The things you find on Facebook – local Brit Leilani Dowding found out her dad had been secretly filming a reality show on the social media site!
The British beauty-turned LA realtor is dreading the screening of Close To The Edge – the OAP version of The Only Way Is Essex – because she thinks everyone will hate him.
And she thinks the secretive filming was revenge for the way her dad found out about her topless debut.
She told The Daily Star Online: “The first I knew of dad’s show was when I saw it on everyone’s Facebook which is kind of ironic because I remember not telling him I was doing page 3.
“He found out from a friend at the bowling club then he went out and bought the paper.
“He was actually very proud of me, which is actually a bit embarrassing.
“So when I called him about the show, I said ‘Is this your revenge, 18 years later?”
The BBC show, filmed in Leilani’s native Bournemouth, will follow a group of pensioners as they have fun, fall out and voice their opinions.
And that’s the bit that’s worrying the former model.
She said: “It’s going to be so embarrassing. My dad has no filter.
“He thinks he’s funny when he’s not funny. You think he’s going to have a heart attack any time because he has fits and blows up at everything.
“He’s really explosive and he likes to wind people up and I think people will either love to hate him or will just hate him.
“It’s a role reversal because you watch Geordie Shore and think “Oh My God what must their parents think?’ But in this case it’s ‘What are their kids going to think?’”
Leilani’s mum Zena is not in the show, but his best friend Barbara will appear, and she reckons they will make gripping TV because “they’re always falling out.”
She added: “I’m really worried. I’m just glad my mum isn’t in it as well because they’re both crazy.”
Close To The Edge is expected to air in the UK later this summer.
