Friday, January 12, 2007
It's all going horribly wrong!
What a disaster!
The other day Mac and I were musing about how Endemol and Channel 4 must have been congratulating themselves last year over the success of Celebrity Big Brother - the inspired choice of housemates, George Galloway's cat impression, the romance between Chantelle and Preston etc - I'll bet there were bonuses all round.
A week and a half into this year and ratings are dropping and three contestants have walked already. The decision to bring Jade Goody, her stupid boyfriend and her "former heroin addict, one-armed lesbian" mother has been a catastrophic error. Jade has done herself no favours ("I am the 25th most influential person in the world, when my face is on the cover of a magazine it sells more copies than a magazine with Victoria Beckhan on it"). Her mother is already voted out and as far as I could tell all she did was fart and be vaguely racist (it is not difficult to say Shilpa, and giving up and referring to her just as 'the Indian' was quite offensive). The boyfriend just fades into the background.
Donnt Tourette jumped over the fence not wanting to have anything to do with them. Ken Russell called them white trash and said he didn't want to remain in there with them any more. now little Leo has gone too (although probably not related to Jade's arrival, he was just an odious prat).
How can they turn this around? Not by bringing Dale Winton in anyway.
