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Precious says she avoided stereotypes, and cites Big Fat Gypsy Weddings harm
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Trewley Precious on the Backlash to Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives
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"I feel like if you look at Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, yes. All right. You know, I feel like that did cause a little bit of harm to our community. So, I didn't want it stereotyped."
Trewley Precious says she deliberately avoided familiar reality-TV tropes about Gypsy and Traveller life when developing Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives. She argues earlier programmes—naming Big Fat Gypsy Weddings—did damage, and claims she is now receiving backlash for trying not to reproduce stereotypes.
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