I'm Lucy off Made in Chelsea, and we're here for the Lipsy VIP collection.
And can you talk us through what made you want to get involved in this?
Um, I mean, I've always since I was probably about 16 worn Lipsy. It's a great brand. It's
very popular with my fans, and yeah it's such an honour to be asked to model their collection.
And obviously on Twitter, people talk about your style quite a lot.
Yeah.
What have you thought about as being your top fashion dos - maybe five or so - and your
top fashion don'ts.
Oh God. Um... Dos, I guess do wear something that is flattering. Don't necessarily follow
trends because I don't really that that's important. I think just wear what you want
really. Do not have your boobs out and your legs out at the same time. Luckily with this,
although it's slightly low, it's like quite knee length. What else? Do wear high street
because I love high street. I think there's a lot of great things, and you know, they
copy a lot of the designers, so... Don't wear black all the time. I tend to wear black like
all the time, and then I'm like I need to stop wearing black. I need to wear a colour
now. Yeah, I don't know. I can't think of anything else.
You must see yourself on screen obviously quite a lot, a lot more than you were used
to. Are there things that you've actually learned from seeing yourself? Like oh God
that doesn't work or that does.
Um... Yeah. I am very perfectionist, and when I watch myself it's very easy to get lost
in your criticisms, but I try to just be like whatever. My facial expressions have a way
of their own, and I've learned that I can't control them. So I have to just like accept
the fact that I'm going to have people tweeting or Instagramming me with pictures of my face
frozen in some like weird expression. So I've just learnt to deal with that.
I have the same face as you. It's like over-expressive. I can't hide anything.
It's like when people say they wear their heart on their sleeve. It's like I wear my
feelings on my face.
Can you do us your best happy Lucy Watson?
-Happy? -Yeah. Best happy expression.
And then like really angry.
Angry is like squinty. It's all in the eyes.
Jamie seems to get that expression a lot from you.
He annoys me so much. He makes me so angry. I think you are really close to someone, and
you have like a really good bond with them, they can make you so happy or they can make
you so angry. So yeah, he does bring out that side of me.
He makes me angry because as a girl, when I look at you, it's like you're really pretty.
You're quite empowered. Like you're doing your own thing. It's like how has he managed
to get away with these things because he's not even that fit.
You know what I mean? How is he doing this?
I don't really know. It's hard because I know that obviously he was a douche, but at the
end of the day, I told him I didn't want to be with him. So maybe I played a little bit
of the victim role and been like oh he's so mean to me. When realistically if someone
said to me, I don't want to be with you, I would go and do what I want to do. So I don't
think he's as bad as everyone thinks.
And me and the girl who sits next to me at work were discussing - you'll love this. We
were like the great thing about Lucy Watson is she's the only one that hasn't gone back
to Spencer.
Yeah.
We're like yay! Is that ever hard? Because he seems to have a way with words. I imagine
if I were drunk, I might like...
I think for me, I've learnt a lot from my past, and going back to someone is like the
most depressing thing you can do, and I like to sort of respect myself with my morals.
If someone I really care about hurts me like that, they don't deserve to have anything
to do with me in that way. So it's actually... The strength comes from experience. I wasn't
born this way.
Does he try and coerce you? He must do.
Yeah, I mean if I'm nice... If I give him an inch, he takes a mile or whatever it's
called. So, you know, we don't see each other that much, but I guess if I'm in a good mood
or we're out and about then I'm sure he would try, but yeah I think he knows nothing ever happens.
And obviously, we touched on earlier, poor Stephanie did fall for his charms a little
bit. How did that happen?
You know what? She actually didn't, and she really doesn't like the guy and doesn't want to be
with him or have feelings for him, but I think when we're that intoxicated and you're in
a hotel room which is next door to someone and you know emotions are flying, it's very
hard to not get caught up in it. They had a drunken kiss. I'm sure many of the viewers,
who are very judgemental, have been in similar situations before. So I think it's very harsh
some of the things that have been said. I'm very protective of her, so...
-She's lovely. -Yeah.
-She seems really sweet. -Yeah.
And obviously you touched on the viewers. How have you learned to handle things like
Twitter criticism and everyone seeming to have an opinion on your life? Because it's
still quite new for you.
Yeah, yeah still quite new. It feels like I've been doing it for years, but um...
I think it takes tough skin. It takes thick skin, and not everyone has it, but I'm lucky
enough that I do, so it doesn't really bother me. I mean, sometimes like the things that
people come up with, their insults are so inventive that I find it funny. I'm just like
how do you think of these things? But for me, I mean, I get quite an easy ride at the
moment. I don't' really get much criticism from people, so it's more the love and I focus
on that.
Horrible Twitter people aside, there's some quite horrible people in Made in Chelsea.
How do you handle being around Victoria?
-I'm not around her. -She's so mean.
I just don't even think about her in my life. She's not relevant to me. She's not on my
radar. She seems to spend a lot of her time finding ways to insult me and put me down,
and I think it's quite sad.
Looking towards the future, what sort of things do you think you might be interested in? Would
you like to go into fashion?
I would like to go into fashion. I'm so busy, I can't even think about... I mean, I've got
my jewellery line Creature, which is in the fashion sector, and it's doing really well.
I'm really proud of it, but it's hard work and it's very time consuming, so I really...
If I have time, I'd love to bring out a range, but I've got my book coming out and I've got
just like so many other things going on at the moment, so we'll see.
Where do you stand on Binky and Alex? Because for me I'm like oh no, you got taken for good.
It's really hard. I think everyone knows my advice. I think she knows my advice. It's
very difficult to hide my thoughts about it, but for me, I think she could do better, and
I think she deserves to be with someone who will treat her the way that she'll treat them.
I don't think what he's done is forgiveable, but it's really up to her. It's hard when
you love someone, and you want to be with them and you just see them as this great person,
no matter what they do. It's like unconditional I guess, but I can only advise. I can't control.
Can you tell us, for your fans, one thing about Lucy Watson that your fans might not know?
Um... I don't go out like hardly ever. I'm at home a lot.
Why?
In my free time, I like to be at home. I love sleep. I'm a horrible person when I've had
less than eight hours sleep, and I haven't had a nice meal, so...
I can relate to that.
Even like the worst that anyone's ever seen on TV.
Lastly, we touched on your fashion tips, but people also really compliment you on your
beauty and that kind of things. Do you have any beauty tips for your fans out there?
I think less is more when it comes to makeup. I think when you cake your face in foundation
and eye makeup and whatever, I think it looks bad. So I tend to just wear concealer over
blemishes, and under my eyes... I don't like to wear foundation. I'm wearing foundation
right now obviously, and I love like just a bright lip and not much else. I think that's
really good.