TOWIE’s scandalous start – Big Brother star claimed TV execs ‘stole’ his idea - Graham Atkins Solicitor
Two years after winning Big
Brother in 2007, Essex lad Brian Belo came up with an idea for a
fly-on-the-wall documentary.
It would feature all his rich
mates and detail their glamorous lives, lavish spending and love of excess.
And to get it off the ground, he
rounded up Sam Faiers, Mark Wright, Kirk Norcross and Amy Childs to shoot a
trailer for the show – Totally Essex.
In the epic video,
semi-professional footballer turned night club promoter Mark was seen bragging
about buying £5,000 rounds and his pulling prowess.
He gloated: “We’re not an ugly
bunch of boys either so we don’t even need to pull out that [money] as much,
but the fact that we’ve got that, and we’re good looking, the girls just fly
in.
“Just all round our table, on our
laps, I probably couldn’t tell you one week or one night of the year we go home
empty handed.”
A 21-year-old Kirk showed the
cameras around his dad’s sprawling manor house estate and his own pad, boasting
about dropping £1,500 on drinks for his mates on a standard night out.
Amy proudly showed off the boob
job she’d got at 17 while Sam, who had just won Nuts magazine’s Babe Search
2009, was seen writhing around on a zebra bedspread sharing her glamour
modelling dreams with the camera.
“It’s not like I’m going to take
it to the next level and do, like, porn, or anything like that,” she said.
“Do you know what I mean? Just
underwear and topless modelling.”
Brian even featured in the
trailer, which he then pitched to TV execs at Lime Pictures. However, he was
raging when the cast he had hand-picked suddenly showed up in another, very
similar, programme titled The Only Way Is Essex – made by Lime Pictures.
He immediately accused ITV and
Lime of ‘stealing’ his idea and launched a £4million lawsuit.
He said at the time: “I worked on
the idea for two years, I got the cast together and pitched to the production
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