Anyone watch Rich Kid, Poor Kid last night?
car crash tv at its worst....

ooh no what channel was it on? I wonder if I can catch it on the catch up TV

Was on Ch 4 - Cutting Edge documentary about two teenage girls that lived on the same road - one from a very wealthy family and the other from a council estate.

ooh I expect it will be then...I'll definitely watch that one. Thanks Lois x

Be interested to know what you think - you certainly won't like the posh girl, that's for sure....!

I watched it, and I liked both of them. The rich kid started off as expected, a little up her own a*se, but she's a teenager so what did we expect? I was killing myself laughing at the "posh" parents, looking with horror when the other girl visited. They looked like she was going to nick all the silver. I remember as a little girl having a friend who lived in the "rough bit" and my mum hated it when they came round and I wasn't allowed to go to her house after her brother shot me in the knee with an air rifle - yes they were very nice people!!! I was so sad at the little brother sleeping on the floor, and wasn't it lovely when he got his own bed and was sooo chuffed with it! I think Natalie (I think - the "poor" one anyway) was brilliant. What a start she's had and what a great kid she is. Full of life and beans and I really wished lots of good things to happen for her, I doubt they will but she deserves and bit of a break. Not sure what the point of it was, but I did enjoy it.

I really liked Natatlie too Jo - but thought Alice, the posh kid, was awful. she thought being privileged made you superior - terrible attitude, unbelivable snob, no humility or empathy and very bitchy too. And her mother was just as vile.

But she did change her opinion when they were talking a bit later on in the show. She was shocked at some of the things the interviewer told her she'd said. I thought that showed a certain maturity and willingness to change.

Natalie was an amazing child who had to grow up well before her time - I felt so sad to see her little brother sleeping on a hard floor with two dogs running about - BUT - they were a very happy family and so down to earth... Alice was just like her mum - a snobby rich girl but at her age incredibly impressionable and just a teenager with lots of money!! I was pleased to see that she was embarrased about her thoughts at the beginning of the programme and that she continued to see Natalie... It did make me so sad to see how some people live - no bed for a child to sleep on :-(

Well I got round to watching this last night...made my blood boil. No wonder Alice was as she was (maybe still is in a lot of ways) - the vile progeny of such an awful woman (maybe man too, but seeing as he didn't feature as heavily it was difficult to gauge). As much as I was irked, I did chuckle a fair amount at the comments she made near the beginning, about the council areas being 'dangerous' (how many times did she want to use that word?!) and full of chavs. See, it's people like me that you need to be wary of lol. Natalie had a sweet nature, but I really felt for her, somewhere along the line her childhood got screwed up, probably as she suggested, when her Mum suffered from depression. Did fear for the aggression she blatently had simmering away at times. I'd have liked the filming to have gone ona bit longer really as I'm not 1000% convinced that the friendship would have continued to be as amicable as it appeared to be by the end of the programme, and that Alice's judgements and notions of superiority had faded too much.