This Morning: Outrage

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Rylan Clark: ISIS

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Rylan Clark: Bestseller

Currently this nation's best-selling hardback book, ladies and gents.

Some say this country's completely fucked, but I, for one, beg to differ.

TV: Kill Me Now

The Sun.

PS...

Rylan has spoken!

H From Steps: As Thousands Cheer! 2

Mail Online.

Breaking: Man having babies!

Barf.

PS And look who wants to be next!!! What a time to be alive.

Rylan Clark & Dan Neal: The Wedding Of The Year!

Sake.

I doubt their mums would want to read so many stories about this, never mind Mirror online readers.

The Independent: Good Grief!

This trash kinds sums up the sheer rubbishness of The Independent's gay coverage.
An inconsequential story, seemingly picked at random when so much else is ignored, and blown up out of all proportion.
I know it can't be easy filling a newspaper on New Year's Day, but this happens all the time.
It's also lifted from The Sun so maybe made-up or grosslyt distorted.
And who cares what Rylan Clark thinks about anything, anyway?
And the patronising "I'm so down with the gays me!" tone is stomach-churning.
Any chance of you treating your gay readers with less contempt in 2004
Thanks.
For nothing.

James Arthur: Idiot

“I’ve been an idiot. All I can say is it was ego — foolish, foolish pride. I got ideas above my station and I made mistakes. It’s the only excuse I’ve got.”

In an exclusive Sun on Sunday interview, heavily-tattooed James — back in the charts with Recovery — also blames his fame for driving him to a deep depression.

And speaking for the first time about his nervous breakdown last month, he reveals: “All my confidence has disappeared because the whole nation thinks I’m a homophobe who looks like a monster.

“I couldn’t speak to anyone for a week. It was awful. My little sister was being bullied in school and I was receiving constant death threats."

"On reflection, it was the most immature, ridiculous thing I’ve ever done. The word ‘queer’ was used in the rap which should never have been the case. In society you can’t use language like that.”

“I’m 100million per cent not homophobic. I despise that label being attached to me.

“I made ten male gay friends on X Factor. I shared a bed with Rylan Clark for ten weeks. I was spooning that guy. I grew up in a house full of women — I have four sisters. I’m more feminine than some gay men.

“I probably look like the archetypal bully. Now people look at me as if I might beat up a gay guy. That really upsets me."

"X Factor badboy" James Arthur chats to The Sun On Sunday.

He's said sorry, shall we move on now?
Someone saying a bad word is hardly the worst crime in the world.
And besides if James had to sleep with Rylan Clark, he's surely suffered enough?

The Times: TV Times

Few would contest the notion that Britain over the first decade of this millennium changed. By imperceptible degree, entrenched class prejudice and deference fell away.

The election of new Labour in 1997 played a part, as did the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, later that year. This was the first government whose members were first Government born largely since the Second World War, while the other forced a new settlement between a monarch and her subjects.

Yet a third event three years later arguably had just as much societal impact. That was the beginning of the Channel 4 reality series Big Brother.

If the contention sounds absurd, that only goes to show the extent to which something once so abrasively new has bedded down into the national psyche...

The rise of reality television has had many negative effects, chief among them a cult of celebrity far more vacuous than even that which went before. Yet it is too easy to forget the rigidity which existed in public life beforehand. To put it bluntly, normal people didn’t go on telly.

Some might argue that normal people didn’t go on Big Brother either, but at least they could. Yes, every Big Brother contestant was an exhibitionist, but this was a far more diverse bunch of exhibitionists than Britain had previously known. Just over 13 years ago, the last three contestants in the first series were, respectively, Northern, black and gay. If, today, that sounds like a banal observation, well, that’s rather the point.

The Times' leader.

A point often made.

Though there's some truth to it, it's often-simplified and over-stated.
It's like saying TV (or Hollywood etc) is a fairy's magic wand that's made everything a-okay - as if other factors, cultural, political and social (how we little boring ordinary people engage with friends, family, co-workers, neighbours etc etc) are of little consequence.

Mind you, in 2001, John Pilger had a slightly different take on things...

Last Sunday, Michael Jackson, Channel 4's departing chief executive, told Observer readers that he had, no less, helped bring about "the profound social changes that have occurred in British society." He cited Big Brother as representing "a melting pot for a broader, more understanding and inclusive society... an optimistic glimpse at the ease of presence between a group of people with different ethnicity, sexuality, religion, class and education". He related this to Blair's promised "classless society" and declared, Tony-like, that "we have a more prosperous economy than at any time in our past".

That gays and females, blacks and Asians are capable of moronic behaviour in Big Brother is not "an optimistic glimpse" of anything. Like the pathetic cast of Jerry Springer, they merely provide a glimpse of the media elite's vicarious flirtation with low life for the sake of a buck and high ratings. No one denies that Channel 4 transmits some quite brilliant programmes, as it should, given its extraordinary remit and resources and the film-making talent in Britain; but these are fragments of its potential. 

Bit patronising and snobby, John.
Maybe he's still angry about making such a fool of himself with Su Pollard on Celebrity Big Brother.

Big Brother: The Official Fanzine

BIG Brother host Rylan Clark could be sacked over claims he has bedded the Jimmy Savile police officer who starred in the show.

The gay presenter, 25, has been romantically linked to ex-policeman Dan Neal, one of the main contestants of this summer's series.

BB bosses have a primary rule forbidding presenters and other staff from getting involved with housemates.

They are now investigating to see if Rylan, who won the last CBB series, has crossed the line dating Dan.

The pair are understood to have got together last month after Dan was evicted from the Big Brother house.

He went on Rylan’s late-night show Big Brother’s Bit On The Side for an interview. Others in the room said sparks flew and they flirted...

Daily Star - fascinating!

And in other news in today's Star...

A WHOPPING great well done to sweet farty Charlotte – our Celebrity Big Brother champion. Told you she’d win, didn’t I?

RICHARD Desmond told yesterday of his vision to keep Channel 5 “punching above its weight” by investing in quality programmes He told TV industry leaders that Channel 5 would to continue to make intelligent, populist programmes, such as Big Brother but would not chase ratings by being “cruel and predictable”.

BIG Brother is set to run for another five years...

Zzzzz...

Rylan Clark: Daily Star Star

The Daily Star.

Horrible stuff.
But there is some good news - The Star remind readers that by happenchance Rylan's hosting a new Big Brother spin-off show that launches on Richard Desmond's Channel 5 this Thursday.

As One In The Park: As You May Well Be

Celebrity big brother winner and X Factor contestant Rylan Clark will headline As One in the Park, what is being billed as "the first credible large-scale gay festival in London for over a decade."
Rylan will join already confirmed headline acts Katy B, X Factor's Union J, Offer Nissim and Skin alongside Brit nominated Rita Ora. More artists are due to be announced soon...

Well done to The Independent for adding to their risible "gay coverage" by obediently reprinting this press release - and not knowing the main reason that there hasn't been a "credible large-scale gay festival in London for over a decade"* is they kept going bust.
Can't see this happening with this when it's headlined by "X Factor contestant" Rylan Clark and Union J.
No sirree!
Can't wait.
To miss it.

PS Obviously the Orange clubs have a following but it's gonna take more than that to fill a park, dears.

* Think this was "written" by a straight intern who's never heard of Lovebox Sundays. "Who cares, it's only this week's boring token gay story..." D'Oh!

Rylan Clark: Camp X Factor Loser Wins - Cries Like A Girl

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

PS Don't get me wrong, I've watched and enjoyed some Big Brother and CBB in the past, and think it's wrong to condemn other people's pleasures; getting angry about a tellybox show like these is a sure sign of clueless apolitical twattery and cultural snobbery.
I just hate Rylan and his terrifyingly bad dye-job.
You do realise this is exactly how Hitler started?

Rylan Clark: Worse Than Jimmy Savile - Official

Daily Star (Prop R Desmond etc).

Hard to find fault with this argument, really.
Rylan has the evil gene.

PS Yup, looks like there's not much news today...

Jim Davidson: The Ladyboy Defence

CELEBRITY Big Brother star Jim Davidson plans to win over viewers who think he is homophobic by admitting he once had sex with a fella.

The comic was kicked out of TV’s Hell’s Kitchen in 2007 when he called Big Brother host Brian Dowling “a shirtlifter” during a heated argument.Davidson has always denied being anti-gay and claims he had never meant to cause offence.
However, now he has signed to Channel 5’s new series of Celebrity Big Brother, sparks have been flying behind the scenes.
The joker will not only come face to face once again with Brian, 34.
He will also be locked up in the house with gay The X Factor singer Rylan Clark, 24...
However, Davidson has a big secret up his sleeve which he plans to reveal to silence any claims from them that he is homophobic...

The comedian, 59, recalled: “I was in Berlin with my bodyguard and we pulled a couple of girls in a bar.“I sneaked out the back of this bar and she gave me oral sex.
“Afterwards my minder asked me if I’d noticed anything funny about her.
“I said: ‘Big feet.’ And he said: ‘Adam’s apple, too.’ It was a fella!”

Top racist, right-wing wife-beating comedy legend Jim Davidson in the Daily Star there.

Fagburn calls this "the ladyboy defence" (formerly known as "the Lola defence".

This has never actually happened to any straight man ever, it's just an "hilarious" shaggy dog story they tell down the pub to try and show their man of the world credentials to their mates. 

"Beautiful bird, she was... anyway, turns out she was a bloke!"

Great stuff guys!

Piss off, Jim. 

G2: Great Opening Paragraphs Of Our Time

It's quite possible that you do not know who Rylan Clark is, but he's never heard of G2 either – and if you're wondering what he's doing here in its pages, so is he. He's just got back from a gig in Hull when we meet at the west London offices of his management company, and will be on a plane to Dublin later for another gig, so he's sorting out his luggage, much of which appears to consist of miniature bottles and chocolates raided from last night's hotel mini-bar. He is wearing an electric blue tracksuit and Ugg boots – "FLAs, actually, they're sort of luxury Uggs" – with his hair stuck up on end, all wonky from sleeping in the car. In the past he has cheerfully confessed to spending every last penny on his appearance, and would sooner go without food than economise on cosmetic improvements, but he is one of the most unselfconscious people I have ever met. I'm pretty sure he would struggle to identify the Guardian on a newsstand, and he greets me with the giddy intimacy of a fellow guest on a hen night, yet his attention is more engaged than almost any interviewee I can recall....

The Guardian.
Sadly I do know who he is, he's one of the reasons I don't have a tellybox. 

PS I apologise unreservedly for posting a photo of his fugly face.