Out of interest Dave_DL, do you live in the UK?
I'm not from the UK originally but lived in manchester for 4 years in the 90s and have lived and still live in London since 2000.I'm 36 years old so thats nearly half my life. A lot of what I said was a rant, borne out of frustration built up over ten years here watching talentless people being catapuled into our living rooms and the media by reality TV. And while all this has been going on, we are now bombarded with talent shows like X-Factor, Dancing on Ice etc. Completely inane crap that has taken over living rooms up and down the country. TOWIE epitomises everything that is wrong with "celeb" culture in this country in this day and age. Try as you might to ignore it, it seems to be there at every turn.
What I said about IQ tests was very much in gest and not meant to be taken seriously. I have no problem with anyone going to Ibiza, I know I came across differently when I posted first but I was off on a rant. There are people in this country now who dont even know how to find where they live on a map but they could tell you everying about the price of fake tan, what fake people like Jordan wore yesterday and the line up of Big Brother for the last 10 series. If that is the way they wnat to live their lives, thats their business, I dont care and I dont want to know. I think tis to the detriment of society personally - young people growing up seeing talentless reality TV stars and thinking "I dont need an education, I could be like one of them". Someone like Jordan who somehow has made a fortune - she cant even speak properly. It baffls me - how has she made her money and the answer is that there is a huge social underclass out there who buy into her. She has brought out something like 6 books - ghost written of course, no publishing company has ever published mono-syllabic books before - and she's made a packet on each one. She's had a string of different blokes, has children with 2 of them and has now moved on to another. One minute she wants to keep the kids out of the limelight, the next she has them lined up in a photo-shoot, what the hell is all that about? Am I wrong in being appalled at all of this? When i was growing up, I was always told that if you work hard, you'll get places. Now it seems you dont have to work at all if you can make it into reality TV. Even Simon Cowell and his glorified karaoke competitions like X-Factor, at least they can perform and have some talent. Much as I detest what it is doing to music. But TOWIE and these sort of peiople on our TV screens, they are completely talentless, yet have been propelled into the media by ITV.
I know I'm ranting again now so I'm going to stop. I suppose I do sound like a child throwing toys out of a pram. And its all just personal opinion at the end of the day. But I guarantee you that this party Saturday night or Sunday or whenever it is will make it into the tabloid media over here by Monday. If they wnat to go and party, let them, but dont go around treating these people as some sort of celebrities because they are not. And thats my whole point.
I will give the place a wide berth, no doubt about that.