Jane By Design Season 1, Episode 12 Recap: “The Celebrity”

With a new haircut, but the same attitude, Jane’s former rival India is back in a big way. The fashion-forward designer is working for Harrods, and Donovan Decker needs their business.

In addition to India, Harrods has introduced a celebrity into the Donovan Decker family — Aiden Chase. But it’s clear that India is not there to make nice.

Meanwhile Ben is coming on way too strong for Rita showering her with candy hearts, teddy bears, and gorilla grams ... yes, gorilla grams.

With the whole school treating Billy like a leper, his anger is starting to boil over. When a former friend moves her purse away from him in math class, he blows up unable to take the unfair judgement from his peers.

But this blow-up introduces him to the new girl in school outside of the principal’s office. This mysterious brunette makes Billy think she has a dark past, but in reality she’s just a nervous transfer. We don’t like what this mystery girl might mean for Jane and Billy’s future.

After Jeremy’s designs fail to impress Aiden, Eli’s cutting-edge jacket grabs the celeb’s attention winning him more points with Gray and sending Jeremy further down the totem pole. Gray confronts Jeremy about his former relationship with India and tells him to get close to her rival once more.
 
As Jeremy attempts to woo India, the vengeful fashionista confides in him that she intends on taking down Gray and Jane and plans on using Jeremy to help her. India attempts to blackmail Jeremy saying she knows he was the mole, but more importantly, she wants the two of them to run Donovan Decker after they kick out the top lady and her faithful minion.

Jeremy and India get about as PG-13 as ABC Family will permit and all while Gray’s security cameras are rolling. Tsk tsk.

Meanwhile, Aiden has introduced Jane to a new level of celebrity and her photos with the star end up on Perez Hilton. At school everyone’s buzzing about Jane’s new run in with fame, while Billy sits in the background once more.

He ditches Jane for their movie date in the cemetery and though she desperately tries to convince him otherwise, her efforts are futile. When Aiden’s limo arrives to take Jane to a party, she abandons all attempts to hang out with Billy and heads back into the spotlight ... or so she thinks.

With dozens of models around, no one seems to notice the short high schooler, and Jane quickly realizes she made the wrong mistake in letting Billy go, yet again.

She heads back to the cemetery just in time to see Billy cozying up to the new girl in school, and with a spike-bedazzling leather jacket, Janie could have some real competition.

It seems lost love is a common theme in the cemetery that night because when Rita asks Ben to slow things down he insists on moving forward. The two go on a break, and it looks like the Quimbys are stuck without the ones they love, sigh.

But tune in next week to see Jane’s mom (aka Teri Hatcher) return and make her life extra complicated (as if it wasn’t already).

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