Thanks to the heads up from Daisy Banks I've located the new column he's written..it's interesting as he seems to be agreeing with the anti Cam people who say his bitching is not exactly something you'd expect of a Christian.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=747332003
It's not the real Cameron in there, maybe it's time he came out
JULYAN SINCLAIR
I suppose life is ostensibly about conflict; heart versus head, what we really want to do and say within the parameters our conscience allows. Id, ego and superego, if memory serves.
The past seven days in the Big Brother house have brought conflict to the fore in a multitude of ways. Relating this to Cameron, I can see he is torn between his obvious dislike of new housemate Lisa, and the fact that his Christian beliefs dictate he should aspire to a more Christ-like acceptance of his fellow human. Bitchiness and Christianity don’t really go hand in hand, and Cameron’s discomfort at his animus for Lisa is starting to take its toll.
Honesty is the only religion I believe in, and I’m not sure if Cameron qualifies to enter the heart of my kirk. He does in as much as his candour to Ray, Scott, Nush and Steph is ingenuous, but never say something behind someone’s back you’re not prepared to say to their face. He is not alone in this, though; all the original housemates are talking behind the back of the woman who claims to be able to kill her prey with two fingers, yet she doesn’t seem to realise quite how many sets of two fingers are steering her toward her own Big Brother demise.
If the house is a microcosm of the country we live in, we all need to get off our high horses and admit that in real life, as opposed to reality life, most of us would surreptitiously lambast Lisa for her over-enthusiastic and disconcerting approach to the environment in which she finds herself. No-one wants her there, except maybe a slice of the public who appreciate that for this show to fulfil its potential we need to see as many conflicts of interest, opinion and outlook as possible. And credit where it’s due, she has been included to exacerbate any personality cracks which are appearing.
I think this is more pertinent to Cameron than perhaps any of the other housemates. He is a good man at the core but one of his foibles is that he tends to wear his heart on his sleeve when it comes to his opinions of other people.
They all think she’s barmy and slightly psychotic, but somehow it is Cameron’s vehemence which seems most out of character. I say the only way it is out of character is that he usually takes a more direct approach to the problem. In as much as he doesn’t walk about telling people exactly what he thinks of them, you’d be hard pushed to find an associate of his who doesn’t know exactly where they stand with him, reiterating my point that this is not reality television.
In his defence, if Lisa came out and asked him what he thought of her, he’d tell her in no uncertain terms, yet with the level of tact you’d expect.
It is all too easy to forget that in the past four series this has turned from a social experiment into a high profile gameshow, and most of the lab rats have turned into aspiring celebrities. I may be alone in this, but I feel that as soon as someone has been evicted then I only really want to see that person remaining on my television for a week at most. I am sick to the back teeth of seeing these non-entities (Federico’s words) appearing as social commentators on every channel at every given opportunity.
Carol Smillie best sums it up in an interview on a forthcoming ITV documentary when she says that television presenting is a real, and quite difficult job, the skill of which is dumbed-down when reality TV contestants use celebrity rather than talent to get jobs. But then I would say that, wouldn’t I? To cite an example, BB3 winner Kate Lawler now fronts RI:SE with Ian Lee. RI:SE has never been a televisual staple for me, but watching her technical inability and his incessant need to carry her through the programme makes me wonder if I’ve chosen the right vocation.
If all you need to get ahead in TV is to win a game show, have a short skirt and blonde hair then I have neither a canoe nor a paddle, and this creek is a level 4 rapid. Amusingly however, my mother Doris will be appearing on the show tomorrow morning, apparently having masterminded a Houdini-like escape from the Orkney cellar in which Cameron left her locked.
So, another jaunt to London in anticipation of seeing Cameron in the flesh, and in contrast to my last sojourn, this time I don’t think he’ll be coming out. Apathy is dangerous however, as Lisa’s tribe of followers will be voting with venom, whereas Steph and Cameron supporters probably believe she is a dead cert for eviction.
Apropos of my claim that life is about conflict, I have to admit that as time goes on and Cameron approaches the last three and the possibility of winning, I remain split as to what I think would be best for him in the long term. If he comes out sooner then he has had a good innings and can walk proud knowing he got as much out of Big Brother as they have from him. If he does go all the way and pick up the £70,000, rest assured Channel 4 will milk him for everything they can in return. Having never voted during any series of Big Brother, my conflict is this; should I start voting now, and if so, which number should I dial?
Julyan Sinclair is a BAFTA award-winning TV presenter.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=747332003
It's not the real Cameron in there, maybe it's time he came out
JULYAN SINCLAIR
I suppose life is ostensibly about conflict; heart versus head, what we really want to do and say within the parameters our conscience allows. Id, ego and superego, if memory serves.
The past seven days in the Big Brother house have brought conflict to the fore in a multitude of ways. Relating this to Cameron, I can see he is torn between his obvious dislike of new housemate Lisa, and the fact that his Christian beliefs dictate he should aspire to a more Christ-like acceptance of his fellow human. Bitchiness and Christianity don’t really go hand in hand, and Cameron’s discomfort at his animus for Lisa is starting to take its toll.
Honesty is the only religion I believe in, and I’m not sure if Cameron qualifies to enter the heart of my kirk. He does in as much as his candour to Ray, Scott, Nush and Steph is ingenuous, but never say something behind someone’s back you’re not prepared to say to their face. He is not alone in this, though; all the original housemates are talking behind the back of the woman who claims to be able to kill her prey with two fingers, yet she doesn’t seem to realise quite how many sets of two fingers are steering her toward her own Big Brother demise.
If the house is a microcosm of the country we live in, we all need to get off our high horses and admit that in real life, as opposed to reality life, most of us would surreptitiously lambast Lisa for her over-enthusiastic and disconcerting approach to the environment in which she finds herself. No-one wants her there, except maybe a slice of the public who appreciate that for this show to fulfil its potential we need to see as many conflicts of interest, opinion and outlook as possible. And credit where it’s due, she has been included to exacerbate any personality cracks which are appearing.
I think this is more pertinent to Cameron than perhaps any of the other housemates. He is a good man at the core but one of his foibles is that he tends to wear his heart on his sleeve when it comes to his opinions of other people.
They all think she’s barmy and slightly psychotic, but somehow it is Cameron’s vehemence which seems most out of character. I say the only way it is out of character is that he usually takes a more direct approach to the problem. In as much as he doesn’t walk about telling people exactly what he thinks of them, you’d be hard pushed to find an associate of his who doesn’t know exactly where they stand with him, reiterating my point that this is not reality television.
In his defence, if Lisa came out and asked him what he thought of her, he’d tell her in no uncertain terms, yet with the level of tact you’d expect.
It is all too easy to forget that in the past four series this has turned from a social experiment into a high profile gameshow, and most of the lab rats have turned into aspiring celebrities. I may be alone in this, but I feel that as soon as someone has been evicted then I only really want to see that person remaining on my television for a week at most. I am sick to the back teeth of seeing these non-entities (Federico’s words) appearing as social commentators on every channel at every given opportunity.
Carol Smillie best sums it up in an interview on a forthcoming ITV documentary when she says that television presenting is a real, and quite difficult job, the skill of which is dumbed-down when reality TV contestants use celebrity rather than talent to get jobs. But then I would say that, wouldn’t I? To cite an example, BB3 winner Kate Lawler now fronts RI:SE with Ian Lee. RI:SE has never been a televisual staple for me, but watching her technical inability and his incessant need to carry her through the programme makes me wonder if I’ve chosen the right vocation.
If all you need to get ahead in TV is to win a game show, have a short skirt and blonde hair then I have neither a canoe nor a paddle, and this creek is a level 4 rapid. Amusingly however, my mother Doris will be appearing on the show tomorrow morning, apparently having masterminded a Houdini-like escape from the Orkney cellar in which Cameron left her locked.
So, another jaunt to London in anticipation of seeing Cameron in the flesh, and in contrast to my last sojourn, this time I don’t think he’ll be coming out. Apathy is dangerous however, as Lisa’s tribe of followers will be voting with venom, whereas Steph and Cameron supporters probably believe she is a dead cert for eviction.
Apropos of my claim that life is about conflict, I have to admit that as time goes on and Cameron approaches the last three and the possibility of winning, I remain split as to what I think would be best for him in the long term. If he comes out sooner then he has had a good innings and can walk proud knowing he got as much out of Big Brother as they have from him. If he does go all the way and pick up the £70,000, rest assured Channel 4 will milk him for everything they can in return. Having never voted during any series of Big Brother, my conflict is this; should I start voting now, and if so, which number should I dial?
Julyan Sinclair is a BAFTA award-winning TV presenter.
