Shilpa, DVD's, Head watch!

OK, so I complain so much about CBB, as Jakey says when he came round last night, 'you like to torture yourself' And so, just like picking a scab and making it bleed, I sat with Jakey to watch the end of CBB, it wasn't much of a surprise, Jermain and Shilpa were the last two in the house and oh wonder of wonders, Shilpa was the last to leave. I must admit, that during her interview with softie Davina, Shilpa carried herself well and with class and dignity. So congrat's to her, glad she won, more glad the whole shows over!

After CBB was down we watched Swimming Upstream on DVD, which is the story about an Australian swimming champion and how he came to be who he was. It was based on a true story which was nice, but the best thing about the whole film was that fact that it starred Jesse Spencer, yep him of Neighbours and more recently my fave House MD! I had to have a little swoon - he's so dreamy, just makes me want to get my mamories out and look after the babe! He looked lovely, so appealing, and that sweet sexy voice, ohh it's like melted honey. I could wallpaper my walls with that voice! I think I should write off to Hollywood or wherever that make House and ask the said Mr Spencer to record a message for me. Yeah like that's likely! Anyway, I've been looking for an excuse to put a this swimming picture up on here every since I saw it! Who called me an old perv??

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I was having trouble deciding how I was gonna do my hair today, brush it forward to give myself a fringe, or brush it back to look a little more sophisticated. Well after looking in the mirror for a good 10 minutes and still not being able to decided, I took drastic action. I got the clippers and shaved it off! Yep down to a no:2 all over (oh and yes I trimmed down there too!) Now, I'm gonna see how fast it grows, it's headwatch!!

More soon!

CBB & Wreckers

I am so thankful, the end of Celebrity Big Brother is neigh! Indeed the bloody thing ends tonight and soon it will be all over and we wont have to be bored by this dire excuse for 'reality' TV. I was also pleased that that evil scumbag Jo was voted out last night, she seems to be a pure vile piece of work. In her little interview with Devina last night she seemed surprised by the amount of publicity amassed during this series, yet she was unrepentant of her behaviour and attitude. She remains unrepentant in today's newspapers, she refuses to apologise and has such an air or arrogance about her, that I doubt, apart from a few magazine interviews, that she'll be working again in and industry called 'show' for a very long time!

So whose gonna win CBB? First of all, I have not a care in the world, secondly I feel it will probably be Shilpa. I wonder what she will make of all the publicity and international incident status of the show. One thing is for sure, she's got a very lucrative career ahead of her, indeeds she's a Bollywood star that has now crossed over.

Following the hullabaloo racist hoohar from CBB, Shipwrecked has had it's share of 'bad' publicity following one of the girls racist and homophobic remarks. Ok, the press and media only mentioned the racist ones and forgot about the homophobic statements. However, this was from a girl who has had a particular closeted upbringing, a girl who thought slavery was good, that though all black people were bad and hated gay people. This is from the same girl who became best friends with a lesbian plumber within 20 minutes of meeting her. According to Channel 4, this young lady slowly changes her views as the programme progresses, this is one particular reason why I like the programme, you actually see people change, see them mature, grow up and become a more rounded, more educated person for their experience on the pacific islands.

The idea of Shipwrecked is to get 2 teams of 5 on each island, each wee there is a new shipmate, they spend 3 days with 1 team and 3 days with the other and on the 7th decide on which island to stay on. At the end of the 5 months, the island with the biggest team are the winners. The price money up for grabs is £70 grand, which could be something if the teams remain small, but they wont, they will grow, the teams will be big, so the prize money will be very little at the ultimate end of the show.

This week the new arrival was 23 year old ex marine Paul Harris, he enjoyed himself, had a birthday with the girls and some DIY with the boys and in the end he made his home with the lads. I think he's a bit of a dullard, but I guess it's early days so far! Oh and for some reason, he seems to remind me of Paul Burrell? Anyone else get that, or is it just me? Mind you I've kinda picked my fave shipmate or wrecker as I like to call them, yep I've picked softly spoken straight boy Stuart Mann. He just seem like a nice boy, yeah OK he's cute, yeah yeah, I'm not that shallow, he also seem like a nice friendly guy. The gay boy of the group is annoying me a little, it's partly his lazy gayness, partly his campness, party his lisp and partly his love of the Spice Girls!

I've got to by a wedding present soon, my friends Jo and Carolyn are getting married (again - they did it first over in Australia) in early March and I've got to get them a pressie, but what is the right thing to get two girls on their wedding day? Her's and Her's bathrobes, or a gay welcome mat, ohh how about a lesbian bathroom door sign? Errmmm I'm not sure what the 'done thing' is when it come to wedding gifts like this, I think I'd best have a little think about it. Any suggestions?

More soon -

Missing & Found

I've had a lazy day, not up to very much, a little walk along the front, with the wind in my hair at 8.30 this morning just made me happy to be alive. It was one of those good days, a day full of promise.

I've taken fairly recently to read major news companies websites from around the world. I'd like to think I'm doing this to get a 'world-wide' view of current affairs. However it's more likely to do with having too much time on my hands! Anyway one of the major stories I've been reading about over the past couple of days is a touching tale of child abduction.

On Sunday 6 October 2002 a young 11 year old boy was riding his bike not far from his home in Missouri, America. He vanished without a trace, an intensive search was mounted by the Federal, state and local authorities, but there were no clues as to what may have happened to this little lad. His parent's say that even through their darkest days, they never gave up hope of finding their son alive.

On 8th January 2007 Ben Ownby was getting off a school bus around 500 feet from his home but then vanished, there was no trace of him. His parents also hoped against hope of finding their son alive, yet as the hours turned into days their hopes demised. However, a 15 year old thought he saw a white pick up truck zooming off down the road that Ben disappeared from.

Those hopes were not in vain, 15 January 2007 both boys were found alive in the apartment of Michael Devlin, a 41 year old pizza shop manager. It's a story that has been raging on in the American media and will continue to run. Especially as more and more details about what happened and why continue to come out. For example, it's now believed that Shawn may have helped in the kidnapping of Ben.

Shawn, who assumed the surname of his abductor apparently had plenty of freedom, he was allowed his own phone, internet access, often went to friends houses for sleep-overs, all the way through the four and half years he was missing. He even posted a couple of messages on the website his parents set up to find him, as displayed here. He asks how long they planned to search for their son and one can only wonder what was going through his young mind at the time. What were his feelings, his dreams, his wants? He could have seemingly easily escaped from his captor as he had so much freedom. In fact, the young Shawn even went to the Police at one stage to report his bike stolen. Another time, a policeman stopped him late one evening for riding with no lights, surely he could have said something either of those times that could have ended the situation. Yet both times he told the officers his name was Shawn Devlin and gave them a slight different date of birth - just 10 days from his own.

We may never know the whole story, the full truth about Shawn's ordeal, however one thing is for sure, with Michael Devlin only just having had his first court appearance, Shawn's ordeal is not yet over. I wonder if he will be able to come to terms with and talk openly about what he went through, so far he hasn't.

Shawn with his parents on the Oprah show.

I wish Shawn and Ben well for the future, god knows there gonna need it!

What price is a life?

What price to you put on someones life? The answer is $7,500 Australian! It's true, one young lad from Wollongong put up his life for sale on EBay (click on the title above to see the actual listing) and at the time the auction had ended he'd had 48 bids and the highest genuine bid was $7,500!

Included in the sale was his name, his clothes, his 300 strong CD collection, bed, books, backpack, laptop plus a push bike (has wonky handlebars and may need some work) The 24 year old Nicael Holt promised to introduce the auction winner to his circle of 15 close and 150 other friends, would take the winner through a 4 week training course to become him! That raining course would include things like skills lessons, and lessons in his personal history oh and 6 jokes!

The bidding ended on January 22nd and earned Nicael $7,500, as yet I don't know if he expected that much, or perhaps that little or what he'll do with the money. But, putting your life up for sale is a pretty strange thing to do, OK, so it's more his mentality and social life that was up open for bids, it's still pretty odd. However dig a little deeper and you find, they are filming a documentary about the sale, so perhaps it's not so strange after all.

It did have me thinking, how much would I get if I put up my life for sale on EBay or some other auction site. Would I have my ego boosted with loads of bids and a thunderous amount of money offered. Or would I be crushed and broken to find that not one person had put in a bid to become me? I'm not sure I could cope with that kind of public humiliation, however any offers are always welcome !

More soon!

Snowy world outside my window.

Yesterday it was cold, yes, but it was also a clear day, I thought today was going to be the same so you can imagine my surprise when I woke, stumbled to the kitchen to make a strong morning coffee and gazed out of the window to be greeted by a light dusting of the white stuff. No, the local drugs baron had not discarded his stash of devils dandruff over the roof tops of Kemptown. No it was snow and how pretty it looked. Despite being nice warm and snug in my little shoebox my body still shivered at the sight.

I drunk my coffee, showered and headed off on my bike along the front, gosh it was cold and whilst the snow hadn't settled on the roads, it had stayed on the grass, lawns, cars and beach. I cycled up towards Portslade and at various points along the front various early risers had made signs in the snow and small, but no less pleasing, snowmen. Or should I perhaps say, in this politically correct, discrimination free society, snow person's! It was really nice to see, I'm not sure about you, but seeing snowmen, sorry, snow person's, always makes me smile. It's a lovely sight, I'm not sure why, maybe it's a little warm remembrance nostalgic feeling of my youth that sweeps over me. Perhaps those snow structure's hark back to a time of innocents, wonder and contentment, a time when life was easier and a time when littler fingers don't feel the coldness!

Talking of times gone by, can you believe that the iconic poster of naked man and baby, entitled "L'Enfant' or Man and Baby, is now 21 years old! Last week a limited edition from the actual negative sold at a London auction for £2,400. That photograph was so popular in my youth, indeed there was hardly a bedroom wall among my college friends that didn't have a copy of that poster adorning it. I had an Athena print of it on my wall and I loved it, girls loved it, mums loved it, straight boys liked it but didn't dare admit to liking it.

The Spencer Rowell classic shot is now 21 years old, a clear sign to me the my youth is now well and truly passed, but more than that, it's positively nostalgic! Over 5 million copies of the poster were sold in the 1980's, it has by some seen to be symbolic of and perhaps the birth of the 'New Man' that emerged in the 80's. The 'New Man' was kind, caring, sweet, dependable, in touch with his feminine side yet also macho and strong. He was classically good looking with a well defined gym toned body. He would love you, look after you, care for you, would make you laugh and would also cry with you, oh and never ever let you down. To good to be true, well actually yes, it was a fallacy, a fake, pretty much like the poster itself.

Despite many young women's and gay boys fantasies regarding that picture, the model was not the babies dad, no relation at all, just a model doing a job, a job that lasted about 20 minutes and earned him, 20 year old Adam Perry £100. The photographer, Spencer Rowell did much much better, he was savvy enough to make a deal with Athena to take a 10% share of the profits, it earned him about a million or so, most of which by his own admission "Went up his nose" Mind you, Adam didn't let the fame of being on more than a five million walls go to waste, no he claims that the poster enabled him to bed more that 3000 women!

I'm not shocked by that, but rather saddened, the poster and that 'man' was part of the dreams, desires and fantasies of my youth. I longed for intimacy with such a good looking and obviously caring man, now I know he was just a vain, sex mad man, and my dreams and desires are as stale and discoloured as my copy of the poster all folded up in my box or memories. That's the trouble with getting older, what was once so good when I was young and now exposed as drudgey, crap and fake!

After I came back from my bike ride to Portslade and back in the snow, I logged on to the net to do this post and some other bits and bobs and to keep me company I put on the TV and selected BBC News 24. Hey, man, News 24 another sign that I'm getting old, anyway, they had this list of the top 5 annoying sounds after some boffins somewhere had down research. I texted them that my suggestion for the most annoying sound was that of the dentist's drill, especially after my recent visits to the dentist. I thought no more about it, then as I was writing the bit above about the poster they read out my text and agreed with me. Fame at last, I get my name mentioned on TV on BBC News 24, an audience of well I'm not sure, but it has to be over 10! I had a warm flush when they repeated the story and my name, I can die happy now that I've been mentioned on telly! Yes, OK, I've been on the box before, but not recently. Thinking about that, pretty much all the TV prog's I appeared on as my self in the past have all be axed. Vanessa - axed. Kilroy - axed. The Big Breakfast - axed. The Weekend Show - axed. Esther - axed. I must do something to be on TV on a current show. That's an ambition now then, I'll be on the box before the end of the year. You mark my words, little old me will be on the telly before 2008 kicks 2007 up the butt.

I wanna live forever?

I want to live forever, or do I? before I get on to that I just want to make one more comment about the Jade/Big Brother/Race Hoohar. Yes, I know I said I'd had enough of the story, but one last bit of news about it that I think is interesting. While it's still filling newspaper pages and being talking about, the programmes ratings have soared. But also, since this whole thing started, Endemol, the people who make the show, have seen their share price rise by TEN per cent! Still think they are completely innocent?

Jakey and I had a natter this morning when he popped round for a brew, the little bugger got me outta bed while GMTV was still on the box, so it must have been early! We were talking about eternal life. Nope not some new girl group or shampoo, but actually living forever, never popping ya clogs, staying alive till the end of time! Jakey thinks it would be a cool idea and I think when I was his age (21) I thought that too. Now however, I have a very different point of view.

Can you just pause for thought for a moment and ponder how long it would take you the things you put off till tomorrow if you had a never ending supply of tomorrows? I mean, we as people tend to cram as much into our lives as possible, because we know that one day we'll all be food for worms. But if we had all the time on the world, would we bother? Why bother getting up early on a Monday morning if you knew you had an infinite supply of Monday's to come on which you could rise early.

Also, if we lived forever, what would birthday's be like with over 150 candles? How many times would the normal person get married - 5, 10, 15? What would be the retirement age, what would be considered old? Living forever - count me out!

The story about the rat!

Just my luck, there I was this morning, thinking I'll go for a long old bike ride, need the exercise to shed the excess weight gained over the festive period. But, the weather had other ideas, it was pissing it down. So, I didn't go riding, in fact I did very little, went for a brief walk to the shops in town, which was very depressing! There is so much I want to buy, but no money - still one day I'll be rich.

I've been loving the scenes on the news of those lucky beach robbers on Branscombe Beach down in Devon, picking up booty from those containers that had fallen off the MSC Napioli that's been beached. We don't usually see sites like that, normally sane people rushing to a beach to pick up bags of nappies - ermm yeah nappies that have been washed up on the beach. Mind you some of the early scavengers got away with BMW motorbikes, but if they've been in sea water, will their engines work - I dunno, I'm not mechanically minded but surely all that salty seawater wont do them any good!

Anyway, not much to report really, so I thought I'd share this little story with you, as told to me by Mr Tippy, a neighbour here in town! An American tourist walked into a Brighton antique shop up in North Laines. After looking around for a while, he noticed a very life-like bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but it was so striking that he decided to have it anyway. So he took it to the owner and asked "How much is this bronze rat?"

The owner replied: "It is £12 for the rat, and £100 for the story."

Well the tourist gave the man his £12 and said: "I'll just take the rat for now and you can keep the story."

As he walked off down the street, he noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the sewers and begun following him. This was a little disconcerting, so he started to walk a little faster but so did the rats. By the time he got to the Old Stein, a few streets away, the swarm of rats had grown to hundreds, they were all squealing and screeching in a very menacing way. He increased his speed and ran on towards the beach and the Pier. As he ran, he looked behind him and saw the rats now numbered in their thousands, they were running faster and faster. By now, very concerned, he ran up to the end of the pier. With much effort, he threw the bronze rat far out into the water. Amazingly, the thousands of real rats jumped into the water after it and were all drowned.

The man walked back to relate all this to the shop owner, who said: "Ah,you've come back for the story then!"

"No," said the tourist - "I came back to see if you've got a Bronze Muslim fundamentalist cleric, and anything French!


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Have fun! There ya go Jakey - I didn't mention Celebrity Big Brother once today! Ohhh whoops!!!

The world is a reality TV show!

The racist bullying/Jade/Big Brother scandal thunders on with all the major national newspapers carrying the story, either on the front page or big internal spreads and various exclusives. The News Of The World secured the not so Goody Jade with their exclusive interview, in which Jade admitted that she was a bully and her comments were racist. She also claims in the interview that the BB bosses didn't coach her and didn't tell her what was going on in the outside word. I still have my doubts on that score. The whole interview smacked of a 'damage limitation exercise' to me, including giving her £50k fee to charity! She's trying to buy back the public affection and it shows big time. Her career is effectively over, at least for a while and that's gotta hurt her big time. However, isn't it ever so slightly ironic that the TV show that turned her from a thick dental nurse into a media personality with over 8 million in the bank, is the very same TV show that has brought it all crashing down!

Another celebrity TV show hit the airwaves last night, this time it's the return of the ice dancing one, where they try and turn hapless b and c Lister's into ice dance champions. So for the next god knows how many weeks we've got to contend with these celebs doing strange things dancing on the ice. Chubby radio presenter Neil Fox was the first celeb to be given the boot, which ain't a surprise, I never really pegged him as a dancer let alone on ice! Still at least in the week or weeks to come we can enjoy little gay Stephen Gately trying not to bend the blades.

Also on TV is American Idol with mister mean Simon Cowell, I'm not a huge fan of this show, it just bores me silly after a few minutes. There is only so many times you can watch really awful singers being told by Simon the truth and they have a voice like a bricklayer and have an ice cubes chance in hell of becoming a singing star.

Oh and just when you thought it was safe to turn on your TV, up pops another Reality TV show, however this one is different - it's actually good! It's the return of Shipwrecked on channel 4, proving they can get some things right. A team of 10 or so youngsters are sent to live on a couple of Islands deep in the Pacific and see how they get on, how life treats them and what they do. One of the interesting things about this show, if the last one was anything to go by, you can actually see these young people changing, maturing, growing and evolving. It really does have an element of a proper social interaction experiment to it, plus it set in stunning surroundings and the people ain't bad either.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you sit, whether you're Arthur or Marthur, male or female, I'm sure you'll agree this years collection of Islander's are pretty hot totty!

The Girls
Terri 23
Sophie 19
Lianne 19
Lucy 18

Fiona 21

The Boys
Lorenzo 21
Joe 19
Stuart 23
Steve 21
Will 24.

Not a bad bunch of talent really, but how will they cope during the five months on the Pacific island, what trials and tribulations will befall them? You'll have to watch and find out! Another really nice thing about the show, apart from the scenery, the team, the trials, the social interaction, the leaders an the followers is the fact that the voice over is done by young Mr Craig Kelly. Yes, a Sex & The Sea Front fav, he was the guy that played Vince in Queer As Folk, the guy from Titanic that said "Iceberg dead ahead!" and the dishy doc in Casualty along with loads of other parts, including a nervous bloke in the Spice Girls movie. He does loads of voice-overs at the moment, some on BBC and a fair number on Channel 4 and I like him. So what better excuse for a photo then - here's a copy of my signed pic from scrummy Mr Kelly. Ohh he soo could!!

Right, I'm off to watch the first Shipwrecked prog, then I'm heading to Legends for a beer or two!

Too much month & too much Jade!

It was a quiet night round at Jordan Towers last night, it's mid January, I last got paid on 18th December, I next get paid on 31 January, which means there is too much month left and not enough money! It's always like this in January, I kinda over spend at Christmas time, like the vast majority of the population and pay the price in the lean, cold January!

However, I dint spend the last of my hard earned cash yesterday on a new 'set top' box thingy so I can get the Freeview TV channels. Where I used to live there was cable TV, but in the new place I can't get cable and Satellite TV reception is pretty shit, so I plumped for the Freeview set top box thingy. It cost £26, which I thought was quite good because when they first came out they were over £50!

I walked down to ASDA in the marina to get it, and I walked back, it's only about 3 or so miles each way, but when I got home I was cream crackered! My old leg was throbbing muchly, I really must think about having that operation to have the screws and metal work removed at some point. Anyway, I'm so impressed with my new Freeview set top box, the TV reception is so so so clear and the channels are great, it's much better than the cable in the old place. But, now after that outlay, I'm skint, brasik, busted, poor and errr without money!

Jakey came round last night, he's poor as well, so we had a night in, watching TV and getting into the whole CBB thing. We had to tune in to see if that hideous excuse for a human, Jade Goody was booted out of the house, which indeed she was with a whopping 83% of the vote. It was quite interesting that they had now crowd at the studios like the usually do for the eviction. Yet they still had Davina McCall outside doing links like she would have been if the audience had been there! When Jade did come out, Davina took her too the studio and gave her quite a hard interview - well by Big Brother standards anyway.

Jade looked suitably stunned at the reaction her bullying of Shilpa has had on the outside world and she mumbled and stammered her way through some kind of apology. Jakey said it was a good attempt at her trying to save her own skin. I think he's right, I mean loads of shops have ditched selling her perfume, so others have stopped selling her 'fake' weight loss DVD, so really the only way for Jade is down. Even though there is supposed to be no contact with the outside world, I do wonder how much info Jade and Shilpa had from CBB producers and makers about whole hoohar that's been going on. They both did diary room chats that seemed expressly put there to easy the tension. And according to the BBC website "A Channel 4 spokeswoman admitted Big Brother had intervened in the latest row - but only to make contestants "realise that what they have said has been misconstrued in the house".
The idea, she said, was to allow the housemates "to explain themselves" to their fellow inmates." I have a feeling they knew more, far more than we're being told. Plus, I still feel this whole racist bullying issue has been escalated by makers Endemol, to ensure their most boring Big Brother show yet, got some much needed publicity and regain the lost audience!!

I had hoped that now Jade had been evicted from the house, then all would get back to normal, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen for a while. It's all over the news, in all the papers and splattered on the net, so it looks like this story is gonna run and run. Mind you, I guess that's not surprising really, Ofcom has had over 40,000 complaints about the show, which is a vast and record number for any single TV show. I guess the only good thing to come out of this, is the open discussion of racism in the UK today, which is a positive step to understanding different cultures, well hopefully. Too much Jade already!

Right, I'm gonna take a walk down the prom, in the rain with Jakey and enter a 'Jade & CBB free zone'

Stormy seas!

It's been a pretty windy, stormy day here in Brighton, I could see large waves of white water from my window, so I decided to take a little walk down the front this morning. It was hard to walk down as the wind was in my face and almost pushing me back. However I forced myself on, went along by the pier and watched the sea come further up the beach than I'd ever seen before. In some places it was actually hitting the wall, an area where in summer there are chairs and tables from a near by bar.



As I watched from the front as the high waves rolled in, I was amazed to note that some were actually the same height as the pier. I love the feeling of the wind in my face, but the wind was whipping up the sea spray so much that every drop of water stung the skin so sharply it felt like tiny shards of glass were bouncing on my skin. Still, it made a great sight, here's a couple of pics, the beauty of the cruel sea!

Fancy a ride on the pier?



Some waves as high as the base of the pier!

There is a path down there somewhere!

Oh and the CBB mega furore rages on, so far 30,000 complaints have been received and the programme sponsors 'Carphone Warehouse' have suspended their sponsorship of the programme with immediate effect. I bet the Channel 4 bosses are popping open the champagne even as I write this. Wondering how their dullest ever BB series can get so much publicity. Since the explosion of media coverage audience figures have risen, with 3.5 million viewers tuning in on Monday, 4.5 million on Tuesday and 5.2 million on Wednesday - equalling the highest figure for this series since the live launch. They couldn't have planned it better, or could they?

Armageddon 'just 5 minutes away' & CBB

It could very well be time to say goodbye my friends! Armageddon is just 5 minutes away - and that's official! The Doomsday Clock, set up back in 1947 to show how close humanity was to wiping itself from the face of the earth, has been moved to 5 minutes before midnight!

Origionally the clock was designed to warn of the threat of nuclear war, the clock is now almost equally influenced by climate change. The directors of the Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists magazine, who set the time on the clock, said: "We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices." The decision to move the clock's minute hand forward was made in consultation with a board of sponsors that included 18 Nobel prize winners.

Professor Stephen Hawking, whose one such sponser claimed "As we stand at the brink of a second nuclear age and a period of unprecedented climate change" and "We foresee great peril if governments and society do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and prevent further climate change." Five minutes from Armageddon, climate change - we can all do our bit, save gas - fart in a bottle! Seriously tho, it's quite worring, does make me want to do more than just sort out my recycling, but what?

So the contorovisy surrounding Celebrity Big Brother has now reach epic porportions, so much so even the Prime Minister - Tony Blair has been asked questions in Parliment about it. PM in waiting Gordon Brown, has condemed the show while on a tour of India, where there have been scenes of burning big borther effergies and street protests. Meanwhile as Ofcom, the media regulator, has recieved record number of complaints, somewhere in the region of 20,000, Channel 4 about 3000, so somethings upsetting the viewing nation. Is it racist bullying or is it ignorance or is it jealousy or is it just the tedium of being in a house with 30 odd cameras following you about 24/7? I dunno, I've not seen it, but you have to remember, the people doing the 'alleged' bullying dont seem to be the most enlightened of folk.

Oh and whilst we're on the subject of CBB, another thing that has put me further off the show, Jack Tweedy, Jade's blokey, tossing himself off under those covers in bed with Jade. What a disgrace, he could have gone to the toilet and done it privately, but no the little oik does it in bed, when every once else is trying to sleep. Oh and after he ejaculates over Jade's leg, he rolls over and leaves her to clean up his mess - charming. I've right gone off him now!

It's Golden Balls & Globes!

While I was watching Kylie's Showgirl Homecoming tour on the box ob Saturday and bopping around my lounge with gay abandon. The woman herself was abandoning her show in Manchester due to ill health, the poor wee lamb! I was first alerted to this snippet of news from a devastated David by text at 12.30. I was a little gobsmacked!

It turns out our little popstress had a bad case of flu and a respotry trachea infection and had to pull out halfway through Saturdays performance. She's been working blooming hard, a 33 date tour less that an year after her breast cancer operation and the chemo. She's postponed the other two gigs to the end of January and I hope she's back to full health soon.

Old Golden Balls Beckham is still making the news regarding his signing to LA Galaxy. It seems his manager at Real Madrid is none to happy and has publicly said that the midfield star has already played his last game for the Madrid based club. It's David's lack of playing that has lead to him not wanting to stay at the club, so Beckham's people and the bigwigs from LA Galaxy are trying hard to get him out of his contract with Real Madrid early.

David has said that one of the main reasons for signing to LA Galaxy is to bring much needed publicity and popularity to the sport over there in the states. That seem to already be happening long before he's put on the kit at set foot on their turf! It's been reported on both sides of the pond that a number of big big stars have approached LA Galaxy for season tickets for when old Golden Balls stars. Among the named celebs are, J-Lo, Tom Cruise and new wife Katie Holmes, Steven Spielberg and blubbery Rocky star Sylvester Stallone. So perhaps,s just maybe he's already archiving his goal!

While the man himself was sitting on the bench in Madrid, his wife, Victoria, was busy in LA trying to spend his money by house hunting. She's already paid a couple of visits over there to find a property and she's back there now looking at posh pads in 'The Hills' and around. Apparently as she was looking around at expensive mansions she was taking photos on her mobile phone and sending them back to David. And we know how he likes getting messages!!

It was the Golden Globes over in Hollywood and there is one true golden Brit star making big waves at the awards. I am of course referring to our very own Dame Hellen Mirren, who scooped two best actress awards for playing our Queeny in Queen and also the first queen Elizabeth in the mini-series Elizabeth I. Well done to her, it's about time that such a great actress got such recognition, she's a true gem. Now, she's hotly tipped to take the same award at the forthcoming Oscar's and the Bafta's and I hope she does well.

It's also many congrats to Hugh Laurie for scoping the Best Actor for TV Drama at the Globes for his savagely good Dr Greg House in the show House, which has been and will be a fave over here at Jordan towers. Apparently he was a little surprised at winning the award, this is what he said, and I quote "Thank you, thank you very much. My goodness, this is stunning, absolutely stunning. I am speechless. I am literally without a speech. Er..." What a star!

Yesterday morning, I found myself laying on my back, horizontal, looking at the sky while a hunky young man put his tool in my mouth! Calm down, I was at the dentist, having the second of three appointments to sort out my broken tooth. Such pain, had 3 injections in the old gob and my dentist, a rather dashing chap called Chris had to stop for a while as my gum was bleeding. An hour and a bit later I was homeward bound with a swollen cheek and feeling fine and dandy. However, then the painkilling injections started to ease off and it was all throb throb throb.

The dentist is never a pleasurable experience, however they do try and make it a little easier to bear at the surgery I go to. In the waiting area there is a flat screen TV to watch. There is a roof window above the dreaded chair so while the dentist drills and chips away you can stare at the sky and watch the birdies. Oh and plus there is the music they play and I'm sure the straight boys love the bust blond dental nurse who holds the sucking tool thingy in ya gob.

But, why, even thought it's a pleasant as can be and as nice as the dentist is, and my Chris is very nice and pleasant and jolly, not to mention handsome, why do they always insist on talking to you when they've got their fingers in ya gob. It's not like you can say anything, at least no anything sensible. No mater what you try and say it always comes out "gargar garahhh gar huh"

Only got one more appointment to sort this tooth out and then I'm having a break before I go back for some cosmetic work, which will ensure I have as Chris put it "A Healthy and sexy mouth!" Indeed, with all the work that's going on I'm eventually going to have the mouth of a 20 year old. Just a pity it's in the head of a 37 year old!

I'm working tonight, which is fine, in fact I'm almost looking forward to it mainly because I know after this, I have 13 nights off! Yep taking some holiday time next shift, so I'll have plenty of free time to do what hell I like. Only bad thing is, I don't have the cash! I got paid last on 18th of December, I get paid next on 30th January so I'm pretty skint. Always happens like that in January, always so much month left at the end of the money!

Oh and there has been over 3,500 complaints about Celebrity Big Brother, no, not how bad it is but over alleged racism and bullying. Apparently Jade and a couple of the others have been poking fun and stuff at Shilpa Shetty, which I cant comment upon because I've not been watching the drivel. But well, I guess it wouldn't surprise me if that really is the case. They are hardly the most enlightened of people, plus Shilpa is a Bollywood star and has much more class that Jade, the model and the ex popstar put together. It also wouldn't surprise me if in a few weeks time we find out this story was actually escalated and perpetrated by Big Brother makers themselves in a way to get back the lost audience! Either way it shouldn't be happening!

Oh my head. Cotton and Kylie!

Mr B is off to play 'soccer' in the State's for £125 million, even for him that's a lot of cash, Posh mite even let him have some of it! However, I asked 5 of my friends from that side of the pond and not one of them had heard that he was going over there! Quote from one of them "Oh he's that soccer player that's friends with Tom Cruise with that god awful wife!" If he's going over that way to promote football, like he claims and not just for the dosh, then he's got a huge amont of work to do to make football/soccer more popular to sport loving yanks. Good luck to him, god knows he'll need it!



Soaspstar Superstar has only just ended after 9 days of live shows and nail biting from the soap stars as the sing it out in search of votes. Well as expected, as soon as I pledge my hopes on a said soap star they get voted off which is exactly what happened to Mr Fletch, Alan Fletcher, or Dr Karl from Neighbours. Still he gave it his best shot and gave us some good entertainmenmt and some good old aussie humour! Mind, you the winner and muchly deserved happened to be the other star that I mentioned a couple of days ago, Mr Anotny Cotton, the barman from Corry and the Queen of Camp Alexander from Queer As Folk! Oh wow what a love, he seem like a nice bloke and I'm pleased he's won, I really am. Good to see and out and proud poof winning a prime time Saturday evening reality/talent show by public vote!



Speaking of aussies as I was, Kylie is on the box in just a little bit, it's her Showgirl, Homecoming tour recorded in Melbourne back in December, the same show as I saw with David in Wembly on 3rd of this month. It will be cool to watch, see if there is any differences and relive some of those wonderous moments! Oh how we love our Kylie!

I've been in a hungover state pretty much all day, once again I'm blaming that Mr Angus, it's all his fault. I met him in Legends down the road last night at just gone 8pm (strange, he lives further away, was delayed by a crash on the A27 yet he still manages to get to the pub on time, I have no delays, live 5 mins walk away and yet tis was me that was late!) Anyway, he wrenched me off the wagon and my selfimposed detox to consume vast amounts of alch! Ohhh my aching head! We did Legends for a few, then popped off to R bar, where Angus complained about every pint! Then we trolled off to the 'council arms' that's the Queens Arms, which was pretty empty for a Friday night, all rather crappy and dull, we then went off up to The Bulldog for a few which was rather nice. Saw miss Billy in the que for the loo's, hadn't seen her for, well ages and ages, so was nice to see her again. Then that was it, it was time I sloshed my way back home. Thanks Angus, a great night as usual, next time I'll be on top form and not on the wagon/detox and will be able to hold my drink better! (He's Scottish dont ya know? Look at him below looking like butter wouldn't melt, yet he's a bad influence I tell ya!!)

Ok, that's ya lot for now, it's Kylie time!

Windy City !

I ventured out, however briefly this morning, just down the road and along the front for a quick drink (it was a coffee) with Jakey. The wind was howling, waves breaking wildly over the shore and a pretty wild wintery sight to behold. After coffee and a natter with Jakey, he went off to do his shopping and I came back to the warmth and windlessness of my little tiny shoebox that is the flat.

I've been having a trip down memory lane today, I watched a DVD of The Kids From Fame! I used to love this programme when it was on TV the first time round. I loved the whole energy and vibe of the show back then. I thought the songs were great, although now, watching it back again, I have a slightly different opinion! Mind you, life was simpler back then and so to were tastes.

I've seen the future and it has an i in front of it! I am of course talking about the new iPhone from Apple that is all set to revolutionise the telecommunications industry. This new device does away with buttons, instead you just touch the large screen and hey presto it works! It's more than just a phone thought, apparently it's going to be an all in one device, a 2mega pixel camera, an 8GB mp3 and video player. Sounds good so far and at a price tag of around £260 so it should be. It's probably not going to be out here until sometime next year, I bet my pal David will be one of the first to lay his hand's on one, I mean he's a true Apple queen and a King of all the gadgets!

So, as feared, George W Bush is sending another 20,000 troops to Iraq, apparently this is to support and secure Baghdad along with other areas of the country. This new move will give America the power to hold on to areas cleared of insurgents and terrorists. He said in a televised address to the US nation that "the situation in Iraq is unacceptable" something we've been saying for months and months! Also, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned that the US will take action against any country seeking to destabilise Iraq, namely Iran and Syria! That axis of evil that he talked of before the war in Iraq keeps getting bigger.

Oh and also reveled today, the air strike in Somalia, as reported yesterday, by the US after, "Credible Intelligence" failed to kill any of the three al-Quaeda suspects they were targeting!

Oh and Beck's will be leaving Real Madrid when his contract runs out at the end of this season, he's not coming back to Blighty and he's not going to be playing for an European teams. No, probably the world's most famous football player has signed for LA Galaxy. A team in Los Angeles, America! Not a natural choice, I mean the US have only had a football league for about10 or 11 years and it's not really a big thing over there. I do think however, Beck's decision to head west has something to do with his wife wanting to be on that side of the world! I'm not really really interested in football, I like to keep a little in touch, but the main reason for me mentioning this move was to put a couple of sexy pictures of Beckham on the blog again. Me shallow, surely not!

Crazy world!

Apocolypse now!, So Gegorge Bush on Sunday sent in a war plane and bombed varuious places in Somalia. The Penagon said that there was a raid on Sundaym they didnt say if the attack, aimed at Al-Qaeda leaders in that region, actually hit it's target. There were further raids on Monday and Tuesday, but as yet it's unclear if these were carried out by the US or Ethiopian forces that back the small Somalian government. The Pentagon spokesmen told the media the US strikes were based on "Credible Intelligence". I wonder if this is the same kind of "Credible Intelligence" that warned of weapons of mass distruction in Iraq, but found none. Or perhaps is the same sort of "Credible Intelligence" that 'knew where Bin Ladin was, but faile