Saturday, November 1, 2008
Sugar Rush Season Two
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Sugar more Sugar, Please...part 2

How important is the show to the lesbian community?
Lenora: The feedback we’ve had tells us it's been really important. We went to the Stonewall awards and several women came up to us and said it was so refreshing to see lesbians just being girly, being teenagers and they’re not all you know stereotypical with shaved heads and burning their bras ... being ‘lesbians’ [laughter]. Sugar Rush didn’t feed into all those stereotypes and for the lesbian community that was important and refreshing because they are not represented on TV. Sugar Rush didn’t set out to be politically correct or make a stand, it created its own little world where the storylines happened.
Olivia: I still get letters now from girls saying thank you. It’s really touching to have these lovely letters. A lot of girls say I helped them, and they can relate to Kim because they were going through the same thing. They tell me their life stories, it’s like they think I am Kim.
Lenora: We are in a society now where TV is a whole culture. It affects everyone’s lives and if there is nothing on TV representing you it’s a massive problem. Everyone has got their thing, whether you’re into pop music or rock music you have always got something. So for young teenage girls struggling with their sexuality Sugar Rush was that. It was something to identify with and to relate to whether or not it was exactly right. It broke a taboo.
What sort of letters do you get from fans?
Olivia: They write about them and their girlfriend going to Brighton and visiting all the spots from the show. They go to the Munch Box, which isn’t the Munch Box and are very upset it isn’t. They remember things that even I don’t remember! They sent me the photos. I get really, really, really positive letters.
Lenora: Yes, it’s lovely stuff. One young girl wrote to me and asked me to wear her necklace in Sugar Rush. It was very touching because she just loved the show. She wasn't a lesbian at all and wasn’t struggling with anything. The necklace had big green bits on it and she wrote “It’s really colourful and Sugar’s character is really colourful so I thought you can wear it in a scene”. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to sneak it into one of the scenes.
What would you consider your highlights of the show?
Lenora: There are just so many!
Olivia: Oh, the freezing nights on the beach...
Lenora: Yes, they were hard nights on Brighton seafront. It was filmed in February March time and Sugar’s not one for practicality with her stilettos...
Olivia: There are some scenes where I can see in post-production I'm slurring a bit because I was so cold [laughter]. I remember thinking “I really can’t feel my hands now”, they were like purple.
Lenora: One scene that really stands out is when Sugar and Kim start pole dancing! That was good fun because we had some real pole dancers in telling us how to do it and what the moves were called. Me and Olivia were just having a laugh, but they took it really seriously.
Olivia: There are lots of highlights just because we were all so close; it was like a family after two years.
Channel 4 say the decision to cancel the show is based on the lack of a scheduling slot. What Channel 4 programme would you have Sugar Rush replace?
Lenora: Take your pick! Big Brother, Big Brother, Big Brother’s Little Brother, Big Brother’s Brain, Big Brother’s arm and leg! [laughter]
Olivia: It’s because they want to make Big Brother longer. So now Big Brother’s going to be on from 10pm to 11pm [when Sugar Rush was on].
Lenora: I think half an hour of Big Brother is more than enough! I'm not taking anything away from Big Brother – it’s Channel 4's biggest show and obviously it makes sense to make it a priority, but I think there is room for non-reality TV as well.
Olivia: I don’t think it should replace a show but it should be given a time slot. It’s such a shame.
Lenora: It was an asset to Channel 4. I don't think Channel 4 recognises Sugar Rush was a brave move and did really well for the channel.
When the second series finished did you think there wouldn't be a third series?
Both: No!
Lenora: Especially the way we leave series two [with Sugar moving in with Kim and Saint], it sets things up for series three. It was sort of a last minute thing [for Channel 4 to cancel the show].
Do you have any message for your fans?
Lenora: Thank you very much for the support and for the open-mindedness; for giving Sugar Rush a chance and accepting it and having fun with it. To everyone it touched I think the most important thing, whether you’re gay or not, is to be true to yourself. Find your own truth, and just have the strength whether you’re gay, straight, black, white, green or blue. Especially if you’re green or blue! [laughter]
Olivia: When I went into Sugar Rush I really didn’t have any idea how it would turn out. We were all a bit unsure and when we saw the finished product we didn’t know how people were going to take it. The response has been fantastic so thank you for watching and thank you for all your support and boo to Channel 4! [laughter].
Finally, we have a friend in America called Arlan who sells these great t-shirts saying. “I'd go gay for...” If you had to wear one whose name and picture would be on it?
Lenora: [laughs] Olivia ...
Olivia: [laughs] Yes, I'd pick you too ...
But if you couldn’t pick each other?
Olivia: Jessica Alba.
Lenora: Let me think, there are just so many beautiful women! I think Angelina Jolie is just stunning, stunning, stunning ...
Good girls, with the latter part of the interview with the girls from Sugar Rush we announced that from next week we will start to put the episodes of the second season of Sugar Rush, we hopefully enjoy them ...
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Sugar more Sugar, Please...


Olivia: I went along to the audition not knowing anything about the show apart from a few scenes. I got called back and read the full script and thought, “Wow, this is really something different.” The role of Kim was a young girl coming to terms with her sexuality and I thought it’d be a real challenge and tried to do the part justice. Kim really appealed to me because of what she was going through in general, regardless of her sexuality.
Lenora: I came in pretty late, towards the end. They’d been auditioning for Sugar for months and months and I’d been working on The Bill while all the auditioning had gone on. When I first heard about it I thought it was a children’s show for CITV [laughter] Yeah! I thought I was too grown up and I can’t do children’s TV and then I read the scripts and thought “Ah, maybe not!” We didn’t get given much of the script until we were both cast, and my second time in I read with Olivia. We had more of an idea about what it was going to be but I think for everybody involved it was really new territory. We didn’t know how it would be, what the response would be and how it was going to be received. Even as we were filming scripts were changing quite dramatically and we were getting new feedback.
Olivia: On our first day of filming we were thinking, “What the hell are we doing?!” We do a lot of improvisation...
Lenora: Which really helped. Everyone was bit like “let’s just see how we go and make it up as we go along.”

Olivia: When I heard the words ‘lesbian drama’ I thought “ok, WHAT?!!” [laughter] I did initially think it was going to be a late night programme so it’ll be excuse to see two girls getting it on …
Lenora: For boys really...
Olivia: Then as I read the script it wasn’t like that at all, which is why it appealed to me so much.
Lenora: The main thing, especially in the first series, is that Sugar is only sexy in Kim’s eyes, which makes the whole thing very innocent. Like when she’s eating a hotdog - and Sugar is not the most graceful person - she’s shoving this hotdog down her throat and Kim is getting so turned on and it’s all in slow motion and wave machines. But because it’s Kim and because she’s struggling with things its take the edge off and that’s what made it ok.

[laughter]
Olivia: Do you know I didn’t! If I had done that then maybe I wouldn’t have been able to be as natural in the part. I thought ok, yes, she has fallen in love with a woman, and yes these feelings are universal. I just imagined Lea was Brad Pitt! [laughter] I put my own feelings into it and treated it as Kim’s in love with Sugar. Obviously I thought about the lesbian aspect as Kim was coming to terms with her sexuality but that was just part of the storyline. I didn’t really focus on that to be honest.
Lenora: Kim is a teenager before she’s a lesbian, she is just a teenager. She has the same shit going on as every other teenager. So your crush, whether it’s the same sex or not, it a big deal and especially when it’s your best friend.

Olivia: It really struck a cord with people...
Lenora: It was funny and tender and honest and colourful. It was refreshing. When we’d finished filming we kept asking Johnny Capps [the producer] what it was like? He said, “I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not like Hollyoaks, it’s not like EastEnders, it’s not like anything on TV at the moment” and when we watched it we thought it’s different and there’s no issue it won’t touch. One minute you’re laughing the next minute you’re thinking, “oh that’s really quite sad”. Everything is a bit bitter sweet, a bit like Stella [Kim’s mother]; as a mum is brilliant, she is so funny but she is awful you know? So, dysfunctional...
Olivia was your portrayal of a young lesbian woman accurate?
Olivia: I hope so, I should ask the audience really ...
It is scary how accurate some of it was...
[laughter]
Olivia: ... [smiling] I think I did an alright job.

Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008

Hi Lesplanet's girls, we bring you a new episode of sugar rush, we are nearing the end of the first season.
Today we will see the number 9 chapters of this entertaining series, in which we can see:
Kim has tried to do the best, but it is difficult. Especially when your mother is a whore who just returned home because they had no place to go. She meets another girl named Beth, with whom things seem to flow and go well. Finally Kim received a call from Sugar.
We hope enjoy it ...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Sugar Rush episode 8
Kim is determined to pull his stupid Sugar is completed. To the extent thinks, Sugar is a bitch, selfish and manipulative. Kim tries to free itself from its obsession with Sugar.
In this chapter we see among other things ...
They went a night of partying and Sugar kisses to Kim while they dance together.
Kim tries after his failure with Sugar things back to normal and removed by this obsession with what she goes to a group where talks are against homosexuality and how to avoid it.
Kim's mother returned to her home and reconciles with his father.
Here you put the chapter, I hope you enjoy it.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Sugar Rush episode 7
Thanks imlivininwonderland for your great work
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Sugar Rush episode 6 Coming out not
In this episode Sugar wants to escape to Paris with her new lover, Guillaume. Kim knows that Guillaume does not care a cucumber Sugar, and the only way to stop Sugar is to put things in clear, and clarify that he lied in the translation of what he confessed and told the nice things that had put she.
Finally Sugar realizes Kim's feelings towards her.
Here you put the chapter to enjoy it.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
sugar rush episode 5 My life sucks
Kim feels trapped in his feelings. His parents Stella and Nathan have been separated, the father of Kim discovered the infidelity of Stella's father Kim gone a Stella of the house and this very depressed at the same time as both Nathan Stella put Kim in the middle of their disputes, using it as a messenger. Sugar Guillaume knows a student of languages who do not speak English and used an interpreter Sugar, which draws very funny scenes.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sugar Rush 4 episode Sugar ain´t too good
The problem comes when Kim comes to realize that Sugar has stuck with the crabs when she slept in her home, also gets the treatment to combat them, to make matters worse his mother goes to an appointment by putting some pants Kim, and guess who occurs ... These crabs really become a nightmare for the entire family of Kim, and that goes from person to person in the house, coming to create a real family crisis.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
SUGAR RUSH THIRD EPISODE
This chapter is called Secrets: Kim can not more with her heating and makes it take desperate measures, such as drug Sugar, to be able to submit all their wishes. He does this happen after that Sugar, tells this drunk when she can not remember anything that ever happens or when it with the kids.
In his desperate attempt Kim ending drugs to his brother.
Monday, June 16, 2008
SUGAR RUSH SECOND EPISODE
Now in Chapter 2 Sugar Sex and Love:
Saturday, June 7, 2008
SUGAR RUSH FIRST EPISODE
Kim is tired of having to see Sugar dating guys in front of their noses, so we decided to try the boys as well, and knows that the decorator contract his mother a boy atletico handsome, and decides to ask for help Sugar to help, but surprises his mother Stella, in a very compromised position with the decorator at the kitchen table ...
We also know to Tom's son gay neighbors who is a fan of Kim.
Kim is tired of having to shut up and see how sugar lie down with all the guys he wants and that also does not have the courage to tell his father that his mother was unfaithful.