Antonella - the tell it like it is reviewer taking web by storm
GP RECEPTIONIST HAS A LEGION OF FANS WHO LOVE HILARIOUS VIDEOS OF HER TESTING PRODUCTS
SHE has been a huge hit on the internet with her hilarious videos giving no-holds-barred opinions on everything from push-up bras to toilet spray, but just who is Antonella the Uncensored Reviewer?
Fans admit to ‘crying laughing’ watching Antonella’s brutally honest assessments which have racked up millions of views on her Facebook and YouTube pages.
The 43-year-old GP receptionist admits she can’t quite believe it herself – as she only started ‘vlogging’ after making a bet with a pal in February over who could get the most likes on a post.
Antonella says: “I’d said to my friend Vicky, do you know what, it might be funny to do a review and see who can get the most likes for a 50p bet.
“My post got such a great response that people were saying I needed to do another review. I was like ‘right, ooh ok.’
“I’d seen people on the internet doing a similar thing but in a bit of a boring way. I just thought it could be a bit of a laugh.”
She’s right about that – with fans confessing to crying laughing at her twice-a-week blogs on her Antonella Uncensored accounts.
Her very first review – of Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby’s Three Minute Belly Blitz fitness DVD – has now been watched a staggering 10 MILLION times.
She certainly doesn’t mince her words – and is seen on the video talking about the workout saying: “I thought, three minute belly buster. I need three minutes on my belly, let me tell you – Nelly five bellies.”
She then talks about getting into the routine, saying: “It gets to the end and I thought, ‘Nell, you’ve found the exercise for you.’
“Then, do you know what she said? ‘Well done everybody. That’s the warm-up.”
Talking about her review, Antonella, from Rossendale, laughs: “The warm up nearly killed me in itself, and it went global. It just snowballed from there.”
With the huge interest, Antonella started to make her reviews more regular, with other big hits including her test of a ‘VIPoo’ fragrance spray for the toilet and a stick-on push-up bra that she gamely tries to make work with her ‘JJ cup boobs.’
Antonella, mum to 22-year-old daughter Olivia, now gets fan mail, romantic proposals and some rather, ahem, indecent proposals from all across the world.
She laughs: “Men adore me. I get a lot of love letters and marriage proposals. But I don’t take them seriously and I’ve got a fella anyway.”
It has become such a success that Antonella, nicknamed Nelly, now has two staff - her cousin John and his partner - working with her at her home in Haslingden to help manage the interest and she is hoping that soon she can make a full-time career out of the vlogs.
She is unapologetic about her colourful language in the posts, saying she is strictly for an over-18 audience.
And she is also passionate about championing the ordinary, voluptuous woman and one of her most-liked recent posts saw her strut her stuff in a bikini as she encouraged women of all shapes and sizes not to feel pressured into slimming down to get a ‘bikini body.’
Instead she led a battle cry for body confidence, saying: “I’m a size 24 at bottom and size 30 on top, but I want a bikini, I don’t want to cover up I’m going on holiday and I want a bikini.”
She went on: “I’m not encouraging people to be morbidly obese or overweight, it’s about being happy in your own skin. We were all born naked love your lumps or bumps. Have that bit of confidence, regardless of size.” Her followers, who she calls “my little flowerpots” send her suggestions for things to review and she insists that every review is open and honest because she pays for everything upfront that she features.
She says: “I’m not going to start reviewing Porsches or anything like that. I don’t think I’d fit in one for a start! “It’s beauty products, clothes, everyday stuff that normal women will use - yet in the industry it’s being advertised by size zero models.
“I’m testing these things out honestly for the everyday normal woman so you know what not to waste your money on when it isn’t worth buying.” Antonella Brollini