10+ Gypsy Wedding Dressmaker Jailed. Thelma madine paid leanne phillips £400 a week to design dresses for nico bridal company, based in liverpool, and praised her for taking the business 'to another level'. Thelma madine, who rose to fame after appearing on the channel 4 series, said best friend of 30 years pauline woolley took her to tribunal after resigning from dressmaking.
Thelma madine, resident dressmaker on channel 4’s my big fat gypsy wedding said that going to prison was the making of her. A dressmaker who starred on the hit show my big fat gypsy wedding unfairly dismissed her head designer after a heated row, a court has ruled. A sacked designer had to be restrained by her mum after an argument with big fat gypsy wedding dressmaker thelma madine, a tribunal heard.