The Week in Crossdressing

Here are a couple of things I've noticed in the media this week.

The sitcom W1A returned this week for its third series and featured a cross-dressing footballer. For those unaware of this show, it stars Hugh Bonneville as BBC Head of Values Ian Fletcher trying to cope with various crises within the corporation and was a sequel to Twenty Twelve in which Fletcher was organising the London 2012 Olympics as Head of Olympic Deliverance.

Anyway, the plotline saw footballer Ryan Chelford raising a stink because, having revealed he was a crossdresser in a documentary, he thought that his subsequent rejection as a pundit for Match of the Day was due to this when in reality it was simply because he was boring. I've only seen this once but I admired how it was handled for the most part. Ryan didn't seem ashamed of his dressing and proudly showed off his wardrobe and favourite dresses in the snippet of the documentary we saw. When he finally did get his shot on MOTD he did it fully dressed in a black dress, tights, boots and make-up and although the tone was that of bemusement (plus I think he may not have kept his legs together as much as he could have) it could have been much worse and sneery. In the end, Ryan didn't seem ashamed of it and the BBC staff didn't really care that he was a crossdresser. The character is set to return this week so I may well come back to this.

Over to that cookery institution The Great British Bake-Off which appears to have survived the move from the BBC to Channel 4. Comedian Noel Fielding (mainly known for comedy duo The Mighty Boosh) is one of the new hosts and is well known for mixing up his wardrobe in a very Bowie/Bolan/glam rock kind of way. Last week he invoked the wrath of parents everywhere by presenting a link from inside a fridge while this week it was for wearing the same ice cream themed shirt as previously seen on YouTube star Zoella (may need to check with members of the young generation for that one). It was interesting to see some wonder if it was unisex as if that would make it more 'acceptable' for men to wear although it was confirmed as a blouse due to the buttons being on the left.

That's all the news that's fit to print, I'm Rita Skeeter.