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Celebrity Big Brother

 
 
The Falcon
19:00 / 20.11.02
UK readers - telly on - now!

Discuss later.
 
 
The Falcon
20:03 / 20.11.02
I'm (not for the first time) replying to myself.

Pretty dull intro, should hot up.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
01:42 / 21.11.02
I found myself only mildly addicted, thank god, have torn myself away to the computers and find myself not regretting it. Naturally my house spent the whole hour waiting to see if the (not so) lovely Mark Owen would kiss a boyfriend goodbye. Didn't happen, instead we decided that Sue was a lesbian and proceeded to analyse the way she walked. Yes we are sad sad gossip-mongery people obsessed by the sexuality of the stars.

Funnily enough I thought Anne Diamond would be the mother of the household and instead it turned out to be Melinda Messenger. More realisations are bound to come to me over the next ten days but my housemate repeatedly informed me that Goldie lives in Northwood. I was not intrigued.
 
 
adamswish
15:14 / 21.11.02
I wasn't going to watch this. Haven't watched the big brother of this year and missed the main amount of the last celebrity one. But they've gone and included one of my favourite comedians haven't they (and I'm not refering to Les Dennis here).

The fact that I also find Sue fairly saucy too will mean I'm glued to the set each night, damn.

...we decided that Sue was a lesbian...
oh god say it isn't so...
 
 
suds
18:43 / 21.11.02
sorry to say this but, mark owen - ding dong!
i always preferred robbie in the take that era.
how wrong i was!
 
 
Bear
09:14 / 22.11.02
Sue is an ex girlfriend of Rhona Cameron or so I heard somewhere. Les will win I reckon, haven't watched much to be honest, did see Goldie attacking the garden with a digger last night though.

Mark Owen looks like someone might break him..poor little guy.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
13:37 / 22.11.02
Good to see that Mark Owen doesn't appear to have changed his hairstyle since Take That broke up, all those years ago.

But how do they choose the people for this? "Les Dennis has said yes..." "Les Dennis, Les Dennis... I know, let's ask Goldie!"

Mind you, if they were marooned on a space station I'd probably be watching it then.
 
 
Knight's Move
13:52 / 22.11.02
Will admit I lost interest in the concept of Big Brother moments after screaming
"Have any of you actually read Orwell, how the fuck could you mniss the point so much? Have none of you seen Peeping Tom? You have become twisted vouyers, secretly complicit in the government's erosion of privacy in our lives. You sad fucks, find a life of your own instead of gaining vicarious thrills watching other people do things you fear too, stop watching Ibiza Uncovered and (if for some bizzare reason you actually want to) go there. Stop watching reality tv it's just your own lives made famous by being famous. Aaaaargh."

Then I lost interest in actually watching it (ok I'm a hypocrite who gets vicarious thrills finding out what others get vicarious thrills from watching, sort of a meta-vouyer, but I do also have a life) after Nick went in the first series.

But I do like bits of this.

First that is nnot Anne Diamond, that woman clearly ate Anne Diamond. Anne Diamond went on this to escape Celbrity Fat Camp (and Ian McKlaskill is superb, b.t.w.)

Second Mark Owen looks like he is dying slowly from heroin withdrawal and Les Dennis is cracking up.

Third Goldie is superb and seeing him with the digger was great. Me and friends were cheering for him to just dive it through the wall of the house and away to freedom. He looked like he was going to lamp Owen when he had that guitar out. He should win.I'll cry if he doesn't. This is the man behind the jungle explosion, a classic alternative figure, a musician of the highest order, and a fucking nutter, and he is the only one not going slowly bonkers at being trapped in a house with the rest of them. Genius. If he leaves there is no point watching further.

I'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped in here with me.

Although the revelation that Melinda Messenger knew how to, and had driven a digger was priceless.

It's all better than the show with the 5 posh advertising bints who are catty at each other in order to win a pointless facsimile of a boring man in marketing simply because he is loaded. He clearly likes one of them, she fears she'll be voted out. I see a way out of this. Give the program the finger and shag the girl; no one in their right mind would vote against her then surely, and none of the other lasses would want him then would they? They like each other (for waht ever reason) more power to them. If they interbreed it keeps them away from me.

Oh. Wait. Right mind. The public would vpte against her for the joy of seeing her weep (as the fortune slips from her fingers) and the girls would go with him to see her weep and get the fortune - possibly in that order.

People suck.

Sorry rant over.
 
 
adamswish
15:41 / 22.11.02
Mind you, if they were marooned on a space station I'd probably be watching it then.

damn why didn't anyone come up with this idea before we lost the Mir space station.

Can just see it now "I'm a celebrity, get me off this rusting can of russian space camp before the slow orbit crashes us into the pacific."

Ant and Dec to host of course...
 
 
The Falcon
13:38 / 23.11.02
I find Big B rewarding, because:

Really otherwise uninteresting people can be celebrities; it deconstructs the whole mythos. I'm watching these people on TV feeling superior to them - anyone can be a star.

I have read 1984, and Guy Debord, and what Baudrillard had to say about the programme ('hallucinogenic normality' and whatnot.) And I don't care...
 
 
Spatula Clarke
18:04 / 23.11.02
Goldie... a classic alternative figure, a musician of the highest order...

In light of both EastEnders and Saturnz Return, I'm afraid I have to conclude that the only fucking nutter here is your good self.
 
 
suds
19:30 / 23.11.02
knights move, i see what you mean. i missed the whole big brother thing as i was out of the country for the first 2 series and the celebrity issue; so when i could finally watch big bro three i was totally addicted. i spent much of my time here at barbelith trying to persuade people to like jade. hee hee.
anyways, the celebrity version isn't as good because i think that all of the people in the house are quite similar. they are all boring and trying to be cheerful when you can tell they're bored.
les dennis is so serious! i thought he'd be really fun and saying "if it's up there i'll give you the money myself" etc but he's super sensitive. did you see his face when he got nominated? talk about gutted!
i think that celebrites are so used to having everyone around them be nice to them, that when someone is actually mean, or something bad happens, then they totally lose it. i think this is happening with les dennis.
but i can't feel sorry for him because at the end of the day he's doing this for publicity. and everyone hates him doing whoopsies!
poor les.
i hope goldie gets chucked out first because i went to see bjork in 1996 and he was opening for her and played this rubbish song that last for 46 mins! very boring!
oh yeah and he really was crap in eastenders. touche e randy dupre.
 
 
Knight's Move
23:53 / 25.11.02
Open apology:

It's true I got carried away in my "bigging up" (I believe that is the proper terminology) of the man Goldie.

He was a pioneer. That does not neccessarily make him great. He had incredible moments. He went down hill. I fear for the potential for new released greatest hits albumn of trhe back of this program.

I think the digger got me carried away, we were really stoned when we watched it and I did watch it with Raiden (for anyone that the name means anything to, signed to Renegade Hardware for anyone that means anything to) and he gets carried away when d'n'b gets involved.

He did wear great wigs though, for no easily definable reason and he is a fuck sight more alternative than the rest of that cast list, that does not make what I said right though.

I apologise, let me back in the people with taste gang again please.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
23:59 / 25.11.02
I have become strangely addicted to this. I find myself actually liking Mark Owen. My enthusiasm for Sue (because of her "Light Lunch" glory days) has waned immensely. I think it was when she called "Love will tear us apart" which played at the 80's party "the most boring, boring song" or something. But, is she actually with Mel? I dunno why, but that would bring me all sorts of nice happy feelings. But yes, I'm slightly disturbed by my interest in this. I'm the only person I know who cares...

ps. Vote anne.
 
 
Turk
03:38 / 26.11.02
I find myself actually liking Mark Owen.

Because...?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:34 / 26.11.02
The Les Dennis meltdown is fascinating to watch, in a Feltz style - his desperate attempts to explain why he nominated Anne and Sue, both to the camera, and to them. "You two are up for eviction, and *I* need a hug" - just awful. Awful. I imagine he is being tormented at night by the knowledge that his wife can be absolutely sure he won't be coming home unexpectedly...
 
 
Tom Coates
13:12 / 26.11.02
She's from Lesbolia, but she's not with Mel who is a heterosexualist as far as I know. Sue used to be love-bunny of rhona cameron, I believe.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
16:30 / 26.11.02
No, no Sue was with the woman with curly blond hair and white teeth standing next to Mel wasn't she?? Big hug, big love ya smile, uh huh.

Amanda Holden is, apparently, on night shoots up North and Mark Owen has a girlfriend who's looking after his dog. This is what happens when you go to sleep at 3am and have no internet to play with. Ban Big Brother, bring back repeats of Six Feet Under!!!
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
00:38 / 27.11.02
Combine the two: Put six minor celebrities in a room with six open, occupied coffins. Five of them contain real dead bodies. One contains someone in remarkably convincing make-up. Let the serious mental anguish begin.
 
 
suds
16:05 / 27.11.02
i hope mark stays in tonight. he's like a cute mischeivous pixie. i can't believe les wasn't nominated, what was up w/that? and whats up w/davina's bitchy comments about melinda? eh? eh?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
16:52 / 27.11.02
Amanda Holden is, apparently, on night shoots

I've honestly never heard it called that before.
 
 
arcboi
18:35 / 29.11.02
I have to say that I thought Ozzy was seriously spaced out. Then I saw Mark Owen. Yikes!

I'd also pay money to be locked up in a house with Sue Perkins, lesbian or no lesbian. The same goes for Davina. In fact, locked up in a house with Sue and Davina together... Damn. Where's the 'off' switch for my imagination.....
 
 
_pin
21:23 / 30.11.02
No, it's OK. We know Amandawanda (as I so pray he doesn't call her in bed... ) has been faithful. How do we know this? Because The Sun has been fucking stalking her and putting photos of her shopping on high streets on the front page every fucking day and saying how sexy she is. Thank you Sun! Turely you are a great help to the nation!

And I am very happy Mark has won, becaus he is so very very nice. He is as ncie as rice. He has a reprive from my Mandatory Death Sentence For Being In Take That. None of the others do tho. Because they are not very very nice. They are not as nice as rice.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
21:29 / 30.11.02
Haus, I'm not saying nothin', but maybe should become a 3am girl or somethin'.
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
23:41 / 30.11.02
You should all be ashamed at yourselves.
 
  
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