Dames in de Dop
StarringHendrik de Groot
Coco de Meyere (deceased, 11/24/2011)
Anouk van Eekelen
Country of originNetherlands
No. of episodes62
Production
Running timeSeason 1: 46 minutes (60 with commercials)
Season 2: 43 minutes (60 with commercials)
Season 3: 23 minutes (30 with commercials)
Original release
NetworkRTL 5
ReleaseMay 28, 2007 (2007-05-28) –
2011 (2011)

Dames in de Dop (free translation Ladies in the making) is the Dutch version of UK reality show Ladette to Lady. Two seasons have been made since 2007 for broadcast on RTL.[1]

Show format

The series follows nine ladettes (i.e. loud, foul-mouthed, uncultured and unpleasant women, who resort to drinking, smoking and often sexually promiscuous behaviour), who are given an old-fashioned six-week course in learning how to behave like a real lady. In the first season, they were sent to Huis 't Velde, an International Butler Academy in Warnsveld, Gelderland. In the second season they were sent to Nieuw Rande, in Diepenveen, Overijssel. Nieuw Rande was specially reopened to try to change the ladettes' habits.

Whilst in Nieuw Rande they are required to wear the special uniform: a tweed suit including a turquoise jacket, white blouse, and turquoise skirt, high-heeled shoes and a pearl necklace. They are taught under the supervision and guidance of five instructors and are given various tasks in deportment, elocution, etiquette and cookery. However, if they can't live up to the standards of acting ladylike, they are expelled. Each episode sees one ladette (sometimes two) expelled till only three are left at the end of the season. Then the teachers must decide upon one winner, depending on who they think has improved the most and how the ladettes performed in the final challenge.

Season summary

Season Began airing Winner Runner-up Other contestants (in order of elimination) International destination(s)
Season 1 May 28, 2007 Anna Jonckers Lara Massen Jasmin Velders, Kirby Wonnink, Tamara Brun, Roxanne Brouwers, Demet Sari, Daisy Smid, Elli Palimeris Dubai,
 United Arab Emirates
Season 2 April 21, 2008 Michella Koxs Nancy Janssen Daisy Ten Brink, Susanne Kroon (quit), José Makkinga, Astrid Kemperman, Sandy Schuring, Cherish Walden, Sharon Spronk Zürich,
  Switzerland
Season 3 March 7, 2011 Meron van der Schaar Jenna Dame Lois, Zira Berg, Marcin Sarna, Jennifer (expelled), Linsey Wareman, Gary Curiel, Dilara Sinan, Dominique Kudret, Dave Lamens, Yosie Wittebol No international destination

References

  1. ↑ "De deskundige jury van Dames in de dop" (in Dutch). Retrieved 18 November 2017.
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