Thursday, 30 August 2007

Things that concern me - 6

I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here is about to launch on ITV 1.

Rest assured - if you're ever here reading this, at no point will be banging on about the utter rubbish that is celebrity reality television. Except to say that there now seems to be a steady cast that line up for everything.

Led ably, by the likes of Phil Tuffnell and Sophie Anderton, with honorable mentions for that bloke who once dated Jade Goody but managed to get away before she closed in for the kill.

Carol Thatcher is never too far away.

And whenever you want to try for a quick spike in the ratings you can always throw a nutter into the mix.

Enter Chris Eubank.

But like I say, it's always a steady pool of no talent, who maintain after they're evicted, or walk out, that they'll never do anything so humiliating ever again....until the next time.

A reliable 10 - 15 of them. It's like Australian Soaps Operas.

I don't know if you've ever noticed. There are only ever about 8 actors working Australia's entire television output at any given time.

They must be knackered.

And things got even worse when Jim Robinson packed up and headed across to the States to star as a military baddie in everything from the X-Files to 24 through NCIS. Not to mention The OC.

Nobody ever said my taste in television viewing was tasteful.

And we haven't even scratched the surface yet.

By the way - remind me to talk to you about the new James Bond next time.

Got to go.

Time to change a nappy. Not mine, just in case you were wondering.Things aren't quite that bad yet.

Joshua is nearly 7 weeks old now, and he represents all my hopes for the future.

If we're blessed, he'll have the looks and personality of his mother.Maybe my teeth. Or green eye colour.

Other than that, I wouldn't wish the curse of my appearance upon him.

Especially my hairline...which now appears to be receding so quickly it's taking my eyebrows with it.

It doesn't really bother me. I'm just trying to delay changing the nappy.

Now, if foreign agents had just thrown filled nappy bags at James Bond, instead of dodgy old grenades, I'm confident 007 would have packed it up about 14 movies ago.

Jx

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