STONE COLD HAVEN

So I was scanning through the channels on TV late last night waiting for the news. I wouldn’t have naturally done this save for the commercials on the Sky Sports News Channel which I was avoiding like a nonsense.

Lo and behold, there was another reality TV disaster, this time in the form of the colourful heir head Paris Hilton, apparently hosting her own show to pick her next British Best friend. In my spirit of being an equal opportunity hater, I should state here that I had consigned similar reality shows like Tyra’s America’s next top model in the queue of the contenders for filing in the section between shit and syphilis. Paris here however, is challenging me to consider taking Tyra seriously and give her model show the benefit of the doubt.

I don’t have anything against Tyra or the many hosts of the woeful reality TV shows, its just that the whole frigging concept of subjecting desperate teenagers and young girls who want their 15 minutes of fame to some tired, questionable and subjective hoop jumping is a retarded concept. For one, these are more often than not vulnerable youngsters with the spot light thrust on them and probably end up more traumatized at the end of the show for having exposed themselves so badly without even realising it. Secondly, I’m yet to actually see the fruition of the vanity of the experience of the show. Pray tell someone, do these folks actually get anywhere in life afterwards – in their chosen career path anyway?

I guess I was just intrigued of how ITV programming bosses are desperate for ideas or ratings they’d unleash Ms. Hilton to the British public. What happened in America??? Or rather, couldn’t ITV figure out American networks were never going to let this ‘Paris British Best Friend’ nonsense actually see the light of day?

And who are these girls who actually even involve their families in desperately pretending to be who they’re obviously not in order to win a prize to become Paris’ new best friend in Britain….LOL! She must have pissed off Nicole Richie badly to need a screening show to pick another party mate. And these British girls are actually crying out loud because they’re being booted off the show following a desperate rant and attempt by Paris to pull off the suspense of Donald Trump or Alan Sugar’s Apprentice firings.

You know, there’s a famous saying which suggests that its better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Last night was a classic example of the application of this rule of common sense. But I guess sometimes its unreasonable to expect common sense to be a common characteristic.