She said what!!! :blink:
It pains me to think what we've become.
Where as I accept that this kind of individual has always existed, and I'm hardly shocked by it, what I do find horrifying is that we have some how perverted ourselves as a scoiety in such a way as that we feel it curiously acceptable to not only provide the likes of Jade Goody the oxygen of publicity, but reward her for it. I think it might have started with the importing of these gross American audience participation shows that started int he late 80's on mid morning television (you know the sorts) "my boyfirends beeen shagging my best mates budgie, and now he's started hitting me, but I love him really" etc these were obviously put on at a time of today to appease a certain demographic, then repeated late at night after closing time. I suppose their invasion in the mainstream, and manifestation as BB etc was inevitable. I'm hoping this could be the last of BB, and might precipitate a backlash against this genre.
Just for background, I did have a chat with our Community Cohesion Officer on the subject today regarding Shilpa, and sought to find a British equivilant. The two names she came out with, eventually after having considered and discounted a few, were Kate Winslet and a younger Joanna Lumley.
Shilpa isn't an A list Bollywood star apparently, but would most definately have a following and be more recognised in terms of global count than any of the others. She had something of meteoric rise but lasted only a couple of years, before hitting a flat spot over the last 3 or 4, and would be a bottom B lister. She is high caste as we knew (Brahman) and is a well appointed, educated and rich. She's likely to be as interested in the 'experiment' as she doesn't need the money?
Just for Bar the Bulls info though, she is unmarried and has been the subject of how shall we say, a slightly colourful personal life, but has never got to the street level, that you might associate with the likes of Spears, Hilton et al. But has too much natural class and breeding to be a Beckham. Hers is more of the glamour/ lifestyle side of things apparently.
