Originally Posted by TheBlueOne:
“Seriously they should just go round panto and the West End picking up all celebrities willing to do that. They could get David Hasselhoff, Stephen Gately and more.”
Then people would be saying 'Pah!, some old has-been actor and a never-was boy bander'
Let's face it, it's part of forum tradition on all these shows to say that the celebs are crap. Why can't people just get it into their heads that Elton John, David Beckham and The Pope are NEVER EVER going to do do these shows.
The pool of contestants available is the one where the has been and the wannabee swim, the 'I need to put the record straight' and the 'I want to show another side of me' brigade.
If you know who half the contestants are, you shouldn't be complaining, that's a good average.
Of the peeps mooted for this, the only one I don't know is Victoria Blond-Babe. That tells me that they have a pretty high calibre of minor celebs.
Even on the last I'm A Celeb I didn't know Nancy, Joe, Fran & Sophie - that was half of them. This is a much more famous collection than that.
And why does it matter so much that we know all about them before the show. The point of the show for the viewers is that we see peeps in unusual circumstances and find out something about their character & personality that we wouldn't get from seeing them do their day jobs.
McCrirrick might be a bit of an ars*hole on C4 racing coverage, but he's not going to be doing racing coverage in the BB house, he's going to interacting 24/7 with seven other people, that's a whole different ball-game. Let's see how it goes before dismissing him.