I have been watching a very enjoyable new show called Revenge, which features a millionaire girl who comes back to the Hamptons to gain satisfaction for her terrible past by socially torturing the people who ETC ETC and it features a character called Ashley. When I saw her, I did that slightly awkward thing where you think, “that girl is so familiar, did I go to school with her?” Particularly awkward when you greet the person in the street and they turn out to be someone from Hollyoaks.
I quickly twigged that I recognised her from her blog, Ring My Bell (her real name is Ashley Madekwe – it intrigues me when actors have the same name as the character they play). I didn’t realise she was famous. It goes to show that these days sometimes recognition comes from the internet before the mainstream. I like her blog even more now that she has popped up next to the backwards-ageing Madeleine Stowe, the beautiful and malevolent queen bee matriarch of the Hamptons. I live for that sort of televisual gold.
