Simon Doonan's "Beautiful People" arrives on the BBC with an absolutely fabulous pedigree

Beautiful People premiered on BBC Two this week, bringing the memoirs of out Barneys fashion director Simon Doonan (and current Mr. Jonathan Adler) to life.

Produced by Jon Plowman (who produced Absolutely Fabulous, aka "the greatest show in history"), it centers around the thirteen-year-old Simon and his adventures in school and with his dysfunctional family:

"Surrounded by dreams of the big city and the beautiful people that apparently live there, 13 year old Simon (Luke Ward-Wilkinson) cannot open a fridge door without belting out a show tune.

But such behaviour will always fall flat on a family even more eccentric than Simon’s latest attempts to be marvellous. The Britain of 1997 might be changing, but the Doonan clan remain consistently nuts.

Mum Debbie is a peroxide whirlwind of matriarchal warmth and tottering pride for husband Andy – an opera-savvy plumber come home-made wine maker. Sister Ashlene is a ghetto queen, blind lodger Aunty Hayley has a guide-dog who is far from size zero, lobotomised grandma Narg has just lost God and found her wicked streak and best mate Kylie wants to be Reading’s own Princess of hearts."

Yes, you read that right, it takes place in 1997, which was ... a few years after the real Simon was thirteen (I guess it was easier to update it to '97). You can see a promo clip after the break, and it'll be interesting to see how far they take the subject of little Simon's sexuality. Will he just be "artistic", or will they make it clear that he's gay?