RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press, Alderton explained that changing the series to be semi-fictional was \u201cthe most freeing thing that happened\u201d, and that she chose to do so after hearing producers having a debate about \u201cDolly\u2019s character\u201d.<\/p>\nAlderton explained: \u201cI just thought, \u2018This is going to be too much of a head-f**k\u2019. So I just decided to change the names and then I decided to kind of open up the world, because the really s**t thing about writing a memoir \u2013 other than all the exposure and the therapy you have to do \u2013 is you\u2019re limited by what happened in real life, and real life can be very unsatisfying and one note.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s my favourite thing when I see a one-star review on Amazon \u2013 people say, \u2018The plot wasn\u2019t satisfying\u2019. I\u2019m like, \u2018Try living it\u2019. So the minute that I kind of decided to open that up and take the essence of the show, which is this kind of grand romantic story about female friendship, and a coming of age story for the protagonist, and a girl gang show with this group of girls who have just moved to London, then the rest of it was as imagined as I wanted it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n