With Corey Feldman appearing on this year's Dancing On Ice, I took it upon myself to inform family members and friends of the major coup ITV has achieved in acquiring his services.
I wasn't kidding.
To me, Corey Feldman is one of the emblems of the 1980s. He starred in three of my favourite films when growing up (The Goonies, Gremlins and The Lost Boys) so when I saw he was on a reality TV show - a British one at that - I just had to announce it to the world.
The response was negative.
My best friend (a few months older than yours truly) doesn't know who he is. I then told another friend (in her forties) and she didn't have a clue who he is as well.
Surprised at the response, I decided to conduct a fun social experiment in order to establish where Corey Feldman fits in the year 2012.
The age bands responses to 'Corey Feldman is going to be on Dancing On Ice' were as follows:
0-9 years old - "Yes. Whoa, whoa, whoa!" (the 'whoa' was because my two year-old nephew was pretending to fall while standing in his cot.)
10-19 years old - "who is he?"
20-29 years old - 'lol'
30-39 years old - 'who the f**k is that?'
40-49 years old - 'who's that?'
50-59 years old - 'things that bad for him then?! lol....'
60-69 years old - "WHO!?"
I don't know what conclusion I can draw from this experiment other than to wish Corey the best because there are now a lot of people wondering how he is going to do now that he is skating out of obscurity.
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