This is frustrating and infuriating in equal measures and I really don’t know why it has happened.<\/p>\n
While I was having a cup of tea with one of my saner colleagues in Pret this afternoon, all my brain was doing was serving up images of Big Brother; the C4 television series.<\/p>\n
What the fuck?<\/p>\n
Have I been receiving subliminal advertising from Endemol via some concealed medium or other, and am I now performing my programmed task by talking about it?<\/p>\n
This evening on the way home I had to restrain myself from googling ‘Alexandra De Gale’ (one of the most odious specimens of humanity to crawl from underneath a slimy, damp stone to take her place – momentarily – in the public spotlight that is provided by Big Brother, before being outed as a thoroughly reprehensible piece of pond-life and swiftly vanishing in to deserved obscurity once more), just to find out what line of criminality she’s up to these days.<\/p>\n
Individual characters aside, I am perplexed that I find Big Brother so fascinating; it is a little like The Apprentice in that respect.<\/p>\n
Both programmes have given us hours of entertainment; we have laughed (quite a lot) and gasped (even more) at the massive egos and even larger gaps of knowledge that many of the contestants have displayed. We have been jaw-droppingly amazed at how separated from reality the competing individuals are.<\/p>\n
Who can fail to be amused by the 9ct solid gold words of Helen (from BB 2)? Her ‘I like blinking, I do’ is a quote that will continue to amuse for many years to come.<\/p>\n
Yes, there is an element of voyeurism; watching a group of people with little (if anything) in common as they struggle to bond, form allegiances and eventually, become tribal is disquietly compelling.<\/p>\n
There is also the slightly sadistic thrill of watching personalities develop, catch the eye of the media and then inevitably, once the self-induced veneer has evaporated under the 24\/7 glare of the lights and cameras and the dreadful truth (like the aforementioned Ms De Gale), vanish. Some quicker than others.<\/p>\n
Endemol say the programme is a social experiment, I’m not too sure.<\/p>\n
The only thing I am sure about is that I find myself looking at the calendar and wondering how much longer I have to wait for the next series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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