Poor old Alexa Chung… Despite her best efforts, she’s still finding it hard to make an impact in America – and it’s all because they just “don’t get” her sense of humour, Talking about her troubles in the Radio Times, Alexa explains, “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. Sometimes I’d be in the middle of interviewing [a celebrity] 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.” Alexa’s MTV show has now been axed, but we don’t think she’s all that upset about it. “[Channel 4 was] like being at sixth form and calling your teachers by their first names,” she says. “Whereas at MTV, people sit in their offices and don’t come down.” The star also admits she actually misses the paps in London, saying, “In New York they do it on a long lens. In England, because I know some of them, they’ll take the p**s out of me and they’re quite funny.” Missing the paps?! She must be homesick.

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