Monday 23 August, 10:45pm on Five
Concluding on Channel Five this week is the series following the lives of the Chawners, who became one of Britain’s most reviled families when their lazy lifestyle hit the headlines after daughter Emma’s disastrous X Factor audition. Lorraine Kelly steps in to give the obese family a much-needed chance to turn their lives around. Weighing in at a combined total of 91 stone, the Chawners are the family the nation loves to hate. They were brought into the limelight after daughter Emma’s unforgettable 2008 X Factor audition, which ended in abject failure. Undeterred, Emma has returned every year since, leading to the exposure of the family of four’s food-binging, benefits-dependent lifestyle. However, Lorraine Kelly believes that the muchderided family – dad Phil, mum Audrey, and daughters Emma and Sam – deserve another chance. Along with a team of experts, including celebrity chef Aldo Zilli and a range of top doctors, dentists and trainers, Lorraine takes the family under her wing. But will the Chawners seize this unique chance to transform their lives and health, or will their critics ultimately be proved right? In this week’s concluding episode, the family’s fivemonth long ordeal draws to an end, but Lorraine has one final trick up her sleeve to motivate them to lose even more weight. Emma is invited to sing in front of a 30,000-strong crowd at the switching on of the Christmas lights in Leeds, and the event will provide an opportunity for the Chawners to prove to the world that they have slimmed down and shaped up. Lorraine ropes in top voice coach David Gregory to help Emma get her voice up to scratch and learn her lines, yet days before her big night she is struggling to do either. Meanwhile, GMTV stylist Mark Heyes is enlisted to give the family a muchneeded makeover. Mark has a gigantic task before him – after years of obesity, the Chawners have been left with absolutely no confidence. Longsuffering Sam even breaks down in tears when she sees herself in a full-length mirror for the first time.