Today was a big day. I am talking about the takeover of Cadburys. A British institution since 1824 and a name associated with a range of quality superior products, so much so that today the American company Kraft knew if they were to be the biggest they needed the best and paid almost 12 Billion pounds for the priveledge.
My first reaction was, so what, they wont want to ruin the company, my occasional bar of dairy milk will still contain it's glass and a half of full cream milk, only difference could be the cows moo in a different accent. What does all this have to do with Celebrity Big Brother?
Todays loss of what is now a great English export got me thinking about our country and why we are 'Great' Britain. We are crippled by an inch of snow and we are becoming a selfish nation obsessed and celebrating yob culture. I used to be proud of the way we did almost everything with passion and pride, and always by the rules. We had great movie stars like Sean Connery and Anthony Hopkins, ambassaors of the game of football like David Beckham and Michael Owen, players who went abroad and flew a proud flag for Britain. They were and still are fine examples of all that is decent in the game. Then there is Vinnie Jones! Is he an example we want to set to our youth of today? When I was the youth of yesterday I witnessed his football career, then his early video career, the one he made about deliberately setting out to hurt other players called 'Soccers hard men' which glorified violence leading him to boast 'I have brought violence off the terraces and onto the pitch'. Since those days of acting the idiot he has made a fortune acting the thug. This is now apparently what the British public want on their reality shows, why is it that this type of person is loved by so many of you? I keep hearing, 'Oh he is all man'. 'He's the genuine alpha male'. No he isn't, he is a person who has gone through life using violence and inducement of fear to get what he wants. If you are looking for an alpha male look no further than Alex, when I say look no further I mean no further down than his neck, just in case he has a dress on.
Is this what Britain has become? Are we really proud of him? Do people actually idolise him to the extent that I am reading about in newspapers and hearing on the radio? TV shows discussing the innevitabilty of Jones actually winning! Why? Intimidation, generating fear in house mates rendering them too scared to vote for him? Let's use people like David Beckham an example to all wannabe football stars, what image are we projecting to our children? Do we really want them growing up believing that thugs like Jones get rewarded in life?
We all saw what happened to 'Lady' Sovereign, she got her marching orders for acting like a spoilt brat, for lack of manners and decency. Now I am not suggesting that Vinnie has no manners, he seems polte enough but I still feel he is ruling the house with a velvet gloved iron fist .
I have mentioned this is my first expereince of any version of Big Brother, I began really liking it, I was disappointed wwhen Heidi was evicted, I thought we all lost a great character when she walked out to the boos of the live audience. Yes she broke the law, yes she went to prison, but she learned a very valuable lesson, and i don't only mean how to make dildos out of denture cream. What characters are in there now? Alex and Stephen in my honest opinion. I am not suggesting Alex is a celebrity but the makers of the show seem to think he is, we know it's mainly because he went out/Is going out with Jordan Price but then Katia was only in there because of her involvement with Ronnie Wood and she really didn't have any character. Alex is endearing, naive, hard working, a good looking, fit young man who incidentally is a cage fighter also. He kicks people and punches them for a living, but it's in the rules Vinnie. You were wrong Vinnie when you said the two people the British public would love to see walk in the house were Peter and Katie. Why? To humiliate even more people? Who knows Katie and Alex may turn out to be the new 'Pish and Pecs'.
Yes Vinnie has a soft side, he feeds birds, so do I, I am always trying to entice a tit on my nuts. There is something about him where he thinks he is in charge, he is the leader, the hard man, what he says goes, or am I talking like he played football, out of order?
So what happened in the house on Tuesday night? There was a clever challenge, clever in as much as we got to see Nicolas very fit bottom, shame we also got to see Ivanas. I'm only kidding, she is looking good at 61, Stephanie is also looking good for that matter at 62. The celebrity artists got to work on their masterpieces, I think Stephen felt a little awkward having to stare at the almost naked bodies of two women and only lasted four minutes before the Lord sent him a message, probably dropping his brush 36 times and it landed in the paintbrush pot the right way up. Dane won the challenge and Sisqo made a good impression too. The reward saw steaks for all and a framed photo of Nicolas baby making a snowman with Daddy. This was too much to bare for Nicola prompting the cry 'No they're making a snowman and I'm not there with them', no you wanted to become more famous so you chose to miss those special early moments with your child. I wonder if her baby sees her on page 3 and cries 'Din dins, din dins. Why do people go on these shows then cry they want to go home to their children? The power of fame and the £ hey.
I don't want to write about doom and gloom so stop giving me the material. There were some funny moments on day 16. Sisqo used his new catchphrase a few times, talking about Alex he said he's had enough of him always flexing his muscles and training, I'm an expert singer and dancer but I don't go on about it, 'Jimminy Christmas'.
Alex was talking about the woman he loves gloating (With pride) She has written 37 biographys, Stephen ask, about herself? Alex bigged Katie up even more explaining she had a pop career (Did she) and she wants to get into acting, 'She has already done an audition for sex and the city', forever the weirdo Stephen replied, what about if she made her own sex and the city about herself? This remark sparked a frantic attempt on twitter to come up with a suitable title for Katie's new series. There was a winner @davidschneider who tweeted 'Sex with the city' which doesn't win a prize but does receive something worth more than any amount of sisqos money could buy, your fellow tweeters appreciation.
Back to Vinnie for a second who was talking with Stephanie in the snug about his wife's heart transplant explaining that he hadn't told anyone in the house because he doesn't want to talk about it in the house. So why did you?
Nicola got a round of applause, not for her perfect posteria but her booming belch, well done for that. She also indicated that she wants to see Jonas walking around in his tight white underpants more often, or his 'Banana hammock' as Father Baldwin called it.
Dane was doing his impression of Max Clifford suggesting career moves for Nicola when she gets out, more personal appearances and panto.
Stephen said he thought Jonas was 'Strange', and you are what Stephen, normal? Can you imagine those poor people in the diary room when they see him making his way in there. I wish Vinnie instead of moaning about everyone all of the time would use a bit of his time in the house asking the burning questions we all want answers to, for example, as him to explain the 'Hand of God that put us out of the 1986 world cup, or more importantly the reason for acts of God what we recently saw happen in Haiti.
Suggestion for the live feed at night, maybe some challenges? Wake them up at 3 in the morning and set them a task? Also when they wake them up in the morning instead of the clowns play Katias laugh, or Stephanies snoring, much more annoying. It Was good to see Jonas finally throw Katias pillow away, it would seem he is finally over her, who knows, she could be dating Paul McCartney by now.
The final word must go to Vinnie Jones and just to show I am not 'Vin'dictive I want to praise him for the way he stood up to Ivana and Stephanie regarding 'Bragate'. I'm not wearing that said Ivana, I have it in my contract. Vinnie said, 'You haven't got involved in anything, go and earn your money'. Well done Vinnie I make you right on that one. But I'm sure you wont be able to break your bad habits of a lifetime and you will receive another red card very soon.
He isn't up for eviction yet but these 3 are
09011 323012 to send Ivana packing
09011 323010 to close the book on Stephen or
09011 323008 to send Sisqo out.
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