Celebrity Big Brother

Don't worry, I intend this to be the only time I ever mention this show.

I used to watch this show in the past and I have to admit that we put the opening night show on the box last night to see who was going in. My God, the assortment of people! It's the total nobodies who go in that really wind me up. There is a page 3 girl with wonky boobs who I wouldn't know if I tripped over her in the street. I mean, seriously, they showed a photo of her modelling and one was looking up and the other was looking down. Crazy! I know we're all different but she puts herself in the magazines so is fair game for comment IMHO :-) Anyway, what the heck she's doing on there, and moreover - who in the production team at Big Bro HQ thought it would be a good idea to invite her on?

Who?

Then we have a cage fighter. Tough guy maybe but he's sullied his reputation by being exposed as a cross dresser and has recently hit the news by cavorting with a topless Katie Price/Jordan in a swimming pool, a few days after she announced she was splitting from her husband. No sign of her kids around fortunately. No doubt he'll disappear back into obscurity once he's evicted.

There is a Kazakhstani (spelling?) girl who shacked up with Rolling Stone relic Ronnie Wood (presumably with him for his good looks or something), a man decades years her senior. They've split now apparently so even that tenuous reason for us to be interested in her has gone. Again, why are we expected to care about her now, if at all?

OK they put in Stephanie Beacham and Stephen Baldwin who at least have a few acting credits to their names. Heidi Fleiss might be interesting because of her notoriety. But we've got Sisqo, who had one hit song in the UK as far as I remember, maybe 10 years ago. Looking to resurrect his career maybe?

I was very interested to see Vinnie Jones go in there. My money's on him to win. He got the biggest reception from the crowd but why is he going in? I thought he was doing pretty well in Hollywood. I assume the Big Brother appearance fee is quite tasty but I wouldn't have thought he'd need it. Strange.

I just don't get it anymore. I know the basic concept is to put a load of very different personalities in there and see how they get on together for a couple of weeks, with a variety of humiliating tasks along the way, but the title of the show is CELEBRITY Big Brother. I'd have thought that the main prerequisite for admission would be that the participants have to be a celebrity. Or am I being naive?

Suffice it to say I won't be watching anymore of this and I'm not surprised that this is the last year of Big Brother on our tv screens here in Blighty.

Rant over. Next post is about fairies or flowers or something nice :-)