Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

And we thought that she has finally learned her lessons in The Confessions of a Shopaholic, didn’t we? Well, sorry to disappoint you… but her new career as a phone-in financial personal consultant and her trip to New York had her fell into greater debts.

This time, it is unstoppable. The only thing is, someone is interfering her privacy. Whoever that is sure wants her to be exposed.

Becky and Luke are in New York. Luke is working on setting up his branch in New York, big time. And she’s having offers to do television shows from left to right. She’s excited. He is anxious.

Apparently, Becky’s secret financial issues surfaces and it is all over the tabloid. Luke’s business isn’t going to happen. Becky’s relationship with Luke starts to change. Luke discovers her true self. He gets sour with her, leaving Luke staying at New York and Becky back to London. To Becky’s dismay, her slot at Morning Coffee is being replaced by her ex-colleague, Clare. She now doesn’t have a career and at the same time, full of debts. How is she going to pay her debts?

The she finds out that it was Alicia, Luke’s secretary, that is the culprit of their failure. Alicia tries to take away Bank of London is Brandon Communication’s backer because she wants to set up her own company. Apparently, it is her who exposes Becky’s financial troubles to the public. Becky then tells Luke’s friend, Mike, about her discovery. Mike tells Luke and Luke comes back to London to address the issue. The company is saved.

Becky now tries to sort out her problem. But she doesn’t have a job. So she auctions and sells her “assets” including the green scarf. She actually sold the green scarf for 200 pounds! (only to discover later that the two bidders that are bidding for the green scarf was Luke’s contacts).

She now has an offer to work in New York. But before she fllies to New York, she guested at Morning Coffee. The show expected her to confess her financial troubles, and they thought the program would be emotional having her tell everybody how she affected her family, friends, career, etc. But to everybody’s surprise, she told everybody how successful she was in overcoming her problem, paid off her debts and a new job offer in New York.

Somebody had tipped of Luke that she was leaving London for a job in New York. Luke left the important meeting he was having just to stop Rebecca from leaving him in London. He is back to London, actually, but he never contacted Rebecca. His excuse – his busy-ness with his business.

Becky doesn’t let him stop him. She flies to New York and applied at Barney’s as a personal shopper.

3 months later, Luke went to Barney’s to see her. He has now an office in New York! They now are back together.

I get very mixed up with the story because as I am writing this, I just watched the movie, for the 2nd time. As I have blogged earlier, the movie was mixed up. I just realized that they made the movie out of two books. But still, the plot was different. I like the movie better than the book.