THE weird and wonderful world of gypsies continues in My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding next week - with a controversial marriage between a gypsy man and a non-traveller.
Romany gypsy Pat Lee gets criticised by his friends and family for wedding non-gypsy Sam Norton, who tries to prove that she fits into the community by wearing a 14-stone dress which lights up in the dark.
The over-the-top frock even weighs more than her dad and includes 21 underskirts and moving diamante butterflies.
Meanwhile, another little girl gets dressed up to the max for her holy communion.
Six-year-old Mary Ann, who lives in Europe's biggest traveller site in the Dale Farm in Essex, has her first ever spray tan for the event and gets welts on her hips from the sheer size of her massive frock.
It comes as she and the other 1,000 travellers living on the site face eviction.
Elsewhere, three miles away a smaller site is destroyed by bulldozers to the anguish of its gypsy residents.
Wedding ... Josie and Swanley
Channel 4
The first episode of the Channel 4 series - which follows the success of a one-off Cutting Edge special last year - aired last night.
It showed 17-year-old Josie marry Swanley, 19, in an unusual wedding dress which was cut to the thigh at the front.
Her bash then saw one of her pals get "grabbed" by a gypsy boy, who tried to kiss her when they were alone.
The gypsy girls, who often marry between the ages of 16 and 18, explained how they would never have sex before marriage but were seen wearing tiny crop tops and posing provocatively on nights out.
The show seemed to be a hit with the audience and was at one point one of the top trending topics on Twitter.
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