Beautiful People

Simon (Adult ), twenty-four all grown up and happily living in New York as a window dresser for Barneys... 'one of the most glamorous stores in the world'. Fashionable and confident, he loves to recall his bonkers childhood - knowing that the beautiful people were really much closer to home than he...

Simon Doonan (thirteen), Born in Reading but cannot wait to escape to the Beautiful People - but happy to be the perfect son in the meantime...and occasional hairstylist. Thinks there is a better life to be had out there. He is going through what all teenagers go through trying to find out who he...

Debbie Doonan, a bottle-blonde barmaid in killer heels. Warm matriarch, forthright in her opinions to the point of foot in mouth. Would do anything for her family. Ever glamorous, Debbie likes a laugh and a drink. Allows her children to be whoever they want to be. Strong, loving, protective and...

Andy Doonan, Self-employed plumber. A kind Irish gentle man. Encyclopedic knowledge of musicals and winemaking and very well read. Still madly in love with Debbie. A loving Dad... and a really nice bloke. Wants to make sure he brings his kids up better than he was. Attractive.

Kylie (REAL NAME: KYLE), Simon's best friend Kylie is an extraordinary bundle of energy and smart dance moves. Small enough to get away with murder, he too wants to join the beautiful people who live in London. He's cheeky, fun and fabulous at all times. Life would be pretty bleak without Kylie.

Aunty Hayley, Debbie's best friend and lodger. Hayley has been blind since birth but is perfectly happy about that. She's single and looking for love. A bit of an old hippie who was definitely one of the Greenham Common girls. Like a second mother to the Doonan kids. Into any new age therapy going,...

Ashlene Doonan, sixteen and over it. Thinks everyone else is a freak... totally embarrassed by her family. She's generally happiest when she is enslaving her little brother and getting together with all the local lads in the area. Truth to tell she would rather be down and dirty with the boys in...

Reba, single mother of Kylie. Ballsy and straightforward. A force to be reckoned with though her son is far more of a princess than she is. Reba has a tempestuous relationship with her neighbors the Doonans and indeed with anyone else within firing range.