Cards on the table. I can't stand Alesha and think she has been a terrible mistake on SCD. However, this is a strange career move. SCD has had a v.successful season whereas Simon Cowell's shows are failing. The BBC nailed its colours to the mast when they took Alesha on and they stuck with her despite a storm of protest and evidence that although some viewers began to tolerate her, most still disliked her and didn't believe she had the credentials to be a judge. It is unlikely the BBC would have pulicly sacked her after going out on a limb the way they did, and there are also the dual issues of ageism and racism to consider, both of which they have had problems with.
They have also given her other vehicles and my guess is that they have been coaching her because her diction has improved and the hyena laugh has been kept under wraps. So, a really stable employer who would look bad if they sacked her - so why would she leave? And to go to an employer who eats starlets for breakfast and then feeds them to the birds.
My guess is they told her at the beginning of this season that she wouldn't be doing a fourth year. She was more gung-ho than ever this series and there was a certain end-of-termishness about her that I wondered about. Cowell will see it as a nice bit of publicity, but she will have to walk the gangplank that is his close friend Sinitta, whom she is a younger version of, and SC wouldn't mind the publicity generated by her not being able to cut it on one of his shows.
One wonders where she thinks she is going now. Okay, she has Weightwatchers and maybe five minutes fame with BGT, but the BBC might have built shows for her which ITV are unlikely to do. Talk of a revived singing career is surely nonsense. She was never particularly good and she is too old by today's standards to go down that route again.
Any thoughts?
They have also given her other vehicles and my guess is that they have been coaching her because her diction has improved and the hyena laugh has been kept under wraps. So, a really stable employer who would look bad if they sacked her - so why would she leave? And to go to an employer who eats starlets for breakfast and then feeds them to the birds.
My guess is they told her at the beginning of this season that she wouldn't be doing a fourth year. She was more gung-ho than ever this series and there was a certain end-of-termishness about her that I wondered about. Cowell will see it as a nice bit of publicity, but she will have to walk the gangplank that is his close friend Sinitta, whom she is a younger version of, and SC wouldn't mind the publicity generated by her not being able to cut it on one of his shows.
One wonders where she thinks she is going now. Okay, she has Weightwatchers and maybe five minutes fame with BGT, but the BBC might have built shows for her which ITV are unlikely to do. Talk of a revived singing career is surely nonsense. She was never particularly good and she is too old by today's standards to go down that route again.
Any thoughts?





