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Edina goes all out to win a coveted public-relations award, while Saffron contemplates an affair—with a married professor. Edina: Jennifer Saunders. Saffron: Julia Sawalha. Patsy: Joanna Lumley., Eddie is distraught at not winning the PR Person of the Year award and sets about becoming a workaholic to get revenge. Guest starring Naomi Campbell., At a posh public-relations awards show, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) guzzles champagne with Patsy (Joanna Lumley), bosses Bubble (Jane Horrocks) around, chats up supermodel Naomi Campbell, and prepares to take home a prize. She’s beaten to the punch, however, by Claudia (Celia Imrie), her pretentious, politically correct professional arch nemesis. Commiserating later at home with Saffy (Julia Sawalha), Mother (June Whitfield), and Pats, Eddy reveals that she had rigged the awards in her own favor, thus rendering her defeat even more ignominious. Terrified that she’ll lose her tenuous hold on her career, Edina creeps into Claudia’s celebrity liposuction-a-thon in hopes of bagging Campbell for one of her own celebrity events. Later, at an industry luncheon, she loses her prepared remarks but gives a drunken speech anyway, slagging off the PR industry’s parasitical piggy-backing on noble causes such as environmentalism. Eddy’s rallying cry against doom-and-gloom marketing — “Cheer up, because it might not bloody happen!” — becomes a sensation, and soon she’s bagging new clients right and left. Meanwhile, Saffy gets hot and heavy — for her, anyway — with Gerard (Simon Stokes), her college psychology lecturer. Originally broadcast on BBC 1 on April 27, 1995, Absolutely Fabulous: Jealous marked series three, episode four of this popular Brit-com. Campbell guest-stars as herself in a send-up of the inane schemes to which hangers-on constantly subject the supermodel elite. Although she doesn’t appear on camera, real-life singer Lulu, who is supposedly Edina’s biggest client, can be heard announcing one of the PR awards., More celeb guests in the ageing It Girl comedy. PR-land quakes with anticipation as the time for dishing out awards approaches. Edina, having paid for them, naturally expects to win her fair share, but arch rival Claudia Bing has other ideas. Meanwhile Saffy gets some extra special education from her psychology lecturer. Supermodel Naomi Campbell puts in an appearance as herself, but where is Lulu when you need her?
