Being interested solely in highbrow entertainment such as books by AA Gill, Oscar Wilde plays and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, I wouldn’t dream of giving credence to the notion that such cretinous, vacuous entertainment as Big Brother deserves its place in the TV schedule, much less watch the damned thing. It is therefore purely coincidence that, while on my internet travels, my eye was caught by a couple of pieces of entertainment journalism about the latest UK Big Brother.

The first of the aforementioned titbits is from the Popbitch entertainment newsletter to which I am a friend is a subscriber.

The Big Brother twins have signed up with
Charlotte Church’s former manager, Jonathan
Shalit. They might regret this after the press
release his company put out to announce it,
which we’ve copied word for word below.
If only they could read.

—— Forwarded Message
From: Jonathan
Conversation: Samantha and Amanda fror Big
Brother aka ‘The Twins’
Subject: Samantha and Amanda fror Big Brother
aka ‘The Twins’

Their sweet
……..Their Lovely
…………….Their Adorable
…Their joined at the hip

And speak in stereo…Welcome to SAMANDA
World….and We represent them…

Also:
Andrew Castle…Charley…Dane Bowers…Ian ‘H’
Watkins…Jamelia…Javine…Jonathan Ansell…
Konnie Huq…Myleene Klass…Nina Myskow.

That was sent to me by Dave K but I admit it, I can’t get enough trashy entertainment and I regularly trawl the internet for D-list celebrity news. I love all that, me.

The next article that caught my eye did so for all the wrong reasons. It seems that the winner of Big Brother and lovable simpleton, Brian was the target of a hate campaign by racists. There are few things that get me as riled as a misplaced apostrophe but racism is one of them. This article caused me to get my knickers in a right old twist by combining both of these peeves.

The Daily Star have reported that a group of “racist” blogger’s are furious over Bri’s relationship with Amanda and are desperate to turn fans against him.

A group of extreme right-wing bloggers have taken to the internet and labeled his relationship with Amanda as “sick and evil.”
However other Big Brother fans have hit back at “racist” blogger’s, labeling them “shameful.”

Apart from the obvious apostrophe error in “blogger’s”, I think they went a bit overboard on the quotation marks. If someone thinks a relationship between a black lad and a white girl is sick and evil, I’d stick my neck out and say that was racist. I wouldn’t feel the need to hide behind quotation marks. I know they were recycling a story from the Daily Star but they had already acknowledged that; to use additional quotation marks gives the impression that they are using the word in a sarcastic manner and they don’t agree with the labelling (two Ls in the UK please).

Another thing: as the smallest amount of investigation would have revealed, the racist comments were posted on a forum and not a blog. Therefore I think the phrase should have read, ‘racist “bloggers”‘

Those of you sad enough to be familiar with Sam, Amanda and Brian will know that this intellectually challenged bunch of teenagers committed more crimes to vocabulary and grammar while in the house than I can document in this post. Here is but one example of why kids should stay in school.