Big Brother.
Not because of the concept - it's an interesting idea. I hate it because of the sheer number of unlikeable, emotionally-unstable, vain, self-obsessed, brain-dead fuckwits it plucks from the relative anonmity of everyday life and turns them into celebrities.
There are the odd exceptions of course, the winner of the first series (Craig?) gave all his money to a very-sick (terminal?) friend for her treatment and was rather a nice chap, as far as I could tell.
Brian Tickle did a stint on Brainiacs, which was alright.
The vast majority seemingly get famous for the very things that make them so hideously unlikeable and I suppose I should be thankful they seem to slide back into obscurity as fast as they rise from it. As much as I tried to avoid them, they kept turning up everywhere. Jade Goody, easily the thickest person ever to grave the TV screen since Swampy appeared on Have I Got News For You, was always grinning at me from the magazine racks, news websites, DVD stores - the lot! That said I was the first to jump to her defence when people cheered when she died of cancer - Yeah great, cheer at the fact that now her 2 young sons have no mother. Flawed as she was, she raised cancer awareness by making her battle very public. This wasn't the usual shallow, money and attention grabbing stunt - it made us sit up and realise what a hell it must be for those invovled and, like any good mother, she was making damn sure that the pot of money left to her sons was as big as it could be. She didn't give a toss what people thought about her using it to make money for her sons; why should she. For the first time ever I found myself respecting her. Only a little, mind.
That brings me to the real problem I have with BB in that it showed todays impressionable youths (Chavs and airheads mostly), that all you need to do to get ahead is be a thick fuck on a "reality" TV show for 2 minutes and the money will come rolling in. Fuck being a Doctor when you can be a Professional Fucktard.
Thank fuck BB UK has been canned - Good riddance!
Wardy
