Made in Chelsea, Series 7 Episode 7 Review

A day later than usual but unfortunately assignments have taken over my life this week. However, there is always time to squeeze in an episode of Made in Chelsea. And what an episode it was! After last week’s slight deflation, this week certainly made up for any lack of juiciness! It’s one of those where your jaw is permanently locked into a shocked position throughout the entire show.

So we start off on the night of Louise’s birthday party, of which she is late too. Her posh pals organised some kind of gig to celebrate her 24 years of life. It would seem that the attention was not so much on Louise though. Despite it being her birthday, Binky and Cheska are interrupted by a certain Spencer Matthews who attempts to ‘sashay’ his way over to speak to Binky. He is soon to realise that this was probably the worst decision he could have made after Binky lays into him about how he has been a bad friend and not stood by her through the whole Alex situation.

Sam tries, once again, to tell Stevie how it is “so hard” to see him with his ex-girlfriend, Riley. But this time, he wastes no time in telling Stevie how he is now also interested in another female (poor girl!), so Stevie definitely doesn’t have to worry about Sam Thompson trying to steal back his girl. As if that was ever going to happen anyway.

Spencer’s back in the bad books

Stevie couldn’t look more uninterested in what Sam is saying

On the topic of Riley, she continues to blossom as Lucy’s new intern to the point in which they discuss Jamie and Lucy’s first kiss which is conveniently interrupted by the stud himself. He graces the girls with his presence and a bag full of sweet treats and makes an unconcerted effort to snap up Riley as his new intern. I think the phrase “I will poach her. Like an egg,” was what he used to try and win himself a new companion. Nice work Jamie.

Now we know we can always count on Stephanie with her trademark introductory line, “Hey asshole”, when it comes to greeting Spencer. And this week she certainly didn’t let us down. Cutting back to Louise’s party, she continues to inform him of how she feels disgusted by his actions – to which he felt an appropriate reply would be to invite her to live back with him. This part has to make MIC history. Stephanie wastes no time in immediately turning her back and walking off in the opposite direction. No words were needed. The reaction on Spencer’s face was enough!

Yes, those are definitely real tears.

Lucy struggles to hold back her tears when discussing with Jamie how she feels the other girls are ganging up on her. Poor girl, she is only trying to do the best for Binky and she’s being targeted as the bad guy. But there’s no need to panic because Jamie is there with a shoulder to cry on. So much for these two hating each other?!

Meanwhile, much to everyone else’s horror, Binky and Alex are out on a date. He continues to grovel and asks what he can do to try and make it up to her. FOUR times he has cheated. That’s a lot of making up to do Mytton. It’s a good job you’re a Chelsea boy, eh! She begins revealing her list of ‘wants’, starting with presents, holidays, surprises. Wait a second Binks, have you not had enough surprises from Alex over the last few weeks?!

“I want presents, holidays and surprises”

Now it wouldn’t be a true episode of Chelsea without some form of awkward conversation/chat/dinner/date. This week we saw Sam and Spencer sitting, coincidently, around a table for 4 with just the 2 of them supposedly having a catch up. It takes a few minutes for Sam to reveal that he has in fact set up his very own double date with his new fancy girl and her friend. They arrive, both in pastels, with long blonde hair and Spencer already looks guilty. Has he slept with either of them? … Of course he has! We’re not really too sure which one as they both look the same, but nevertheless he has already had some fun with one of them. Sam, once again, is left crestfallen. Your time will come Sam, one day.

An overly awkward double date

An overly awkward double date

Stevie’s birthday is rapidly approaching and Andy, Lucy and Proudlock have obviously got a surprise up their sleeves. And whilst they are busy planning, Jamie meets with Alex to get the low-down on the latest with him and Binky. For once he gives some advice that we all agree with. That he should not get back with Binky as if any more indiscretions are revealed, it will destroy her. AGREED.

Binky later meets with Lucy for what soon turns into a mini showdown. She begins accusing Lucy of getting kicks out of her bad news, to which she replies with a killer line: “Are you afraid of me, or are you afraid of the truth?” Ooooo. This continues and Lucy is accused of being stuck-up and arrogant. Ouch. There’s no wonder that she releases another set of real, human tears. Twice in one episode? It must be serious.

“Are you afraid of me or are you afraid of the truth?”

I told you this was a juicy episode, and now is where it really starts to live up to its name.

SURPRISE! Stevie’s surprise party is in full swing, thanks to his nearest and dearest in Chelsea. Riley greets him with a handmade card (how sweet) and the cake has a full-blown photo of his baby face on it. Aww! One of the blonde bombshell’s (I couldn’t tell you which one) approaches Sam and Spencer in a rather ‘something huge is about to happen’ kind of way. And so it did. She kindly dropped the news that Spencer’s involvement with Christiana (the other blonde one) was in fact more recently than he thought. The other night to be exact. Straight after they’d been for their double date and Sam had explained his interest in her. UH OH SPENNY! Sam responded in the same way as most of the other girls did once they found out Spencer had cheated on them: drink in the face. Well done Sam. That was probably the best we’ve seen from you all series.

SURPRISE!

Did someone say orgy?

Pretty much straight after the drink-to-the-face scene, Spencer is seen chatting to Alex and Binky. Lucy, armed with Stephanie, Louise and Rosie, approaches the trio with a fairly unimpressed expression across her face. At this point, hearts are racing, palms are getting sweaty as Lucy is about to reveal the ultimate bombshell that Chelsea has seen in a while. Spencer and Alex have just awarded themselves as the biggest, cheating scumbags to ever walk through Chelsea. MASSIVE ORGY. Yes, that’s right. The news is broken that they had an orgy with several other girls on the week that Binky and Alex were on a break. WHAT?! With a little helpful prompting from Lucy, Binky is left to hear the devastating news of Mytton’s antics. He continues to protest that he can’t remember (haven’t heard that one before) but Binky rightly puts him in his place with the moment that we’ve all been waiting for. SLAP! You go girl!

They’ve got some living up to do in next week’s episode. Come on E4, don’t let us down!

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Well after last week’s antics in Venice, this week’s episode was certainly no show stopper. After we saw Alex stroll out of Binky’s house with a sense of pride written all over his face, there was no need to guess what they had been up to. She’s left laying across her bed with dog Scrumble cuddled in her arms, likely to be deciding whether she’s done the right thing .. Er no Binky.

Riley continues to be the hot topic this week as she’s interviewed, and then appointed, as Lucy’s new intern. She manages to get her new lover Stevie in trouble after he pays her a visit at her new workplace, only to be soon sent in the opposite direction by boss lady, Lucy.

Mummy Felstead isn’t impressed with Binky’s antics

Binky is not only scared to tell everyone about her naughty antics last night, but especially the one and only Mummy Felstead. They meet for a chat (and champagne) which soon turns into an emotional mother/daughter moment that is soon interrupted by love rat Mytton. From here she moves to a girls get together with Louise and Stephanie (Yay she’s still here!) discussing not only getting back with Alex, but also the new excitement of a netball match. “What the f*ck is netball?” Stephanie howls in her overly American accent. Bless her! The girls had arranged a netball match for that afternoon which was sure to be entertaining in itself!

Andy and Stevie turn up as ‘spectators’ – more like the judges for Chelsea’s next top model as they stand and rate the girls’ legs as if they’re back at primary school. Stephanie won, surprise surprise, closely followed by Riley but that was certainly Stevie’s influence. Alex surprises Binky by turning up to the match. Nice move Mytton, turn up to a place where every girl (apart from Binky) wants to scratch your eyes out and punch you in the face. Nevertheless, he stayed as a spectator and dismissed any sly comments from the girls.

Rating legs. Primary school games.

At least someone is happy to see him!

Meanwhile Stephanie tells Lucy about Binky and Alex’s hookup and soppy Sam also strolls into the court. Horrified that Stevie is watching Riley play, he keeps it short and sweet, stated that he expected an apology (is he serious?) and soon left after being shut down by both Stevie and Andy. When will he learn?

Lucy is finally confronted by Binky to explain about her recent night with Alex. Unaware that she already knew (thanks to Stephanie), Lucy is sure to put her point across and comes back with 2 more acts of cheating that are supposedly related to Alex. Uh oh. Binky is determined to have it out with Alex for one last time and arranges to meet him at the weekly Chelsea party after he comes up with some plausible excuse not to explain to her over the phone.

In the meantime, Louise finds herself putting a dark cloud of Lucy’s head as she is asked by new boy Edo who she is. Predictably, it gets back to Lucy and she wastes no time in storming over to confront Louise about what she has just said. Obviously there had to be one shouting match/bitch fight, and this was the time. Lucy yells to Louise that she should be supporting Binky rather than brainwashing her to get back with Alex. Rosie soon steps in which certainly didn’t go down well as Lucy begins yelling at her too. Let’s all just calm down and have a glass of wine, girls. It’s meant to be a party!

That face says it all. Don’t mess with Lucy Watson

Alex arrives and Binky takes her chance to speak to him. Much to audience shock, he admits to cheating 3 more times, yes 3. What a scumbag. Hats off to her for holding it together so well, but what’s his excuse? Of course, he blacked out. Oh Alex, just when we thought once was bad enough.

 

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After last week’s shock revelations of Alex’s cheating scandal, there was no surprise that this week was going to be a tear jerker – get the tissues ready girls!

At what seemed like a slight anti-climax at the beginning of the episode, Binky made the decision to fly to New York for a few days with her Mum and sister. Despite desperately wanting to get through the cheating, heart breaking situation, Binky was sure to flee the city in the hope to clear her head. But don’t worry, she comes back later on in the episode.

Meanwhile, much to audience shock, Louise and Spencer take a nice shopping trip together (yes, just the two of them). The newly reformed BFFs seemed to be getting along just fine, so much so that Spencer even invited his “Porg” (Person of Restricted Growth) to lunch with him and his new love interest, Emma Miller. Louise certainly didn’t hold back when it came to telling Emma the kind of boyfriend Spencer is and the extent of his unfaithful ways. That sure is one way to get your own back!

Spencer and Louise take a shopping trip together

Spencer invites Louise to lunch with Emma

Now, everyone knows Stevie for his chilled out, laid back kind of personality – he’s not one to get too involved with the weekly Chelsea dramas. However, he found himself in the centre of the ring during this week’s episode. After being the first person to reveal the possibility of Alex’s cheating, and being the first person to supposedly be aware of the female culprit, the rest of the boys made it their responsibility to make Stevie aware that he should have warned Alex that if he was not to own up/explain the rumours to Binky, then Cheska (or any of the other girls) will be more than happy to do so. And as a matter of fact, Alex was confronted by Lucy on her walk home from a bar. Living up to her fiery, don’t-mess-with-me attitude, she was sure to annihilate him and grill him of his actions.

Remember Stephanie Pratt? One of Spencer’s ex-flings. The American one. Well she’s back in London whilst travelling Europe with her muscular, model ‘friend’ (he’s called Eric). Now ever since her and Lucy have become the best of friends, and joined at the hip through the powers of technology, Watson was the first person that she saw after landing in the UK. A minor detail which later opens a whole can of worms, is that nobody is aware of her visit (uh oh, this is only going to end badly). Rosie hosts a black tie ball, featuring Mark Francis and his signature Waltz, which Lucy and Stephanie chose to use as their opportunity to drop the bombshell of her whereabouts. Obviously everyone is at this party, including Spencer and Emma Miller. Dressed in her finest ball gown, she enters the venue with a classic Chelsea one-liner, “Hey ass-hole”. Spencer’s face was a picture. The sheer shock to have a considerable number of ex-girlfriends/flings in the same room was almost too much for him to handle – especially when Stephanie gave him the grilling that she did. Spencer was left gawping, with not a clue in the world where to look, what to say, let alone what to do (first time for everything!)

Stephanie gives Spencer the grilling he deserves

Simultaneously, Binky arrives home from New York and finally plucks up the courage to have her dreaded meeting with love-rat, Alex. He mumbles a whole bunch of nothing and begins to weep so it’s left to Binky to get loud, angry and explain how much of a coward he is. “He should be the one grovelling.” It’s hard to not agree with her but it looks as though he is looking for an easy way out. However something tells me this is not the last we’ll see of these two.

Alex supposedly trying to salvage his relationship

Binky breaks down after hearing Alex’s nonsense

 

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So after last week’s bland(ish) plot line, this week certainly cranked it up a notch. It’s London Fashion Week and Mark Francis is in his element. Much to his despair, Binky’s lack of interest and enthusiasm towards fashion was definitely put to the test whilst watching the model’s parade up and down the cat walk – one of which was Emma Miller, last week’s fresh face and Spencer’s new love interest.

Binky, Louise and Mark Francis at London Fashion Week

Everyone’s favourite, Binky’s Mum Jane, met up for a secret coffee and ‘catch up’ to discuss the cheating rumours. Whilst Binky was unaware of this, her and Louise also met up for coffee to discuss last week’s most exciting part, the single’s dinner party. It would appear that Chelsea’s newest dating partners are soon to be Robbo and Louise (that’s if Alex and Binky have their way).

Meanwhile Spencer, a man of many good ideas (hmm), organised a double date with Emma, Jamie, and Emma’s friend Victoria Gucci (yes, some relation of the founder of Gucci but far too complex to explain). To be expected, this turned out to be somewhat awkward and disastrous, but nevertheless, Jamie turned up to Lucy’s birthday party with an unexpected plus one the next day (Victoria) and Spencer took Emma for a more sophisticated meal for two. This also backfrired on Spenny after confessing his true feelings for Emma led to the ultimate pie on her behalf – I’m not sure if Spencer has ever been rejected in such a hostile situation!

So as Binky and Alex push past all the cheating rumours and their matchmaking skills are in full swing with Louise and Robbo, Cheska is informed of some shocking information which is set to break Binky and Alex apart forever. Before the cosy nights of double dates are under-way, Cheska struggles to find a way to tell Binky the news that is sure to break her heart. Uh oh, we all know what this is going to be…

…Yes, you’ve got it, he’s a cheat. Inside information meant that Cheska was able to find out who the girl was and where exactly this happened. And where better to drop the bombshell than at Lucy’s birthday party. The dreaded “Can I talk to you in private?” made an appearance and Binky instantly broke down. But can we blame her? Alex was the trustworthy one, the one we had our hopes up for. In true Chelsea fashion, it didn’t take long before Alex was on the scene and questioned why his girlfriend was beside herself. Is he stupid? Obviously he knows what is the matter.

Who would cheat on Binky?

Who would cheat on Binky?

Well it didn’t take long for him to come clean (almost) and try to excuse himself by stating that he has had nights where he ‘doesn’t remember anything’. He was soon to clear Cheska from the scene and attempted to comfort Binky – of which she was having none of it (you go, girl!) As usual, a dramatic ending is always necessary and we can always count on Binky with her one- liners. Even in a time of frustration, upset and anger she manages to come out with, “You don’t remember putting your dick in someone else?”

It takes a lot to compose yourself as well as Binky did, so it continues to raise the question, how could you Alex? Who would cheat on Binky?