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just my thoughts…

Rula Lenska

This was all so, so unfair to poor Rula. Many will now probably remember her career for two things; Rock Follies and this TV Folly. It could be said that Rock Follies was the beginning of her career in the public eye and this TV Folly seems to be the end of it. Pray for a commercial cat food, Rula! To be fair, though what a nightmare she must have found herself in: a 57-year-old woman, clearly outmatched in her best physical shape, finding herself in the company of Mata Hari (Faria), Daisy Duke (Chantelle), Britain’s Primo Slapper. (Jodie) and to top it off, Baywatch Babe Traci! Most women past a certain age would cringe at the thought of competing with any of them, poor Rula had to take the lot and lost, hands down. I thought George Galloway was right about her comments after she did that ridiculous striptease; in fact, she was trying too hard. Who wouldn’t have her confidence shaken from her? It could be said that the brave face she put on wasn’t the best either. Go to bed with a count, wake up with a count. I choose my words very carefully here! Gee, I’d rather sleep with Pete, at least he looks the same in the morning as he does late at night!

Chantelle Houghton

A (not quite) sung version of Jade Goody.
She is so much in her own right that the producers must have been delighted beyond belief by the way she took on Dennis Rodman. At the moment a lot is being written about her; I have no further comments other than to note that she looks like a real life version of Billie Piper’s character Rose in the current Dr. Who.

Dennis Rodman

Everyone knew that Pete Burns had a hard time deciding what to wear for the day, but what about poor Dennis, huh? Let’s listen (hypothetically)… “Uhm, time to get up, what kind of look should I wear today? Little Lord Fauntleroy? No, he did that the other day. Geisha? No, Pete will anytime” ( and he did). “Got it, let me see now, just give the old tattoos a touch of shine… tuck them in with pointy tacks… adjust the baseball cap just like that… and there it is: the third circle of hell! Yay!, yo, not that I give a fuck…”

Did anyone notice that while Pete Burns got terribly ragged when he ran out of booze and cigarettes, both Dennis Rodman and the lovable Traci Bingham got cranky when food was scarce? Being both professional athletes, it wasn’t surprising at all. I noticed Dennis complaining that training without proper nutrition wasn’t much fun. Probably the first time he’s had to do it.

And did you see how he balanced on the exercise ball with one foot while doing push-ups? Have you ever tried that? Do you know how HARD that is? And she made it look so simple! No wonder this guy is from the big leagues.

jodie swamp

Poor, poor Jodie. How sad and confused she seems to be. I gather, however, that there is a nice, enthusiastic and very optimistic girl out there somewhere. She seems to be gathering acolytes instead of making friends, mistaking fans for friends. I noticed that when Pete Burns and Michael Barrymore were trying to get through to her one night, Michael suggested that he try to imagine a certain scenario just for the sake of discussion. Oh no, I couldn’t agree to that, says our Jodie, that would be immoral and I’m not telling lies. Something similar seemed to be happening when she was talking to Davina McCall after her eviction, Davina gently suggested that the other housemates had been trying to act in Jodie’s best interest and Jodie immediately went off on a tangent in her response. .

I myself believe that there is a big rock on Jodie Marsh’s head, which is never referenced, never admitted to. What’s below? Something Jodie finds so terrifying that she visibly shies away from considering the very existence of the rock.

One suspects that self-contemplation is not a regular pastime for Miss Marsh. A shame, as rarely does one come across a bulb that really needs to be changed.
Poor, poor Jodie.

(Sam)Preston

Like Dennis Rodman, he had no idea who Preston really was. I assumed he was in a band called the Ordinary Boys, and from their general appearance, he would have put them somewhere between Jam and a number of ska bands, say, The Selector? Later in the show we were treated to some Ordinary Boys songs and it seems he wasn’t too far off the money.

Other than that, I didn’t know anything about Le Preston before and know little else now, other than that he appears to be a perfectly decent chap with, I imagine, quite a bit of women’s trouble on his plate.
All quite ordinary, in fact.

michael barrymore

What a work of art this man is! What infinite fragility, suggests his new personality, and I have no reason to believe anything other than that the face we saw was the real one. He seemed like a perfectly decent, flawed, irregular being, and while he and Pete Burns together showed the ability to elicit gale of genuine laughter (from me), it’s Barrymore who has the touch of genius about him, the air of one. driven to act but denied the stage of it. I hope the UK will do what Pete said he should do and open up to welcome Barrymore back. He is a tonic for the nation. We probably need him more than he needs us.

pete burns

Twisted and bitter genius. Young people are probably too young to realize this, but in the film genre known as noir, in small, shabby, seedy clubs in the suburbs of Anytown, USA, looking for clues or following clues, they would find the heroine of the film. . She would be sitting alone at the bar, having a cool drink she hadn’t paid for in a tall glass in front of her, and always smoking. Whatever happened to her, even if it happened right in front of her, her face would freeze in a mask of scornful amusement. In other words, she would look like Pete. Assuming that’s what she had in mind when the plastic was made, she did it perfectly.

For me, the best times in the house were when the Pete and Michael show would hit the road, late at night or early in the morning with coffee and cigarettes when the rest of the house was asleep. Fun fun fun.

Who begged Jorge to go talk to Rula because he felt so bad as a woman? Pedro

Who spoke up so volubly for Barrymore after he was evicted, saying how much he needed to be rehabilitated in this country? Pedro So he’s not that monstrous, huh?

Traci Bingham

The lovely, the truly beautiful Traci Bingham. Every man should have a Bingham of his own. starting with me. The rest of you can get yours though, I want that one. See how she went straight into a series of brilliantly executed classic female poses for the photographers as she walked out of the house? An absolute professional, a master of her trade. And how pretty with her little red devil costume! She’s also cheap (once you’ve bought the mansion), give her alcohol and she’ll wander around making little happy sounds all day (whether you want her to or not). Does the boy she is engaged to realize that she is marrying one of the Clangers? “Oh my Gah-had, it’s the Soup-Drag-gen…”

I don’t think Traci understood the show, which goes a long way to explaining why she was so devastated to be nominated. I noticed when she was talking to Davina at the end, she said how hard she had tried to be a good housemate. I suspect she thought you had to win by showing how nice living with you was and she obediently tried her best to be just that. I don’t think she had to go too far out of her way either, I think she really is a good person. That’s why she was so upset about being nominated, she thought that she was doing something wrong on a personal level with the other housemates. Hence her shock and surprise. You get the feeling that, to some extent, once you reach a certain level of stardom, your life is largely run by your agent; Traci and Dennis gave the impression that they just went where they were hired and did their best when they were there.

George Galloway

What a clear warning to all of us of how politicians plan to use us. It seems that we are nothing more than stepping stones towards their own selfish ends. How did you serve your constituency in the BB house? His bragging complaints about censorship did not impress me.

I also noticed that when there was the first major disagreement in the house, I think over a misunderstanding about racism, it was George who suggested a roundtable discussion which George, apparently thoughtful, offered to chair.

So it begins. How long before George can better serve as arbiter of household decisions, he will not be distracted by, say, starvation; Shouldn’t he be given more of the food than others, so that his thinking is clearer and he is not distracted by hunger? It’s in the best interest of the group as a whole, after all; he is the decision maker.

Along the same lines, we could conjecture how long before George’s sexual needs/desires should take precedence over others, the women of the tribe, excuse me, house, should be encouraged to offer themselves freely and regularly to George for above everything. others. All in the best interest of the group, of course. Politicians, huh? They never close.

Worm

Worm, the common man – the voice of reason, as he said. A simple and decent guy. It’s good to see that he got over his initial reservations about Barrymore. Why was he worried about his image, I wondered. How genuine can you be if that’s a concern? Subsequently, however, he proved to be a stabilizing influence on the rest of the house.

Faria Alam

The Big Brother experience must have been very difficult for Faria. I thought that she behaved at all times as I imagine she was raised, dignified and reserved. I never thought she was a beater, or in any way cheap, when her sex life got her in the news. Her business, she would have thought herself. I was a bit disappointed afterward to hear how quickly she was trumpeting her BB story on Fleet Street but, I guess, a girl has to be practical and current if she wants to make money that way. For me, the most interesting thing about Faria was her apparent inability to express the emotions she claimed to feel. I attribute this to her upbringing and there may be a lesson for all of us. Imagine a girl purchased under strict circumstances in old established traditions, and then abruptly expelled from that culture into a new and different one. She will know how to function emotionally in the old culture, her proper upbringing will have prepared her for that, but in this new (I mean ‘Western’) culture, where the world has moved on since the culture gave birth to where he was raised, he struggles to express emotions for which he has no name. We’re all probably a bit like that sometimes as the world spins faster. Our childhood upbringing can prepare us less and less for adulthood, as both take place in different worlds. Poor Faria. I liked.

Big Brother grew up and found his feet here, this was groundbreaking television. It still seems to be all the rage with newspapers that somehow, inexplicably, seem to consider themselves and their readers above Big Brother viewers. It’s only for the oiks is the subtext of the copy in almost all the national ones.

synchronize clocks, kids tv; it’s only a matter of time before they change their tune and accept that here are observations made about life in the raw, that the feud between Dennis and Chantelle, the feuds between everyone and George, everyone and the confused, hapless Jodie Marsh, weren’t there. far. a visualization more riveting than anything the screenwriters could have dreamed of. It’s been an age in coming, but Big Brother seems to be coming of age.