― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― crly, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, is anybody else watching SURVIVOR? This season is interesting. Stephenie is now a 1-woman team! Is she going to have to compete as a team next week for immunity or will they "merge" before then? I'm glad she outlasted the other nitwits on her team. She and Bobby Jon deserved to make it.
― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 8 April 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 8 April 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Other losers involved in this daft idea include James Hewitt who has become some sort of reality TV whore. I can't even remember who else was involved, except Jenny Powell.
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 9 April 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I wish that I didn't love this kind of stuff, but, really, it's beyond my control now. Z-list celebs and people who want to become Z-list celebs captivate me in a horrid world of fascination.
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 9 April 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 9 April 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 23 April 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 23 April 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, I have just seen a trailer for Celebrity Love Island. I think Hewitt might be involved in that too (in fact I read something today about him being involved with Lisa from Big Brother 3 (or was it 4) which is too scary for words. Apparently they met at a party to celebrate her boob job)
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― everything, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link
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― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Judges include Stewart Copeland! Singing partners include Martin Fry! Nicky Campbell is an appalling singer.
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
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― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Friday, 24 February 2006 09:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh I'm doing an impression of someone who cares!
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 24 February 2006 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link
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― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 27 February 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link
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― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 27 January 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
InjuryLawyers 4 yew must be having a field day!
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link
(the opposition - Opportunity Knocks lite - on BBC 1 is currently featuring a women doing a dance routine with her dog)
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 10 February 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Spin Crowd!
I loved/hated this programme so much - often at the same moment.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Monday, 31 January 2011 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
The new Hell's Kitchen US is hilariously fraught and cartoonish.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Monday, 31 January 2011 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Vanilla Ice Goes Amish
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
In a fit of boredom last night I watched a sneak preview ondemand of that new Linda Perry show on VH1.
Linda Perry Project: Make or Break, I think it's called.
It's kinda good? I mean, you kinda have to be onboard with her to begin with & her whole 'hi I look like a female steven tyler now' is a bit weird, but I like the no-bullshit angle.
she gets these kids in a room and she really pushes them out of their comfort zone, and it's interesting to see how they react. And there's a little bit of behind-the-scenes drama with the one band that's on the verge of falling apart from the very beginning.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
it's so joyous to have someone as awesome as tim on reality tv (the circle fyi)
also notable is that they kind of don't have any twats in the house (yet)
― imago, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtiQfiudVDM
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 September 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
aw
where else could you watch richard madeley anonymously flirting with fatboy slim's teenage son
where else
― imago, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
nah it's all good i don't tv judge
emma willis is the happy shopper davina tho
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 September 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
i spend her segments waiting for the actual stuff from the house to begin. her voiceover interjections aren't too bad though
― imago, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
oh and i saw a clip of Madeley with his geetar this morning and ffs
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 September 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
he's being quite funny about it all tbf
― imago, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
I got quite into this the first season, and I do not know why, I barely watch any reality TV usually. But yes, I am watching it again. I love Tim but keep expecting him to say something horribly reactionary that will destroy everything, I really hope he doesn't, and does stay in.
― emil.y, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
he has remained the best person on tv
― imago, Sunday, 6 October 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
obv still enjoying the show, ella and woody are a formidable duo
― imago, Sunday, 6 October 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
I love Tim but keep expecting him to say something horribly reactionary that will destroy everything
― emil.y, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:59 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
aaaahhhhhhh ADMIRES THATCHER goddammit emil.y how did you know
― imago, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
mitigation: flamboyant gay man of a certain age, aesthetic reasons idk
but there's little excuse
my faith is severely shaken
― imago, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
i like tim again
however, who could have expected that monster heel-turn from the hitherto coldly impassive and self-possessed catfish haha
― imago, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
(ans: anyone)
We’ve been watching Sugar Rush on Netflix. It’s terrible and I love almost all of the contestants
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
It’s exactly what you’d expect if GBBO was invented by Americans
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
Georgina is the most fickle flower imaginable - she can't see the other two have only turned to her because they thought she was the weakest but she's blown so much smoke up her own arse she's turned into a smog balloon.
Like UK politics, the trouble is that the rebels don't have the numbers. Jan will be the only one Sammi and Tim can agree on, because you don't expel one of your own unless you *have* to so it comes to 3 vs 3 in voting. There will end up being a stalemate at the next vote assuming they do strict party lines on position - if not then the rebels will lose by small margins.
Tim = TMayWoody = Philip HammondElla = Dominic GrieveSammi = BorisPaddy = PenfoldGeorgina = Steven Barclay
If Tim fails it won't be because the rebels unseat him, but because he chooses to fall after taking to win the argument with logic and (in his mind) trying his absolute best.
Mind you, I still think James will fuck up in the final days and ruin his cover story accidentally. Can't see how it will happen, but he's getting more wound up by the day and that's when his mask will slip.
I've enjoyed this season, mainly because of how spectacularly bad (and deluded in their own abilities) the catfish have been (James excluded). Also Beth and Jack seem like a really nice couple.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 06:04 (four years ago) link
I like Sugar Rush as well, but there's no build-up. It's exactly the same every episode. I want to see an ultimate winner!
― trishyb, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
I've just watched the Bear Grylls Treasure Island thing bcs my nextdoor neighbour was a contestant. I couldn't get it at all: no drama, no chemistry, certainly no humour, and just four episodes, each a week apart, so little in the way of narrative arc. Seemed utterly pointless.
― fetter, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link
Tim has told Woody something different to put Sammie bottom, Woody will tell Ella. I suspect Tim will tell Ella he asked the first bestie question to try and draw out the second.
If TWE try and vote split to ensure WE stay in then I think we could end up with inconclusive winners and losers in the last vote. Better perhaps to sacrifice one and make sure the other two survive, which will be Tim if it happens.
All in all though it's been a piss poor rebellion.
2 to go tomorrow, 4 in the last day? Can't remember what happened last year.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
what happened last year = alex had a crisis of conscience and almost gave the game away, didn't, and won £150,000
― imago, Thursday, 17 October 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
haha
i had the thought that the circle could ask each trio to decide one from within themselves to go home (or one from the opposite team!) but that isn't organic enough. you're quite right that georgina is fickle and i think she could be flipped back. she doesn't have the game of a double-agent mind you
this is heading towards either delicious catharsis or the triumph of surprisingly pure evil though, it's cracking tv
― imago, Thursday, 17 October 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
The rapid unlocking of Sammie’s manic defences has been quite something! I think that despite his capacity to totally switch off from even the surface appearance of reasonable behaviour, he is so locked into his split character that he won’t make a mistake with the story.
I am massively impressed with (invisible editing aside) how instinct and intuition are winning through I’m this season! So many moments of an almost physical presentiment of something about to happen... I want Woody to win so much, and then to give all the money to Sammie’s cause.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 17 October 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
lol that would be amazing
― imago, Thursday, 17 October 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
sammie is the mad queen
― imago, Thursday, 17 October 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
lol by what happened last year I meant what were the numbers in the last days (trying to intuit whether single, double or even treble block tonight). My guess is it'll be another auto and an influencer discussion for a second.
I thought Sammie was close to breaking cover over the motivation for his win and he's dropped the Sammie character completely in the rebels chat - he now *sounds* like an angry Scouse bloke in it, but whether either Paddy or Georgina are bright enough to pick up on that I doubt very much.
The way I think tonight's show will play out:
Woody will tell Ella Sammie is a catfish in a detective chatTim will tell Ella the first message was his to winkle out the secondElla will make a very strong accusation Sammie is a catfishJames will go mental and try and over-reach Stage IV (it whatever he's at)Georgina will break ranks after James makes it personal*Possibly* James will slip up as SammieSammie will come bottom in the first vote - TWE will put them bottom and Georgina will not put them first even if Paddy does - so if it's an automatic they'll go. Without Sammie, Georgina has an opportunity to get back into TWE and will spill the beans on the rebels t do so, selling Paddy out in the process.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link
This is all weirdly reminiscent of BB 2008 (yes, I had to check which year it actually was) which had the Jungle Cats trying to break up what they called the Get Along Gang - because the JCs saw it as the GAG just playing it safe to stay in as long as possible. Of course that ultimately led to Fight Night, the police removing people from the house and arguably the start of the end for the show.
If we had had different people in the last 3 - Jan possibly, maybe Jack, I think definitely Sy - we would have seen it kick off around the dinner table in the final reveal when Sammie comes out. Ella still might.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:11 (four years ago) link
Haha aah I remember Fight Night from BB5! Never has a tin tray been used so threateningly on TV before. What a mess that season was.
I can imagine poor Tim being absolutely crushed by the Sammie reveal at the table and not being able to look at him.
I think it’s likely that if there’s another ratings, Georgina and either Ella or Tim would be influencers, as Sammie will be buried now after this latest outburst. Georgina will definitely try to reinforce her bond with Ella as much as possible following whatever fallout occurs.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 17 October 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link
it's really sad about paddy. they got a gay disabled person on the circle, but he was an empty dickhead :(
(obviously his dickheadedness shaped by years of discrimination, but there's no grace or seemingly much in the way of wit or charm there. and he's from a place where wit and charm are prized above all!)
― imago, Thursday, 17 October 2019 10:18 (four years ago) link
Tim will take the Sammie reveal the worst, but Woody will be devastated I reckon.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Thursday, 17 October 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link
James has only really used Charlie as a tool against Tim, although Woody has asked about him a bit. I don't think anyone else apart from Jay has had a talk with James about Charlie that we've been shown?
Using the Grandpa Tim hashtag in last night's show is what will end up hurting the most when it comes out.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Thursday, 17 October 2019 10:46 (four years ago) link
-_-
well, at least we know now that james a) won't win and b) has ruined his life
― imago, Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
Ella telling Georgina that he was messaging COT bragging while the influencers were away has definitely turned her.
Irrelevant tbh because I think it's only public votes now which means Tim will win (although maybe Woody will get close).
James bottom because the world surely thinks he's a dick Paddy nextThen Georgina for being easily led but almost with a good heartWoody second Tim wins
Woody's message from home was weird because it implied his parents were together but they split up 3 or 4 years ago iirc
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
is it really public votes? we need the catharsis of georgina turning on sammie
― imago, Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
i kind of wanted ella to win the whole thing so i'm miffed
wonder what georgina said to win tim around
I didn't really take to Ella but there wasn't anything *wrong* with her.
I'm sure it's public votes. Or is that just the last three? Struggling to remember last year.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
there's going to be one more blocking before the final four? C4 have a goddamn job on their hands if they want sammie to survive it though
idk, maybe they will just rate each other to decide the winner. last time it was marks out of 5 but that was a shit method. they should have to rank again
― imago, Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
i guess marks out of 5 was a sort of torturous integrity test but the mechanics of it were so horrid
alex and dan quoting each other's tweets nowadays though - presumably alex did something nice with the money
― imago, Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
Split is £70k on each other's ratings, £30k on public vote.
So... Georgina will win the ratings money as the only one one in both groups? Or more probably split it with Paddy?
Sammie votes P>G>W>TPaddy votes S>G>T>WTim votes W>G>P>SWoody votes T>G>P>S
Which makes the numbers
G 12P 8T 7W 7S 7
Georgina likely to vote P>T>W>S maybe based on Ella ruining it for Sammie. If she marks Paddy down because he's part of the scheme before it came to her (so for all she knows he could be Grima Wormtongue in the COT) then she keeps it all to herself. But that probably assumes too much of her.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Friday, 18 October 2019 12:04 (four years ago) link
Georgina absolutely does not deserve to win and her winning would be a victory for meanness. Hope Woody and Tim mark her the fuck down tbh
― imago, Friday, 18 October 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
Sammie could also vote Georgina down having piggiebacked to the final lol
― imago, Friday, 18 October 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
Making Paddy the winner, which is maybe even less palatable.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Friday, 18 October 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
There could be one more blocking before the final final stage of course...
― imago, Friday, 18 October 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
True, in which case it needs to be Sammie to change the outcome.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Friday, 18 October 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
I don't think Georgina is mean, but I think she's very easily influenceable. Sammie and Paddy are definitely mean though. I still like Tim as a person even after the Thatcher reveal, but I'm much much less enthusiastic about him. Sadly I'm out tonight so I'll miss the final.
― emil.y, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
To be honest, I don't like Ella or Woody that much either, but at least they're not maniacal Napoleons.
― emil.y, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
I feel like Georgina would have bullied me at school, or at least reminds me too strongly of similar characters. I like Woody the best by far, but I don't love the message of him winning The Circle unless as I suggested before, he is overcome with admiration for Sammie's cause and donates the money to that. Tim would be a lovely winner I suppose - I liked when he said he was as poor as a church doormouse!
Sammie's blinkered frenzy shouldn't be rewarded, but also I find him a particularly tragic character and I am amazed he passed the screening for this process. I hope that the post-Circle therapy they apparently all get is of some great use to him.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
This is too much for my heart. Poor Tim - I hope he's okay!
― tangenttangent, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link