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Old 01-12-2012, 01:09
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I noticed Brian's cardboard cut-out was sporting an award medal, but no mention of what it was for, and again no mention of Brian at all in tonight's show when reminiscing and doing impersonations!

Wonder what he got it for...
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Old 01-12-2012, 01:11
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Nadine Dorries got one as well
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Old 01-12-2012, 01:11
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Nadine Dorries got one as well
Didn't notice that!
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Old 01-12-2012, 03:07
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I noticed too.

Something dodgy went on, I'm tellin' ya.
Why on earth wouldn't they give him an honourable mention?
It's as though he's been whitewashed from IAC history like some crazy censor editing out things like smoking and 'bad' words from old films.

We'll probably never get to know.
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Old 01-12-2012, 03:21
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I think I read in paper (so may not be true) about Brian and something like he was on some sort of medication for depression but had stopped taking them. Producers didn't want him to stop taking them but he did. Something like that??

So maybe it was more they took him out of jungle rather than him leaving.
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Old 01-12-2012, 04:19
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It says, in the Daily Mail I think, that his award was for Smelliest Campmate, and Nadine's was for Most Opinionated Campmate.
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Old 01-12-2012, 06:46
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What was Helen's for?
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Old 01-12-2012, 07:43
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What was Helen's for?
Helen won laziest campmate.
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Old 01-12-2012, 10:17
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Also notice how Brian Conley has been airbrushed out of any flashbacks on both shows, not even a mention.

The producers are probably sick of big names like Freddie Starr and Conley coming on the show, getting some publicity for a couple of days, then taking the money and running home ASAP.
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Old 01-12-2012, 10:28
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Also notice how Brian Conley has been airbrushed out of any flashbacks on both shows, not even a mention.

The producers are probably sick of big names like Freddie Starr and Conley coming on the show, getting some publicity for a couple of days, then taking the money and running home ASAP.
I was puzzled but you may have a point; I hadn't thought of it that way.
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Old 01-12-2012, 10:31
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Are Brian Conley and Freddie Starr still classed as big names?
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Old 01-12-2012, 10:35
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And why would they put his life-sized cutout in that line-up if they are airbrushing him out?
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Old 01-12-2012, 10:36
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Are Brian Conley and Freddie Starr still classed as big names?
They think they are
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Old 01-12-2012, 12:04
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My theory is that the producers thought it wrong to show footage of him as he was ill throughout the series and it would be wrong to show an ill man even though it was not evident to anybody watching at the time.

My alarm bells went when he wanted to smooth things over between David and Rosemary when there was no tension. He was suffering from heighten anxiety at that point. Seemed out of character to me.
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Old 01-12-2012, 12:49
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I think I read in paper (so may not be true) about Brian and something like he was on some sort of medication for depression but had stopped taking them. Producers didn't want him to stop taking them but he did. Something like that??

So maybe it was more they took him out of jungle rather than him leaving.
It seems that Brian flipped his lid as they say. They should be more careful who they let in there but he should have the intelligence to know he wont cope.

While he was the cheeky chappy daddy that everyone liked he was fine, but the moment he was challenged he just lost it.
Sad that he's so fragile.
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Old 01-12-2012, 13:45
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Also notice how Brian Conley has been airbrushed out of any flashbacks on both shows, not even a mention.

The producers are probably sick of big names like Freddie Starr and Conley coming on the show, getting some publicity for a couple of days, then taking the money and running home ASAP.
I suppose we sometimes forget that IAC is actually a job itself.
So if you are hired for the job there is an obligation on your part to come into work if you've come to an arrangement to receive a massive payment and especially if you've been paid money upfront, which I don't know if they are in this case.

So if there's an element of doubt about whether a celebrity is really ill I can understand why the employer, ITV in this case, might not want to do them any favours if this is the case here.

I suppose ITV have a right to be annoyed with anyone who they pay a massive sum of money to but who then just turn up for a few days and think they can say "I don't fancy this, I think I'll be off now. Don't like it".
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Old 01-12-2012, 13:47
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Are Brian Conley and Freddie Starr still classed as big names?
Yes, I think so. To a large proportion of the population they will still be household names.
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Old 01-12-2012, 13:51
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My theory is that the producers thought it wrong to show footage of him as he was ill throughout the series and it would be wrong to show an ill man even though it was not evident to anybody watching at the time.

My alarm bells went when he wanted to smooth things over between David and Rosemary when there was no tension. He was suffering from heighten anxiety at that point. Seemed out of character to me.
But they don't give Conley an honourable mention....ever.
This is what baffles me. Not just the one-off occasion like this.

It's as though any further mention of him on the show is disallowed. You'd think that he'd be mentioned even in natural conversation.
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Old 01-12-2012, 13:54
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It seems that Brian flipped his lid as they say. They should be more careful who they let in there but he should have the intelligence to know he wont cope.

While he was the cheeky chappy daddy that everyone liked he was fine, but the moment he was challenged he just lost it.
Sad that he's so fragile.
That's my theory too, and it's only a theory, that he just snapped and perhaps got a bit nasty with someone in a moment of weakness.

Things like that happen in real life even if it's rare to see them occur on telly.
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Old 01-12-2012, 15:23
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If you go back and watch that part of the show, it zooms out on all the cardboard cut outs, you'll see that everyone but Colin and Linda won an award - hence why Charlie "kissed" them and said they were still brilliant camp mates.

We didn't get to see the majority of awards being "won", not just Brian's. If you actually watched the show instead of dreaming up nonsense theories, you'd know this.

Some people really do like to look for things that aren't there.
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Old 01-12-2012, 15:39
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Some people really do like to look for things that aren't there.
God.

Ain't it the truth?
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Old 03-12-2012, 15:52
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Also notice how Brian Conley has been airbrushed out of any flashbacks on both shows, not even a mention.

The producers are probably sick of big names like Freddie Starr and Conley coming on the show, getting some publicity for a couple of days, then taking the money and running home ASAP.
It was like he had vanished into thin air.

Then Dec said Nadine had flown home and Brian was doing a panto. No mention at all he hadn't been well.
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Old 03-12-2012, 17:18
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Brian got the 'Leaving early to do a panto' award
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Old 03-12-2012, 20:51
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Didnt Eric say Brian went to the shed and never came back, so something might have happened in there.
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Old 03-12-2012, 20:51
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It says, in the Daily Mail I think, that his award was for Smelliest Campmate, and Nadine's was for Most Opinionated Campmate.
Sure that will cheer him up no end.
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