Filed under: creativity, family, tv | Tags: Misha B, x factor, x factor betting, x factor odds]
OK Marcus was good tonight and is improving and Janet is slipping away. But how can Misha still be only 4th favourite? That was a bit of a risk backing The Risk at 5 to 1 though eh.
Filed under: bbc, conservative, creativity | Tags: Gillian mackeith, I'm a celebrity, Simon Cowell, Strictly come dancing, x factor
Me no likey.
Three rival reality tv programmes have a cuckoo in their respective nests right now. Ann Widdicombe in Strictly; Wagner in XFactor; and Gillian MacKeith in IACGMOOH.
Each is a total loser in their own distinctive way but none more odious than MacKeith. But the point is, if you put power in the public’s hands enough of them will vote contrarily enough to piss off the establishment, whether that be Simon Cowell, Bruce Forsyth or the would be queen of poo herself.
I love this anti voting culture that was started on Facebook last Christmas when Rage Against The Machine undid Simon.
This year anything could happen. Maybe it all started in May when we, as a nation, voted in the worst double act since Jedward.
Whatever the outcome in these hilarious anti-establishment phenomena; the journey is worth it.
This is the precise second my mate Shaun discovered that his daughter Maria had got 4 Yes’s on X factor. He is out of control. Wildly emotional. Orgiastic in his delirium. Good old Shaun. Like an Octopus on a trampoline having 240 volts passed through it!
Calm down, calm down!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cheryl cole, G and S, Gamu, Gamu Nhengu, Katie Waissell, Simon Cowell, The X factor, x factor, Zimbabwean girl on x factor
We love it.
Yay! Saturday nights at home with a curry a bottle of wine a movie for later, Match of The Day and of course Le Grande Primer! X Factor is back. Last night’s opener was as good as ever as questionable judging let some contestants through (like the lamentable wannabe Katie Waissell.)
The show was stolen by Zimbabwean Jock Gamu Nhengu who was absolutely brilliant and carries a heart rending back story too which, of course, is what it’s all about because, let’s face it, they can all sing including our pal Maria Doherty who got through to Boot Camp last night but was only shown for about 1.1 seconds.
G and S (Gay and Straight) were the night’s comedy high point if you don’t count the aforementioned Katie in which a reasonably competent straight girl is given a second chance after dueting with a mincing twit of Pythonesque proportions who took the gay cause back to the days before John Inman – what a joke.
Filed under: advertising, politics, Rants, stories, tv | Tags: great ormond street, x factor
Great Ormond Street does great work.
So does the Sick Kids in Edinburgh
So does Yorkhill in Glasgow
So does Archies in Aberdeen.
So do sick children’s hospitals in Manchester, Birmingham., Leeds, Hull. Brighton, Newcastle, Sheffield, Cardiff, Wrexham.
Do I need to go on?
So how come the X factor has decided to support London’s local children’s charity?
It’s a disgrace .
If you don’t agree with this, don’t buy the CD, make a donation to your local children’s hospital.
Filed under: Arts, family, music, tv, videos, Youtube | Tags: halleluia, jeff buckley, leonard cohen, x factor
In an amazing turn up for the books last night Alexandra Burke carried off the performance of Halleluia by Leonard Cohen – but made most famous and poignant by Jeff Buckley.
She did not murder it after all. Unlike JVC who sent it to hell and back.
It was a smart move to largely echo Buckley’s acoustic guitar treatment of this fine song and only resort to the old Whitney’s at the very end.
Well done Alexandra. You are free to go with only a suspended sentance.
Good bit of greeting going on here as a result of her win…
Filed under: Arts, jokes, life, Rants, Scotland, tv, work | Tags: bollocks, exploitation, O grades, simon cowal, standard grades, twats, x factor, x factor auditions
So.
10,000 folk turn up at Hampden Park to audition for the X Factor yesterday, despite the fact that the programme producers knew, full well, that unlike Engerland the Scottish exam season is in full swing.
A friend of mine’s daughter got through to the judging stages – at the expense of her English Standard Grade exam. Same day, different place. (That’s the equivelant of an O grade if you happen to be an English X Factor producer).
It’s a fucking disgrace.
Enjoy watching the auditions when they come along and maybe you might think about how a slightly more sympathetic timing might have got someone’s son or daughter an extra qualification.
Then again…
(Actually, you know what? That photo says it all.)
Filed under: Arts, humour, life, Rants, tv | Tags: Sean Keaveney, x factor
Sean Keaveney described this beautifully on Radio 6 this morning.
“It’s a programme where a bunch of multi-millionaires mock the mentally ill and then run a six week public crying contest.”
Quite.
