My Parting Shot To Big Brother

Big Brother.

I hate you so much.

What was meant to have been a social experiment turned into chewing gum television where civilians tried their hardest to make a name for themselves.

Well, folks, the chewing gum is now stale - even though, in my mouth, the flavour was never there.

Big Brother is now over and so I am glad.

Not so fast.

You see, as a parting shot to all of its fans - and after crowning its eleventh winner last night - Big Brother is extending its long overdue departure date by crowning an Ultimate Big Brother.

Trust me when I note that this is the last I will ever write about this programme.

Look at the list of housemates in this final fortnight and you will wonder why they are even bothering.

Five of the housemates were part of the celebrity version of the show. Yes, I am adding Chantelle to this list as she was a) a part of the celeb version and b) was already doing the rounds on television before she was enlisted as a 'fake celebrity'.

The only fakeness about her fakeness was the writers were faking that she was fake.

She was on Sky's Soccer AM as a Paris Hilton lookalike long before she made her trip to the BB house.

But, I digress.

Only three housemates in this version of the show consist of people who had their fifteen minutes of fame and vanished forever.

Which means the majority of the cast are made up of people who either made a name for themselves before Big Brother or those that outstayed their welcome after leaving the house.

And that's what made me roll my eyes when I saw the list.

For a show that's meant to have made people popular, where are the ones that went in there and walked away never to be seen or heard from again?

Why didn't these people get booked for its last hurrah?

Sure, I was thankful never to see them again but wouldn't it have been nice just to see a few names from the past? You know, the ones that were the backbone for the show to begin with.

If Big Brother didn't draw in any viewers from the get-go, there wouldn't have even been a celebrity version.

I know I shouldn't mind because I don't watch it but the entire premise of Big Brother seems to have been lost.

Count for yourself how many people on this list that had already made a name for themselves before they entered the house.

See what I mean?

It's evident that the producers would rather have known names in there than the civilians. Yet, it's okay for them to force feed the audience with nobodies throughout the summer months.

It started as a social experiment but the findings were exactly the same as they were going in -the audience doesn't want nobodies, they want celebrities.

We didn't need ten years of Big Brother to figure it out.