‘Celebrity’ ‘Big Brother’: Is it possibly the worst time for a comeback?

‘Celebrity’ ‘Big Brother’: Is it possibly the worst time for a comeback?

The first series ‘Big Brother’ apparently was when the contestants were ordinary people and not ‘celebs‘ and no-one really knew what to expect – This was quite interesting I was told. Good honest communication and displays of real emotion not just ‘celebrity gossip‘.

At the time I just felt that it was like watching ‘Lab rats’ only they weren’t rats they were human beings. I struggled as to why anyone would want to be on camera 24/7 and saw the potential damage that this could and has created, I also questioned whether this was an experiment into psychological programming for future clones? But that’s a completely different post all together…

How easy would it be to modify the format to make ‘Big Brother 11‘ more relevant to current topical issues?

Reading the comments in The Guardian made for some insightful and amusing anecdotes, in case you missed them let me share some of them with you;

How about setting up two houses;

• In one, the inhabitants are paid state benefits and index-linked pensions and in the other house they are given any thing they wish for (within reason of course).

• In one, journalists are allowed to hack celebrities’ phones and in the other they are not.

• In one, we allow riotous behaviour; inhabitants can do whatever they want with impunity, as long as they blame their behaviour on everyone and everything else. In the other house, inhabitants risk a hail of rubber bullets for even the slightest transgression.

• How about instead of sending the rioters to prison they get sent to the big brother house but instead of evicting them we just lock the doors and throw away the key. Then we don’t give them any food or water.

• How about locking them in and then pretending to film them, and not broadcasting it.

In each case, we can all witness how the two houses behaviour differs. The outcomes should help resolve quite a few contemporary debates.

Anyway (drum roll please…) let the exhibitionisms, metro-sexuality, bitchiness, bullying and dysfunctions begin…What time is it on?

Thank you Mark Lawson and to those of you who submitted comments.