RIP BB - now just a launching pad for Z-Listers
Susie_Wilcox
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With the occasional 'normal' person thrown in to keep it 'real'.
Sorry, this format just does not work for me these days. Where are the people we all live next door to...? the part-time dental nurse, the girl who works in Tesco, the guy from Brighton who works in a phone shop, the older animal rights activist...?
Too many with dodgy claims to fame, too many models, too many with agents. I don't think they applied at all I reckon their agents put them up for the jobs.
No longer a social experiment to see how normal, everyday folk get along - just a short cut to an OK! shoot and some column inches in Closer. No thanks.
RIP BB.
Sorry, this format just does not work for me these days. Where are the people we all live next door to...? the part-time dental nurse, the girl who works in Tesco, the guy from Brighton who works in a phone shop, the older animal rights activist...?
Too many with dodgy claims to fame, too many models, too many with agents. I don't think they applied at all I reckon their agents put them up for the jobs.
No longer a social experiment to see how normal, everyday folk get along - just a short cut to an OK! shoot and some column inches in Closer. No thanks.
RIP BB.
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This post would be true last year...this year it's not the case. We have Helen, Winston, Pauline and Mark as the only ones being in the public eye, we've had like one story from Danielle and that's it.
Sadly, I agree with you Susie. I think I read somewhere that the old audition process has gone and that BB recruiters travel around visiting night clubs and the like where the young and beautiful hang out (literally), hence all the 'intelligent modulls' lol
I thought as much. I miss the days of Jade, Nikki, Pete, Science, Kate.....really enjoyed the show in them days.
Besides, as mentioned above, launching the careers of Z-listers is far from a recent thing.
They weren't already Z-ers when they went in though ;-)
She has seen how well Luisa has done over the last year with the tits n ass and a businesswoman as well approach.
She feels she could do the same
It would be good though to go back and choose some really intelligent mixture of people from different cultures and backgrounds. would these people still audition for it, I dunno, maybe its just easy for the producers to pick their zlisters these days as they can guarantee more arguments when there is ego friction.
It's a big risk for the average Joe.
Yes, but they used it as a launching pad.
But to be fair it has been going on since maybe series 6, whereas before that fame was seen as an optional extra
My concern with this lot is apart from maybe Jale, who really needs the money if they win seeing most of them are making money or are quite well off in the outside world anyway
For me it feels more The Apprentice meets Dragons Den meets Britain's next top Model
So many clashes of egos this year, so production will get their wish of plenty of arguments and who knows the odd removal as some of them look like they could go that extra step
But it wasn't "just a launching pad for Z-Listers" then.
However, it's unlikely that many of this year's HMs will manage to take off.
They're not even that good looking. The poster (YesNoMan) who said "All the girls are plainer than first glance suggests" was right. Even Ashleigh.
The days of instant post-BB 'fame' are long gone.
It's only video auditions nowadays as the opens have been scrapped
BB was supposed to be ordinary people put together in a house and the housemates decide who the public vote out.
So far i`ve seen 3 models, an Actor, a Media kiss and teller, someone has already got a place in the final and another is God.
Time to find a repeat of Columbo on channel 2,344
But he wasn`t a Housemate