“Why you so orange?”
“You’ve done so well for someone from Essex”
“Bet you’ll have a vajazzle” Bling, bling baby!
You’re so tacky!
Thanks.
“Bet you love a vajazzle” Oh my god!
If your fiancée got home and she had a Vajazzle...
I would just laugh.
You see it sometimes when you’re passing a beauty salon, like “Oh, ‘Vajazzles’
on the list.”
I’ve never seen it.
I have.
Never.
Do you know, I actually have thought about doing one.
You have?
I don’t like vaginas anyway, so if I saw a Vajazzle I’d be like, “Eurgh!
What is this?”
Like it would not be a thing.
But f I saw a 'Pejazzle', I would be like, “Oh, that’s a bit of glam, innit.”
You know the first time I ever heard that I was fourteen.
Fourteen.
That must have scarred you.
Does that mean you’re superficial or does that mean you really like your lady garden
shining bright, like a diamond?
“Did you get any GCSEs?”
Actually I got all my GCSEs, actually.
One, I have GCSEs.
Two, I may have a degree and I also have a good job.
I’m more cleverer than you think.
Yeah.
Hang on, ‘Cleverer’ is not a word, is it?
No.
This is the stereotype I come across all the time.
They said “ Would you like to go out sometime?
It’s unusual to meet someone intelligent from Romford.”
Oh wow.
Yeah.
I go, “Well actually I’ve won awards actually.
Yeah I have thank you very much” Since you’re from Essex you’re dumb, you’re
a bimbo, you have no aspirations, you have no drive.
And then they look at my tattoos, the quiff, the tan and they can’t quite put two and
two together.
Yeah . Well I did beauty at college.
Yeah.
And that’s so stereotypical of an Essex girl.
They’re looking at me and going, “Something doesn’t quite add up here.”
I didn’t go uni but I am proud of what I did.
Exactly . It comes down to what you perceive an architect
to be.
There are actually universities in Essex as well.
Yeah, exactly!
University of Essex is one.
“Shuuut up.”
Oh, shut up.
I actually say that, so like...
To be fair, I say that all time .. Yeah, me too.
Yeah when I do I just say, “ Fix up, look sharp ”, just to quote Dizzee Rascal.
You know when they have a juicy bit of gossip or something like, “Shuut up” you know.
Dizzee Rascal, though?
You know it’s, “Fix up, look sharp” sounds quite similar “Fix up, look sharp.”
Shut up.
Sounds like sharp.
Everyone in Essex doesn’t have that same voice.
When you get a Russian mum and say to her, “ Shut up.”
She always goes, “ What?”
Especially if someone tells me something shocking, I’m like, “ Shut up,” and I might even
repeat myself and be like, “Shut up.”
Not everyone says it in Essex.
YExactly.
My mum is African, so she is not gonna be like “ Shut up.”
She’s just more like “Shut up.”
Especially, it’s “shut up” or “do you know what I mean?”
I am a ‘whateverer’ . I do say ‘whatever’.
Do you know what I mean?
I say it all the time.
Do you know what I mean?
'Peng, butters'.
“You alright, babes?”
“She’s a right sort.”
“You alright, love?”
Love.
Or a 'salty potato'.
‘Dabble’, that’s a bit of slang I use.
‘Dabble’, yeah.
And there’s another that ... People think we use ‘reem’ all the time.
“Do you say reem a lot?” and I’m like, “no.”
“You’re so reem.”
You know I actually got ‘reem’ socks from Primark.
Reem socks?!
“Why you so orange?”
I mean…
First of all I’m black . I knew that was coming.
Oh my god, was that referring to me?
Yeah, why you so orange?
It’s not orange babes it’s a different shade of gold.
I am so immune to seeing orange people I don’t really, “ Oh look it's just orange”,I
don’t notice it.
Until you see the hands and then you’re like, “oh my god”.
People do, even men get spray tans.
I’ve been out and I’ve thought, “that tan is a bit suspect mate.”
Literally at lunchtime, they’ll be like, “I’ll be back in 15!”
They go and they come back.
Literally they go white and they come back orange.
Well not orange but you know, golden.
I have seen the odd few walking around town like literally, “Have you been tangoed?”
“You’re so tacky” I think I’m like, more like glamorous.
I’m just normal.
I see a lot of white, fake white Christmas trees in Essex.
I had a pink Christmas tree in my house.
You know people actually compliment my style and stuff and then you might throw in like
a, “Oh you’re from Essex”, and they go, “Huh”, they kind of give you a look.
The whole Essex girl thing with the blonde hair, big round Pat Butcher earrings.
People have this vision of what they see on TOWIE which is like ...
The hair extensions and the stilettos and the fake eyelashes and the full face of makeup.
When actually it’s not, like...
Oh to be honest I’m a little bit like that.
I mean as you were going, I was like “Hmm fake tan, eyelash, bling, big hair...”
But then I’m an Essex girl.
I’ve definitely not got blonde hair.
Underneath here is black and red hair, you’d be interested to know.
You know what there is nothing wrong with a little bit of bling.
And a head scarf.
Do you have any Pat Butcher earrings?
Ok no I didn’t wear them today actually, so it’s a good shout.
I’m so Essex.
Yeah.
I’ve never worn white stilettos in my entire life.
Neither have I . And the fact that my white stilettos are at
home in the cupboard as well, it’s just like...
“You sound thick” All the time like.
No.
That’s my answer.
No I don't sound thick.
And I’m thinking “Well do you know what you sound like?”
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah they sort of laughing at my voice, “What you laughing at?”
“Oh you know you just sound so London or Essex.”
I always get pulled up about my accent, I’m a receptionist, as well.
So people are like “Are you from Essex?”
“You don’t sound really Essex.”
If I went into work like today and just changed my accent, let’s see if people take me seriously.
Not everyone sounds like TOWIE people.
“Hello, darling, how may I help you?”, and they'll be like, “Hello? Have I got
the right number?”
Best thing about Essex is that it’s way more diverse than people think.
Yeah.It is.
Way more diverse.
I’m well proud to be from Essex, I love it.
It’s absolutely gorgeous, you’ve got loads of beaches.
A lot, yeah.
So many different races.
Different religions.
Religions.
Hairstyles, vajazzles.
You know, you’ve got loads of country parks.
And I love like, the fact that you can go out in to Romford with your rollers in.
I love being from Essex, it’s awesome and I would not trade it at all.
Yeah.