Celebrity Big Brother 2014... It's Over!
This neatly bookmarks the past month, in which I have been pretty much solidly either talking to mentalists on the streets of Manchester, watching the mighty Seattle Seahawks defeat all before them or Celebrity Big Brother with Toni, it's not that exciting on the face of it but I've had fun!
I think it's interesting to look back and see how quick to judge (or in some cases, how shallow I was, based on looks), of the brave contestants involved.
http://jeffthelion.livejournal.com/252189.html
Yes, staring me right in the face, first down the runway and eventual winner, Jim Davidson. I made a Facebook comment defending me wanting him to win the other day, I'm going to copy and paste it, as it somehow got a lot of likes from a very left-wing friends list..!
"God knows, I don't like the man. Or anything he's ever done previously as it was vile, nasty stuff. I did write that before this CBB.
But on this TV show he's been genuinely entertaining, so has Luisa Zissman (and I can't stand her either.) On the whole, they've imprisoned together folks who don't care or can't control themselves in front of the cameras, it's been perfectly designed carcrash TV. Well played, Channel 5!
Maybe being accused of being a paedo wrongly has changed his viewpoints on things, maybe he's hiding it brilliantly? Who knows but he's been close to bisexuals and people of other races. If he is still racist and homophobic, that must be absolutely killing him inside, haha!"
Ah, Luisa Zissman, fourth place and just like in The Apprentice, after hating her, I genuinely warmed to her too. She's a firebrand but at least she has a few thoughts in her head, and isn't afraid to express them, in REALLY brutal fashion.
Which makes the contrast to reality TV 'stars' 3rd place Ollie and 5th place Sam, I'm sure they are very lovely people but for once, the UK went purely for entertainment, not romantic entanglements.
Which also left room for Dappy to outmanoeuvre them and claim second place. Would the Big Brother house have been as much fun without his emotional swings, completely unnecessary nudity and constant bounding around? Probably not..!
Making up the finalists, was model Casey Batchelor. Poor sweet, Casey! Taken in by Lee Ryan's ex-boyband charms and busy hands... Fair play to her for telling him to go have a wank in the toilet when he wanted his way with her on live TV!
With Lee swiftly evicted in seventh, through a Grandfather clock (of all things!) a clock that became a portal between the house and the outside world in the later stages; and shortly after Linda in 8th, who by biting anything even vaguely provocative from Jim, came across as Queen of the Harpies and was booted out as soon as she was up for eviction. And lo, there was peace in the valleys from then onwards!
The quality of the series could be summed up in that some of the earliest people to go were also brilliant. Watching 82 year old Lionel Blair tell people to "Fuck Off!" and convince himself to dress up in fetish wear gives you an indication of the standards of insanity present.
Then you had Jasmin, a properly odious woman but still in long enough to deprive Casey of potential future boyfriend Lee, which is probably a case of helping Casey dodge a bullet in the long run.
Oh and Liz Jones, she completely blew my presumptions out of the stratosphere, I expected a super confident journalist, she was so wrapped up in her worries and self-doubt, she reminded me of my Mum, who suffers from depression!
Evander Holyfield? A footnote, an extremist Christian, homophobic footnote, that's all he was. Can they ever make one as good? I doubt it, no doubt though this will give them licence to try, many, many times... Same time next year?!
On a completely different tack, just been reading matheius 's last entry. It's a really shit time of year to be threatened with homelessness and I've got fingers crossed that something comes up for you and quickly, bud. Hope you're back on your feet soon and I'm sure that goes from everyone on my LJ-list, particularly those who are on both our friends lists.
I think it's interesting to look back and see how quick to judge (or in some cases, how shallow I was, based on looks), of the brave contestants involved.
http://jeffthelion.livejournal.com/252189.html
Yes, staring me right in the face, first down the runway and eventual winner, Jim Davidson. I made a Facebook comment defending me wanting him to win the other day, I'm going to copy and paste it, as it somehow got a lot of likes from a very left-wing friends list..!
"God knows, I don't like the man. Or anything he's ever done previously as it was vile, nasty stuff. I did write that before this CBB.
But on this TV show he's been genuinely entertaining, so has Luisa Zissman (and I can't stand her either.) On the whole, they've imprisoned together folks who don't care or can't control themselves in front of the cameras, it's been perfectly designed carcrash TV. Well played, Channel 5!
Maybe being accused of being a paedo wrongly has changed his viewpoints on things, maybe he's hiding it brilliantly? Who knows but he's been close to bisexuals and people of other races. If he is still racist and homophobic, that must be absolutely killing him inside, haha!"
Ah, Luisa Zissman, fourth place and just like in The Apprentice, after hating her, I genuinely warmed to her too. She's a firebrand but at least she has a few thoughts in her head, and isn't afraid to express them, in REALLY brutal fashion.
Which makes the contrast to reality TV 'stars' 3rd place Ollie and 5th place Sam, I'm sure they are very lovely people but for once, the UK went purely for entertainment, not romantic entanglements.
Which also left room for Dappy to outmanoeuvre them and claim second place. Would the Big Brother house have been as much fun without his emotional swings, completely unnecessary nudity and constant bounding around? Probably not..!
Making up the finalists, was model Casey Batchelor. Poor sweet, Casey! Taken in by Lee Ryan's ex-boyband charms and busy hands... Fair play to her for telling him to go have a wank in the toilet when he wanted his way with her on live TV!
With Lee swiftly evicted in seventh, through a Grandfather clock (of all things!) a clock that became a portal between the house and the outside world in the later stages; and shortly after Linda in 8th, who by biting anything even vaguely provocative from Jim, came across as Queen of the Harpies and was booted out as soon as she was up for eviction. And lo, there was peace in the valleys from then onwards!
The quality of the series could be summed up in that some of the earliest people to go were also brilliant. Watching 82 year old Lionel Blair tell people to "Fuck Off!" and convince himself to dress up in fetish wear gives you an indication of the standards of insanity present.
Then you had Jasmin, a properly odious woman but still in long enough to deprive Casey of potential future boyfriend Lee, which is probably a case of helping Casey dodge a bullet in the long run.
Oh and Liz Jones, she completely blew my presumptions out of the stratosphere, I expected a super confident journalist, she was so wrapped up in her worries and self-doubt, she reminded me of my Mum, who suffers from depression!
Evander Holyfield? A footnote, an extremist Christian, homophobic footnote, that's all he was. Can they ever make one as good? I doubt it, no doubt though this will give them licence to try, many, many times... Same time next year?!
On a completely different tack, just been reading matheius 's last entry. It's a really shit time of year to be threatened with homelessness and I've got fingers crossed that something comes up for you and quickly, bud. Hope you're back on your feet soon and I'm sure that goes from everyone on my LJ-list, particularly those who are on both our friends lists.