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I'm a bit sceptical about the names being put forward here though. Pete Burns and Barrymore seem fairly definite, granted, but they'd have to pretty much wheel Shane McGowan on these days, and then wheel him off again, always assuming he didn't, um, 'have one toke over the line' in the celeb Big Brother gents facilities - what a curse that would put on the place. I mean they're quite venal, Endemol, but presumably they don't want the CBB house to turn into the TV equivalent of Sid's room in the Chelsea hotel. There's no 'arc', it seems, with Shane McG, he seems fairly unrepentant, so while the odd interview's fine, I can't see a)Endemol risking locking him up there for the 23 days being mooted by Digital Spy (see above link,) or b)McGowan agreeing to it, unless he was fairly far gone upon arrival, which would I think potentially create it's own set of problems a bit later on - he could 'walk' in theory, but then again, y'know... And isn't Boy George due in the US courts on charges that could get him up to 15 years in prison shortly? On the one hand, it'd be a defiant gesture to appear on a show like this, as well as possibly (though hopefully not,) the last chance he'd have for the next say eight years anyway, if things go badly (this, dear fellow Barbelithers, for the possession of 3 and a half grammes of cocaine, street value I'm guessing about $150,) to put some cash in the bank, but on the other hand, the risk of some (entirely understandable) kind of breakdown live on UK telly would seem a foolhardy one to take. Unless, thinking about it, he's planning on thuh-rowing himself on the mercy of the US courts, in which case it might not actually be such a bad move.
It could be great though, if C4 aren't lying. If nothing else, I'd take great pleasure in sacrificing my going-out, food and bills money for this month for the sake of repeatedly phoning up the CBB line from call boxes round town in attempt to get Johnny Vegas unceremoniously kicked off the show, not first, but fourth or fifth, or just whenever it is that it's most humiliating. In the 'what-was-her-name that went out with Maxwell' zone. |
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