5 girls get their faces, boobs, bums and bodies rated by 3 hidden himbos. If the girls place themselves in the same order as the himbos placed them, then they win £500. And then the himbo's themselves strip off and get judged by the girls. Simple huh.
Blimey ! Do they really show this programme on terrestrial TV in 2005 ? Poor Channel 5, it took them 8 years to shake their image as the "Hitler and soft porn channel", and then they go and commission this. It's like some kind of bad trip back to the 1970's and the racial stereotyping of "Mind Your Language", except today of course, they will say the racism is 'ironic'.
The actress who hosts the show; Naoko Mori - whenever a British TV programme requires an 'Oriental of a non specific nationality', the unimaginative Casting Director sends out a call to Miss Mori's agent. And here she is cast here as "Mia" the Japanese 'Mama San' of the 5 girls about to strip off for the viewers (if she is the Madam then it implies that the girls themselves are....well work it out for yourself).
Her entire act is all sexual innuendo and racial stereotyping (just think the "Me love you long time G.I." hooker from 'Full Metal Jacket'), asking the himbo's to "lemember boys it is the girls bleasts you are lanking over" - oh, ho de ho ho ho, didn't Benny Hill also used to pretend to be an oriental and mix up his "r's" and "l's" 40 years ago ? It killed his career, it didn't get him a post-pub TV series on Friday nights.
Naoko Mori shames herself by helping to perpetuate old stereotypes of Oriental women. Whatever next Channel 5 ?, a Pakistani who says "A thousand apologies" ? A Chinaman who says "Ah So" ? A Black man who says "Yassir, me love watermelon" ?
Of course not ! So why is it acceptable to portray oriental women as hookers by proxy, with an inability to pronounce "r's" and "l's".