BB - Where are they now
John Dean
Alex is in OK & the tabloids
Jade is in the tabloids
So who in the media drew the short straw? ie - where's Jonny?
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Lee J. Moore
>
> Kate is all over TV, magazines and papers
> Alex is in OK & the tabloids
> Jade is in the tabloids
>
> So who in the media drew the short straw? ie - where's Jonny?
There is a rumour going around (sparked by a tabloid I think)
that he's gone back home, chucked in his job as a fireman (which
was left open for him) and locked himself away a la Greta (minus
the cats) and descended into a mega-depression.
Much as you shouldn't believe such things (tabloid based
rumours), the depression aspect does rather fit his up-and-down
personality; Something even the BB psychologists pointed out
during the show IIRC.
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John L
>Hello John Dean, in uk.media.tv.misc recently, you wrote:
>>
>> Kate is all over TV, magazines and papers
>> Alex is in OK & the tabloids
>> Jade is in the tabloids
>>
>> So who in the media drew the short straw? ie - where's Jonny?
>
>There is a rumour going around (sparked by a tabloid I think)
>that he's gone back home, chucked in his job as a fireman (which
>was left open for him) and locked himself away a la Greta (minus
>the cats) and descended into a mega-depression.
>
>Much as you shouldn't believe such things (tabloid based
>rumours), the depression aspect does rather fit his up-and-down
>personality; Something even the BB psychologists pointed out
>during the show IIRC.
Coming second was about the worst possible scenario for him, given his
reputation as a "professional" BB contestant.
John L
PS <cackle>
PPS We need more "naive" contestants next time - like both (in their
different ways) Jade and Alex
PPPS Is that why Celebrity BB works so well? The contestants in that
aren't looking for fame, but are "naive" about the effect it will have
on their media profile...?
Lee J. Moore
[..]
> PPS We need more "naive" contestants next time - like both (in
> their different ways) Jade and Alex
I don't really think Alex was naieve. He was playing the game
as much as anybody else. It also crossed my mind that Jade was
playing up to the cameras more than people think when she was
singing aloud when alone in the rollerdisco and taking her
clothes off so frequently on other occasions. She /has/ taken
her clothes off before for magazines after all (if that topless
porn I saw was genuine). Anyway, enough; a BB diehard is bound
to disagree and start vociferously defending their favourite
character who I just no doubt insulted (but couldn't care less
about - because it's only television after all). ;)
> PPPS Is that why Celebrity BB works so well? The contestants
> in that aren't looking for fame, but are "naive" about the
> effect it will have on their media profile...?
Probably. Celebrity BB should last more than a week IMO but
then I suppose charity does become a chore unless you're name
Scouse Craig and willing to sit it out for nine weeks.
There is *one* thing I'd like to see more of in future series of
Big Brother, and that is older contestants. That is - people in
their fifties and sixties. I don't think chucking the odd two
or three in with a bunch of twenty and thirty somethings is
going to ruin the appeal of BB (which we are so often reminded
about - is aimed at young people). In fact, Alex's Dad would've
been absolute dynamite as a housemate and would've made for
*very* entertaining viewing. Far more entertaining than anybody
in there I think. I'll never forget the way he reacted to Dom
Jolly when he asked him if he was a Tory. ;)
Nick Humphries
wrote:
>Kate is all over TV, magazines and papers
>Alex is in OK & the tabloids
>Jade is in the tabloids
>
>So who in the media drew the short straw? ie - where's Jonny?
I read somewhere that Jonny said he was "too nice" to cash in on his "fame".
He did this whilst he was cashing in selling his story to Now magazine...
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Chill out, it's only 143 days until Christmas...
Nick Humphries
wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 00:32:31 +0100, "John Dean" <john...@frag.lineone.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Kate is all over TV, magazines and papers
>>Alex is in OK & the tabloids
>>Jade is in the tabloids
>>
>>So who in the media drew the short straw? ie - where's Jonny?
>
>I read somewhere that Jonny said he was "too nice" to cash in on his "fame".
>He did this whilst he was cashing in selling his story to Now magazine...
Here it is...
http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_641516.html
Jonny told Now magazine: "If there are offers on the table I'd be stupid to
turn them down, but because I wasn't zany enough or more eccentric in the
house, I haven't had a lot."
Nick Humphries
>The rotten miserable bastard, I wonder who even voted for him to win
>in the first place. He was up for eviction "THREE TIMES!!", so the
>people in the house saw thru his docile, Mr-Friendly act.
But Jonny's "hilarious"! You could see that in the final minutes of the show,
when he told Kate "Right, when Davina calls out the winner's name, we're going
to spontaneously do a dance, and then spontaneously fall over. I'll probably
do a spontaneous impression of the Big Brother narrator during my interview as
well, and we will make sure it's spontaneous just as I planned it to be."
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Cheer up, it's only 143 days until Christmas...
simtan
<gree...@BOLLOCKSyahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:49:39 +0100, Nick Humphries
> <ni...@egyptusWIBBLE.co.uk> sprachen:
>
> >Jonny told Now magazine: "If there are offers on the table I'd be stupid
to
> >turn them down, but because I wasn't zany enough or more eccentric in the
> >house, I haven't had a lot."
>
>
> "My story of half-poisoning Kate and then trying to get her even more
> drunk so she'd take her knickers off. And she still didn't!", only in
> OK! Magazine!
>
> The rotten miserable bastard, I wonder who even voted for him to win
> in the first place. He was up for eviction "THREE TIMES!!", so the
> people in the house saw thru his docile, Mr-Friendly act.
>
>
wow, bitter or what!
Sim
Stephen Rendle
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Mike Plowman
<ni...@egyptusWIBBLE.co.uk> wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 14:12:31 +0000 (UTC), gree...@BOLLOCKSyahoo.co.uk wrote:
>
>>The rotten miserable bastard, I wonder who even voted for him to win
>>in the first place. He was up for eviction "THREE TIMES!!", so the
>>people in the house saw thru his docile, Mr-Friendly act.
>
>But Jonny's "hilarious"! You could see that in the final minutes of the show,
>when he told Kate "Right, when Davina calls out the winner's name, we're going
>to spontaneously do a dance, and then spontaneously fall over. I'll probably
>do a spontaneous impression of the Big Brother narrator during my interview as
>well, and we will make sure it's spontaneous just as I planned it to be."
I watched BB3 - The winners story this afternoon and couldn't believe
how his Geordie accent had mysteriously toned down since coming out of
the house. No wonder he's got an Equity card. What a fake. Back to
sunken cheeked oblivion with him!
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Mike Plowman
Coronation Street Visual Updates - www.csvu.net
"There was life before Coronation Street,
but it didn't amount to much." Russell Harty
LowerWolf
> Hello John L, in uk.media.tv.misc recently, you wrote:
> [..]
> > PPS We need more "naive" contestants next time - like both (in
> > their different ways) Jade and Alex
>
> I don't really think Alex was naieve. He was playing the game
> as much as anybody else.
Alex had a certain innocence about him, it didn't sound he's used to
people fancying him or why the people he got on with got boos.
> It also crossed my mind that Jade was
> playing up to the cameras more than people think when she was
> singing aloud when alone in the rollerdisco and taking her
> clothes off so frequently on other occasions. She /has/ taken
> her clothes off before for magazines after all (if that topless
> porn I saw was genuine). Anyway, enough; a BB diehard is bound
> to disagree and start vociferously defending their favourite
> character who I just no doubt insulted (but couldn't care less
> about - because it's only television after all). ;)
I always had my theory that Jade plays up to her audience wherever she
is and wasn't dependent on the cameras. Her announcing her lack of
knowledge in the way she did, like the Mother Teresa, etc conversations
wasn't deliberately decieving people, it was just something she was used
to doing all her life.
> > PPPS Is that why Celebrity BB works so well? The contestants
> > in that aren't looking for fame, but are "naive" about the
> > effect it will have on their media profile...?
>
> Probably. Celebrity BB should last more than a week IMO but
> then I suppose charity does become a chore unless you're name
> Scouse Craig and willing to sit it out for nine weeks.
Celebrity BB was too much a novelty for me so I'd have gotten bored
after longer than a week. It's also annoying how the people that were
on it keep popping up and claiming how they understand how the
housemates feel.
> There is *one* thing I'd like to see more of in future series of
> Big Brother, and that is older contestants. That is - people in
> their fifties and sixties. I don't think chucking the odd two
> or three in with a bunch of twenty and thirty somethings is
> going to ruin the appeal of BB (which we are so often reminded
> about - is aimed at young people).
I'd like to see a variation in age but I think fifties and sixties is
going a bit far, they would be a lot of tasks that were unfair so it
would give the task masters an even tougher job of coming up with ideas
and we know how well they did this year. Older people can still be
annoyingly bitchy too, I saw a couple episodes of Cast Away.
This year has been the worst age-wise, I hope they don't use Sandy as an
excuse to stick with just 20s next year. I don't by the "the target
audience is young" excuses either, I'm 21 but I don't want to see a
house full of people my age.
> In fact, Alex's Dad would've
> been absolute dynamite as a housemate and would've made for
> *very* entertaining viewing. Far more entertaining than anybody
> in there I think. I'll never forget the way he reacted to Dom
> Jolly when he asked him if he was a Tory. ;)
I caught most of BBLB this year, I'm still sorry I missed that one.
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~Ryan
LowerWolf
> Hello LowerWolf, in uk.media.tv.misc recently, you wrote:
> >
> [..]
>
> > I'd like to see a variation in age but I think fifties and
> > sixties is going a bit far,
>
I just don't think they would group together so well if the range was
that wide, they would stick to people of a similar age. And it would
feel like it was all forced age experiment 'take 2 from each decade'..
> > they would be a lot of tasks that
> > were unfair
>
> Why? Are all the 50 and 60 year olds you know wasting away
> wimps? IMV, many of those in my community have a lot more
> strength, stamina and character than the 20 year olds whose
> weekly hilight is putting enough cash on one side so they can go
> to club x, piss their earnings up the wall and get a shag.
Doesn't mean I think they're wimps, I know that my Mum isn't. But
seriously most 60 year olds do not have the physical strength of 30 year
olds. And it would be the house mates claiming physical tasks were
unfair.
> > so it would give the task masters an even tougher job of
> > coming up with ideas and we know how well they did this year.
>
> Oh nonsence! I didn't say enroll disabled pensioners with one
> leg.
It would definitely make them consider what some people would be able to
do. Don't treat this as my personal opinion, I'm just predicting what
would happen.
> > Older people can still be annoyingly bitchy too, I saw a
> > couple episodes of Cast Away.
>
> Surely a good thing for BB? Older people are as diverse as the
> rest of us. But they're more experienced in life and usually
> have a lot more interesting things to say. That last thing
> alone sounds like a godsend considering the fuckbabble we had to
> endure throughout this years Big Brother.
I wouldn't say older people 'usually' have more interesting things to
say, sometimes because of their ages means they can be very stuck in
their ways and less able to appreciate others opinions than young
people. If you take this years Sandy as an example then they can also
use their 'age' to claim superiority over people they just don't like.
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~Ryan