Jesy Nelson’s Odd One Out documentary for the BBC – from which I have barely recovered! – attracted more than two million viewers to BBC One last night, and even won the second half of its timeslot.
Airing in the 9pm hour, the film had an average of 2.1 million viewers; appealing to 13.6% of all live-TV watchers at the time.
According to the overnights.tv Twitter feed, it was the most-watched show on TV for the second half of its transmission.
That feels like a great figure, no?! Especially seeing as I’d expect the vast majority of the Little Mix fanbase (myself included!) to watch on iPlayer.
Incidentally it is No3 on the catch-up platform at the moment, behind only EastEnders and Peaky Blinders.
It’s 100% worth a watch. My main takeaway from it – aside from the obvious anger at the fuckery of dickheads on social media – is how absolutely vital it is that we increase body-type diversity in popular culture. That won’t completely stop trolls trolling, of course (Jesy, for what it’s worth, can’t be classed as a physically ~big person by any metric), but more visible people of all shapes and sizes in would surely – SURELY! – go some way to easing the overwhelming pressure people feel to look a certain way?!
That feels like such a basic point AND YET still so necessary.
Odd One Out is on iPlayer here.

