Rood Eye
Thursday 14th May 2020 5:12pm [Edited]
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"Big Brother" is coming back onto our screens!
Well, not really but there's going to be a compilation show commissioned by Channel 4 and entitled "Big Brother's Best Shows Ever Show".
It'll include excerpts from celebrity editions and normal editions of the show and will be fronted by Davina and Rylan.
Talking about Davina, and talking about celebrity editions of the show, BCG members who are BB and CBB fans will almost certainly remember the celebrity series in which Chantelle Houghton was introduced into the show as a fake celebrity. She was a completely unknown member of the public but Michael Barrymore (all credit to him) pretended to recognise her - and none of the other celebrities denounced her as a fake during the initial week or so before which she confessed that it was all a stunt.
Anyway, I suspect very few people indeed are aware that when Chantelle was put into the show, Max Clifford (who always claimed to have engineered her appearance on the show as a fake celebrity) arranged a considerable number of interviews and appearances to launch what he expected to be a very lucrative post-show career for her.
For some reason, however, he failed to sign her up before she went on the show but what could possibly go wrong?
In the event, not only was she a very popular contestant on the show, she actually won it - so Max must have been jumping for joy.
The snag for Max was that as soon as she left the house, Chantelle was persuaded by Davina to sign up with her agent rather than with Max.
To say that Max was hopping mad with Davina would be to understate the case to some considerable degree.
As soon as he found out what Davina had done, he swore to use all his power and every media contact he had in order to destroy her upcoming BBC talk show.
Davina's chat show aired a fortnight later and - surprise, surprise - was absolutely panned by the critics.
Whether because it really was crap or because the public, being told again and again and again by media critics that it was crap, it never took off and at no time did it attract a significant audience.
Predictably, it was cancelled after one very unsuccessful series.