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Saturday 15 October 2011

Liverpool’s Big Fat Gypsy Wedding dressmaker gets to work on her own series

LIVERPOOL’S Big Fat Gypsy Wedding designer Thelma Madine has started training girls to make dresses for a new TV show. Filming is underway in the city for the new Apprentice-style series, Thelma’s Gypsy Girl. The Channel 4 show, made by Firecracker Films, will follow dressmaker Thelma as she takes on 10 inexperienced Traveller girls as trainees.
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