Last week the most popular search terms which ended up at my blog were “Rima” and “Rima bb08″. Now that of course was because last Friday night on BB08, Rima broke her leg during FNL and so I imagine there were a few worried viewers wondering what had happened to their favourite – now what was the term Ben used? Ah that’s right – height challenged housemate.
It was probably also due to the fact that there were a number of “tasteful” photographs, that her husband claims Rima is “quite happy with” circulating the net.
Excellent.
Now BB has sunk to the level of “dwarf porn” – not that Rima is in fact a dwarf, she says she has a very rare condition, so rare in fact that the condition was named after her.
Any normal reality television program might have stopped there, but BB doesn’t know where the line is, so they got together with another fellow who doesn’t know where the line is and asked him if he’d like to enter the house as a guest.
Recently described in a seminar I attended as the “Sum of all our fears”, enter Corey Worthington, a minor, aged just 17, now a guest in the freak show that is Big Brother 08.
To supervise him, they’ve challenged the recently evicted nanna, Terri, who cites her influences as Pauline Hanson and so you know, is the modicum of tolerance, with the task of guiding Corey in the house.
Her entry caused a full two minutes of continuous bleeping as the housemates expressed their joy at seeing the oldest ever housemate back again, a housemate they themselves chose to evict.
Channel 10, I can handle the f-word, but call me squeamish, references to dwarf porn after my Sunday roast do disturb me.
Excuse me. I need to shower. I feel a little dirty.
by Cellobella on Sunday, October 14, 2007 · 2 comments
As regular readers of SultanaBlog would know, I’m not the biggest fan of Marty or Carl. Prepare yourselves for a shock.
Ready?
I actually enjoyed both their performances. Marty – if you closed your eyes and didn’t watch him mooch about the stage – sounded pretty good, Carl didn’t sing swing. It was a scat free day. Callooh! Callay! (to quote Lewis Carroll) That on it’s own made for a better performance.
Daniel can go for my money this week. Hated his performance. Well out of his depth.
Matt – his eyes saved him this week.
Tarasai – the girl can sing.
Natalie – Endless Love? What was she thinking??!
Ben – Oh dear. Not your best performance my dear.
So I’m hoping Daniel will go but I suspect Natalie might be on her way out. 
by Cellobella on Tuesday, October 9, 2007
The fabulous Meg over at Blogpond has summarised this week’s Idol so well that I only need to add my postscript…
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted about Idol. My Melbourne trip came in the middle. I wasn’t unhappy about Mark leaving but was gobsmacked that Marty survived… and this week when Dicko called for him to be euthanised – despite me cheering from my sofa, I had to agree with Mark that it was a sure fire way to get him to stay. We Aussies don’t like to be told what to do by Pommies in positions of authority.
The Hillsong thing… well I didn’t know they were Hillsongers until Channel 7 pointed that out so I’m not sure how effective a guerilla branding move it was until then… and according to The Age – they might just be Christians and not associated with the Hillsong church.
Or maybe they are just good singers who believe in God.
I must say it’s the one thing that gives me the irrits about Tarasai – the whole “I have a gift and I thank the Lord for it” sweet as pie thing she was doing in the early rounds. Give me a break! But the girl CAN sing and should her beliefs disbar her from winning a competition?
Come on! This is egalitarian Australia. All beliefs (theoretically) welcome!
Anyway the Brit Pop Show. Disappointing really – there have been some fantastic Brit Pop songs but once again the song choice was ordinary… apart from Tarasai – can’t go past Queen in my opinion.
So my top four: Tarasai, Natalie (really crappy song choice – but I thought Mark overstepped himself here with his comments – is the man on drugs?) Ben and Matt…
Of the rest? Carl – I’m so OVER that jazz niche thing you’ve got going on boyfriend, Marty – enough said, Daniel – I agree with Kyle – there’s something about you that I don’t connect with. Jacob – a very gracious exit.
by Cellobella on Sunday, September 23, 2007
So a quick wrap of tonight’s Disco show:
Tarasai – great performance… didn’t like the jeans… her performance was a bit straight… could have done with a bit more sizzle as Mark puts it. Don’t like it as much listening back as I thought I would.
Ben – pretty good. Nice voice. Holding the notes just a tad too long. Didn’t get Mark’s androgeny comment though.
Mark – rocky – love the song. Did it well. A safe choice for him though and his performances are becoming a bit samey. I know most artists don’t show do several styles in the one concert but… it’s a singing competition.
Lana – the judges hate her. I thought she was about 10% underdone. I thought Mark’s suggestion she should concentrate on her leaving was rough. She should make up her own mind. She can take her exams any time. Listening in my headphones now she does sound a little weak but she’s getting there.
Jacob – cool song – I hated his outfit – looked crap. I can see what the judges mean about him not having anywhere to go with this song.
Marty – is gone for my money this week. Ruined a great song. Sounded bloody awful.
Daniel – held the notes too long. Doesn’t have the chutzpah for a Stones song. Cute but. Sounds better in the headphones than he seemed to when I was watching the telly.
Carl – Poo is not called scat for nothing! STOP BLOODY SCATTING. Apart from that, his best performance so far. I had to yell at the telly though. And now listening back… IT IS IRRITATING ME AGAIN. I’m going to have to turn it off. I agree with Dicko here!
Matt – Got a touchdown. Great song choice – but I wished he’d picked Fantasy. Veering close to the big band sound of Carl but managed to stay on the right side of disco… just. At least he didn’t scat. Was it worth a touchdown? Borderline. Still a good performance.
Natalie – I agree with Mark – too many fancy bits at the start – apart from that – a great performance. Love the song, love the singer. She meant it.
As discussed previously, usually I relate most to Kyle’s comments. Tonight he only got it once for me – and that was on Daniel. I agreed with Mark twice (unheard of) and Dicko took the words out of my mouth three times… Marcia as usual said nothing of interest.
So okay, I’ll stay with them one more week. Especially if Marty goes tomorrow night.
by Cellobella on Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Yes this is my new poll and the reason I’m asking the question is that I’ve been gobsmacked at how I’ll say to Groover – “Gee I don’t like that outfit” or “They’re not moving around enough” etc – and this particular judge will say exactly what I’ve just said.
It’s not what I’ve said – obviously I should be an Idol Judge (ha ha) – but who agrees with me!
Watching the show I’d say I was most like Dicko – I like him best of all the judges – but it’s Kyle that says what I’m thinking. Nearly. Every. Time.
I agree with him on Natalie’s dress choice in the semis, Carl’s version of Waltzing Matilda (yuc) and well – just about everything he says.
Which is a bit scary to be honest.
So… who says what you think?
