OK, it’s confession time. Between you and me, dear readers, I don’t mind Brynne Edelsten. This revelation hit me during last year’s Brownlow coverage, when the wife of 69-year-old millionaire Geoffrey Edelsten showed up in yet another too-low-too-short outfit and strutted and posed for photographers on the red carpet with the confidence many of the footballers’ girlfriends didn’t possess.
Of course, if you’re a fan of timeless, classy, elegant fashion, she looked rather ridiculous. But Brynne knew what had been said about her in the past – and probably what was being said about her on social media at that exact moment – and simply didn’t care.
Edelsten is perfect fodder for a fly-on-the-wall TV series, and the kind folk at Channel Seven have delivered with the suitably titled Brynne: My Bedazzled Life.
It’s easy to draw comparisons with Being Lara Bingle, the last program in which we were encouraged to watch a famous woman go about her day to day life. But there’s a big difference between the two.
In Bingle’s program, we discovered that away from the limelight she’s a normal girl from the suburbs who stresses over her love life and what her grandmother thinks of her.
By contrast, Edelsten’s life is, for want of a better term, truly bedazzled.
In the first episode, she realises she has $250,000 worth of clothes lying around that she hasn’t so much as tried on.
This week, Brynne embarks on her first speaking engagement, at her husband’s book launch.Somewhat surprisingly, she has the crowd laughing along when she lists each page she is referenced on, and then ponders where she was for some of his career milestones, before concluding ‘‘that’s right, I wasn’t born yet’’. Elsewhere, her beloved pooch Juddy (yes, named after Chris Judd) goes to doggy training school, she rehearses for a play and she employs ex-Collingwood footballer Paul Licuria.
My Bedazzled Life may not be the most credible TV program of all time, but it sure is entertaining.
Seven, Thursday, 7.30pm
