Saturday, 5 January 2013

Tom Daley: Let's Get Wet

7.15pm ITV1.

Update: The backlash begins. 
Now he's a proper TV star the whispers about our Tom could get deafening.
Fagburn wonders which newspaper will be the first to refer to him as "camp"? *

Update 2: "Splash! makes Dancing on Ice and Celebrity Big Brother feel like cerebral workouts of the highest order. Yes, it is clear it was meant to be in some way “knowing”, but Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway-meets-Banzai this 'aint. The producers missed the target on every level, and although they might still (with another month to run and 5 million plus watching episode one) think it's a Total Wipeout killer for a “post-ironic” generation... I think most will remember it more simply as Total Crap." Radio Times online.
(Edit: Most reviews on Monday, like the Mirror, described it as a "bellyflop", and despite good ratings said it was "a new low" for TV. Your correspondent is, as ever, right behind Tommy).
Poor Tom. : (

Update 3: "I've got no time for girls..." EntertainmentWise. Uh-huh.

* See Photo 10b on heatworld.com.
Could this be the start of something?

3 comments:

  1. You just referred to him as "camp" and you've certainly suggested, in no uncertain terms, that he's in the closet. Aren't newspapers allowed to do the same?

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  2. Please accept my sincerest hypocrisy etc...

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  3. Even the kind hearted saintly Owen Jones was sticking his left-wing boot in on twitter, saying it was a total embarrassment. :(

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