As someone who prides himself on being above fads and that which entertains the flock. I am ashamed to admit that I am an on-off fan of Big Brother.
And as someone who disaproves of the fascination with and mania of celebrity I am even more ashamed to admit that my fandom of Celebrity Big Brother is mostly ‘on’
I’ve had a particularly low few months (concurrently with the end of a low few years) so on the sudden arrival of CBB I latched onto it as a temporary escape.
Of the celebrities I find every single damn one of them likeable. (Despite her airheadedness I find Former Miss England fanicable, and also Shilpa)
With an exception by singling out of Jack Dee from a former CBB this is the most likeable set of people in CBB.
(I single JD out because I’m a big fan of his and I only watched the CBB he was in because he was in it)
So… what a brave, possibly disasterous, possibly genius move to introduce the most annoying person in the enitre history of Big Brother into CBB2007. What will some very tolerant, likeable, surprisingly down-to-earth former megastars make of Miss Jade Goody?
And how will they cope with her? I certainly couldn’t. I’d be trying to crack my head open by the second day.
I know this thread sank long ago, I should have replied to it then.
Big Brother always seems to be on at the times when I’m supposed to be revising, and today’s the first day I’ve caught CBB in a few days. One major observation.
Jade, for want of a more Cafe Society-friendly phrase, is a fucking animal. She needs to be thrown out, and her two underlings.
I’d be surpised if any of those three manages to get out of this show with their reputations (if they really had them in the first place, not the most famous people) intact.
This has gone far beyond the usual voyeuristic nonsense it usually is. I can’t see this continuing to be honest. Jade and her two wee hangers-on are scum, and what the fuck are the older and presumably wiser folks in the house doing letting this shit go on.
Watching Big Brother’s Big Mouth at the moment. Although he’s a little (!) eccentric and rambles, Russel Brand must be the most coherant and on-the-ball ex skag-addict I’ve seen.
I find it uncomfortable to see people still defending Jade, saying she’s only sticking up for herself. No she’s now, she’s bullying and trying to justify it by saying it’s all based on prior events. Because that makes it fair to three people to fire into one non-stop…
There’s a live version on the channel 4 website I know for sure, but I think you have to pay a one time access fee, think it’s £5 or something. I dont think it’d be shown over your side on actual telly. It wouldn’t be our best media export.
Several sources report Shilpa & Jade to face a public vote on Friday. Jade is 1/5 to be evicted while Shilpa is the new favourite to win the competition.
Last night’s highlights programme was truly appalling. I got the impression that Jade and her two acolytes didn’t realise they were still being filmed. They are certainly thick enough to have forgotten that simple fact. Clearly this spat is going to hit Jade in the pocket. She’s already been dropped by the charity ‘Action Against Bullying’ and her perfume sales and other business enterprises are bound to suffer accordingly.
Get on Shilpa to win this. A victory for her might be the only way to avoid an international incident.
BTW, when I say “snobbery” I mean “inverted snobbery”. Shilpa may be from a privileged lifestyle, but she isn’t lording it over everyone.
I never vote on these things; they’re an absolute scam. But Endemol will be pleased to know that I intend to vote on Friday. I’m sure they’re crying all the way to the bank over this controversy.
(On another note - Danielle’s moment of contrition is believed (by people watching the live feed obsessively, then obsessively posting on the Digital Spy forum) to have been coached: she spent 20-25 minutes in the diary room for about 30 seconds on screen, during which 30 seconds she appeared to have been crying.)
I tend to agree about the main problem being inverse snobbery. And that racism is coming out as a weapon. Shilpa is a (Bollywood) movie star, albeit her career there is on the wane. She has looks, poise and is cultured. Jermaine Jackson had it right when he said it was a class thing. Paraphrasing his words, he said that Jade, Danielle and Jo would prefer it if Shilpa discussed underwear and farted, in order to show solidarity with them.
Class divide or not, if Jade is ‘convicted’ by the public of racism I see her fortunes taking a dive. Remember Ron Atkinson. Incidentally Jade’s mother, the self-styled Jackiey, is reported to have asked Shilpa if she lived in a shack. That’s a bit rich coming from someone who keeps her cooker in the bedroom.
I have only caught bits of this series but I did watch the entire programme last night. I’ll be watching on Friday as well. The eviction process will not lack incident.
I’m another not-a-normal-viewer who ended up watching last night. I think it’s true that it’s about class, and also that it’s got racist undercurrents.
Now they’ll do something. The sponsor has just pulled their support.
Have nominations been announced? Very unusual that they haven’t. looks like they’ll just pull Jade out or maybe Jo and Danielle as well. Bad publicity may be still good but when a sponsor pulls its support that means money.
BB made Jade, it looks like it may break her as well.
What does matter is making an effort to educate yourself, having good manners, having style + grace, not bullying* people and realising the difference between a celebrity with talent and a ‘celebrity’ whose fame consists entirely of having been a moron** on a TV show.
Oh, and if your mother is a stupid foul-mouthed racist, try not to put her on TV either. :rolleyes:
Why yes, I do prefer Shilpa to Jade :smack: . How did you know?
*Jade is just the same outside the Big Brother House as she is inside it. At school Katie Berwick was bullied by Jade.
Katie told The Sun: “Jade’d tell the other girls that I’d said bad things about them when I hadn’t and they would turn on me. She’s even worse in real life than she is on the show. People need to know what she’s like.”
**Jade has admitted that she used to think horseradish came from horses. And she also did not know what asparagus was.
Jade said: “I thought Cambridge was in London. Where is it then? Is it in Kent? I knew it was in England but I thought it was in London.”
When Spencer told her that Cambridge was in East Anglia, she said: “East Anglia - that’s abroad!”
“Rio de Janeiro? In’t that a person?” asked Jade.
Jade also said she thought peacocks had eyes in their feathers. She said: “You see those things, don’t think I’m being daft, but them things that look like eyes, are they their real eyes?”
Jade has also asked Jonny: “Do you play croquet on a horse?”
to Jade :smack: . How did you know?