FabSwingers.com forum: Celebrity crap

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Am I alone in thinking television is just too full of celebrity shows ?

Celebrity Big Brother

Celebrity Come Dine With Me

Celebrity Dancing on ice

Celebrity Dance on the floor

Celebrity Dance on the ceiling

Celebrity Cooking programmes

Get me out of here I am a celebrity

and numerous more

Most are unheard of celebs, probably trying to revive careers that have dried up or trying to keep in the public eye when the public couldnt care less about them.

And who are Celebrities, many are boyfriends or girlfriends (mosty ex's)

of stars or other celebs, the new occupants of celebrity Big Brother include the ex girlfriend of a Rolling Stone, the ex boyfriend of someone famous for her tits, the current boyfriend of same titty woman, a woman who is only famous for her exploits as a Madam in a brothel (love Vinnie Jones in there though).

I prefer to see everyday people on shows like come dine with me or showing thier talent (and lack of it) on X Factor or Britains got talent.

Ex Big Brother contestants who are now more famous than top sportsman, for what, showing what a dickhead you are on TV

For every 10 "celebrities" on these shows 8 are nobodys really and 2 are people we have enjoyed seeing doing what they do.

I know it makes for cheap programme costs and the costs can be recovered with phone-ins and competitions but surely we can be given better than this

Or am I alone, do you all love them ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I do my utmost to make sure that i DONT watch any of them..

Purile inane drivel in the name of entertainment.

waste of time and money making such crap.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

What i want to know is what happened to the "ordinary" people that used to be on such shows as mr and mrs and oh its late i cant remember the name of it the one vernan kay does.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

who is vernon kaye ? is he a celebrity, must be a candidate for a I'm a forgotton celebrity show coming to your TV very soon

Celbrity Mr and Mrs - forgot that one

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Family fortunes is what he hosts but now its called all star family fortunes. Hes quite well known

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

oh yea, and Celebrity family fortunes too

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By *ertcamembertMan
over a year ago

Reading area

You're not alone, I agree with you on this one, it's one of the reasons why I would rather spend my spare time on here and not watching television

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hardly watch any TV nowadays, no soaps, no celebrity anything, or any other reality TV.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love them... love it when they make a twat of themselves and confirms my view of them..

Ivana Trump arrived in CBB last night..

now a once attractive classy lady is now a botox and silicone ridden freak.. why oh why... the doctors should say STOPPPPPPPP..

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

gtotslly with you Jed - bring back watch with mother is what I saw, especially Bill n Ben and the Wooden tops. Andy Pandy was to much of a sexual deviant for my tastes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

makes you wander what the licence fee is for, we have sky which= 300 channels of nothing to watch.

thank god for film 4

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ivana Trump arrived in CBB last night..

now a once attractive classy lady is now a botox and silicone ridden freak.. why oh why... the doctors should say STOPPPPPPPP.."

That is soooooo sad!

Why don't peeps just grow old gracefully?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I cannot stomach any of the Celeb shows, including that god awful fookin Jungle crap. I usually like Ant & Dec but they're really starting to irritate me now with that prog (it's on in our house coz Siren is a Geordie and they all stick together).

Bring back The A-Team! Now there was a boys prog if ever there was one... a big hairy mean black dude, a rugged good looking bastard that gets all the chicks, a brainbox leader who can solve ANYTHING and the smart egghead type fella who comes up with all the weird cars/tanks/rams etc etc.. What a show!!!

Failing that I'll settle for Lindsay Wagner doing a bionic cunny session with Linda Carter in her Wonderwoman outfit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wholeheartedly with the OP here. The shows milk them to death. Best tv news was that big brother is stopping.

A never ending series of top gear is whats needed

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

"Ivana Trump arrived in CBB last night..

now a once attractive classy lady is now a botox and silicone ridden freak.. why oh why... the doctors should say STOPPPPPPPP..

That is soooooo sad!

Why don't peeps just grow old gracefully?

surely growing old disgracefully is far more fun

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By *icelymarkedMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

All those channels on Sky and we are reduced to watching NCIS.

Just cannot stand those dopey celeb things either - a gang of no marks and losers making fools of them selves. It's more fun snuggling under the duvet in front of the fire with the camera!

Nothing like a bit of DIY on a cold night

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

It’s quite a sad reflection of things when people who have achieved nothing and have no talent whatsoever are forced upon us as being celebrities.

I wish I could remember the name of a documentary I watched a year or so ago… school girls being asked what their ambition was in life and a bunch of them were very focused on their career path and determined to be famous for their achievements – they wanted to be WAGs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All those channels on Sky and we are reduced to watching NCIS.

New season starting on Wed, woo hoo!

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

"It’s quite a sad reflection of things when people who have achieved nothing and have no talent whatsoever are forced upon us as being celebrities.

............... "

Are they really being forced upon us? There's countless channels, both tv and radio, out there and the minority broadcasters are pretty slick at ensuring there's something interesting available for those who refuse to watch celebrity based nonsense.

I'm hoping the departure of Jonathan Ross from the BBC will mark a serious change in thinking at Auntie's house.

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

"All those channels on Sky and we are reduced to watching NCIS.

New season starting on Wed, woo hoo!

OOOOOOOOOh yes Mark Hamill............ so scrummy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I watch Discovery most of the time anyway so I couldn't give a monkey's who Ross works for or what the Beeb show tbh.

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

"All those channels on Sky and we are reduced to watching NCIS.

New season starting on Wed, woo hoo!

NCIS Los Angeles? Chums over there who've seen it ain't impressed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I do my utmost to make sure that i DONT watch any of them..

Purile inane drivel in the name of entertainment.

waste of time and money making such crap.

exactly same here

British tv has really gone downhill

no much in entertainment any more wonder why i pay for a license

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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago

North of The Wall - youll need your vest

"All those channels on Sky and we are reduced to watching NCIS.

New season starting on Wed, woo hoo!

OOOOOOOOOh yes Mark Hamill............ so scrummy"

oooo you remember him in St Elsewhere many moons ago?

He was in it and a very very scrummy Denzel Washington....

Used to love that series.

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By *ishful.thinkingWoman
over a year ago

east london

"New season starting on Wed, woo hoo!

thanks for the heads up would have missed that

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By *ishful.thinkingWoman
over a year ago

east london

"NCIS Los Angeles? Chums over there who've seen it ain't impressed."

I enjoy it - very different to the ornignal sorta like the difference between CSI and CSI NY both good in their own right but differen and Chris O'Donnell mmhmmmm

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

What I haven't gotten to the bottom of is why it's set in LA. If you're going to move to the west coast San Diego would be a much more obvious choice for a navy/ marine based series?

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

"It’s quite a sad reflection of things when people who have achieved nothing and have no talent whatsoever are forced upon us as being celebrities.

...............

Are they really being forced upon us? "

They certainly try!

Tabloids, magazines, Celebrity shite on telly…. I wouldn’t mind one or two of the television programmes IF they were all what I would consider proper celebrities and not the scrapings from the bottom of a very deep barrel. I’d quite like to watch Vinnie Jones in the BB house but at the same time I disagree with being ‘told’ some of these other people ‘ARE’ celebrities.

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

Yes, they try but it ain't compulsory. Nobody is forced to buy shite magazines or watch shite telly.

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By *ishful.thinkingWoman
over a year ago

east london

LA Vs San Deigo - tough one that. Oh I've got it - it has so little to do with the navy it dosent matter and given the choice most Americans might recognise LA;-)

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

"Yes, they try but it ain't compulsory. Nobody is forced to buy shite magazines or watch shite telly."

And those who want to celebrate people for their tallent and achievement have a choice who the media force into the limelight under the banner of celebrity?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Especially loathed the 'celebs' in Africa for Comic Relief, handing out mosquito nets. Apart from Gary Barlow and Ben Shepherd, their egos were inflated by falsely believing they were feted for fame, rather thnan indigenous culture.

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

"Yes, they try but it ain't compulsory. Nobody is forced to buy shite magazines or watch shite telly.

And those who want to celebrate people for their tallent and achievement have a choice who the media force into the limelight under the banner of celebrity?"

That's a different question altogether. The absence of 'your' sorta telly doesn't make watching shite telly compulsory. There's always a choice and sometimes the act of switching over every time Ross or Brand (or whoever) appear - even on the news takes you to unexpected and sometimes much better viewing.

Thought. The completely useless Giles Brandreth (spelling?) was on Today this morning talking about quiz show - Mastermind, University Challenge and, to an extent, A Question of Sport - and pointing out that some are amongst the longest lasting shows on telly yet have mostly avoided anything to do with celebrity (except maybe QoS - but nobody really watches QoS for the personalities). They're also dead simple formats.

OK, you get 'celebrity' versions of these shows but that isn't the attraction. It's ordinary folk being tested against each other and, of course, the viewer. Same applies to the better radio quizes - Brain of Britain having been cited by a member here recently.

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

"Especially loathed the 'celebs' in Africa for Comic Relief, handing out mosquito nets. Apart from Gary Barlow and Ben Shepherd, their egos were inflated by falsely believing they were feted for fame, rather thnan indigenousculture."

Doesn't that come down to whether you like the 'celebs' involved?

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By *oe_Steve_NWestCouple
over a year ago

Bolton

No soaps, celeb, or all the other sheer waste of time programs on our tellys.

If we all stop watching them they would not put them on so vote with the off button.

Steve

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Doesn't that come down to whether you like the 'celebs' involved?"

Absolutely not. It comes down to the size of their egos being visible on screen and me finding it offensive in the setting of extreme poverty. it just gave an insight into their intelligence, actually

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By *heWolfMan
over a year ago

warwickshire

Phew, I saw the title of this thread and thought, "Jesus, they've really sunk as low as they can go now"

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By *uckscouple2007Couple
over a year ago

Bucks

Celebrity Bird Watching (of the featherd variety) starting on Sky this month

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bet you lot would be watching if it was 'Celebrity come swing with me'

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By *uckscouple2007Couple
over a year ago

Bucks

"Bet you lot would be watching if it was 'Celebrity come swing with me'

Can just see executives from Channel 4 rushing to do that one lol

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

"Celebrity Bird Watching (of the featherd variety) starting on Sky this month"

The late Humphrey Lyttelton was accused of being an "orthinologist". He said "no, I'm a word botcher".

Nice one Humph.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

TV is nothing more than a numbers game, millions of folk each week watch all of the soap/celeb crap being decried here.

So who is right? The few who have a slightly more highbrow outlook on life or the millions who enjoy dumbed down entertainment in it's many guises

Slag it off all you like, and I do happen to agree that it's crap but it is feckin popular

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm sick and tired of TV in general - most of it is shite ... particularly the so called 'reality' and 'celebrity' shows

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

"TV is nothing more than a numbers game, millions of folk each week watch all of the soap/celeb crap being decried here.

So who is right? The few who have a slightly more highbrow outlook on life or the millions who enjoy dumbed down entertainment in it's many guises

Slag it off all you like, and I do happen to agree that it's crap but it is feckin popular

So were (are?) public executions and floggings.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"TV is nothing more than a numbers game, millions of folk each week watch all of the soap/celeb crap being decried here.

So who is right? The few who have a slightly more highbrow outlook on life or the millions who enjoy dumbed down entertainment in it's many guises

Slag it off all you like, and I do happen to agree that it's crap but it is feckin popular

So were (are?) public executions and floggings."

Would not know about that as we live in the civilised western world

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm sick and tired of TV in general - most of it is shite ... particularly the so called 'reality' and 'celebrity' shows

I am the same, only programmes i really watch are documentaries, crime thrillers or Top Gear oh and of course the football or any other sports that interest me.

I would rather surf the net or even watch DVD's than watch that twat Vernon Kay.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I cannot stomach any of the Celeb shows, including that god awful fookin Jungle crap. I usually like Ant & Dec but they're really starting to irritate me now with that prog "

I'm with you there about Ant and Dec. They've passed their sell by date. I never liked them tbh, but now they are wearing a bit thin methinks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is part of the fascination of reality shows. Human nature is fascinated by a freek show whether its Ccelebrities making fools of themselves, ordinary people thinking they can sing or people with unusual genetic conditions or extra limbs etc. Its all makes watchable TV.

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By *i 1 Get 1 FreeCouple (MM)
over a year ago

birmingham

"I'm with you there about Ant and Dec"

yuk, can't stand them either, are we really that short of talent we have to continually rely on these pair?

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

"This is part of the fascination of reality shows. Human nature is fascinated by a freek show whether its Ccelebrities making fools of themselves, ordinary people thinking they can sing or people with unusual genetic conditions or extra limbs etc. Its all makes watchable TV. "

Sounds like the 21st century equivalent of Victorian charabanc (did they have charabancs in Victorian times?) trips to Bedlam to stare at the 'patients'.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How much different is it between the Victorians paying to see the Elephant Man and us watching a documentary on the sex life of Conjoined Twins??

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

Purely in the interests of research I've had a quick swatch at whatever BBC1's dance offering is at the moment.

The attraction for a certain type of individual is clear. Short skirts and knicker flashes.

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

"How much different is it between the Victorians paying to see the Elephant Man and us watching a documentary on the sex life of Conjoined Twins??"

There's been a documentary on the sex life of Conjoined Twins ????????????

How the fuck did I miss that?

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By *riendlyfunfemWoman
over a year ago

A world of my own

"All those channels on Sky and we are reduced to watching NCIS.

New season starting on Wed, woo hoo!

OOOOOOOOOh yes Mark Hamill............ so scrummy"

Another NCIS fan here!!

Love it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All those channels on Sky and we are reduced to watching NCIS.

New season starting on Wed, woo hoo!

OOOOOOOOOh yes Mark Hamill............ so scrummy

Another NCIS fan here!!

Love it."

When does Flashforward return, i am missing it!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How much different is it between the Victorians paying to see the Elephant Man and us watching a documentary on the sex life of Conjoined Twins??

There's been a documentary on the sex life of Conjoined Twins ????????????

How the fuck did I miss that?"

lol check out Sky channel 244. Never need to watch Celebrity Anything again!

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

I only have cooncil telly.

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago

Good grief!!

Ive just seen Ivana trump on big brother

She looks like a caricature of how how she used to look, its AWFUL

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Good grief!!

Ive just seen Ivana trump on big brother

She looks like a caricature of how how she used to look, its AWFUL

She is a hunny....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I watch films and re runs of Morse, frost and more films oh and catherine cookson because I like sop I havent watched any reality for ages as it got so boring!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago

"Good grief!!

Ive just seen Ivana trump on big brother

She looks like a caricature of how how she used to look, its AWFUL

She is a hunny....

she is a hunny.............monster

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Good grief!!

Ive just seen Ivana trump on big brother

She looks like a caricature of how how she used to look, its AWFUL

She is a hunny....

she is a hunny.............monster

No No No...I think she is gorgeous and a perfect specimen of womanhood...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They should be prosecuted for false advertising for using the word 'Celebrity'.

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