Epic fail

Very unfortunate, I'm ashamed to say I know one or two people who... dare I say it, are hooked on The Only Way is Essex AND Made In Chelsea.
The biggest problem is, as much as ^ & ^ are frankly repulsive and pretty low-grade/shallow programs, I found myself watching a couple of episodes of Chelsea out of pure disbelief. You end up spending the entire hour pondering the question - Could/do people like this actually exist?

These people may, and most likely do exist, but these are not the people that in the programs. They are all characters. Most of the storyline in MiC is fabricated and most of the cast are generally nice people in real life. You don't seem to be able to realise that they are tv programmes, made in order to entertain by way of stereotyping and exaggeration. as scoot said, just like nathan barley...