Moving a group of promiscuous party girls into a nunnery was always going to be a recipe for disaster.
But viewers of Channel 5’s new reality show Bad Habits, Holy Orders have been left ‘disgusted’ by the antics of the participants, who they deemed to be disrespectful to their holy hosts.
A group of five girls move into a convent in Swaffham, Norfolk to go on a spiritual journey, which they hope will help them live more fulfilling lives by taking on vows of obedience, poverty and chastity.
But the experiment got off to a shaky start, as the girls got so bored with their new lives that they snuck in a bottle of budget vodka into the nunnery.
Another girl was so distracted during morning prayers in the chapel that she started doing her makeup while their rest of the group read from the Bible.
Viewers called it ‘pathetic’ and ‘disrespectful’ to the nuns.
Bad Habits, Holy Orders saw a group of five party girls move into a Norfolk convent to go on a spiritual journey. It didn’t get off to the best start as the girls snuck vodka into the nunnery in the first episode
Five girls who wanted to turn their backs on lives of heavy drinking, casual sex and overspending spent a month in a nunnery for a spiritual journey.
Rebecca Cheng, 19, a nightclub podium dancer from Newcastle, Tyla Edwards, 22, a podium dancer from Leeds, Sarah Lawrence, 19, a club hostess from Surrey, Gabriella Ryan, 21, a lingerie model from London and Paige Wallace, 23, a secretary from Bristol, all moved into the Convert of the Sacred Heart.
It proved to be more of a challenge than they expected as they struggled to live without their home comforts.
Viewers called the girls ‘disrespectful’ and ‘pathetic’ after Tyla and Sarah snuck out of a group shopping trip to buy a bottle of vodka.
Viewers were disgusted by the group’s behaviour, calling them ‘disrespectful’ and ‘pathetic’
One tweeted: ‘Watching bad habits and holy orders and these girls are literally the most disrespectful pathetic bunch of girls wow’.
‘Sorry, but how… I don’t even know what to say, the disrespect is REAL…’ another shared. ‘So it was a case of the holy spirit catching the illegal spirit..’
A third: ‘I was just thinking “Aww how lovely to buy the sisters gifts” then they sneak & buy a bottle of voddy’.
Tyla said: ‘I’ve got contraband us girls are gonna get absolutely rat a***d tonight. This was such a smart idea.
Podium dancer Tyla began applying lip gloss when she became bored during morning prayers in the chapel
Sister Linda asked Tyla not to apply makeup in the chapel, as makeup is meant to be banned in throughout the experiment
‘I’m so devious.’
The nuns had brought the girls to a local charity shop and given them money to treat themselves to help them cope with their lifestyle change.
They took the booze back to the convent where they had intended to share it among the other girls – but the nuns quickly worked out their plan.
Sister Thomas More told them: ‘We’ve invited you in because we think it’s important to help young people and we agreed that there wouldn’t be any drinking.
Tyla decided to pour the bottle of vodka down the sink after the group apologised to the nuns for betraying their trust
‘Remember in the rules and regulations? That’s what it says but we trusted you and if we can’t trust you over little things then we don’t know what’s going to happen next. Sometimes we’ve just got to say we’re sorry and move on.’
Sarah apologised for her actions and poured the vodka down the sink, while others weren’t pleased about being told off.
Tyla appeared to be the biggest troublemaker in the group, and earlier on in the episode had to be reprimanded for doing her makeup during morning prayers in the chapel.
Sister Linda said: ‘When you go to chapel I notice you’re putting lipstick on. Can you try not to do that in chapel? I don’t know if you’re aware of that.’
The girls didn’t know they would be living in a convent, with many expecting to go on a spiritual retreat in a hot country
The group are expected to learn from their time in the convent and turn their lives around, turning their backs on partying
The new series is the first of its kind in over a decade, and is the result of a year of negotiations with the Catholic Church in Rome.
Moved by her experience, lingerie model Rebecca swears off clubbing on leaving the convent and returns to college to do a healthcare qualification. Another girl takes up volunteering while a third gets a tattoo of a crucifix, according to The Times.
Bad Habits, Holy Orders continues next Thursday, at 10pm on Channel 5.