls. She runs a busy

cabaret bar, and Jamie has come to pick up some performing tips.

# It's me not you # You told me not to love

# Rain on my parade For straight people who don't like

all this thing, they have the idea that all these faggots and poofs

and gays are going to try it on you, they couldn't be further from the

truth. It's killing my bollocks. Scream if you want me to go faster!

If you want to be surrounded by knob sheds and dickheads trying to

make a name for -- knobheads and dickheads trying to make a name for

themselves, then go elsewhere, but if you want a good laugh, go to the

village. # You got to have boobs

# You need boobs # To fill out a sweater

# You need two # But three might be better

Some of the transvestites and transsexuals look a lot more

natural. I have made a point every time I do anything, not looking

natural! Nothing worse than a builder in drag!

M tes fun to stay at the -- # It's fun to stay at the YMCA

I was rat-arsed and I was fucked, so I went in. And yeah, I started

going in again after that bit, that's how I got to nobel Linda.

She's a very trusting kind of person, willing to help you in

every way she can. So many young people want to be

famous these days, because they see the celebrity side of it, not the

work side of it. They think celebrity is the answer. I don't

know why they come to me, because I'm just a drag Queen in the middle

What we need to do is this Jamie. We need to see what you want to do

with your life. I want to be on the stage. Jamie's convinced with

Belinda's help, he will get his 15- minutes of fame. But mum, Donna, is

suspicious about Belinda's motivation. How can she help you?

To get me the first step on the stool. I'm not saying I will be a

big-named pop star, but I want to be good enough to keep doing it.

What does she get out of it? percentage of what I make.

wants to be your manager. I don't give a shit of who or what she is,

I'm not bothered about that what she chooses to do with her time.

You're always the fucking hard man. Let me speak, you need to ask

Belinda what do you get out of this and what do I get out of it? Will

it be Belinda and Jamie, or Jamie and Belinda. You are not letting me

fucking speak. It is a simple question I asked. I'm trying to

answer it, if you let me speak, you ask one question and ten fucking

others after it. Go on. We're not saying what is she going to make,

we don't know anything yet. Who says she is even going to promote

me, I do know how it works. If you raise your voice you won't have tea.

You are tormenting me, you are not understanding my point. I will see

Belinda next week. Don't kick off like you do. I'm not going to kick

off, Jamie. I'm just telling you, so you know. My mam is a tosser at

times, for fuck's sake I'm 20 years A mile down the road lives 24-year-

old Anthony and his girlfriend Renika.

Are you coming with daddy? Anthony has three kid, Lenaya, step-Bonn

Levion, and Lezayga. I did always want to be a dad. I don't know, I

just think, because of my accident and stuff, I when I was a kid and

that, I didn't think I would ever have any kids. Now I have them, I

wouldn't change them for the world. Unemployed Anthony does the

majority of the childcare. I found it pretty hard to get a job. I

wanted to do kitchen fitting, I have level 2 in carpentry and level

2 in kitchen fitting. Every time I have gone for a job or interview.

It has never gone too good. I think because I have only half an arm

they think it won't be good. Since he was 20 months old, Anthony has

had over 20 operations. My mum thought I was downstairs with my

nana, and my nana thought I was upstairs with my mum. I was in the

hallway, and near the electric fire, and I was mad for the colour red,

and I pressed the red button on, and when the bars went red hot, I

grabbed hold of it with my left hand, and I was left-handed. I fell

in inbetween the metal and the wood and burned my feet. My left hand

has been amputated, because it was so badly burned. I don't remember

nothing of it or anything. Are these the only nappies you have

got? Yes. �2.80. With less than �100 benefit as week, money is

tight. Anthony has an idea about how to save for the children's

futures. Someone said to put them in for modelling. I got in touch

with a modelling agency recently and they said take some pictures

and send them in. We are going to Harpurhey to get a camera. We are

hoping something comes out of it, so I can give my kids a better life.

If they ask for anything, at least they can get it and I don't have to

say no because I haven't got it. Down at the Wish Washy, The

Awakenings are repairing the damage from the burglary -- the Wakefields

are retairg the damage from the burglary. Since break-in, the

family are on the look out for crime in the area. Maddie is like

an investigator, she takes after my mum. She went out with a phone and

filmed these three guys peeing up the entry. They stood there, in

broad daylight, in front of absolutely everybody, just there,

blatantly. They aren't just using the alleyway

during daylight hours, Karen has caught them at night. I don't know

if they had a watch-out, there was a little black kid shouting out the

door going "enemy"! "enemy! Therapying, dirty, dirty ones.

Karen is so insensed she has gone to the police, who have agreed to

stake out the alleyway later that day. It is crime, it is a proper

bad crime to pee on the street. They get away with it, it is just

annoying me. It is hanging, it is horrible. It is disgraceful. It

looks like the Bronx round here! Evans has been fighting crime in

Harpurhey for the past two-and-a- half years. So we will head up to

Moston Lane. Park outside Wish Washy and we will see if there is

any gentlemen urinating in the street. On the face of things you

think it is not crime of the century, but if that's making her

life a bit of a misery, or that's affecting her life to the point

that she has had to speak to the police about it, then, you know, we

In, in, get in. There's not been much. Nothing at all, not even been

outside have they? You could be more discreet! I wouldn't say

that's a police van, would you? I got the smallest car I could!

it prevent them from doing, as long as they know there is a police

presence now. It is a good feeling if you have

had a good day and you can get home and think I have made a bit of a

difference today. It is not a huge difference, but I have done

something to help the area. Three miles north of Harpurhey, it

is the final rehearsal of the dance show. All the tickets have been

sold, and in only two days time, 100 friends and family will watch

the kids perform. Kelly knows she will have to impress, if she will

turn a volunteer job into a paid one. For me it is all about

responsibility. If I get the responsibility I can prove to Jodie

I can do it. If you are a Pink Lady go up the stairs. I care about all

the kids and love them dearly. I look after them, and the fact that

they get the opportunity to come to the class and to be out of being on

the streets, it makes me feel good. You need to be where Sam is back

stage looking after the children. When Sam comes to you and says I

need Sweet, it is your responsibility to get it ready.

don't want to mess it up and get shouted at. I have never done one

of these shows before, this will be my first one. It will be a bit

crazy. But as a newcomer to working life,

it will be a tough day ahead for Kelly. This is going to be a long

night, I can feel it. Denise, get on stage, you are the ones that

will look silly, not me, you should know this. Back stage, the heat is

on, and rehearsals are running late. The pressure finally gets too much

for Kelly and she walks out. I was livid, I was annoyed that she just

kind of buckled under the pressure, and then rather than staying around

and helping and doing what she should have done, she got off and

went. It was just so unprofessional. With Jodie and the kids left in the

lurch, Kelly only has two days to get her act together for the big

show. My head isn't fully screwed on, I know it's not, you know. I

can still do stupid things, I can still say stupid things and act in

stupid ways, but I hope dance plays We're going outside and take a few

pictures with you while you are playing with toys and stuff.

Anthony is taking some photos of his kids that he hopes will get

them signed up to a modelling agency.

Shy cheese, you can't have it. is not too spicy is it? No, I have

only put milk in it. Anthony's mum, Maria, lives ten minutes down the

road, and often comes down for lunch.

That was in our first flat. Before he had the accident, Maria tried to

get Anthony into modelling. I think it was Littlewoods, and they took

the picture if you won you went through to modelling. Another

picture. He is good looking. still are, aren't you son. That is

what all the neighbours used to saying, still good looking, isn't

he. There, wouldn't cut it! We used to call him the Mad Professor.

stuck a combover on me. There was one night you did a combover.

was about three week before you got burned. Maria and Renika have never

spoken about the details surrounding Anthony's accident.

What happened to Anthony on the day he got burnt. I I put boiled eggs

on for me and him, I went to wash my hair. The time you shoom pooed

your hair and rinsing it, -- shampooed your hair and rinsing it,

he burnt himself, I smelt it, I thought it was the panhandle, I

shouted to mum to take the panhandle off. And then she

screamed (cries) and then I come down and she had him in her arms,

but he was like zonked out. So you didn't notice anything at first,

then she turned him over and nose was a bit burned there, like

charred, but his face wasn't. His face just had two white lines. When

you looked at his hand, you could see where he had basically grabbed

the bar, it was burnt in. It was one of those days you wish you

could turn the clock back. But you always had a smile on your face,

didn't you. You just always got on with things. Just as a little kid,

it never bothered him. He didn't have a complex about himself. It

wasn't an issue his burns. You knew he was scarred, but it wasn't an

issue for him. He always had a smile on his face. Always joined in,

he done swimming, he done sports. He never let anything trouble him.

Not when he was young. But when Anthony got into his teens, his

attitude changed and he started to feel angry. On his 19th birthday he

made a terrible decision that would change his life forever.

I had been out all day drinking, it was like 12.00 that night. As I was

riding back home, I come past two lads and they have said, give

Freddie Kruger back his mass. I jumped off the bike, and -- mask. I

jumped off the bike and had a fight, I came home and winding myself. I

got a knife, come back and ended up stabbing him. For Anthony to be

arrested for stabbing somebody, it was not him. I couldn't believe he

would do something like that. I thought surely he has not got to

the point of this now. To find out he stabbed the lad four times, and

the lad would never walk again. Because Anthony spent his life in

hospitals. So now this lad is going to spend his life in a wheelchair,

so it just didn't make sense. I ended up getting six-and-a-half

years for grievous bodliy harm. Which I done three years three

months in jail for. I do feel guilty about it. Obviously I went

over the top. Anyone calls me names now I just let it blow over my head,

really. I have got too much to lose if I it did go back to jail.

Concerned about Belinda's intentions towards Jamie, mum,

Donna, has insisted on meeting the new woman in her son's life.

Jamie's a good lad. I know lots of people that like Jamie, of both

genders. I was a bit like did she want Jamie, because of his voice

and his looks? I'm his mother at the end of the day, I'm going to

think these things. Hiya, are you all right? Yeah. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you too. I'm Belinda. I'm Donna, Jamie's mum. Before I

start Belinda, I wanted to thank you for already dealing with Jamie.

And not a lot, but it is my way of saying thank you. Well I have only

looked after him and pursued his little dream a little bit more.

That is why I want to speak to you, not to be disrespectful to you

Belinda, I found it a bit strange him coming here. The gay village is

Jamie's night out, but to actually get attached to someone that is

associated. That is just even in the gay village we don't judge

nobody for nothing. I don't ask that of anybody. I don't know if

Jamie has told you, he has had so many people use him for what he's

good at. You believe in his singing? I believe in my son very

much. Good. He can do anything. I'm not kidding you, he could do Mr

Bean at three years old. Really. But I know he has something. He has,

without a doubt. I wouldn't be spending my time if I didn't think

he did. The one thing the two women in his life agree on, is Jamie

isn't reaching his full potential. To get further on he has to start

pushing himself more. We need to push him I can push him as much as

you can, and you can push him, he has to pull his socks up. It is

time to grow up, there is only so much you and I can do, that is

being honest. He has to do it himself. That's lovely. Thank you

so very much, if you want my number, get it off Jamie. I appreciate 100%,

on my mum's life what you have done. I will keep doing t I believe in

him. I believe in him. With two of us he can't go wrong. He's in shit

now, isn't he. There is a lot of mothering go on, some would say

smoothering, I think he just wants to be loved and liked, I think he

has problems. I think he has been too smothered, and needs to go for

his pursue his dreams. I did think, transvestite, with a club, what is

going on. I thought did she want a young Jamie to bring it up, fresh

meat in the club. I'm quite happy with Belinda now. She's lovely. And

I took her chocolates. I expected all the diva bit, and it's nothing

like that. She's absolutely lovely. She's got a lot of confidence in

yer. She has a lot of faith in yer. I haven't. Listen. You have got to

start helping yourself for her to help yer, she really wants to help

yer. Jo what is doing my head in, it is my business, it needs to stay

my business until I'm comfortable with everything, you know what I

mean. Yeah. She fucks dives in too Today Anthony and Renika are taking

the kids to a model agency for a test photo shoot. Hello, I'm Julie.

So today what we are going to do is just do a little bit of a mini-

shoot with him. And just maybe see how they perform in front of the

camera. Hiya. If they photograph well, Anthony

hopes it may lead to paid work and a career in modelling for the kids.

Good lad. Show me your teeth! 1-2-3 jump.

Look at your pictures. Who is that? Me. Look how cool you look. I have

just put them in for it, because obviously when they get older it

might be something they want to do. Not only that, in the meantime

while they are doing it they get paid for it. You can save that

money up for them as well. Look at the man. Say cheese to the man,

cheese. Smile. Do what he's doing. Smile. Keep your face straight.

wouldn't really push them into any job particularly meself. I hope

they get a good job with a good income, so that they can have a

good way of living, really. Squeeze in, squeeze in. Thank you, see you

later. The family now have to wait and see if the agency want to take

the kids on to their books. Back at the Wish Washy there has been a

breakthrough in catching the lads who burgled the launderette. When

they broke in, turned the cameras round, to face the wall, yeah,

clear footage of them doing it. We actually got their faces on the

camera, fucking knobheads. One of the lads I actually knew, I have

known him since 1997. The lads are local to the area, and a couple of

weeks ago Karen came face-to-face with the burglars. When I saw him I

wanted to kill him. He was like Paul, Paul, we didn't mean to do

the shop, we only meant to do the flat. I said you have taken food

out of my kids' mouths. I'm not violent but I wanted to throttle

him. It has affected the shop. really affected my mum, I remember

her going to work and as soon as they pulled the shutters up

everything smashed in. My mum cried. It was a really hard time, I

remember her thinking, what the hell is she going to do.

With the help of the CCTV evidence, the police brought a case against

one of the men and today the Wakefields are getting their day in

court. These are people who sit behind desks pushing pens all day.

They haven't got a clue what crime is all about. Yeah! Yeah! Brilliant

weren't it. We thought he would be out in two weeks, he got two years.

Two years, he will only serve half of that. Out next year, sounds

better saying that. I was expecting him to be out in two-to-three week.

Jiefs proud of that judge today, I thought he would be a soft touch. I

did. Two days later the Wakefields received a letter saying the judge

had reconsidered his decision, and the robber had his sentence reduced

from two years to 14 months. Sit, Snoopy sit. Since walking out

of the dress rehearsal, Kelly only has one chance left to prove she

can do it. At the show itself. When she needs a pep talk, she always

turns to dad Sam. My dad has had to be me mum and dad for the past 14

years. He was there with a cuddle within I needed it and to reassure

-- when I needed it, and reassure me it was going to be all right.

And now, today, me and my dad have the most open conversations, and

people look at us and think, are you having that conversation with

your dad, really? That is why he's my best friend, I love him to

pieces and I don't know what I would do without him. It is about

time at 25 you got something there. I know. I want to. It is just you

know what I'm like sometimes. your mam had been here she would be

on you a lot more than me, all the time. You have your own flat now

and independent, you can't keep relying on me. I know, I know I

rely on you sometimes and I shouldn't do. You always do Kelly

because you're my little girl innit. Kelly's mannerisms are very much

like her mam's. In fact the other day she did something her man did

and I burst out laughing. She ask what I was laughing about it,

before I even said it, she said, don't tell me my mam did that, and

I say just like it. Health and happiness is all I wanted for kel

hey. If she make me a granddad on the way, fair enough.

If there is anybody doing gymnastics you need to get ready

now. Quick, quick, quick. Molly, why have you got a pink thing in

your hair, you are a boy. It is the day of the dance show, the parents

are arriving, and the curtain will go up in less than an hour. Jodie

is giving Kelly one last chance to prove she's up to the job. Back in

the room, everybody back in the room. Over the past few months she

has tested Jodie's patience to the limits. There are only so many

chances I would give someone before it would be a waste of my time.

main thing I have to think about what I'm doing, and take my time

and try my best. All you can do is try your best. Rome weren't built

in a day. I think it will be a success, we have been working on it

for six months now. What time is it? We need to start. Cue music,

It is going well, but it is children, not putting the right

outfits on, and children going missing. So I'm stood at the other

side, I'm like I need this person and this person, and everyone's all

over it at the moment, it is a bit crazy. I don't even know.

There is people missing, there is children missing, there is people

who don't know where they are supposed to be. I don't know where

I'm supposed to be now. It is a lot of pressure to be under to do a

show like that. I thought, God, no wonder Jodie stresses so much.

Because it is just, she's just a legend being able to do something

like that, because I couldn't do it. So I take my hat off to her. It was

really good. When you have worked with kids for so long and you see

them perform, you just want to cry, because it is so good. It is like

how you would be proud of your child. It makes you feel proud that

you have taught them what they know. The Dance School is giving me an

opportunity to do what I want to do. Be a qualified dance teacher, be

successful, and it is actually helping to keep children off the

streets. Some parents were still crying, everybody was saying how

fantastic it was, amazing, awesome, brilliant. It really paid off.

show has been a triumph, but the success is bitter sweet for Kelly,

Jodie feels she is not quite ready to take on the responsibility of a

teaching job, but she will try again at the next school show in

six months time. It has been two weeks since Anthony's children did

their modelling test shoot. He has had some good news. The modelling

agency have given me a ring and said the kids are up on the website.

I'm going to go and have a look on the website.

Is it all right if I jump on a computer, mate, yeah? That's a nice

one, that is a really nice picture that one. The children are now

licensed to work, and ready to take on their first professional

assignment. Definitely feel proud. She got some really nice pictures.

Got to be from me with the good looks, can't be Renika. If I didn't

have my scars that a lot of people that I have met through my life I

probably wouldn't have met. Just because something has happened to

you, it doesn't mean that is the end of your world. You can go on

and live your life, or sit in your bedroom and dwell what if I didn't

have scars and what if this and that? I suppose if I did do that I

wouldn't have my kids that I have today, really. I wouldn't change

them for the world. There are big changes on the estate where Jamie

spent his entire life. It is not what we grew up in.

a ghost town. You knew everything everybody in the maisonettes.

I ever leave the estate I have grown up on? No, I don't think I

could. It is home. There is also change in Jamie's life, in just a

few hours he will perform his first professional gig at Belinda

Scandal's cabaret bar. I know you can do it, I don't need to say

anything else, I know you can do it, nothing tells me that you can't. I

wish you the best of luck. Everybody wants to be famous and

the 15-minutes. As long as I get lots of fandangle, loads of girls,

we love you, on your boobs, fucking pleasure! How are you feeling?

Nervous, excite. Are you very scared -- Extriteed. Are you

scared? My arse is fucking on fire. Thanks for telling me. Are you

warmed up, give me a scream. Look me in the eyes and scream in my

face. I can't do that. Scream at me. Ahhhh. Louder. Ahhhh. That's the

shizzle. Despite her doubts, Donna has overcome her reservations about

Belinda and has gone to the gay village to support her son. He just

wants something to grab hold of in life, he cherishes what he has got,

he cherishes his family. He has been a brilliant kid, I would have

another kid like Jamie. He's coming your way in just a few seconds time,

before we do that, because it is nervous tonight, I want each of you

to look at me and scream your face to have. 1-2-3 scream! Please

welcome to the stage, the sensationally fantastic, Mr Jamie.

How are we doing everybody. # She's taking me places

# I should never have been # She's showing me faces

# I should never have seen When I go to my grave, I would like

on my gravestone, "went with a smile", and a picture of me on that

with the cheesiest grin I can do. # Oh Lord when he shook his head

# I could swear I could hear someone

I felt so proud of him. And that boy can sing.

# That's Mr Bojangles # We call him Mr Bojangles

Mr Bojangles # Come back to me

Sensational Jamie. Very, very good, did you enjoy it? It was a new

experience for me, yeah, yeah. Come on in. We have a new fan, I

have never seen you before. That were brilliant. Give a hug for your

mother. Well done. You made me proud. Thank you Belinda. Thank you

for coming. Thank you. He did good. Seeing the chance that Belinda has

given Jamie has finally allayed her fears. She has surprised me, she's

down to earth and genuine. I'm happy for Jamie to be with Belinda,

in a career way. She's now the best person for Jamie. You what know,

you kicked his arse, nobody else has done that. Some arses need

kicking, don't they flower. Do a Christmas CD and I will buy it.

is Jamie's first taste of the high life, now the sky is the limit.

know I said I didn't want you there, but I'm glad to see you. You know I

love you, don't you Jamie. Yeah. Next week, the Wakefields have to

contend with an unwelcome house guest. If you don't like us then

get out of our house. She said, no! Likely lads Arron and Mikey, are

trying not to let partying get in the way of their new business plans.