Granted, the character of Lea Pearl is a professional female bodybuilder and all the women today are very much still in the very much still amateur NABBA federation, but who knows, maybe it's the super dark tans and the super ripped muscles and the super tiny thongs that the producers think will conjure up the world of female muscle best?
Sarah Mura
Britain's NABBA champion is Mrs Jolley now, having recently tied the knot. She may be a bit young for the role, but she cetainly has the looks, and if her 2016 version is as big an improvement on 2015 as Sarah in 2015 was compared to herself in 2014, she will certainly have more than enough muscle to carry off the role of a pro FBB.
Jody Shuttleworth
A real NABBA veteran, and, like a fine wine, improving with every passing year. Unlike that fine wine though the improvement is in the form of refined and downright freaky muscle. Film star beautiful, and mature enough to be believable in the role as well.
Sarah Hallett
If actually being mother and knowing all about the choices a top class female bodybuilder has to make regarding her family is going to be an advantage, then fire-fighter and NABBA muscle mum Sarah will be a strong candidate to play Lea Pearl. And if she did get the role it would be churlish of our "auteur" to miss the opportunity for some great close-ups of Sarah's vascular muscles in a pump room scene.
There has to be a pump room scene, right?!
And if I may just bring one more lady who graces the NABBA ranks in for audition today, then let's make that woman Sarah's very own backstage bestie and one of FMS' 2015 NABBA faves to boot - Northern Ireland's most muscle sexy Linda Cassidy.
The first of two clip-packed posts this week and the first of a few that focus on contests - Theresa at the NPC Nationals is one (I may have mentioned that before) and the other, well, the other is a surprise - takes us to what you might call the spiritual home of British amateur bodybuilding, Southport in Lancashire, for our annual overload of shredded female muscle in thongtastic posing suits. Yes, it's the NABBA Universe.
Toned Figure, Winner ALEX LARKIN (UK)
Alex is new to the blog, and new to me, but of course that doesn't mean she hasn't been up to much until now. She is, for example, the reigning NABBA Ms North-east and Ms England in her category, and she also finished runner-up this year at NABBA Britain.
And found time to get up close and personal with Kizzy Vaines on a bike.
Alex hails from West Yorkshire and trains at the same gym as another NABBA star we've featured on FMS before, Sally Knights. She only started competing last year - you can see her (ridiculously sexy) routine from her first show, the Open Yorkshire Classic, here - so winning so many titles in such a short space of time is quite something. And she was rightly proud. I competed against 17 other girls from 26 countries worldwide to come out on top!!! she gushed to her Instagram followers shortly after the show. I can't describe how I feel about this achievement.
Her friend and fellow pizza and peanut butter lover Natalie McKenna was runner-up, and Korean An Bokyung came third (click on their names for their routines). Alex is the third consecutive British NABBA Ms Universe in Toned Figure after Nicola Bentham (2012 and 2013) and Charlotte MacGill. And if you should fancy seeing a bit of Alex training her lovely bum, well, I know where you can find it - here.
Congratulations to our British winner!
Trained Figure
Class 2, 3rd SARAH MURA (UK)
Now here is a lady we've met before on FMS, Ms NABBA Britain Sarah Mura, who finished 3rd in the shorter of the two Trained Figure classes at her first Universe.
And damn was she looking good backstage.
Sarah, right, with someone vaguely familiar
And far from shabby once that tight little grey number had come off and it was time to get those glorious glutes onto the stage. Currenly enjoying a well-earned holiday in the sun with her beau, Sarah confirmed her status as one of Britian's most exciting NABBA athletes here - and her choice of backstage company hasn't changed my mind about what I wrote about her in July, either: You suspect Sarah has a cheekier, racier, side than most. She is, for one thing, sponsored by the same supplements company as Lisa Cross, and if some of the posts on her Instagram ("sarahsynthol") are anything to go by, she has a similar outlook on muscle and sex as Britain's naughtiest.
Gentlemen, betting on this year's Rear of the Year has been closed.
Class 1, Runner-up LINDA CASSIDY (UK)
Linda Cassidy gave the crowd a routine to remember and threatened our collective heart rates this time last year when she was finishing 5th in the taller Trained Figure class. And again this year County Down's funkiest Amazon gave another full body performance in a similarly minimal posing suit. No health warning was issued, but everyone seems to have survived, and Linda took home the runners-up trophy.
It's not always an easy task to find pictures of the NABBA ladies. Linda's on Facebook, but it's very much a page where she dishes out advice and motivational quotes to her personal training clientele rather than a page where there are pictures of herself and her lovely muscular body. If it were, you'd be looking at one right now.
Sarah and Linda were the top Brits, but before we move on to the winners, here are the rest of the ladies who finished in the top 6 in the two Trained Figure categories.
As above, just click on the ladies' names to view their routines at your leisure.
Trained Figure II (short): 2nd, NABBA legend Flora Conte (Italy); Sarah Mura in 3rd we've seen. Sadly the routines of Olga Permina (Russia, 4th), Mechelle Ihnat (UK, 5th), and, another Brit, Lindsey Angel (6th), aren't up yet, though you can see all the competitors in the class doing their thing in the comparison round here.
Class 2, Winner CINARA POLIDO (Brazil)
3rd in 2013 and runner-up last year, Brazil's reigning NABBA World champ Cinara Polido added the Ms Universe title to her collection here, and was well worth her win.
Cinara's incredible transformation, and many many more pictures of this Brazilian NABBA goddess, can be enjoyed further on her Facebook and/or Instagram pages.
Class 1, Winner & Overall Figure Ms Universe DARIA DIOSSI (Russia)
It's been quite a few months for the very un-Russian sounding Daria Diossi.
First, she won the NABBA Latvia-Lithuania Open (above), and then went on to claim the WFF Universe Superbody title. And since then, she's not only added the NABBA Universe to her rapidly growing collection, but also the WFF World title as well!
Daria with her WFF World trophy and tiara
Here's 7 magnificent minutes of footage of this stunningly beautiful woman performing her routine, winning her class, and finally outmuscling Cinara in the overall posedown.
More Daria? She's on Instagram, and you can see her WFF Universe routine here.
Ria Ward, Linda Gartside, Jackie Hague, Lisa Cross... and we can now add the name of Sarah Mura, NABBA Britain Trained Figure (ie. Physique) champion for 2015, to the list of female bodybuilders that suggest that when it comes to producing quality female muscle in Britain, the north-west of England is where it's at.
Sarah may seem to have come from nowhere to take the British title this year, but actually she's from Wigan, and has been around competing since 2010, when she was the NABBA North-west Toned Figure champion (ahead of a certain Ria Ward, who finished 3rd). I've never been as scared in all my life, she says of that first show.
2015 has seen her move up to compete in the Trained Figure class for the first time, and five years after that first show, she now has her second North-west title, which she won in May, as well as the British title. Brand new class, brand new Physique, tits have been done... I think now I'm in the best condition I've ever been in, she says.
Now if the above quote makes you suspect Sarah has a cheekier, racier, naughtier side than most, I would reckon you are spot on. I don't know her, more's the pity, but she is, for one thing, sponsored by the same supplements company as Lisa Cross, and if some of the posts on her Instagram ("sarahsynthol") are anything to go by, she has a similar outlook on muscle and sex as Britain's naughtiest IFBB pro.
And the fact that Sarah seems to feel most comfortable in a posing suit that - even in the thongtastic world of NABBA - leaves next to nothing to the imagination in the glootz department is perhaps another sign of her in-your-face muscle sexiness. It certainly ensures the judges ain't going to miss what she's built there, and on top of that it makes her an early front runner for the FMS Rear of the Year.
You can come to your own conclusions about Sarah by following her on that Instagram, or Facebook, or Twitter. And you might also like to watch an interview with her from May this year when she was preparing for the NABBA North-west. The interview contains footage of her first competition as well as Sarah pumping up and posing in the gym, and foreign readers can certainly test out their comprehension (or not!) of a proper undiluted Wigan accent at the same time!
And perhaps it'll be the NABBA Universe next for our new British champ...
Congratulations to Sarah and to all our champions this week.
FMS is going to take a little breather but we'll be back a week tomorrow with our 999th and 1,000th(!!!) posts, and naturally we have something very very special (yes, even more special than Sarah's glorious bum) lined up to mark the occasion.
