"Celebrity" Big Brother has graced our screens once more. The word Celebrity being sandwiched between HUGE quotation marks. But we must commend Channel4 for one thing. Managing to round up 10 celebrities willing to appear on their show. Name a British celebrity from the last 10 years and there's a 90% chance that they will have appeared on some kind of reality show.
This years "known" celebrities consist of Basshunter who is "famous" not only for his stupidly catchy dance tracks, but for his attempted production of his own porn film. Sisqo who is vividly remembered for having a number 3 hit with the tasteful Thong Song and Vinnie Jones who was reportedly coerced into signing on the dotted line, with a £500,000 pay check.
As the public enjoy drama, there was expected tension in the house between Dane Bowers and Alex Reid because of their apparent "dislike" towards each other and the issue of them having been involved with paparazzi favourite Katie Price.
But the only "celebrity" that is vaguely interesting is Heidi Fleiss. The reason being she's actually led a colourful life. She ran an extremely successful yet illegal prostitution ring in Hollywood, and reportedly had numerous famous, wealthy clients that she has, till this day refused to name.
Big Brother has rather a bad reputation and this is the main reason proper celebrities are reluctant to appear on the reality show. They aren't willing to risk destroying their careers, as so many celebs have previously done.
If you were to compare the above names with that of the first Celebrity Big Brother, they would all be labelled C-Lister's. The only difference being that back in 2001 the celebrities that where on the show were working for charity. This year the contestants are paid huge sums for, let’s face it, very little work. This of which Heidi Fleiss is very familiar with.
Watching human beings regress can be quite mesmerizing, but reality shows shouldn’t be confused with real drama. We’re not gaining any insight into people’s characters or discovering a truth about them or the world we live in. Instead we’re just left with the illusion that we have. Reality shows now occupy the space in the television schedule that should be filled with gripping, well-written drama. For that reason, the fact that this is the last series of Big Brother is a definite cause of celebration.
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