Draculette: Celebrity Big Brother

January 10, 2005

Celebrity Big Brother

Endemol, the company whose name conjures up images of medicine inserted rectally to cure piles (quite fitting), has done it again. Celebrity Big brother is back with the usual group of people hoping to revive something in their lives, make a bit of money and be on telly.

Peter Bazalgette is the Chairman of Endemol Uk and newly appointed Creative Director of Endemol UK and he is a very clever and successful man. I may not have the same taste as him but I admire him for being able to find highly lucrative formula that seems to work every time.

I was walking past Victoria Embankement the other day and saw a memorial for Joseph Bazalgette 1819-1891. He was Chief Engineer for the London Metropolitan Board of works and between 1856-1889 built, amongst other things, the Victoria Embankement and London's entire sewer system. The sewer system was so effective, it helped prevent Cholera outbreaks that other cities had to cope with. This is not a very common name so I did some research and found Joseph Bazalgette was in fact Peter's Bazalgette's ancestor.

So, in effect, it seems that the distribution of crap seems to run in the family

This celebrity Big Brother is yet another plop in the toilet water that is reality television. This is voyeurism for the lazy, except REAL voyeurs, the peeping Toms and Peering Pams of this world, get to see people when they don't know they are being watched, twitching curtains, the illicit nipple here, the clandestine spot-squeezing there (not that I know, I've just heard...).

These individuals are being voyeurees, quite happily relinquishing their privacy and they obviously know there is a camera nearly up every orifice, so they do not behave naturally, they behave like people pretending to behave naturally.

This time we've got a young geezer from Busted (a boy band, I didn't know who he was either), a dj, Germaine Greer, an attractive but weary looking actor, Caprice (the model who sounds like a Toyota), Brigitte Nielsen (former model and ex-wife of Sly Stallone) and John McCririck, side-burns, eccentric, silly hats, lots of bling and television friendly anti-social behaviour.

Oh Germaine, Warwick university not paying you enough? Run out of bras? Things must be bad love.

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