It’s no secret that I don’t care for reality programming. But, I do make some exceptions. I’m addicted to Project Runway, because it’s a reality competition, where contestants actually make a product, and they have to have a modicum of talent (for something other than being a famewhore). I also like Kathy Griffin’s My Life on the D-List, although I didn’t watch much of this season, because it seemed like Kathy was drifting away from her D-List roots. She chilled with T.I. for goodness sake! Anyway…
One of the things I’ve always been interested in is the different kind of television programming the British channels have. One show that I think I might get addicted to – if I lived in England – is Celebrity Big Brother. It seems like a half-way decent concept: get a mixed group of somewhat legitimately famous people, has-beens, also-rans, famewhores, and flavors of the month together in one house for a month, and see what happens. In America, VH1 ran a show called The Surreal Life, which followed the same basic premise, and I have to admit, I watched.
Celebrity Big Brother has already gone for six rounds, including the infamous Series 5, where Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O’Meara made racist and controversial remarks towards Indian actress Shilpa Shetty. The producers have decided that the seventh season – which has yet to be fully cast – will be the final one. And that producers want another a big controversy. Hey… you know who brings the controversy big-time? Some random American crackhead named Lindsay Lohan, that’s who!
FINGERS crossed on this one – Big Brother chiefs are in talks with wild child Lindsay Lohan about next year’s last ever Celeb BB.
Our South-East Asian spies (of course!) report that producers from Endemol were discussing the proposal with LiLo in Singapore this week.
The blonde nightmare is in the country to host a string of high-profile pop gigs.
Bosses are hoping to snag some top stars for January’s show, which will be the last of the franchise ever on Channel 4.
Off-the-wall LiLo – famous for her diva-like demands – would certainly be telly gold. Let’s hope C4 has got a big chequebook!
[From The Sun]
It could be a brilliant career move for Lindsay, I think. Well, “brilliant” meaning “Lindsay will f-ck it up, and it will be great television”. I hope this report is true, and I hope Lindsay signs on. So what if I have ulterior motives? Oh, what’s that you say – Lindsay would have to be out of America for a month? What would we do without her?
Meanwhile, Lindsay is already in Singapore for her Grand Prix hostess duties. The Mirror had an interesting piece about Lohan’s beef with Beyonce – who sang at the F1 Rocks event in Singapore. Apparently, Lindsay tried to jack Beyonce’s stellar dressing room, only to get thrown out by Beyonce’s bodyguards. Her one quote from Singapore? “I’ve been a bit down. It was a strange night. Everyone was being aggressive and bothering me. I really didn’t like it.” No, Lindsay – that’s called sobriety. Gotta love Singapore’s drug laws!
Lindsay Lohan is shown at Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris with Ali on 9/28/09. Credit: ANG/Fame Pictures
It’s so sad that at only 23, Lindsay’s a “has been”.
I loved Surreal Life until the last two seasons then the “celebs” were just too painful to watch. Season 1 with Corey Feldman FANTASTIC!!!!
I refuse to watch Big Brother as I find the show completely lame… I have no patience to watch people in night vision while they sleep. That being said… I would probably watch a few mins here and there (could never sit through a whole show) just to see what this cracked out chic is up to. I’m sure she’d flip and make for an entertaining few minutes. She was made for reality tv… she’s crazy and has more issues than most do in a lifetime.
Heh. “Everyone was being aggressive and bothering me”? You mean – they didn’t just set passively by and let you do whatever the hell you wanted? Welcome to the real world outside of America.
That would be entertainment! I highly doubt she would do it, though. She is the only one who doesn’t realize that she is a has-been, lol. And GAWD, she looks awful! I have tried to sort of secretly root for her, but even I’m discouraged at her lack of real work. I enjoy her acting, she is talented, but she hasn’t done anything decent in a long time.
I doubt she’ll do it, but wish she would, I normally avoid CBB like the plague, but with Lohan in there I would be glued to the screen – as long as it was true and not edited, what a programme that would make.
Imagine pissing your career away before you’ve even properly established yourself. Sad.