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Old 31-10-2016, 10:31
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BIB - I don't think that's an apt comparison. Pete Burns's popularity predated his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother.
What popularity?
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Old 31-10-2016, 10:42
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Sounds like this was a terrible series going by this thread
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Old 31-10-2016, 11:48
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The popularity as expressed in this thread, for example.
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Old 31-10-2016, 11:49
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Sounds like this was a terrible series going by this thread
I would say it was the best-ever CBB series. It's been downhill all the way since then.
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Old 01-11-2016, 06:03
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The popularity as expressed in this thread, for example.
Hardly popularity. This is a BB thread and he was in BB. He's now dead so quote rightly there is a thread about him. You alluded to his popularity pre BB.

I wouldn't say he was particularly popular or famous pre BB. He had one big hit in 1985 under a groups name and was hardly heard of since was he.

I recall seeing him in ' Never mind the buzzcocks' once but that's about it.

He wasn't a big celeb pre BB
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Old 01-11-2016, 08:58
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Hardly popularity. This is a BB thread and he was in BB. He's now dead so quote rightly there is a thread about him. You alluded to his popularity pre BB.

I wouldn't say he was particularly popular or famous pre BB. He had one big hit in 1985 under a groups name and was hardly heard of since was he.

I recall seeing him in ' Never mind the buzzcocks' once but that's about it.

He wasn't a big celeb pre BB
What I meant was that the people who like(d) Pete Burns liked him before he was in CBB, whereas Gina Reo's popularity stemmed entirely from her appearance in BB. I'm aware that he was not to everyone's taste, but a fair number of people in this forum and elsewhere expressed delight that he was a contestant that year.
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Old 01-11-2016, 21:11
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You have said pretty much everything I wanted to say. He was the best CBB contestant ever in the best CBB series ever. His unexpected friendships with George Galloway and Denis Rodman and (up to a point) Michael Barrymore were CBB gold, never to be equalled. Those were the days, when CBB offered intelligent, interesting, and/or witty conversation on a regular basis. RIP Pete Burns, RIP Celebrity Big Brother.

"Sad to hear of the demise of Pete Burns. He was a cross between Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker. You don't get more brilliant than that. RIP" - George Galloway


Wonderful epitaph - he would have been happy with that.
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Old 02-11-2016, 10:34
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[/b] Wonderful epitaph - he would have been happy with that.
Yes, great epitaph,

Shame its not true
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Old 02-11-2016, 11:44
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Yes, great epitaph,

Shame its not true
All epitaph is to recall and show respect

So the fact that you don't agree is neither here nor there.
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Old 02-11-2016, 12:43
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All epitaph is to recall and show respect

So the fact that you don't agree is neither here nor there.
I have my opinion.

The deluded friend of Saddam, George Galloway, has his.
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