Sally Ridge

The channel has touted them as the "most talked about mother and daughter duo in New Zealand; tabloid fodder and twitter targets who are famous for being famous." With promotional material asking: "But who are Sally and Jaime Ridge…really? Vacuous, shallow, attention seekers who grace the Sunday gossip columns week after week? Or simply misunderstood? A dysfunctional mother/daughter relationship? Or are a close parent and child who love spending time together?". The show begins filming where Sally has just purchased a rundown, mouse-ridden 13 bedroom boarding house and needs to get it liveable for her family of four children to move in, while Jaime is invited to fight in a high profile boxing event. With just five weeks to train.

During promotion of the show the Ridges have been labelled as attention-seekers, but Sally has responded by saying "For some reason people think we're desperate fame-seekers but 90 per cent of the time when we're in the public eye it's either for work or not of our doing. It's the media choosing to write about us". An early review published in the Herald on Sunday's Spy column called the first episode - in which Sally renovates their new home and Jaime models lingerie - as "laugh out loud funny". Read Less