Jo Webber: Star of Candy Bar Girls tells her side of the story, answers our questions and wonders if there should be more sex in Season 2

by Petit Fours, Fairy Cake

Jo Webber stars in Candy Bar Girls – Channel 5′s reality show about London lesbians. In this post the long-time TMC contributor tells us why she did it and what it was really like. Candy Bar Girls is a TV show we at TMC have a love/hate relationship with, but let it be said that we watch it faithfully and talk about it all the time. So if you’re interested in the story behind the screen, read on. We also pushed Jo to answer some thornier questions – see her responses at the end.  … Continue Reading

View from the Couch: Candy Bar Girls Episode 4

by Devil’s Food Cake and Fairy Cake

WE KNOW WE KNOW it’s been ages and we should have gotten this done before and we’re terrible people and all that. But we have excuses! They involve illness, laziness and drunkenness. Are we forgiven? Good. We’re grateful. Also – DFC forgot to tweeze her eyebrows and Fairy Cake is wearing a “shitty beanie” because we don’t care. That’s just how we roll. … Continue Reading

View from the Couch: Candy Bar Girls Episode 3

by Devil’s Food Cake and Fairy Cake

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS, this show is starting to go nowhere very, very fast. Neither Fairy Cake nor I are sure we can take this anymore. So we’ve tried drinking more – seriously, you should see FC go for it this episode – but it’s not working.

I guess what we’re trying to say is: we have some wine, but does anyone have a straw? … Continue Reading

View from the Couch: Candy Bar Girls Episode 2

by Devil’s Food Cake and Fairy Cake

Hi! This is late. We know. Sorry. But it’s here now so you can watch to your heart’s content.

Also, there’s another poll. … Continue Reading

View from the Couch: Candy Bar Girls Episode 1

by Devil’s Food Cake and Fairy Cake

OH YES the time has come, my sweets, to sit down with a bottle or two of vino and listen to us rant about THE [only] reality TV show devoted to lesbians in London. This is, of course, Candy Bar Girls. We’ve watched the trailers. We’ve pored over the print ads. We’ve outlined our hopes and we’ve relayed our fears about this show. … Continue Reading

THURSDAY Top Ten… things to do while you watch Candy Bar Girls

by Devil’s Food Cake

What are you doing tonight? Don’t even try to pretend you won’t be watching Candy Bar Girls – none of us are going to believe you. … Continue Reading

Candy Bar Girls: the ad reign of intrigue continues

by Devil’s Food Cake

LESBIANS.

I mean, it’s not terrible, right? It’s succinct and pretty to-the-point, which is how I like things. Mostly. … Continue Reading

Candy Bar Girls – the trailers: What do you think?

by Petit Fours

Channel 5′s lesbian documentary Candy Bar Girls has just released the trailers for its show out on 7th July. There are three of them: Pussy, Chess and Workout. The strapline is “Lesbians: Not what you expect.” Some great person has filmed them off the TV and put them on Youtube. We’ve been staring at them, transfixed. Watch and tell us what you think. … Continue Reading

5 things I hope The Candy Bar doesn’t do

by Devil’s Food Cake

Let’s face it: most reality TV shows are total, total crap. With the exception of cooking shows like Top Chef (I love you Padma Lakshmi) and Masterchef, the reality TV show is generally considered the lowest form of televised entertainment – and with good reason, if shows like The Bachelorette and Tool Academy are anything to go by. The people in these shows aren’t just stupid or pretentious or badly-behaved … Continue Reading

Channel 5 gives London lesbians their first reality TV show – ‘The Candy Bar’ – just a pity it sounds like a car crash

by Petit Fours

Well. London is getting its own Real L-Word and it’s called “The Candy Bar”. As in that club in Soho where they have strippers and you went when you first came out, back when you had a Shane haircut and were terrified and thought that groping strangers in sportswear was the only way to be a lesbian.  … Continue Reading