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Jade Goody and the Art of Dying
“Dying is an art,” wrote Sylvia Plath, in her poem Lady Lazarus, and the very public final weeks of Jade Goody are reinforcing Plath’s point remarkably well. Jade Goody has moved on from the...
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Jordan’s Heart of Darkness
When the troubled tabloid-sacrifice uber babe Katie Price decided to re-enter the jungle, I received numerous requests to comment on TV and radio. For once I held back; I just wasn’t convinced that I...
View ArticleSame Old New Old Year
I spent a little of last night, as the festive season faded and a whole new year and the return to work hove into view, watching the latest iteration of Celebrity Big Brother wipe it’s arse across my...
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Debating the wretchedness of Reality Television
I took part in the Cambridge Union debate last night, arguing for the proposition ‘This House Believes that Reality TV Represents Everything Wretched about Britain Today’. I underestimated the space,...
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Britain’s Got Cliché
It strikes me that all is not well in Britain’s Got Talent, that something is falling apart. This year, the show opened on 10.6 million viewers (a 44% share). By May it was on a 43%. After four weeks...
View ArticleAnother pathetic MTV PR stunt
Why oh why is MTV associating itself with zzzzz list celebrities once again. Stand by for another desperate attempt by MTV to try and sell its pitiful content. It’s as subtle as getting a tan with a...
View ArticleBig Brother time – PT Barnum v Channel 4
I was at a meeting the other day where some people were discussing Channel 4 and its rationalisation of Big Brother’s success. Channel 4 has explained that the show originally started off as an...
View ArticleNot watching Big Brother?
The latest figures for Big Brother suggest that audiences for this year’s show, Big Brother 9, are down. I’m sure that the channel and broadcaster will argue about the statistics, but the point is, no...
View ArticleHusbands of Britain
Husbands of Britain: pity, pity, pity John Bercow. Already under fire from colleagues for somehow being both a bit of an old fart and palpably anti-Conservative in the Commons, his wife took her first...
View ArticleEmbracing chaos
As we settle into the New Year, commentators continue to declare the present state of flux to be the ‘new normal’. In the wake of increasing globalisation and atomisation, humanity is simultaneously...
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The Sleazy Senorita talks and we all listen
Watching the interview with Rebecca Loos last night, on Sky, I realized it disclosed her true motives. It was her Big Brother moment. OK, she might have made a 6 figure sum, said to be around...
View ArticleBig Brother Publicity Stunt Mk 1
From the Daily Mirror. A fairly obvious publicity stunt to get the geeks talking about Big Brother. An off-air cock-up is always a surefire hit to attract a bit of publicity. NET BOOB REVEALS WHAT BB...
View ArticleBig Brother the dark side
The outrage continues in the press about the current series of Big Brother. The Mail on Sunday proclaims this morning So Big Brother do you still claim to care about the mental health of your inmates?...
View ArticleCREDESSENTIAL
The news last week that Derek Laud emerged from the Big Brother house to be swept away by his new PR minder Christine Hamilton was only slightly surprising, not utterly so. After all, they’re both...
View ArticleThe romance of the Nobodies
BIG BROTHER The romance of the Nobodies (Chantelle and Preston) will run and run – at least until she becomes the face of Primark – but the story of BB7 is the redemption of Michael Barrymore. Only the...
View ArticleFAIRY TELLE WEDDING
EXCLUSIVE Have the Big Brother couple found true love or is it a … Mirror.co.uk – London,UK … As celebrity agent Mark Borkowski puts it: “Their celebrity was beginning to wane. By getting married so...
View ArticleShe survived Jade, Jo and Channel 4. Now Shilpa reaps her reward
From Guardian Unlimited – UK She survived Jade, Jo and Channel 4. Now Shilpa reaps her reward At 9.46am yesterday, Shilpa Shetty, a Bollywood actor, began applying make-up. Four minutes later she sat...
View ArticleShilpa set to cash in after surviving Big Brother ordeal
The Scotsman 29 Jan 2007 AS TELEVISION reality show Celebrity Big Brother finally ground to a halt last night after nearly a month on air, Shilpa Shetty – the Bollywood actress at the centre of...
View ArticleLittle Brother’s Big Kidney
I was approached late yesterday afternoon by a contestant on this year’s Big Brother – civilians that is, not celebrities. I cannot even remember which series this is; it has been going for so long....
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Racist In The House
For all of you who didn’t know why Emily was removed from the Big Brother house early this morning, here is a transcript of the offending conversation. It’s interesting how quickly Channel 4 is...
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