Flashback to 2011 – Greatest Guilty Pleasures

Article by Emma Brankin

From placing bets on which couple will win Love Island to watching Elizabeth Hurley playing the actual Queen of England in a skin tight, plunging mini dress, the Great British public love a guilty pleasure or two.

In the last of our series of telly flashbacks we look at some of the ‘so bad, they’re good’ moments that had us glued to our television sets in 2011.

Kim Kardashian’s wedding

No, not the one to Kanye West. And not the one from her first marriage either. It was Kim Kardashian’s doomed nuptials with basketball player Kris Humphries that created a television phenomenon in the form of a two part wedding spin-off special of their TV show Keeping up with the Kardashians. Sure the marriage only lasted 72 days but it was the network’s highest audience ever at the time. So it was, like, totally worth it.

Strictly Come Dancing

Let’s be honest with its sequins, fake tan, disco balls and show tunes, Strictly Come Dancing has always scored a solid 10 out of 10 on the cheese-ometer. But in 2011, the entire show was elevated to new levels of flamboyance never seen before when astrologer Russell Grant took the dance floor. The sight of him flying across the ballroom at Wembley while shot out of a cannonball will live firmly in viewers’ minds forevermore!

The GC

She’s firmly established herself as a national treasure who can laugh at herself even moments after she falls through a trapdoor. But it was only back in 2011 that the legendary Gemma Collins first graced our TV screens on the second season of The Only Way Is Essex. Introduced as a no-nonsense second hand car saleswoman, she quickly established herself as a confident, funny woman that was not to be messed with. Plus her early plotline with ‘boyfriend’ Charlie King was hilarious.

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