A SINGER is suing the BBC for £10million, claiming it ripped off her idea for a reality show.
Gladness Jukic, 32, claims BBC3’s Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star was “stolen” from her email pitch in 2018.
Ms Jukic, known as Bossiie, from Romford, Essex, claims her idea was sent to Beeb commissioning editors in May 2018 around the time the show got the go-ahead.
She says she has suffered “injury to feeling and financial loss” because of her idea not being credited or paid for.
BBC lawyers say her email bounced back and was never received and was submitted after they commissioned the show.
They also deny that the shows are similar except in “commonplace” ways which cannot be protected by copyright.
They aimed to get the claim thrown out at the High Court. A judge will decide at a later date.
‘Glow Up’ is a British reality television competition on BBC Three, devised to find new make-up artists.
Contestants take part in weekly challenges to progress through the competition, which are judged by industry professionals Dominic Skinner and Val Garland, as well as weekly guest stars.
Originally hosted by Stacey Dooley, the first series premiered in March 2019, with Maya Jama replacing Dooley as presenter for the third series and Leomie Anderson fronting from the fifth series onwards.
