We're only in the fourth week of the new
Big Brother and already the celeb factor is all over the media. You can hardly trip over the wrong paving stone and fall into a random newsagents without bumping into an Angry Alexandra getting kicked out or a Sassy Stephanie showing all and sundry just how famous she intends on being. More often than not Evictee No. 1 is gone and forgotten within minutes, but not our Steph, plastered across the front page (and 10 pages inside) of
Nuts Magazine - well enjoy it while it lasts.
Britain's obsession with celebrity continues to amaze me more and more - and everyone
is obsessed by it; whether they want to love or hate it; and the same can be said for Big Bro - everyone has an opinion, even if it's how much they wish they'd get this rubbish off the tele.
I was fortunate - or unfortunate, I've not decided yet - enough to go onto one of the Big Brother spin off shows,
Big Brother's Big Mouth. In case you're not sure what that is, it's a debate show which is played after the main programme. They basically look for gobby people who will shoot their mouths off about what goes on 'in the house', and I was asked to be in the audience. "Why not?" I thought, "it might be a giggle," and do you know what, it was.
I was a little shocked though at one of the 'celebrity guests' who'd been asked to voice his views. Normally it's some trashy celeb, ex-housemate or gossip columnist. This time it was Tim Teeman, who is the Deputy Arts Editor of
The Times. Yes - that's right -
The Times!?
Not a gossip columnist, not a consumer mag, not even Vanessa Feltz, but the Deputy Art Editor of one of the UK's top-end, top-market national newspapers - I couldn't help thinking to myself, "does this mean that Big Brother is becoming more and more acceptable among the so-called ABC1 people in the country or does it mean that
The Times is starting aim at a different market and readership?" It could be either; or indeed neither. Maybe they simply needed a journalist and he simply seemed interested- and why not? I suppose just because you write for
The Times doesn't mean you're not allowed to enjoy some of the country's so-called 'dumbed-down' forms of entertainment. Art is art is art at the end of the day.
Either way, the day was fun and interesting, and I enjoyed it - however 'dumbed-down' that makes me.
There's nothing wrong with a bit of entertainment for entertainment's sake.
Cheers,
Paul
This afternoon we are all off on a little Summer trip to the 02 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park to see the likes of Mark Ronson, Hot Chip and Jay Z. I'm sure it will come as a welcome relief to the Opps. team who have been working like dogs to recruit staff for our Impulse 'Romance Revolution' that goes live 
tonight. 
y Z has predicted sunshine for the day, and while it is good to hear some optimism about the weather, you can't help feeling that he has not yet experienced a 'proper' English festival mud-bath yet after a relatively dry Glastonbury last weekend. He does have a degree in Meteorology* though so I'm hoping the big man knows what he's talking about.
Last Saturday saw a really exciting day for Sure Girl. 50 lucky winners were invited to a VIP Style Exchange Party held at a location in London’s trendy Carnaby Street! 
fabulous celebrity (ex-Mistique & winner of Strictly Come Dancing) Alisha Dixon. Alisha helped out with all the workshops and presented a Sure Girl Style Exchange fashion show 
(modeled by our glam competition winners) and three lucky ladies won a piece of Alisha’s wardrobe to take home for their own Style Exchange parties.
We're only in the fourth week of the new Big Brother and already the celeb factor is all over the media. You can hardly trip over the wrong paving stone and fall into a random newsagents without bumping into an Angry Alexandra getting kicked out or a Sassy Stephanie showing all and sundry just how famous she intends on being. More often than not Evictee No. 1 is gone and forgotten within minutes, but not our Steph, plastered across the front page (and 10 pages inside) of Nuts Magazine - well enjoy it while it lasts.
Britain's obsession with celebrity continues to amaze me more and more - and everyone is obsessed by it; whether they want to love or hate it; and the same can be said for Big Bro - everyone has an opinion, even if it's how much they wish they'd get this rubbish off the tele.
Not a gossip columnist, not a consumer mag, not even Vanessa Feltz, but the Deputy Art Editor of one of the UK's top-end, top-market national newspapers - I couldn't help thinking to myself, "does this mean that Big Brother is becoming more and more acceptable among the so-called ABC1 people in the country or does it mean that The Times is starting aim at a different market and readership?" It could be either; or indeed neither. Maybe they simply needed a journalist and he simply seemed interested- and why not? I suppose just because you write for The Times doesn't mean you're not allowed to enjoy some of the country's so-called 'dumbed-down' forms of entertainment. Art is art is art at the end of the day.
You know sometimes when you see really bad marketing you just have to say something? Well I was innocently looking out of the window of the Camden Nandos when I was mentally assaulted by possibly some of the worst artwork ever conceived to promote a film, or any item come to think of it. The crazy guys behind this hideous remake of journey to the centre of the earth film seem to have realised it's not worth marketing and have not bothered to hire an agency but rather to give the opportunity to a gang of powerpoint wielding children. Please keep your eyes peeled for the ad, be ready to react violently to it.
One is going to be in Vue cinemas all over the country on July 4th and 5th so if you are heading to see a film on those days, make sure you see one of our girls and get your free sample of Impulse body spray.
