Alexa Chung says the US 'didn't get her', or her hair!

By Lucy Hutchings  on Tuesday 20 April 2010

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Life as an English girl in New York doesn't appear to have gone smoothly for Alexa Chung - after her MTV show was axed, she now claims that US execs just didn't understand her style or humour.

Speaking to the Radio Times, she suggested TV bosses didn't seem used to dealing with women with opinions.

She revealed: 'They don't have the tone that T4 has anywhere in American TV. If you're a girl and you're my age, you're on a shiny night-time show and you've got your boobs hoiked up and you're not really giving opinions. You're merely a conduit.

As for her interviewing technique, and that came under fire too: 'Sometimes I'd be in the middle of interviewing - insert starlet's name here - and I'd aim to have a joke and be irreverent, and then it would transpire that they weren't getting it and I had to switch back and do a straight interview.'

And it wasn't just her methods they didn't get. She claims she cut her hair into a shaggy bob to avoid being just another blow-dried leading lady, but that she was constantly encouraged to have her locks preened, only to protest: 'No! It's meant to be like that.'

Chung is currently in the States, where she attended the Coachella festival with beau Alex Turner at the weekend. 

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Tuesday 20 April 2010

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What exactly did she expect when trying to work in America?!
Comment by Anne on April 20 12:42

Who does? She's a scruffy stick insect.
Comment by Alex on April 20 13:32

I don't get what the fuss is about her either! She reminds me of a 6th former!
Comment by Louise on April 20 14:36

She is gorgeous and certainly has her own style - but I don't get her TV appeal either and she'd look so much nicer if she did do something with her hair. Sorry Alexa!
Comment by sophie on April 20 16:00

It still amazes me that Mulberry saw fit to name a bag after her. Hardly Grace Kelly.
Comment by Tracey on April 20 22:08

Always reminds me of just an ordinary pretty girl..no particular chemistry or pizazz..say like Cam Diaz...
What does she do exactly and I dont get the 'amazing fashion icon' thing either. Hair???????
Comment by anon on April 21 13:16

,,,my comments werent meant to appear nasty but just as said..dont really get it..she is one of many models...
Comment by anon on April 21 13:17

Yep..the hair is not great...but Ithink she does it on purpose...antiestablishment thingy..
shame.The States is hard to diagnose with what they like and dont like....

Comment by anon on May 19 16:36

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