Who else remembers watching these book adaptations on CITV

Despite this not following true to the books, I think it is an absolutely brilliant series in its own. The actors are great, the chemistry between the three girls is just as it should be and I loved it so much when I was younger. I did also read the books and I love them equally, just for different reasons!

I am crying in the club right now!! I never thought that I would find this! This used to be my show back in the day!

This really wouldn't happen to year 9s in real life 😂

I'm in Year 9 right now and Ellie definitely looks a LOT older than anyone I know, but I loved this series as a child so I'm not complaining!!

Okay, Ellie is meant to be chubby and big haired, not slim and with model good looks. Seriously?

OMG major throwback 😂😂

I dont care if it's like the book or not, this show is brilliant and brings back heaps of memories

This is soooo early 2000s

Sigh. Ellie was meant to be a rolemodel for girls who aren't tall, or skinny and supermodel looking. Just normal. But this is actress (No offence, she's very good) but she's nothing like the books.

When I first watched this I felt so much younger than her and thought year 9 was like huge know I've almost finished year 9 and I just remember her as so much older than she is in this 😂

I really don't know why they didn't wear uniforms. I mean, they would have made the 17/18 year old actresses look more like their characters' ages

OMG I used to watch this all the time when I was younger! 😄😄

the NOSTALGIAAAA!! when i first watched this they all looked so grown, but now i’m the same age as the actresses they look so young

I thought Ellie wore glasses?

Come on they could of tried a little harder to match the book. Ellie isn't slim and pretty she's larger and has frizzy hair and glasses. Nadine's alright though she's meant to be taller then Ellie and meant to be 13 And Magda is blonde

UUHHHHMMMMMMM ...... Ellie........ she's not........ uhhhh...... so they took away the only thing that really made the book stand out? What? Is it too hard to give the main role to someone who isn't thin and pretty? To someone who actually FITS the character and matches what they're supposed to look like?I'm sorry but the only reason I liked the books was because the main character was a larger girl and being one myself it gave me a lot more confidence in life, so seeing that the show chose to IGNORE this factor has really irritated me! >:|

I love it its like dork diaries and Lizzy McGuire mixed together

no way these kids are 13 😂

The show has received criticism from fans of the book, a lot due to Ellie and Magda's appearances. In the book, Ellie is short, bespectacled, chubby, frizzy-haired, whereas in the television series, she is taller, thinner, has straight hair and doesn't wear glasses. Magda was also portrayed differently - in the series she is mixed-race with dark hair; in the book, she is caucasian and has blonde hair.

i watched this in seventh grade and i have watched it every year since. im graduating university next month ahaha!

Omg blast from the past! I loved this series when I was a kid thanks so much for uploading these 😁

I adore Dame Jacqueline Wilson! I am a published writer too, and I love her and look up to her soooo much! Also. I have just listened to this series on audio time

omg i was obsessed with this show 5/6 years ago in primary school! so good hahaha

I don't see Magda not being caucasian being a problem since being caucasian was not a major plot point to her character (she was just flirty, which can be done even if she's mixed race). But the whole point of having Ellie as a main character was to give us, girls who where chubby, had spots, wore glasses and were definitely not in any way model-y a role model. Like, take book 2 when Ellie has bulimia - seeing it through this actress' Ellie gives it a whole different meaning, instead of showing how society disproportionately tells chubby people to change themselves, the point will be that anybody, even skinny tall straight-haired spotless girls can get bulimia (which is a perfect valid point, just not what I think Wilson had in mind).

I'm really disappointed because they could've made a really interesting series out of the book...

They look nothing like the book charactes. Magda's blonde and nadia has long black hair and pale skin. 😑

Although this adaption is nothing like the books, I still enjoy watching it. Please never take it down!

Okay so these girls are way too old, they're at least 16 while Ellie, Nadine and Magda are supposed to be 13. Ellie is supposed to be chubby and lives with her dad, her stepmother and her little brother. Magda isn't supposed to be black (no racism intended). Ellie and Dan are supposed to meet in Wales in a castle and not while playing a stupid game. Nadine is supposed to wear makeup. This is totally stupid.

Loved this show used to watch in in my preteen years.

been scouring the internet for a high quality copy of this show, ive loved it for years and years!! i need my own copy

That is not what year 9 is like lol I remember watching this at primary school.. I still have the dvds. This gave me false expectations 🤣🤣

I remember my sister watching this as a teenager and me being a kid then I got to 14 and read the books and now I look back with nostalgia :')

You guys should read the book it is sooooooo much better

"...okay you lying peanut, tell them it was a joke." lmfao :P

I actually quite like Magda. She has beauty and brains. Bare in mind, she's only young, she'll develop from the boy mad stage XD

Magda seems a lot less pathetic on TV than in the actual book.

Although the characters appearances aren't that accurate to the books,I still enjoy this series!

I remember watching this and being so excited for year nine bc I thought it would be all fun and great but it turned out to be the most boring year out of my entire school career ahh

The actress of Ellie looks justtt like the girl from Lolita..the 90s version

Lord take me back to 2003

1 word:BASED. It doesnt mean it is going to be an exact replica. We all wish that ellie is fat and shy but still, it is a good movie. I really like it. I know this comment may get bad comments but most of you are slagging this movie off butin my opinion this is a good movie

This is so cute :) I used to watch it so many years ago.. and I still remember a few parts of it!

she's also supposed to have spots not a perfect complexion

LOL This girl does not look the age she is meant to be. She looks about 18-20

Alright... I loved Jacqueline Wilson's books when I was younger but this is nothing like I remember them... Ellie was the shortest with curly hair and she was plump... And wasn't Magda blonde?!

I used to watch this when I was a kid, and the thing about it that stuck in my head the most was that at the beginning the sponsor message would go 'GIRLS IN LOVE: HAVING FUN WITH SHADERS AND TONERS'. Funny, the stuff you remember :-P

i'm watching this instead of studying for my mid-terms. I LOVED THIS SHOWWW~

+Enchanted Dagger Ikr 😞 Ellie was made so girls who weren't happy about themselves had someone to relate to! Casting a girl like that isn't fair to all the girls who looked up to Ellie. Ellie is a Typical, normal girl, who thinks she's fat and doesn't like the way she looks, but THIS "Ellie" isn't the Ellie any of us know. Its a thin, tall, model. I've personally always thought Ellie's pretty in the books, and this actress's just plain fine. No nothing about it. Plain fine, no faults, no frizzy caramel hair, no glasses, just fine.

"I've just told the biggest lie ever... And I'm in goggles." :) LOL!

This is a dumb show/movie. Ellie is supposed to be chubby, with frizzy hair and glasses. She's supposed to make you feel normal. Instead there's just another skinny actress with perfect hair and skin. And they all talk like they're about 7 yrs old, with that actress poshness thing. It's impossible to follow this story like they are real people. Don't rate the show or casting choices, they should really have thought more about the audience. :(

The actress for Nadine is okay, but the person whose job is to act as Ellie is supposed to be a chubby, plump person who is a little short for her age, with frizzy mousey hair and eyes with glasses on. Whereas the person who should get a job to act as Magda should be a whitish person with blonde hair (no racism intended). Id prefer the characters to look the way they look in the bks.

i loved this show! watched it the whole time!

well i'm in yea 9 and i didn't realise it was such a big deal at this year to get a boyfriend?

Its Ellie whos supposed to be wearing glasses, not her dad.

i LOVE this show. I was (am) so sad there's no season 2.. For those who say it doesn't live up to the book, I didn't read it. But I think without comparision, the show holds its own.

I know its unnecessary for me to say this but in the book Magda has blonde hair and Ellie is fater, but I think Nadines as good as they can get

Omg soooo nostalgic!!! I wish I could watch it somewhere

love it... It's a difference experience when I watch the drama in its original language

2024 and I randomly thought about this show

The narration in this is cringe-worthy.

I have been looking for this show for years! After diligently reading the long list of premiered shows in nickelodeon, i found you!

I loved this as a kid omg and Ellie was in Torchwood haha xD

Looks good but why can't the people who turn books into shows and movies never follow through when it comes to the storyline or at least character presentation, kinda annoys the people who appreciated the details. ahh

Bullshit Ellie is blond Magda is white And they all have an uniforms

Never heard of this or read the book before in my life. I just saw this in BuzzFeed of good shows for girls in early 2000s. My aesthetic lol😆👍💖🌻

oh boy.. _how times 've changed_

Magda is really pretty😍

It's not the appearance it's the acting🚶🏃💃

I LOVE Olivia Hallinan, she is a brilliant actress... :)

I love this show. It doesn't really show over in canada so I'm glad someone's posted it :) So funny and cool plus I love the main character

Is this on Netflix?😭

Eggs? Anna?

This show was awesome!

i love this show..

Não importa quantos anos eu tenha eu sempre vou amar essa série

WHERE DID YOU GET THE EPISODES?! I CANNOT FIND IT ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET

To much Nostalgia, my childhood was full of this but I miss it.

NOOOO WAYYY!!!!! the feels😭😭😭

Aw, this is so CUTE! ...wait. I'm the only one thinking that? :O

I love this film, does it even matter if it is like the book?

omg i remember watching this when i was in yr 3! loved this so much been looking for it every where! :D

Thumbs up for a REAL remake of this brilliant series!!!

In the book she wears glasses and where's uniform like in every school in Britain.

This displeases me.

It took me 10 years to find this again

this tv show was everything

4:05 What is she wearing??

I'm sick of everyone dissing this because Ellie's not fat and doesn't wear glasses etc... Well (a) who would take a job as a fat bespectacled character And (b) it says based on the book, not 'exactly the same as the book"

I still love this...ah childhood memories:)

I first thought of the tittle ' Girls in Love ' . Hmmmm, Girls in love with eachother? LOL But now I understand! ;)

Kinda shit. But I still love Jacqueline Wilson, she's my favourite. 😘😘😘

Used to love Jacqueline Wilson, but this is soooo cringy, doesnt match the book and the actors and actresses can't act!

ahhh, this brings back fond memories :)

Ok, to everyone whose saying, "This is NOTHING like the book! Ellie has frizzy hair and blah blah blah" if you read the titles at the bigginning, it says, "BASED on the book...." Not "EXACTLY like the book..." Ok, so before you post a comment complaining about these series, think about what you're about to put without sounding stupid. ok? it's BASED not EXACT!

I love this show but the title of it sounds kinda wrong lol

ellie is not fat though

Omg, i have all the books to this loool...LOVE IT!!!

Oh my God..I used to love this!

who is watching this in 2017