Brat Camp

At long last there is an air of calmness about Brat Camp as it comes to its inevitable emotional conclusion for most - if not all - the girls-only group.

After seven weeks in the Utah wilderness, the seven girls have hiked, fought and struggled to face their demons and graduation is at last on the cards.

Sugar and spice and all things nice are just not what these girls are made of...

Posh spoilt brat Poppy, 15, has had her own way since she was born. Struggling with depression, Rosie, 15, simply refuses to go to school. Middle-class tearaway Georgie, 16, has an arrest history as long as her arm. Lazy stoner Julia, 16, smokes 20 spliffs a day. Complete drop out Lydia, 16, left school with no qualifications. Runaway Danni, 15, has left home more than 70 times in one year. And Lucy, 15, terrorises her family with her violent rages.

But weeks in isolation without drink, drugs and cigarettes have had an affect.

Brat Camp is back and this time it's a girls- only affair!

In tonight's first of four episodes, seven teenage girls arrive at a leading American wilderness program for out-of-control teens.

For their desperate families, it's a last resort. For the girls, it's the toughest challenge of their lives, and one that could change them forever.

Sugar and spice and all things nice are just not what these girls are made of...

Posh spoilt brat Poppy, 15, has had her own way since she was born. Struggling with depression, Rosie, 15, simply refuses to go to school.
Middle-class tearaway Georgie, 16, has an arrest history as long as her arm.
Lazy stoner Julia, 16, smokes 20 spliffs a day.
Complete drop out Lydia, 16, left school with no qualifications.
Runaway Danni, 15, has left home more than 70 times in one year.
And Lucy, 15, terrorises her family with her violent rages.

One month into girls-only Brat Camp, the wilderness seems to be starting to tame some - but not all - of the badly behaved brats.

Sugar and spice and all things nice are just not what these girls are made of...

Posh spoilt brat Poppy, 15, has had her own way since she was born. Struggling with depression Rosie, 15, simply refuses to go to school. Middle-class tearaway Georgie, 16, has an arrest history as long as her arm. Lazy stoner Julia, 16, smokes 20 spliffs a day. Complete drop out Lydia, 16, left school with no qualifications. Runaway Danni, 15, has left home more than 70 times in one year. And Lucy, 15, terrorises her family with her violent rages.

Things go from bad to worse for temper-tantrum aficionado Lucy, who is banned from even being with the main group. After her dramatic bid to escape from the camp fails, she goes one step too far and must face the ultimate sanction. It's a bitter blow to her parents back home.

Following their outrageous behaviour on arrival, all the girls in part two of this new series of Brat Camp are struggling to adapt to the stone-age conditions and the daily regime of hard hiking in the Utah wilderness.

Hiking brings emotions to the surface as the seven wayward teenagers, sent by their parents to the single-sex wilderness course at Utah's Aspen Achievement Academy, begin to turn on the staff and on each other.

The only way out of the course is to graduate or get their parents to remove them, so the girls start pulling desperate stunts in a bid to get home. But will 15-year-old Danni's spoof asthma attack fool staff, or her mother back home?

For these previously indulged teenage girls, living rough is a shock and while some begin to realise bad behaviour is not rewarded in the wilderness, others still can't stop the theatrics. In a bid to stop the pandemonium, the staff decide to divide and conquer by splitting the girls into two groups.

08:30PM
BRAT CAMP: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
Tuesday, 12 February 2008

They were rude, aggressive, drugtaking and binge-drinking brats, but their behaviour enthralled viewers.

One year after their return from Utah's Turn-About Ranch, Brat Camp: What Happened Next? catches up with the seven tearaway teenagers amid all the temptations of their 'old' lives.

Have they been able to hold onto the lessons learned in the wild west, or are they back to their bad old ways? Josh, 15, had drug-fuelled rages. Jemma, 16, was a shoplifter expelled from three schools. Joe, 16, was a belligerent punk rocker - a rebel without a clue. Alex, 15, was a binge-drinking bully - out of school, home and control. Ed, 16, was a lying, drug-taking thief who stole from his family. Xanthe, 17, was a pampered, precious child who bashed her mum. And drama queen Jenny, who needed a lot of convincing just to board the aeroplane.