Stacey Dooley Investigates

Stacey actively places herself in dangerous and compromising positions with her informative documentaries. For a naive looking woman she has accessed the most amazing and dangerous protagonist that we may have never met. The first time I watched her I didn't quite get it. Now I have seen all her efforts I am in admiration of her great work.

If you feel like watching local people being set upon by a whiny, middle class, self-righteous idiot, watch this.

The presenter has all the charm of a dust pan. Her accent and speaking style is just AWFUL. She sounds like a police siren at 4 in the morning; pedestrian, repetitive and annoying.

She approaches the local inhabitants of the 'trouble spots' she visits to 'judge' (not report with any measure of impartiality) with a kind of colonial conceit. I'd call it arrogance and pomposity, if not for her 'working class' accent/drone, and sheer lack of on- screen depth.

If this seems unfair, watch one episode of her, then compare this to anything done by, say, Louis Theroix, or Anthony Bourdain.

I have no idea how she could have been chosen to front a journalistic television program. My only guess would be nepotism, cronyism or perhaps just dumb luck.

The show itself is the kind of dross churned out for lazy, fat Euro- trash, almost as a reverse psychology travel brochure. "Oooh 'er, 'arry. Let's 'ave it over in Spain. She says them ecstasy pills are cheap as fook o'er there."

If you liked "Embarrassing bodies" and/or any of the shows where the parents spy on their uncultured brain dead adolescent hate-spawn as they destroy once lovely seaside resorts with alcoholism, violence and STD's, then this crap is for you.

If you are looking for hard facts and by-the-book reporting, Stacey Dooley probably isn't for you. However, if you are looking for something with heart, give her a go. Stacey may not always be the most knowledgeable and gets things wrong but her strength is her ability to empathise and connect deeply with those she interviews. I liked that she wasn't always trying to be the most objective or neutral person which can sometimes dehumanise real issues.

Stacey Dooley doesn't have the intelligence or ability to function as an investigative journalist. She's beautiful and somewhat likable but lacks the intellect to apply critical thinking or empathise with people that aren't her. It's a terrible shame that talented journalists have been ignored only as Stacy books multiple jobs that she isn't qualified to do.

Stacey was a perfume seller at Luton airport in the UK. She was picked up to do a youth reality program. She then went on to emote this series. Now she is set to become an omnipresent specialist in uber beige tedium. Lucky us.