History Series / ExtremeMaleBeauty

''Extreme Male Beauty'' is a British four-episode reality series that aired on [[Creator/{{Channel4}} Channel 4]] in 2009. Presenter Tim Shaw decides that he is fed up with being an Average Joe and is convinced his wife will like him better if he transforms himself into a man with the figure and features of David Beckham. He has eight weeks to get himself into the shape and style he wants while also examining how much attention today's men actually invest into their personal appearances. And there's a lot of criticism hurled at the modelling industry.

* IAteWhat: Tim drinks his own urine in an attempt to make his skin look better.

** Tim's discussion with the boys in the locker room has everyone wearing just a towel.

* StepfordSmiler: Tim jokes that he has to keep his wide gleaming smile when he's standing half naked listening to the women passing judgement on his looks out loud.

''Extreme Male Beauty'' is a four-episode reality series based in Britain. Presenter Tim Shaw decides that he is fed up with being an Average Joe and is convinced his wife will like him better if he transforms himself into a man with the figure and features of David Beckham. He has eight weeks to get himself into the shape and style he wants while also examining how much attention today's men actually invest into their personal appearances. And there's a lot of criticism hurled at the modelling industry.

* AccidentalAesop: If you try to better yourself, you won't like it and your friends and family won't accept you until you "snap out of it".

* BitchAlert: We assume this will happen for Tim's wife, Hayley, as we first hear about how madly in love she is with David Beckham and how Tim thinks she wants him to look that way. But when we actually meet her, she is a kind and loving woman that does not want Tim to change at all.

* BrokenAesop: The series doesn't seem to know whether or not it's condemning male vanity or not.
** Most egregious is Tim's decision that his new physique wasn't worth all the excessive work he had to do. It's not established that there is a ''massive'' difference between getting into shape in the space of eight weeks as opposed to at your own pace. In fact personal trainers advise ''against'' such extreme ways of getting into shape, stating that making gradual adjustments and going at one's own pace is the best way to go.

* EstrogenBrigade: Plenty of stills of various male models as well as plenty of gratuitous shots of shirtless men of varying physiques. Hell the series even shows the tryouts for the cover of a fitness magazine that has a dozen different guys stripping off to have their bodies examined.

* GagPenis
* HollywoodPudgy[=/=]HollywoodThin: The male version is examined this time around.

** {{Squick}}: When Hayley finds out, she is ''not'' happy.

* ShaggyDogStory: See AllForNothing above.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Naturally.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Crowds of women standing around ogling men on podiums in their underwear and passing judgement on their looks? [[SarcasmMode Now what could be symbolic about that?]]

* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Plenty of stills of various male models as well as plenty of gratuitous shots of shirtless men of varying physiques. Hell the series even shows the tryouts for the cover of a fitness magazine that has a dozen different guys stripping off to have their bodies examined.

''Extreme Male Beauty'' is a 4-episode reality series based in Britain. Presenter Tim Shaw decides that he is fed up of being an Average Joe and is convinced his wife will like him better if he transforms himself into a man with the figure and features of David Beckham. He has eight weeks to get himself into the shape and style he wants while also examining how much attention today's men actually invest into their personal appearances. And there's a lot of criticism hurled at the modelling industry.

A show that had good ideas and a lot of potential but couldn't seem to decide exactly what Aesop it was going for and the final episode gives off a lot of mixed messages.

* BitchAlert: We assume this will happen for Tim's wife as we first hear about how madly in love she is with David Beckham and how Tim thinks she wants him to look that way. But when we actually meet her, she is a kind and loving woman that does not want Tim to change at all.

* ButNotTooWhite: The series of course examines the (supposed) appeal of a tanned body.
* CampStraight: Tim meets different Camp Straights to varying degrees, including Paul from the first episode who admits to taking two hours to get ready every morning and even sometimes wearing make-up.

* HollywoodPudgy / HollywoodThin: The male version is examined this time around.

** {{Squick}}: When his wife finds out, she is NOT happy.
* TheMakeover: A different man gets made over each episode though the fourth episode is the most straight example. Tim gets one too at the end.
* MrFanservice: The guys Tim talks to at the gym who spend the majority of their screentime shirtless in the locker room.
* RealMenWearPink: Over the course of the series we meet plenty of manly men who are very concerned with their own appearance (body builders afterall do care about their physique) and the show does help lift the taboo that a guy concerned with his appearance is immediately thought of as gay.
* RightThroughHisPants: Averted completely as you will see plenty of penis shots, whether you want to or not.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Hayley unwisely says that when she fell for Tim, "it was never about looks". Really anything she said would have been twisted around anyway...
* ThisLoserIsYou: Tim represents the average guy who is put under pressure by constant advertising etc.