{"id":34694,"date":"2025-10-05T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/?p=34694"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:04:20","slug":"several-educating-manchester-stars-are-claiming-the-show-is-so-fake-years-after-it-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/10\/05\/several-educating-manchester-stars-are-claiming-the-show-is-so-fake-years-after-it-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Educating Manchester stars are claiming the show is &#8216;so fake&#8217; years after it ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/2025\/10\/01\/heres-where-the-educating-manchester-stars-are-now-from-mum-to-be-mia-to-mr-povey\/\">Educating Manchester<\/a> stars are speaking out with claims on how &#8220;fake&#8221; the show was, years after it first aired in 2017. It didn&#8217;t come to Channel 4 for two years after filming, which meant students like Faye and Melody no longer wished for their episode to be on TV.<\/p>\n<h2>Melody claims it was &#8216;quite staged&#8217;<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@twistedspinez\/video\/7001901847401254150\" data-video-id=\"7001901847401254150\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@twistedspinez\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@twistedspinez?refer=embed\">@twistedspinez<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c hot n cold - audiobear\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/hot-n-cold-6978162436092234502?refer=embed\">\u266c hot n cold &#8211; audiobear<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Melody has been really open about her Educating Manchester experience. She commented on Faye&#8217;s video claiming the show was &#8220;so fake&#8221; with: &#8220;I&#8217;ve literally wanted to say something about this for so long, I asked them not to put my episode on aswell \ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffd\u200d\u2640\ufe0f it\u2019s so mad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also told someone who commented on her videos that it was &#8220;quite staged&#8221; after they asked if she&#8217;d be allowed to wear white socks in the end. During the show, Melody launched a campaign to allow girls to wear white socks, which was against the school rules.<\/p>\n<h2>Faye speaks out to say the show is &#8216;fake&#8217;<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@faye_alyssa_\/video\/7306611478742764833\" data-video-id=\"7306611478742764833\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@faye_alyssa_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@faye_alyssa_?refer=embed\">@faye_alyssa_<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Part 2 of educating <a title=\"educatinggreatermanchester\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/educatinggreatermanchester?refer=embed\">#educatinggreatermanchester<\/a> <a title=\"fyp\u30b7\u309aviral\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/fyp%E3%82%B7%E3%82%9Aviral?refer=embed\">#fyp\u30b7\u309aviral<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Fayealyssa\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7306611504097397537?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Fayealyssa<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Faye claimed that she didn&#8217;t want the episode she appeared in with her boyfriend, Kieran, to go ahead, &#8220;because we were nothing like that.&#8221; She then added that they &#8220;basically begged for the whole week to put us in and told me they&#8217;d edit out my eyebrows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said the show was &#8220;so fake&#8221; and that she &#8220;would have said no straight away&#8221; if she could go back. Faye added that the &#8220;iconic photo of her and Kieran crammed in the corner was so fake,&#8221; which took two hours to get the photo taken for the main promo pic.<\/p>\n<h2>Billy says Educating Manchester wasn&#8217;t scripted<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@billywinterr\/video\/7531111412081397014\" data-video-id=\"7531111412081397014\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@billywinterr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@billywinterr?refer=embed\">@billywinterr<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Posting this for those who wonder what it was like being filmed for educating greater Manchester <a title=\"fy\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/fy?refer=embed\">#fy<\/a> <a title=\"experience\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/experience?refer=embed\">#experience<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Billy Winter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7531111409984981782?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Billy Winter<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Billy, who is now an actor, claims that the show wasn&#8217;t scripted at all. He does, however, claim that being filmed was &#8220;distracting&#8221; and that the classrooms being filmed were &#8220;made classrooms,&#8221; which weren&#8217;t usually used for the school on a typical basis.<\/p>\n<p>Twofour Productions, the filming company behind the show, write on their website: &#8220;Ultimately we pride ourselves on two things \u2013 the quality of the shows we make and the relationships we build with everyone we work with \u2013 on and off screen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We constantly strive to be a fair and inclusive company, as we know the individuality and breadth of everyone who works for and with us makes the company better,&#8221; it adds, while the series &#8220;aims to follow drama of teenage life over the school year with student characters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reality Shrine has contacted Channel 4 and Twofour Productions for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like\u00a0<\/i><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Reality Shrine<\/a><\/i><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u00a0on\u00a0<\/i><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/realityshrineofficial?rdid=TzQu2kEd2cUqU4rD&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F14zX5cKubf%2F#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/realityshrineofficial?rdid=TzQu2kEd2cUqU4rD&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F14zX5cKubf%2F#\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Facebook<\/a><\/i><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It was quite staged&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734182,"featured_media":34699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1374,2187],"class_list":["post-34694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-channel-4","tag-educating-manchester"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/10\/05\/several-educating-manchester-stars-are-claiming-the-show-is-so-fake-years-after-it-ended\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Several Educating Manchester stars are claiming the show is &#8216;so fake&#8217; 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