Gok Wan launched his new series, Miss Naked Beauty, on Channel 4 last night. In it, a group of women took part in an alternative beauty contest stripped of make-up and beauty products. However, there was something of a whiff of hypocrisy about it as while the contestants were told to take all their make-up off, and pilloried when they put it back on, the two female judges who were sitting in judgement on them - Observer columnist Kathryn Flett and singer Mica Paris - were swathed in make-up themselves. Wan and fellow presenter Mylene Klass were also heavily made up. Meanwhile, the commercial breaks were full of ads for beauty products. Monkey only hopes that next week the judges and presenters could be persuaded to appear sans make-up themselves.
