(gospel music playing)
(narrator) The Convent of the Sacred Heart.
Home to a devout sisterhood of Catholic nuns.
We pray for four to five hours a day.
(narrator) They're dedicated to the salvation of others.
I want to be a saint, that's my goal.
(narrator) With one eye on the modern world...
Personally I've never taken a selfie.
(narrator) ...they're now opening their doors for the first time ever...
‐Oh, my goodness. ‐(Sister Michaela) Wow.
(narrator) ...to five very modern young women.
To transform the world legless is really not a good idea.
(narrator) Hard partying, selfie obsessed,
they represent a generation in danger of losing their way.
But are they happy?
Tyla what are you doing? Like what are you actually doing?
(Gabbi) I feel like my self worth comes from Instagram.
I was like daddy's little girl. Yeah, I'd love it to be how it used to be.
But they're looking for happiness, aren't they?
(narrator) Over the next month they'll confront their lifestyles.
(Paige) Oh, my God.
(narrator) In the one place they never thought they'd find themselves.
A convent.
Are you actually going to turn me into a nun?
I'm in a convent.
This is hell.
(all cheering)
(narrator) The girls have survived three weeks of spiritual boot camp.
(Sarah) I've actually got a hole in my cloth, that's how much I've been, look.
(laughs)
Good morning ladies.
(narrator) They made it through the first two weeks of missions,
living in the Convent of the Sacred Heart.
Move those hips, we can move those hips.
I was not expecting this at all.
(narrator) Then, they were sent out to work with three very different convents.
(all laughing)
This is on another level.
We're trying trying to live a silent life.
No.
(laughing)
(Tyla) I've not really been around old people before.
It's so much fun. (laughs)
One and half kg of unpeeled onions.
This is real life, it's just kind of... Yeah, hit me a bit today.
(narrator) Now it's the beginning of week four,
and it's time to bid farewell to their last mission, with The Little Sisters of the Poor.
You have to bend down to me.
(narrator) The girls are on their way back to The Daughters of Divine Charity in Swaffham,
to see what's in store for their final week.
(girls) Swaffham! (laughing)
(Sister Michaela) I miss the conversation at the table,
just the joy that they bring is wonderful, wonderful.
(Rebecca) I'm really, really excited to get back,
like I never thought I'd say that but I am really, really excited to get back
and see the Sisters and to have my room back.
‐It's like going home. ‐(Sarah) It's definitely like going home.
(girls) Swaffham! Swaffham! Swaffham!
Yahoo! We're back. We're home!
(girls) Thank you!
(girls) Hi! Hello!
(indistinct chatter)
They were so happy to see us and we were so happy to see them.
(all laughing)
They have become part of our family,
even though they've only been here two weeks.
(calm music playing)
(narrator) Transformed by their week of outreach work, the girls are full of surprises.
‐(Rebecca) After you Sister. ‐(Sister Thomas More) Wow!
(all laugh)
But what if we've given it up for lent.
(indistinct chatter)
(girls) Surprise!
We thought we'd treat you with afternoon tea to say thank you for everything.
I'm going to have one of these scones, I love scones.
And then you put the clotted cream.
I've never had afternoon tea in my life, let alone have afternoon tea with Sisters.
‐In a convent. ‐In a convent.
(Sister Thomas More) What did you gain from last week?
This week that you've just had now.
It was nice to do things for others, not just for yourself.
I've learnt not to be so selfish.
So when we at the residential home that I really enjoyed,
like me and Paige were like, making the beds and I had my own little cleaning trolley.
I was like running around the halls with it.
(laughing)
But I've decided that's what I want to do when I get home now.
‐Oh. ‐Yeah.
To like work in a residential home or be like a carer, yeah.
I think I'm more grown up now, than what I was when I first came.
I think that I've changed, in a good way, calm,
instead of that rowdy girl that walked through the door.
Like I've not changed completely, I'm still me, but I'm a better me now.
(all chuckle)
What about the monastery?
What we learnt from the monastery is that
we are never going to go back there ever again.
(all laugh)
And do you think any of you will go to church more often?
(all laugh)
(Sister Thomas More) It's rather nice really, we did actually miss them.
I even dreamt about them, that was the best of it.
(upbeat music playing)
(narrator) With the last date approaching,
Sister Francis has brought the girls to one of her favorite spots, Hunstanton.
(Sister Francis) It's a wonderful beach.
It's got freedom, you can see God's creation.
There's nothing better around here for stilling the inner‐self.
(narrator) Beach walks form a regular part of the Sisters' quiet contemplation.
(screams)
(Tyla) Exhilarating!
And I think it's just a liberating thing to do.
(laughing)
It's bound to touch their souls.
(narrator) Even in February, the girls can't resist the urge to sample the Norfolk water.
‐(Sister Francis) Oh, dear. ‐I would never do that.
They'd better get dressed.
(narrator) The weather may have failed to live up to expectations.
(Sister Francis) Tyla is just in her bra, and, oh, dear.
(narrator) Luckily, the nearest shelter is a chance to lift the lid on life outside the convent.
(upbeat music playing)
(Sister Michaela) I've never been to this kind of place.
It's hitting me from every side, it's colors and noises, and it gives me headache actually.
And all these colors, woo.
(narrator) Never afraid of a bit of competition,
the Sisters are quick to find something they can all enjoy.
Oh, Sister Michaela, that was a bit wild.
(screams and laughs)
I'm actually really going to miss the Sisters.
‐(Sister Michaela) Got all of them? ‐Yes!
‐(Sister Michaela) You're so good. ‐(laughs)
I feel like this is my life now, that I don't really know any other life,
and I'm going to have to go back to normality.
It's going to be really weird, moving on without them, but... Hmm.
(soft music playing)
(narrator) Back in the convent, the girls are discovering the pitfalls
of sharing a laundry rooms with 11 nuns.
I have a bit of a predicament, so I put some underwear down,
specifically about six thongs, for the washing, and they're gone.
Who could be the culprit? I'm down six thongs.
‐Someone's either trying them on or‐‐ ‐We're on a nun hunt.
We're going see who looks like they're wearing thongs.
Yeah, who's sort of sat there like... Yeah.
Who's so cheeky?
(calm music playing)
We've lost some thongs.
(girls laugh)
(Sister Anna) The girls say one of the Sisters might be wearing it.
Who took them out of the machine? Did anybody take them out?
(Tyla) No, they weren't left in the machine.
I have a few suspects.
(indistinct chatter)
She looks quite tense. A bit like...
We mentioned it to her, she sort of had a little giggle and looked at me.
That's who I think it is. Um, other that, it's yet to be found out.
It's a mystery.
(gospel music playing)
(narrator) Three weeks ago, the sisters threw open their doors,
to five very modern girls.
I'm in a convent, I'm in a convent!
The girls just came in and it was, for some reason in that very short time
has become a small part of us.
(narrator) But they're about to embark on their toughest mission yet.
(Sister Francis) Actions speak louder than words,
so they've really got to put in practice what is in their hearts now.
‐(glass clinking) ‐(Rebecca) Speech.
(laughs)
This time you're out on another mission, to home,
to show how you have learnt something and to change your lifestyle.
Permanently, we hope.
(narrator) Tomorrow, all five girls must leave for one week,
to see if they can resist the temptations of their old lives.
It will be a challenge, because you have friends who see you as somebody different,
but we think that you have done really well.
You're not the same girls that I opened that door to.
(all laugh)
You've changed, I think anyway, for the better.
(all applaud)
(narrator) After a week away, the girls must then report back to the Sisters.
(Sister Francis) We all know that it's not going to be as easy.
It's so difficult to change your lifestyle.
(narrator) The pressure not to disappoint is a heavy burden.
I wanna show my mum and dad and my brother and my sisters,
I want to show them how different I am.
Spend time with my brother, who I don't usually spend time with.
I want to show him that I appreciate that...
I'm getting really sad... (chuckles)
That like my brother's always had my back.
Like with... and he's had to put up with so much, because of what I do.
(sobs) I just want to show him that I appreciate it.
(narrator) Gabbi and her brother Josh have both suffered Internet trolling
as a result of Gabbi's modelling career.
I haven't spoken to my brother about it really.
He finds it difficult and I find it difficult as well.
From an older brother's point of view it's similar to a dad's point of view.
You want to protect, you want to protect your younger sister
but he probably feels like I'm not doing anything to protect myself.
(sniffles)
(narrator) With their last mission set,
not all the girls will be leaving with everything they came with.
Hello. Have you happened to see any missing underwear?
You look suspicious.
‐It was you. ‐It was me.
(Tyla) You've got the thongs, haven't you, Sister?
Look at her face. (laughs)
Have you got them?
Maybe The Lord took your thongs, because he is saying, get some briefs, girl.
Everything has a meaning behind it,
and the missing underwear means I should get bigger underwear.
‐Well, probably. (laughs) ‐Yeah.
(narrator) Sarah isn't the only one reflecting upon the lessons learnt in the convent.
I may change a little, but there's not going to be a hell of a lot of change
because I'm, yeah, I'm me at the end of the day.
I would like to help more around the house,
but I can't say that, heh, I definitely will, if that makes sense.
It's hard to say, I'd rather just kind of put things in to practice
and just see what happens.
I've stripped myself of everything that I know to be myself,
like my makeup and my fur coats and dresses.
Um, and now I sort of know who I really am without all of that.
My friends, I think they really won't believe that I've actually changed as a person,
but I really want to prove them wrong.
Because they will love the new me.
Like when they go in the toilet and throw up I'm not going to laugh at them
I'm going to be there holding their hair. (chuckles)
(narrator) Whilst in the convent, the girls have been able to escape their problems.
When I get home it's just going to be kind of hard when I get home as well
because, like, I'm around, back, you know, around all the clubs
and my friends and my family, I kind of don't want to go back to that.
Like I've seen the error of my ways.
Rebecca was the person who wanted to go home straight away.
She didn't understand being here.
She didn't want to be here.
She has really changed in many ways.
I'm scared to talk to my dad but, it'll be good to speak to him face to face and going to.
You just need to give him a big hug first of all.
(Rebecca) Yeah, like it needs to get sorted.
‐You don't have to say words. ‐(Rebecca) Yeah.
You know, some of this is beyond words isn't it.
(Sister Francis) She did say she was punishing her family.
To recognize that and then to realize that that was wrong
and to do something about it, that is a big, big step.
I'm done rebelling, and being childish, like...
But as long as he can give you a hug, and you can give him a hug, you know.
‐That shows it doesn't it. ‐Yeah.
We don't always have to have words do we? We understand without words.
If you always have that feeling that there is good in everybody,
then you can see that good and you can find that good, and people respond to it.
(calm music playing)
(upbeat music playing)
(narrator) Temptation beckons.
It's time for the girls to explore a different lifestyle,
to the one they left behind three weeks ago.
‐Whose is that? ‐(Gabbi) Me!
There you go. Take care of it and don't use it too much.
You can't tell who's going to be the person who won't be able to sustain it,
because we're all human, we go back to our old habits.
(girls) Bye!
(Sister Francis) Now we'll see whether they will do that.
(calm music playing)
(narrator) Rebecca has the further journey, to the family home in Newcastle,
she shares with her mum, dad, and younger brother.
I just hope it's not too late to kind of fix things between me and my dad.
I just have to show him that I've changed,
because at the minute he's got nothing to be proud of us for.
Like me going out and drinking and smoking and all the rest of it, just like,
you know, so hopefully, yeah, we'll start again.
(screams and laughs)
I'm home.
(both laughing)
Sister Rebecca. Welcome home.
Oh, my God, Sarah.
(both laughing)
Sarah!
(Sarah) I knew you'd be wearing a Chelsea shirt.
Well, I'm supposed to be going to match tonight, I've got a ticket.
I'll cancel the ticket.
‐Hey! ‐Hey, Paigies. ‐(all laugh.)
Wow, give me a hug.
‐Hello, I've missed you. ‐I've missed you. Tell us all about it.
‐Give us a kiss, how you doing, alright? ‐(Paige) I'm good.
(narrator) Gabbi was raised just one hour from the convent,
and the former Ms. Norfolk can't wait for her family to see the new her.
So happy to see..
(cries)
‐Oh, I missed you so much. ‐(Josh) You alright?
Ah, come on.
(narrator) Her brother Josh has watched Gabbi's modelling career develop from a young age.
I didn't think I'd get a return. No I'm just really happy to see you.
(narrator) Three weeks ago, Gabbi was a model,
who measured her worth by the likes she received on social media.
The only thing I'm actually really addicted to, is my phone.
(narrator) The pursuit of online perfection was a curse.
Gabbi was quite insecure when she came,
she thought she had to be somebody who she wasn't.
She thought she had to be this... this perfect model.
(narrator) The convent experience has given Gabbi the courage
to discuss the negative attention generated by her modelling.
It's something that I constantly have in the back of my mind.
I never know how to bring it up with my brother,
so from now on, it's honesty and openness always.
I mean there is stuff obviously that as your brother I don't really want to look at.
‐(laughs) ‐No, I'm being totally honest with that.
Like there's photos I would rather not see maybe.
Like the most important thing that I've realized in a way is like,
the opinions of my family members.
I just don't want what I do now to affect yours and my relationship.
If you're worried about how it affects me, please don't, honestly.
I mean I hope it doesn't sound bad, but I'm quite used to it for one thing.
I understand, I just see it for what it is.
If people are going to be nasty to you, who cares what they think?
I think that sort of stuff, it comes down to people feeling insecure.
(Gabbi) I do feel better about the situation now
because Josh seems to have a good filter, um, on it,
and that's what's most important to me.
That all this stuff doesn't affect our relationship,
because that's when it becomes an issue.
Yeah.
(narrator) Family issues were also at the heart of Rebecca's convent journey.
Back at her home in Newcastle, can she repair the rift?
(narrator) Three weeks ago, podium dancer Rebecca was stuck in a downward spiral
of binge drinking and one night stands.
Her party lifestyle had gotten so out of control
that her relationship with her dad had reached breaking point.
(Rebecca) Like I literally don't talk to my dad,
like we just don't talk at all, and I just feel like he hates us. (chuckles)
Oh, Holy Mary Mother of God.
Pray for us and as now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
Before I went on my journey,
I was just more about going out and that was my priority.
Going out and getting pissed and being, you know...
But now it's like, feels fake.
I didn't miss like everyone as much as I missed you lot.
I don't spend enough time with you.
(Rebecca's mom) Why do you think you miss it now though?
I don't know I just want to spend, like, time with you.
Like, I just want my dad back.
I know it's all my fault and I know,
like just little things that when we used to watch films together,
like horrors and me and you used to sit downstairs watching telly together and stuff like that.
It's not that we didn't want you, it's because you didn't want us.
‐(Rebecca) No, I know. ‐‐You would distant yourself from us.
I know, yeah. (sniffles)
You broke your mum's, our heart, you know.
You literally broke me.
(Rebecca) I know.
It's all the stuff you've done, that I didn't want to be near you.
(Rebecca crying)
It's the horrible stuff you said to your mum as well.
I know.
But, at the end of the day, you know,
I'm just tired, being angry with you all the time.
(Rebecca's mom) You might seem "Oh, yeah, I'm going out, having a laugh,"
but I don't you were ever happy with what... with your life anyway.
(Rebecca) Hmm.
But I just think you weren't going anywhere and you felt you weren't going anywhere.
You were...
(Rebecca's dad) We just think we'd try to stop you.
But we weren't, we couldn't say anything because the more we'd say something it was, you know,
‐you would put a guard up and get defensive and... ‐Yeah.
‐...you know. ‐I know.
I don't know who was... I didn't think it would take a nun to...
‐(Rebecca's dad) Yeah. ‐(laughs) ‐...get you out of this.
‐Call in the nun earlier. ‐(Rebecca's mom) Yeah. ‐Yeah.
Hmm.
(narrator) In Bristol, the convent appears to already be a distant memory for Paige.
I've not been home, well, about two hours.
Makeup's already back on. I'm ready to go out for a wine.
I think I need to celebrate and let my hair down after the few weeks we've had.
It was nice to go home and kind of put all my makeup on, put my clothes on.
I can be easily tempted.
My fear for them is despite their best intentions, despite these desires,
the pressure of the society will be too strong for them to handle.
(narrator) And back in Newcastle,
just two hours after the emotional reunion with their family,
Rebecca may appear to be slipping back into her old ways.
But she has a plan, that might surprise her parents.
Tada. Um, here.
Oh, wait I don't know if I logged out of my things yet.
‐Oh, you're wearing all your makeup again. ‐(Rebecca) Yeah.
All right. It's like your back to how you were again.
No, I'm not, it's just my makeup, isn't it?
Makeup doesn't make a big difference, does it?
It does.
It doesn't change who I am on the inside.
Well, let's hope not.
(Rebecca) Bye.
I think it will be a shame if Rebecca falls back to her old lifestyle.
To have gone through so much on this journey
and put it to good use, it's a waste of a beautiful person.
I don't know. Just seeing her like that again, it's like, brings back memories actually.
That's how she was before she left I suppose.
But you just hope she'll be different.
(narrator) Rebecca is about to prove that her time at the convent, has been worthwhile.
(tranquil music playing)
(bell ringing)
(narrator) It's been less than a day since the Swaffham Sisters
released the girls on their final mission.
The girls need to prove that they can return home,
and resist falling back into old habits.
Temptation is the Devil's work.
But they will not be on their own
because our prayers are going to be every day with them.
(all) We receive to you, oh, Lord, thy praise in to our hearts.
I'm really hoping they will prove to their parents the things they... they have learnt.
(all) Amen. Ave Maria.
(calm music playing)
(narrator) In Newcastle, the city center has pulled Rebecca in,
but despite her parents' fears, it's not the nightclub she's headed for.
(Rebecca) I want to be a carer.
College is the only thing that's stopping us from doing it.
Like I just can't, I just... Ugh.
(narrator) Rebecca dropped out of college, after struggling academically.
I don't think I could sit in a classroom and write shit down, I don't learn like that.
I'm more of a doer.
(narrator) Despite her reservations,
she's now looking to enroll on a healthcare course.
‐(Rebecca) Hiya. ‐Hi, Rebecca, yeah, I'm Lucy, nice to meet you.
(Rebecca) Nice to meet you.
‐Okay, this is one of our hospital wards. ‐(Rebecca gasps)
So we've got like all different beds, these are actually hospital beds.
I love it!
‐(Lucy) Okay, so if you just want to come over. ‐(Rebecca) Yeah.
(Lucy) So as you can see, like all these dummies were directed to be like humans,
so if you just lift their hand that actually is quite heavy,
so as if you were lifting an actual human.
Hi, Doris, you alright, babes?
Yeah, you would call her names, you would learn to talk to her.
So this is totally different to being at school
because in school they normally just put everything...
Sit you in a class, sit you down and talk about it.
Well, we can talk about it and the show you.
So not only are you going to have all the knowledge,
you're going to have the practical skills to be able to go on and work.
That's what my trouble was before.
I was kind of just thinking college, I'll just be sat behind a desk,
but I didn't think it would be this hands‐on.
(Lucy) What kind of, um, qualifications did you come out with at school.
‐I think I got like a D in maths. ‐(Lucy) Okay.
Yeah I've got biology and chemistry, I think a C or D,
I don't know which way around it is.
That's good, they're good qualifications.
Well, I do think you'd be quite suited.
You know you've got that passion, you've got that drive,
you know you can see it in your face that like, this is kind of something that you want to do.
So I'd think that this course would be good for you.
I'm excited.
(Rebecca) Made us feel real us really good, you know,
when she was talking about my grades, because I think I'm thick as shit.
I've been stuck in a rut and I was...
Literally I'd sleep all day, go out in the night time, drink and whatever,
and I'd work in town like dancing, so that was literally my life.
All these temptations that are in the world for girls,
they have seen that these things haven't made them being fulfilled.
They will see that, what other things that will make them happy.
That's the first step.
I never thought and I would like get to this point again when I was happy,
and I know what I want to do, and it's nice to actually have a goal
instead of just dossing around.
I actually want to do something, I want to come to college,
and she definitely could see me coming here and doing it.
I feel like I've found... I've found my path.
(laughs)
(tranquil music playing)
(narrator) In the girls' absence, spring has arrived.
(Sister Renata) Spider webs everywhere.
Just cleaning the garden shed so we will be ready for the spring.
Maybe throw things away which are not necessary here.
I think this shovel,
it's helpful with a little hole if you don't... don't really want it.
(narrator) Before going into the convent,
Tyla's fashion habit was costing her up to ££40,000 per year.
I've worn this like twice, so I've got the wear out of it.
I don't get how you can spend so much money on clothes.
I think Tyla has this temptation to do lots of shopping.
(narrator) But no‐one said making a fresh start would be easy.
(squeals and laughs)
I'm doing it. Just take it.
She will see that she really doesn't need those things.
What if I get an outfit that these will go with, and then they've gone?
Oh, my babies.
(laughing)
The Sisters would be saying 'you can do it, Tyla,
you don't need these things'.
All they are are material goods,
do you think that's what they'd tell you?
Yeah, they'd be like "You're beautiful without all these things, you don't need them."
(narrator) With some gentle persuasion from her mum...
Just put them in the bag, Jay. Do it.
(narrator) ...will Tyla find strength to renounce her addiction?
Ah, dear.
(narrator) Having been without her phone for over three weeks,
Gabbi has some catching up to do,
with 19,000 online followers.
It's probably best to smile.
(narrator) Whilst in the convent, Sister Linda encouraged all the girls to go makeup free.
(Sister Linda) Just look how beautiful you look.
You don't need makeup, you're so beautiful dressed like this.
It's just nice to know that like, we can actually be ourselves
and to actually be appreciated for who we actually are.
‐#loveyourself. ‐#loveyourself!
(narrator) This will be her first selfie since entering the convent almost a month ago.
No makeup, no filters.
Oh, that's horrible.
I don't actually like any of them, really.
(Gabbi's mom) You really don't have to do this.
No, I know I don't, but I feel like it's not a good example
if I can't post a picture of myself with no makeup on.
It's not a good example to anyone, is it?
If I don't do it I'll feel like I'm not only letting myself down
but letting everyone else down,
because it's letting society win.
(narrator) Out to prove that one woman's trash is another one's treasure,
Tyla is headed to a local charity shop.
It's really bad because normally when I have a little clear out,
the very rare occasions that I do,
I put the clothes in a bin liner and then I put them in the bin.
‐(woman 1) Hello. ‐Hi. (chuckles)
‐(woman 1) Are you all alright? ‐Yeah, I've brought some stuff.
(woman 1) Oh, donations, great.
My clothes can help someone,
and it's clothes that are just literally just chilling in the bottom of my wardrobe.
I'm hopefully going to do a bit of volunteering here as well. That's what I'm hoping.
I don't know what type of volunteering it's going to be,
maybe I'll get to get my clothes out and dress up some mannequins and stuff, I don't know.
Would there be anything I could do to help?
Well, yeah there's loads of things that volunteers can do in the shop,
so if you wanted to come through and see how we do things.
Oh, yeah, that'd be really good, thank you, yeah.
Everything's color coordinated, so jumpers, trousers,
everything usually in colors so that'd go...
‐It's just like my wardrobe. ‐...that'd go fine on there.
I think the girls have seen the Sisters living a life of charity,
a life of poverty, a life of obedience...
Am I doing it right? I think I'm doing a good job.
...we're just hoping that the girls will see something that they admire,
and slowly they can implement it in their life.
(narrator) Already Tyla is feeling the benefits of giving back.
Oh, I'm loving this.
I'm proper loving this.
This is like me all over.
See good karma. Do good things, good things happen.
I bought a bag of clothes in, and I found a fur coat.
They say I'd be the best type of volunteer
because I take clothes in, I help, and I buy loads of things so...
(laughs)
(narrator) Paige may have been seduced by wine at the beginning of the week,
but today she's up at the crack of dawn,
to rekindle another lost love.
(Paige) Say "hi, Paige" because I haven't seen you for a while.
It's been months since I've last seen Bertie.
‐(woman 2) Have you missed him? ‐(Paige) Yeah, so much.
I stopped doing the horses because I was going out,
kind of every weekend, and then I was too hung‐over or still drunk.
‐Last night. (woman 2) Yeah?
I had the option to actually go out on a night out and get drunk and I chose not to,
because I wanted to be fresh and ready to come here today.
Oh, really? Ah, look at that Bert.
So you're going to be coming down here more often now, are you?
‐I will be, yeah. ‐Good.
‐Instead of going out and‐‐ ‐Hangover free?
(Paige) Yeah, no hangover.
She used to run around and Bert used to run after her,
and they used to dance, didn't you?
(serene music playing)
Seeing my little Bert, it made me really much how I missed him and love him.
He's made me open my eyes like that I need to get back into it again
and get down there and help out more.
(chuckles)
Aww.
Ow!
(tranquil music playing)
(narrator) Always thinking ahead, the Sisters are preparing the garden for fairer weather,
and every moment is an opportunity to think about the girls.
(Sister Francis) This is our special rose garden,
it'll be a reminder, won't it, of all the girls.
They're always thought about, they're always prayed for.
I think they've all seen a better side to themselves,
I think they all know that they are really valued,
and that they're all special.
We'll be really looking forward to hearing what happens next.
There are shoots, so there are shoots on all of them.
They're beautiful, they'll be beautiful.
I think we will get some surprises in the future.
Perhaps the person we have thought has got the least out of it,
will have got the most out of it.
(narrator) Before going into the convent,
Rebecca was living on a diet of alcohol, and one night stands.
Breaking with tradition, she's asked Cameron,
a guy she met a month ago, out of a first date.
This is so strange.
I'm like a date virgin, I feel like I'm losing my virginity.
(screams and laughs)
(narrator) They've never slept together,
and she really likes him.
(Rebecca) It's not to do things that doesn't involve drink,
because I never do that when I'm here.
Like with friends or whoever, like, it's nice to just, yeah,
and this date's quite nice too. (laughs)
Last time I played this I was with the nuns.
You've never seen us so sober actually, I've just thought.
I've seen you sober, but I've never seen you, not having a drink.
(narrator) The nuns would approve of Rebecca's sobriety,
but having been starved of her impulses for 28 days,
does she have the willpower to go home alone?
I think the hardest thing for Rebecca to be, is to be strong herself.
I've given up watching television during the week,
and I found it quite hard, believe it or not.
Oh, it's so... I'm not ready!
(Rebecca) I've said that I'm going to spend every Tuesday with my family,
so after the date I'm going to go home, back to my family,
and spend some time with them.
‐Look. ‐(Cameron) It's horrible! ‐(both laugh)
I'm really glad that I waited and went kind of on a date
instead of like just straight away like, having sex with him.
I can't stop smiling, I'm trying to like...
(laughs) I'm trying not smile.
Aww, that was cute.
Never done that before, that's so weird.
A couple of no makeup selfies.
I mean there's that one?
(Gabbi's mom) I don't think it matters is what I'm saying. I don't think.
(narrator) Back in Norfolk, Gabbi spent three hours taking the perfect no‐makeup selfie.
Now, she just needs to post it.
I hope Gabbi will have learnt that you can be strong
and that people will respect you for it, if you are.
‐Have you done it yet? ‐I have.
It's gone. Hmm?
(Sister Thomas More) I hope she'll get a good career in modelling,
though sometimes I just wish they'd wear a drop bit more. (chuckles)
I wouldn't say it feels good but, um, I'm pleased that I've done it.
I'm pleased with the message I'm putting out across to other people.
I'm not doing this for me.
You could say that I'm doing this to show also that perhaps I don't care
if people, you know, want to have their opinions or whatever.
Ah, bless her.
Gabbi's put a picture up with no makeup on, smiling.
She's so brave.
Good on you, babes, you look gorgeous.
#loveyourself.
Yeah I'll literally be five minutes,
I'm literally just going to get changed and sort my hair out.
(narrator) Tonight, Sarah is reuniting with her friends.
(upbeat music playing)
Before going into the convent,
club hostess Sarah was the life and soul.
When they go back into the real world I think they're got all their friends around them,
all wanting them to change back in to the person that they were before,
because that's who they know.
So there will be a lot of pressures.
(narrator) To keep herself on the straight and narrow,
Sarah's opted to drive home tonight.
Hey, girls!
Oh, my God, what has happened to you?
Thank you so much. This is the only one I'm allowed to have by the way.
‐Why? ‐Because I'm driving, I'm going to drive you home.
That's what... I literally, I decided to be designated driver.
Wow! I've never had that coming from her.
I know, I always make everyone else drive so that I drink but...
(narrator) It's not long before Sarah's friends are trying to lead her astray.
(girl) We haven't really been out much since you've gone away.
We've been saving it until you come back.
‐Why don't you stay out and drink? ‐I still...
Don't be a bad influence on me!
I think this is all a front. The real Sarah's in there.
‐We want the old Sarah. ‐I'm here. I am, I'm still there.
The one that downs a bottle of wine in half an hour.
Yeah. (laughs)
(Gabbi) Oh, Tyla's just liked it!
And we've gone over 100.
She's gonna know because she's going to know the #loveyourself, that's our thing.
So yeah, we're over 100 likes
and it's been less than three quarters of an hour so it's not so bad.
It wasn't that... it wasn't that difficult in the end.
I think life will change for me
because I think I'm going to care less about things
that really aren't actually that important,
and just accept myself.
(gospel music playing)
(narrator) Separated for the week,
the Sisters have only had the power of prayer to influence the girls.
Paige has come up with a way to permanently keep the Sisters in mind.
Is there any religion connotations to this?
No, it's just really, a bit for show really.
‐(tattoo artist) Yeah? ‐Oh, well, to represent the Sisters.
So are they going to be cross you had this done?
(laughs)
(machine whirring)
I'm just gonna get a portrait of Sister Linda's face on the inside of my arm.
‐Wanna go check it out? ‐Yeah, no, I love it.
(tattoo artist) Because an upside down cross is a sign of the devil,
‐you know that, don't you? ‐(Paige) Oh, is it?
Go like that otherwise if you go like that they're going to think you're a fallen angle.
(laughs)
I'm happy. Happy as a pig in shit.
(laughs)
(Sarah) Yeah, obviously moderation is key, so.
(girl 2) Can you stop saying moderation because I don't even know what it means.
(Sarah) Moderation? I'll show you what moderation is.
It's having one sip of wine every three sips you have, do you know what I'm saying.
(girl 2) Yeah, well, you finished yours before us!
(Sarah) Yeah, well, putting in to practice, it's hard.
I've been deprived of alcohol, I've been drinking tea and coffee
‐like it's going out of fashion. ‐(girl 2) Shall we just order another one then?
‐No, no, we're going. ‐Are you sure? ‐Yeah, we're going.
Bye!
(narrator) Sarah ends her night out with her game plan and dignity intact.
(gospel music playing)
(narrator) Tomorrow, the girls will head back to Swaffham,
and the Sisters will find out if their prayers have truly been answered.
(narrator) Four weeks ago,
the Sisters set the girls a regime of prayers, charity, and domesticity,
to teach them that inner‐beauty is the best selfie filter going.
The girls' final mission, surrounded by temptation at home, is over.
I prayed for the girls actually, the whole week.
I was thinking about Rebecca especially.
‐(Sister Linda) She had lots going on this week, for her. ‐(Sister Michaela) Yes.
(narrator) The Sisters are pulling out all the stops,
in preparation for the girls stepping through the convent doors,
for the very last time.
The topping is.. pepperoni.
This is the beginning of a long term journey, isn't it?
Oh, yeah, there will be ups and downs, because we all have ups and downs.
‐Sure do, even us. ‐(Sister Francis) Yes.
Well, that's life, isn't it. Let's be honest.
Yeah, I'm sure they're going to be really excited,
and I hope that everything's gone alright
because if it hasn't, it's going to be really difficult for them.
(suspenseful music playing)
‐(Sister Thomas More) Ah, Sarah. ‐(Sarah) Hi, hi!
‐I've missed you, lovely to see you. ‐(Sarah) Lovely to see you.
(Gabbi) Hello!
(Tyla) Hello!
‐(girls) Hi! ‐(Sister Michaela) Hi, Tyla! ‐(all laughing)
‐We know who this is. ‐Get her in.
Sister Anna!
(Sister Anna) Break the door, break the door down.
(screaming and laughing)
(both chuckling)
Don't start crying. Don't start crying!
(Sister Thomas More) That's a different entrance, that was definitely different.
She wanted to go away again when she came last time.
I think she's crying because she'd pleased to be here, which is nice, isn't it?
It's all a bit... Everybody talking together. (laughs)
‐(woman 3) Is it nice to see them? ‐Oh, lovely, yes.
I think they have to learn to get the volume down a bit.
(laughs)
(narrator) Having left the girls to find their own path this week,
the sisters waste no time in catching up.
I've learnt a lot about myself already and it's only been a month.
Before, I could easily go in to town and like splash five or six hundred pounds willy nilly.
I'm not going to go back to my old life.
I'm not going to go home and kind of the routine that I was doing it was just too easy,
that's the whole point of why I am really looking forward to this journey.
I think I've learnt that to be, like seen as the perfect person, to everyone,
‐well, it isn't realistic. ‐(Sister Linda) Yeah.
Um, it's more cool just to be yourself.
(narrator) It's clear the Sisters have made a lasting impression on Paige as well.
I got a new tattoo.
I got a cross, to kind of remind me of you guys.
‐(Sister Linda) Oh, my goodness! ‐(all laugh)
(Paige) So I've got it there to kind of remind me,
so if I am ever having kind of like a down day or kind of wanting to fall of the track,
I can always look at that to remind me...
Oh, it's lovely.
(narrator) Having taken it slowly on her first date with Cameron,
Rebecca is keen to share all the details of her second with Sister Anna.
We had soup. That's just PJs I can keep it.
Sister Anna knows what I mean.
‐Do I? (laughs) ‐(Rebecca) I had soup.
Soup in the convent is called a word for sex,
and me and Sister Anna were talking a lot about soup.
‐We are at the point where, like... ‐Nearly there.
Like we're not allowed to have soup with anyone else,
we just have to have soup together.
Do you think it will work out between both of you?
(Rebecca) Yeah, I think it's going to like,
I don't just want to have soup with him, I wanna have like...
(Sister Anna) Proper relationship.
‐Like a three course meal with him?
I'm not having soup in the same way anymore.
(both laugh)
(sister) Do you know it?
♪♪ It's long way, to Tipperary ♪♪
♪♪ It's a long way, to go ♪♪
I feel really nunnified, you know, I'm going to make up a new word.
I've taken from this that I'm comfortable in my own skin,
um, and I don't need makeup to be happy, I don't need my phone.
♪♪ It's a long, long way To Tipperary ♪♪
♪♪ But my heart's right there ♪♪
(applause)
It's been a strange and,
really I suppose a wonderful experience, really.
They brought a change to our convent, because actually they, with their presence,
they brought us as a community together.
This experience has been the best experience like ever.
I'm not gonna lie, I'd probably do it again.
(Gabbi) This is probably one of the hardest and most challenging things I've ever done.
I might not have come away with a belief in God,
but I definitely have more belief in myself,
that I can do more than I thought I could.
They are beautiful and wonderful inside, as well as outside,
and I want them to appreciate themselves for who they are really.
Not the masks that they wear.
I never ever wanna go back to the way I was, ever.
(Sister Francis) You know, we want them for who they really are, don't we?
And everybody, everybody has that goodness inside them.
(all) Bye! Love you!
(tranquil music playing)