Enough.

Enough 'scandals' where it transpires that some of the things that are on TV are (brace yourselves people) not completely as they seem!!!

For whom are these revelations? 

There is another one in the Mirror this morning announcing that one of Saint Ant and  his Holiness Dec's guests was, in fact, not really some pleb from the street but was the sound man, or some such, asked to step in at the last moment when the real pleb failed to turn up.

How, in the name of God, is that news?  What total edjit sits watching entertainment shows on ITV and actually expects 100% reality?  Even 'reality' shows aren't 100% reality, as I think even the stupidest of us know, so why on earth do we expect gospel from our cookery or quiz shows?

I can just about accept that it is newsworthy when the good folk in TV land to ask us to spend money on competitions that we’ve not got a faint hope of winning, but I hereby the declare the following recent ‘revelations’ to be non-revelatory bollocks:

 

1)      Nigella Lawson doesn’t use public transport.  That’s right, on her recent cookery show when she was shown catching a bus to a ‘meeting’, it was actually a bus hired by her production company and filled with extras.  But… it’s a cookery show so who the hell cares?  Who could find the time or effort to give even the faintest of craps about it?  It’s not filmed inside her real house either, for those that want to be completely mortified by her cheek.  The saucy minx…

 

2)      That jungle survival bloke (who’s name I have not bothered to remember) actually nicked off to a hotel of a night time and ate at McDonalds or similar while making a programme about how to live in the wild using only some chewing gum and a tic tac.  Good for him, I would have done the same.

 

3)      The Blue Peter kitten was given a different name to the one selected by the viewers.  Children across the country voted to call it ‘Cookie’ but the evil bastards at Blue Peter cast the name aside and named the cat ‘Socks’.  One can only suppose that they didn’t notice that both names are stupid.  The cat was unavailable for comment but one can only assume it was mortified at the arbitrary change in its name and does not welcome the press’ intrusion into its personal life.

 

It is NOT news when items are re-edited to give them an unrealistic slant, it’s just TV…  It’s not news when somebody on telly turns out to be an actor – isn’t that where they’re supposed to be?  I mean, fair enough if it turned out that the people staffing your local Abby National were actually only pretending to work there but aren’t we supposed to EXPECT things to be fiction on the telly?