Ladette to Lady

Eggleston hall finishing school re opens and invites some of Britons worst Ladettes to enrol. As the new ladettes arrive, the Eggleston hall teachers soon realise that they have been set a huge challenge. The new girls are stripped of all their ‘ladette’ clothes and piercings, and from now on at all times must wear the Eggleston hall Uniform, Tweed suits and pearls. As the strict regime of lessons begins the ladettes find that finishing school is going to be a lot harder than they had anticipated. Liz Brewers sexual etiquette lessons tug a few unexpected heartstrings with Becky Squire, self confessed man eater- who vows to change for good. The ladettes introduction to high society comes in an invitation from the Cunliffe-Listers to a shooting weekend at their grand stately home, Burton Agnes Hall. The lure of alcohol and a wide selection of eligible bachelors is too much for some of the girls, who quickly revert to type. Back at Eggleston hall, the first of the weekly assessments are a lot harder than the ladettes had imagined, the teachers do not hold back in their criticism. The first ladette is asked to leave.

This week in Ladette to Lady the girls have there biggest challenge yet, to host a dinner party for over twenty guests. The girls will have to cook a three course meal, including home made ravioli and engastrated fowl, a goose stuffed with eight other birds. The Ladettes are given a makeover, hairdressers to royalty Judy and Mimo Russo arrive at Eggleston Hall to transform them into sophisticated ladies. But a pub trip jeopardises 1 girls' opportunity to join the dinner party festivities and socialise with the guests. And yet another girl will be asked to leave Eggleston Hall.

In Episode 3 of Ladette to Lady, the remaining 6 ladettes are set their most demanding and exciting challenge yet, they have the chance to be chalet girls in Switzerland. In true Eggleston Hall tradition the head of a Chalet girl recruitment company, Cleone Stenhouse returns to the finishing school after many years, to recruit some new blood. Cleone only has three jobs in Verbier, so the remaining three girls willl have to stay at Eggleston Hall. The girls learn to make beds, clean and cook in altitude, in preparation for their interviews with Cleone. Clara, Victoria and Fran are ecstatic when they hear that they have got the jobs. They set off to the Ski resort of Verbier. The chosen ladettes soon find out that they have got their work cut out being a chalet girl, but still manage to indulge in some Apres Ski. Meanwhile the girls back at Eggleston have been set a strict regime of work and are rewarded with a quiet drink at the pub, but the girls just can't resist the lure of the local nightclub and local men... Once again another girl is asked to leave.

This week the teachers leave the five ladettes alone at Eggleston Hall to host a country house weekend. They will be provided with domestic staff including a butler and must lay on two days of well-planned hospitality for a selection of eligible bachelors. Leaving the ladettes in charge of Eggleston Hall is a huge gamble and there’s little sign they are up to the challenge. Taken to a smart bar in Harrogate by Etiquette teacher Liz Brewer the ladettes get plastered and Essex Hairdresser Frances Rowe flashes her breasts. The following morning they are confronted by cookery teacher Rosemary Shrager who asks if any of them really become ladies? Frances is chastened and she tearfully confesses all promising to turn over a new leaf. Over the next few days the ladettes are determined to show the staff that they can behave like responsible young adults and the prospect of some of their favourite bachelors coming to stay provides additional motivation. On Friday morning the staff leave the school and Frances Rowe is left in charge of the key. She’s determined to prove that she could be lady of the manor but scouser Louise Porter has other ideas and starts drinking almost as soon as the teachers have gone. By the time the guests arrive Louise is getting out of control and after dinner she tries to get everyone to play a risqué game called Bottom’s which involves blindfolding the bachelors and making them feel their hostess’s bottoms. Frances is having none of it and decorum briefly prevails. But the tension erupts in a ugly catfight in the early hours and the Frances and Louise have to be separated by their appalled guests. The following morning Principal Gill Harbord is called back to the school and one of the girls expelled. The four ladettes remaining, try hard to get the house party back on track and with the teachers due to return for the black-tie dinner dance on Saturday evening there’s everything to play for. Remarkably, the ladettes rise to the

It's the fifth and final week at Eggleston Hall and only three ladettes are left at the Finishing School. Now they face the ultimate challenge: to "come out" at a Debutantes' Ball. Wearing dresses they have made Eggleston Hall the ladettes will each make an entrance and be judged on their poise, grooming, confidence and elocution by a selection of aristocrats including Lady Alexandra Roche, Sir David Roche and Sir Tobias Clarke. The ladettes will come out alongside seven real debutantes and failure to measure up will result in public humiliation. It's the final test of whether Finishing School has worked and at the end of it one of the ladettes will be declared the winner. In addition to preparing for the Ball the girls must pass exams in all subjects in order to graduate. They've got just four days left to perfect their flower-arranging, elocution, deportment, and to make a gigantic seven-tiered cake which will be on display at the ball threatening to collapse spectacularly if they get it wrong. The Ball is being held at a grand country house in North Yorkshire. As the first debutantes make an entrance the staff are in despair: the competition looks insurmountable. But as the ladettes make an entrance in their stunning Lindka Cierach ball dresses they are truly unrecognisable. The girls have performed better than any of the teachers expected and the aristocrats are suitably impressed. And after five weeks the people who sent them to Eggleston Hall in the first place - their parents - arrive at the Ball to behold the finished articles. All that remains is for the teachers to decide who shall be declared the winner.