Bye Bye Big Brother!

Even the winner of the final official run of Big Brother has decided she's had enough of it.  Josie Gibson has left Ultimate Big Brother saying the place was closing in on her.  She's had it up to here with her new 'celebrity' housemates who have taken up squatters rights in her 'normal' world.  Seriously? Yeah really.  She doesn't consider herself a celebrity (isn't that why they go in there in the first place, for their 15 minutes?) and has got out sharpish before the real celebs (you decide!) made her completely paranoid about her on off BB lover, John James. God help her!  Nothing will be normal for Josie for at least....well the next month or so.  JJ - I'm afraid I'm with Nadia (I love Nadia and her tell it like it is attitude) - will only be interested whilst the cameras are around.  Not that I watched BB before the Ultimate started (bit dull at the moment but should hot up) but it's easy to see what JJ is all about.  Josie should have hung on in there to watch what happens when you fall in love in the house and then out of love as soon as you get out.  Chantelle and Preston are the perfect template.  Bless her, poor Chantelle.  Can't stop crying. Still loves her ex husband and it's fairly clear he still thinks she's...well, sweet but maybe not marriage material.  Preston summed it up when drying the poor girl's tears over the teasing, telling her that for their housemates it's just another story whereas for them it was an actuality.  And therein lies the rub.   Sometimes, when you're in the goldfish bowl of fame, it becomes hard to find what's real and what isn't.  And when you are thrust into the limelight for no particular talent, it becomes even harder.  Like Josie, I'll be glad to see the back of the show that changed celebrity forever.  Let the stardust fall on the talented and let the rest of us live happily ever after reading about their smoke and mirror lives in OK!

Out of the Woods

Good for Elin Nordegren ex wife of Tiger Woods, who has given an elegant and honest interview to People Magazine.  She says it is her first and last and she sounds like a woman of her word, unlike her ex husband. There is always a dilemma as to whether it's a good idea to 'do the interview' and this is a fine example of how to do it and why.  Over this past year, Elin would have been being bombarded with offers asking her to tell her side.  Having seen the divorce settled she has finally done the deed thus putting to bed all the intrigue and after an initial flurry of heightened interest, she will have drawn a line under this affair(s) once and for all.  She can now go back into a degree of anonymity with her head held high and can get on with her life and being a mother if no longer a wife.  Elin will move on from this in a far healthier way than Tiger ever will.  Good for her and yes she has a huge settlement but to quote her, "Money doesn't make you happy. ... But I have to be honest: It is making some things easier. I have the opportunity to be with my children as much as I want."  She is an example to all our Wags.

I'm Done with The One Show

So I finally get to watch the new pairing of Jason Manford and Alex Jones.  Since it's still early days, I'll be gentle......Dull! Dull! Dull!  Yes, they can do the job perfectly adequately but these two are sterile and lacking in chemistry.  Like oil and water, they are working entirely independently of one another with no sense of cohesion.  It's lucky The One Show is bigger than them but how much more enjoyable would it be to watch a pair of presenters who gel?  Sexual chemistry is a rare commodity and Jason and Alex have proved it.  Get down and dirty with one another guys and you might stand a chance of keeping us interested.  However, my hunch is that once Adrian and Christine have their own Daybreak debut scrutinised for a week, all four of these over publicised lacking-in-personalities will be quickly forgotten.

The No Show

The Fame Doctor is blighted.  I have tried to catch the new kids on The One Show but every attempt has been thwarted.  Up at the Edinburgh Fringe, I was actually in my hotel room for their debut, but the super sophisticated screen at "Le Monde" Hotel had trouble with BBC1.  As with the real world, Le Monde is a bit tired and in need of a refurb.  Edinburgh offered more joy.  Nick Mohammed a hilarious charmer with the gift of extraordinary memory, John Bishop self deprecating true Brit wit and Bo Burnham too young, too talented and way too fast for me!  All definitely ones to watch.  Oh and Emo Phillips back at the fringe after a nine year absence is as funny and weird as ever. The Pleasance staging of  Soho Storeys had improved immeasurably since the review in the link, but Fame Doctor agrees that the Russian tailors were outstanding, particularly the handsome dark one!  Who he?  Back in gloomy London ready to catch Monday night's Sky+'d offering of The One Show....still no show.  Sky+ had been overloaded by the autotuned X Factor and too many Location, Location, Locations - just the title occupies 1%.  Anyhow, tonight is the night.  I will watch Alex Jones and Jason Manford by hook or by crook but if anyone has an already formed opinion, it would be good to know.  Subject to technological interference, FD will report back tomorrow. 

Crouch is Minted!

Peter Crouch, the tallest footballer ever, has been caught out with a kiss and tell expose by 'teenage' prostitute Monica Mint.  You couldn't make it up. Poor fiance Abbey Clancy - it was all going so well.  But we already know the score -  afterall Crouch is not the first footballer to fall foul in this way.  Abbey will be devastated.  She will be photographed wearing mega-designer shades to hide her sad, puffy eyes....for about a week.  Then it will all be forgiven if not forgotten and she will rush Crouch to the altar, no doubt paid for by OK! magazine.   We live in a world that pays our celebrities to live happily ever after.  Designer lifestyles are brought on as the substitute for real happiness.  So long as nothing interferes with their ability to dress in the top labels, eat in the best restaurants, stay in the most exclusive hotels and live in marble mansions, our WAGs will put up with any form of foul behaviour and not pull out the red card.  I dread to think of the fallout when their partner's days on the pitch are over and the couples have to face up to the reality of the life they have invested in. Thank God their homes will be big enough for separate quarters.