Posted on November 14, 2008 - by Hannah
Celebrity bloggers in the jungle
It’s about that time of year again. The time when ITV rounds up a bunch of so called celebrities and throws them into the Australian outback to endure a range of humiliating tasks such as bathing with snakes, being immeresed in a glass tank full of huntsman spiders and having to it kangaroos penises.
Yes, that last one is right, having to eat a kanagaroo penis.
I’m a celebrity get me out here is back in the jungle. Well, not really a jungle of course, that would be too dangerous.
In reality it’s all a massive fake. The jungle is a carefully constructed studio and the so called celebrities are a made up of a handful of household names combined with people who are apparently famous for being related to people who were famous once upon a time.
For instance, this year we have fascist politician Robert Kilroy Silk, TV presenter Esther Rantzen and tennis supremo Martina Navratilova. At least everyone knows who they are.
But because the public want to see young female flesh prancing about the producers have added a model that no one has every heard of and the wife of a football player.
Who is Carly Zucker for crying out loud? And who is Nicola McLean? And why are the public so fascinated with them when they are nothing but cheap tarts who drop their clothes at the first whiff of cash.
Football is irrelevant. Footballers are irrelevant. The wife of a footballer is so irrelevant that I don’t even have the words to express my frustration.
But the public will happily play into it and watch these two air-heads prance around semi naked in the shower that’s been made to look like an aboriginal waterfall.
With all this in mind how long will it be before famous, or even pseudo famous, bloggers start being accepted as main stream celebrities? Many successful bloggers are more well known than the human flotsam and jetsam that gets thrown on the TV screen whenever these circuses role into town.
Bloggers are more intelligent than any celebrity I’ve ever seen on one of these shows and the successful ones are almost certainly richer.
Whether or not the public would like to see them prance around half naked in the shower, however, is another matter.
Well said. My socks are more intelligent than some of these people, so it doesn’t take a lot, but even so.
More importantly, a kangaroo is hopping about somewhere—or doing whatever it is kangaroos do; I can’t say I know anything about kangaroos—wondering what has happened to its penis. The poor kangaroo. It’s despicable. I’m sure I’d be a bit cheesed off if I were put in that marsupial’s position.
I’m so tired of “Celebrity” programs. That word is so watered down I’m starting to wonder if I’m a celebrity, maybe I haven’t realized it? I know a few people I suppose.
I can’t get my head around a few things though:
1) Why are people still taking part in these shows?
They have ruined more careers than they reignite.
2) Why are they still being watched?
We know what happens in X-Factor for example. The most mediocre singer with the biggest sob story wins:
[Heartfelt music plays - camera shots go black and white, possibly slow blur shots]
“The X-Factor means so much to many, but it doesn’t mean as much to anyone else as it does to Tutankhamun. Living in Egypt and being Pharaoh the Eighth Dynasty, Tut has had a hard life. But despite his mummification, burial in a tomb until the 1920’s and subsequently dismemberment by scientists, he’s here to show that he has the X Factor!!” …. Snore!
3) Why are they bringing out more?
That Celebrity* Conducting thing, Celebrity* Come Dine with Me?
Where will it end? - Celebrity Waiter, Celebrity postman, Celebrity man at bus stop?
Ahhhhhhh, that feels a little better. Sorry for excessive rant Hannah. I really like your blog, it has a very clean look and interesting content.
All the best,
Matt
N.B. *Celebrity; means that you might have seen them somewhere at some time, if you haven’t then your friends might have … or maybe their friends?
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It’s ok, Celebrity Death Island will be the next big thing, where we are able to kill off the stupid b-celebs that do it. And they will sign up in droves…its just a shame that we have to save one of them!