Media circus lands in Parliament
Some series of Big Brother (Celebrity and 'normal' - whatever that means) I watch, some I ignore.
I lost all interest in the current Celebrity Big Brother one when Leo Sayer kept bouncing about declaring he's such a happy, positive person and he can see himself spread some joy in the house. That was his video introduction before he even entered the show.
A little over a week later, I switched on the TV and found him hunched over, every second word he uttered bleeped out, demanding for an effing producer to effing come and show him his effing contract, because there's no way it says a celebrity can be treated like that. Only it does say so, and he effing signed it.
Now, even people with no TV know that there is a issue of racist comments being made on the show, and this has sparkled debates in the House of Commons and threatens to endanger diplomatic relations with India.
I do not know exactly what happened. What I know is that ratings for the show finally went up, after it seemed that nothing could get people interested in it. I would not be entirely surprised if whatever was said or done by the contestants was intentionally blown up by the production company's cunning use of the art of editing.
After all, television is what they make, and we will probably never know what exactly has happened in there.
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