November 2008 Archives

WHO the hell is voting for David Van Day on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here?

He's the most selfish, rude, arrogant, stubborn, unreasonable and infuriating man ever to compete in a reality TV show. He makes Robert Kilroy-Silk look like a saint.

How has he lasted this long? It's completely baffling!

I want to biff baff boff Vile David (henceforth to be known as VDVD) into next week.

Well done Martina Navratilova, who I'd almost forgotten was in it, for taking a stand against VDVD.

At least annoying Timmy Mallett has been booted out. The look on his face when he lost the trial was brilliant. He's like a petulant toddler, giving Brian a Chinese Burn.

Over on BBC1, Strictly Come Dancing gave us a fabulous night's entertainment.
Len Goodman was quite right to describe Lisa Snowdon, my new favourite, as providing a "smorgasbord of gorgeousness".

He talks a lot of sense, unlike Craig. Well done for getting your hair cut, finally, but now he comes out with nonsense like "your head was too sympathetic" to Tom. Then he gave that lovely romantic waltz a seven - scandalous!

I think Austin wants to win a bit too much and is a little too cocky, but he will have won some votes and melted a few hearts by dancing round his kitchen with his adorable twin babies.

THE new series of Spooks is turning out to be, well, spooky.

It's amazing how up-to-date the writers manage to be, planning stories which, when they appear on screens months later, are surprisingly topical. It's almost like they have inside information from a secret source....

Viewers can get a bit bored if they fight Al Qaeda terrorists all the time, so last week we had a new hateful villain - a greedy financier. With all the talk about failing banks and the turbulent stock market, it was bang up to date.

Plus, pretending to be a City banker meant Richard Armitage had to wear a very smart suit that brought out the blue in his eyes. Yum.

The only things that didn't work for me was calling one of the villains Dalek, which conjured up lots of Doctor Who images, and casting Selina Cadell as a cabinet minister. She's a great actress but she's best in comedy roles like Doc Martin, Lab Rats and The Catherine Tate Show, and I just couldn't take her seriously. I know the economy is a joke now, but still.

A couple of other thoughts which occured to me watching TV lately.

There are some essential purchases that we must continue to make, credit crunch or no credit crunch. Food and power are pretty important, but so is new footwear, for shoe addicts like me.
I can't buy them as often, but we all need treats now and again.
So I was appalled by the comment of one so-called expert on the Location, Location, Location special on the economy, who said: "You won't make yourself happy by buying a new pair of shoes."
How little he understands the female mind. Stick to talking about property, mate.

"It's starting to look a lot like Christmas," says the song in the Asda ads. No it isn't! We're not even in December yet, so stop it with the tinsel and sleigh bells.

RIGHT, that's it. I'm boycotting The X Factor out of principle after one of the worst-ever miscarriages on justice on TV.

It was bad enough when Rachel "far too nice" Rice won Big Brother (and promptly faded into complete obscurity, as she has no personality).

But that pales into insignificance compared with Laura White being booted off Saturday's show.

It's supposed to be a singing contest, yet the best singer has now gone.
The cries of people shouting "What? How did that happen?!" at their TV could be heard across the nation on Saturday night.

How my favourite, Laura, managed to get into the bottom two when the likes of Daniel and Rachel (who was horribly out of tune) remain is a mystery, but then to be dropped by Simon and Louis is scandalous.

I reckon Simon kept Spanish senorita Ruth in because he fancies her, while petty Louis wanted to get back at Laura's mentor Cheryl after she made a catty remark about Westlife. Plus, they both took the chance to get rid of one of the strongest competitors.

You should both be ashamed of yourselves!

Over on BBC1, another contender was forced to leave before her time when Heather Small was booted off Strictly Come Dancing.
It wasn't as big a shock as The X Factor bombshell, but it's annoying that she has to leave while John Sergeant remains.

He's been entertaining for eight weeks, but enough's enough. He can't dance - his pasa doble, when he dragged his poor partner across the floor like she was a sack of spuds, was a joke.
He's not getting any better but now he's taking the place of people who can dance and who are putting more effort into it.
Charm should only get you so far in a talent contest.

Another big shock last week was when hopeless Gavin won Natural Born Sellers, though at least there was no phone vote involved. After weeks of coming last, and repeatedly telling us he wasn't cut out for selling, he somehow managed to find a rich bloke in the last episode and got him to part with enough money so he could win.

It made a complete mockery of the ITV1 series' title.

I bet Danny, who was plainly the best salesman, is kicking himself after saving his rival four times from elimination because he felt sorry for him. I just hope Gavin gave him some of his £87,000 winnings.