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It did seriously annoy me to see Dermot, whom I've always thought was a decent guy, desperately playing down guests' observations that Jackiey was racist towards Shilpa. It's as though he feels some misplaced professional obligation to protect the show ~ some corporate loyalty.
However, the tribute band task is possibly the best thing I've ever seen on Big Brother. Since this year's celeb show began, with at least four professional singers (Jo, H, Leo, Jermaine), a professional dancer and, scraping the barrel, a "punk" "shouter", I've wanted to see them actually displaying their talents. I mean, it's a surreal supergroup situation. Leo Sayer and Jermaine Jackson! However twattish the former turned out to be, that's a fairly titanic team-up.
Above all, it was glorious to see some of these people, who don't necessarily come across as sparkling or stunning as people, displaying their actual talents; finally showing what they can do that makes them stand out a little. To see Jermaine grinning as he perfectly duplicated a routine he worked out with his brothers in the 1970s; and Jo from S Club effortlessly, of course, picking up a dance from Steps, and looking for the first time like a superheroine, a starlet; and H seeming good and special at something for the first time in the house... and all this, dreamlike, backed by Jade, an A-Team star and a Bollywood dancer... it's the closest Big Brother has come, for me, to what you people used to call "joycore". |
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