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The Girl Who Became Three Boys, Channel 4, review


Gerard O'Donovan reviews Channel 4's The Girl Who Became Three Boys, the story of Gemma Barker, who disguised herself as a series of boys so that she could date girls.


By Gerard O'Donovan | 7:30AM BST 08 Aug 2012


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The Girl Who Became Three Boys: Gemma Barker Photo: Channel 4


Unbelievable might have been a word applicable to the events recounted in Channel 4's The Girl Who Became Three Boys, were it not for the fact that they were indisputably true. This was the story of Gemma Barker who, as an 18-year-old student, convinced two younger, and very naive friends that fake profiles she had created on Facebook and other social media were flesh and blood boys.

Nothing so horrifyingly unusual in that, except that Barker took it further, from the virtual world into the realm of reality – and criminality – by disguising herself as the boys, beguiling her friends to take them on as their boyfriends, and even engaging in sexual acts with them – without either of them ever discovering that she was a girl.

I'm inclined to think that this criminality goes in in vast amounts all aroudn the world.
and I'm sure there will be an awful lot of criminal sexual atention directed at the girl once she got to prison...but that is legal criminal attention.

If anything th eprogram showed how gullible todays teenagers are.   with all the crap soaps they watch endlessly it woudl be thought they'd have a pretty good grasp of sexual reality but apparently not.