| Jan. 2nd, 2009 @ 11:00 pm Hake On Me |
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It's been a couple of years since I last followed Big Brother. The few people reading who were around then may recall I like to give my post titles a random theme throughout the series, and this time around it's... *drum roll* Song titles with one word replaced by a type of fish. Yes, well spotted, I am going to run out of ideas on that front very quickly, but if past years are anything to go by it's not like I'm actually going to keep watching for very long, so I won't need that many.
It's two years since the last Celebrity Big Brother, a delay that may or may not have something to do with the fact that the last time this show was on it caused an international incident thanks to a load of old racism. Obviously learning their lesson, the producers have decided to put in a topless model with firmly-held right wing views. Oh.
Frankly, I only watched the launch show because it's traditional for me and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) aka_kelly to chat online and slag them all off, and since the non-celebrity version now starts on a Thursday when I'm at the theatre, we can't do it then. I don't particularly want to watch the rest of the series but I may have to keep an eye on it after all.
 
You know, I never really saw the appeal of Ben Adams in his A1 days, but since he's cut the silly curtain hair off and started going to the gym he's, shall we say, improved. It's a bit early for screencaps of the show to have surfaced but you'll have to take my word for it that I was slightly entranced by his cheekbones. Yes, A1 did do a cover of "Take On Me" which is where I got the idea for the title from, and now I'm stuck with it for any other posts I might do. And I know they were hardly Take That, but I'm not ashamed to say I think "Caught In The Middle" is fab.
I'm not going to run through everyone else who's in there because, frankly, it's not like I'll be looking at them while there's a prettier distraction, but I'm also interested in the presence of Tina Malone, aka Mimi from Shameless. It's a shame most of the people in the house probably won't have seen the show, because if I was in there and Mimi walked in I'd spend the rest of the time cowering under a bed. For Americans and other aliens unfamiliar with Shameless, Malone describes her character as "Tony Soprano in a dress," which is to downplay how fucking scary (while simultaneously awesome) she is. Evidently the Jackson family don't talk to each other, because LaToya's in there - Jermaine obviously didn't warn her against it after appearing in the last series. There's a Scottish politician nobody South of the Border's heard of, but from the sounds of it everyone North of the Border thinks he's a homophobic cuntbiscuit, so it's a bit weird there isn't A Gay in there to clash with him (unless Ben would like to surprise us - please?) Verne Troyer's in there and already massively popular with the audience; if the stuff I've heard about Mini-Me's other reality TV appearances is true, that won't last. And there's Coolio, who's gone straight onto my hate pile, not just for the "I'm definitely going to win" bollocks but mainly for the creepy little grunt he made when he hugged Mutya Buena, which made me sick in my mouth a bit. Weirdest participant has to be Ulrika Johnson - weird only because, like the rest of the world, I thought surely she'd already done this show? She's done everything else. And everyone else. When she walked into the house, those men who knew who she was wilted with terror at the prospect of waking up in the morning with her sitting on their face. Probably.
Er. There's some other people in there as well, and I've probably missed out whoever will end up being the big controversial whosit, but hey ho. All you really need to know is some semi-famous people done gone into a big TV studio, and one of them really should remove all his clothing post haste. That's what we care about round here, right? |
