What Katie did to Princess next

Princess Tiamii with straightened hair

This is a continuation of my outrage of the ‘beautification’ of Princess Tiamii by Katie Price. Last week, having watched What Katie Did Next I was disgusted that Katie had dolled Princess up in make-up and fake eyelashes so wrote a blog. This week, I feel I need to continue the rant as she takes a straightening iron to the two-year old’s naturally curly locks.

Princess Tiamii is an absolutely gorgeous two-year old girl and without resulting to swearing it really annoys me that she is being exposed to make-up/straighteners at this age. It is likely to lead to low self esteem and low body image, the feeling that she is not good enough or that she has to change the way she looks to feel accepted and where is the route? Her mother! Increasingly we are seeing the issue of low self esteem stemming from ages 6+ the last thing our society needs is parents of young’uns who look up to Katie Price following in her steps ‘beautifying’ their daughters lowering the age of self hatred to just two years of age.

This. Must. Stop

25th Anniversary live Eastenders episode

It’s all that everyone has been talking about since before Christmas and I cannot wait until people stop jibbering on about it!  For the marking of the 25th anniversary of Eastenders a live episode is to be shown on BBC one at 8.00pm on the 19th February.

Is it a wise choice for those actors so used to pre-recorded Drama to go live? Only time will tell and this blog shall update with the verdict post 8.30pm.

As I edge closer to the tele, hooked in to the story, i’ll be thinking the same thing as you: “Please muck up! Please publically humiliate yourself on national television!”

Okay, it is now, 8.36pm and we’ve tuned over to BBC 3 for the ‘backstage’ coverage. As the opening titles of Eastenders were rolling I couldn’t help but feel for the actors and crew, the adrenaline they must have been feeling must have been overwhelming! I found the live episode on the whole, to be executed very well. It was evident that it was a tough task for everyone involved and unfortunately there were very few muck ups by the actors which was disappointing. In various points in the show there were a few errors with camera angles/positioning but I suppose technical hiccups are to be expected especially in this experimental episode. When comparing the live episode of Eastenders to the regular ol’ episodes I found the cuts to be quite strange. I also noticed how much soaps rely on sound effects for scene transition.

Still – what an unexpected ending! Stacey.. How could you?

In answer to the question should pre-recorded Drama go live? I think not. I thought it made for a brilliant one-off and a great way to (finally) finish the storyline whodunnit of the death of Archie Mitchell but for the regular episodes? I think they are just fine as they are.

It is thought to believe that Stacey looked something like this before the attack on Archie:

Just kidding, that’s just my interpretation and if I’m honest, the best of my Paint skills.

Q&A: Reading the life of Jess Storey

Jess Storey is a 19 year old Communication and Media BA (Hons) student at Bournemouth University. To find out a little more about Jess I decided to grill her about everything from what she does in her spare time, to her future aspirations. To make it interesting, I challenged her to answer Twitter-stylee, in 140 characters or less. Here’s the outcome:

A normal day in the life of Jess

Q Describe yourself in three words:

A Smiley, bubbly and (slightly) sarcastic

Q What was the last thing you bought?

A I bought a Costa Coffee this morning, I’m not a huge fan but I find that at Uni I’m always sucked into buying one

Q If you could compare yourself to any celebrity (dead or alive) who would it be and why?

A It would probably be Alan Titmarsh because I’m a floral girl

Q If money was no object where would you like to travel?

A The world.. specifically Australia, Fiji islands, America again and those like, deserted islands that they use in films in stuff with white sand and clear sea.

Q You said you’ve been to America already, how old were you? What was your favourite memory of that holiday?

A From about 13 I’ve visited Boston, New york, LA, San Francisco, Arizona, San diego, I basically did all the West Coast in a big trip all together and saw like the Grand Canyon and stuff. I just love America. I just loved incredible New York is, i loved it all and the food!

Q What is your ideal career after University?

A I’d love to go on to either be on the radio or TV to do some sort of presenting i’d love to become something like Holly Willoughby or Fern Cotton

Q When you’re not in the library studying hard… What do you do in your spare time?

A Well as the library takes up a lot of time in my life, when i do find time to myself i like to be surrounded by my friends consuming alcohol, shopping, chilling out and i’ve started to have a bit of a relationship with the cinema.

Q What’s your favourite part of living in Bournemouth for Uni, where do you like to go to consume your alcohol and chill out?

I like going to Bournemouth University because it’s big enough to not know everything about everyone but small enough to recognise faces plus in the summer having the beach just down the road can’t. For nights out it depends what night of the week it is but Aruba is a nice place to go, Wednesday Lava is always messy and WAYF at the Firestation is probably one of my favourite nights.

Liam Gallagher at the Brits

What a shocking display of arrogance and cockiness! I can only be talking about Liam Gallagher at the Brit awards. Host Peter Kay described him as a ‘knobhead’ and there would be very few viewers of the Brit Awards who would disagree with his view of Liam Gallagher.Picking up his award for the Best Album of 30 Years for the 1995 record (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, Liam swore prefusely through his acceptance speech before hurling both the microphone and the award into the audience, what was he thinking? His shocking behaviour continued on to the ITV2 back stage coverage where in an interview with Nicole Appleton he says ‘Come on let’s all go and take some Class A drugs.’. It made brilliant TV and although I was shocked I was also thoroughly entertained, if you missed it (shame on you) I’ve got a few clips here to demonstrate what a ‘knobhead’ he was being:

I love Oasis but WTF.

I predicted this would be in the news the next day and was I wrong? Of course not. The crowd member got a lot more than they expected that night when they caught Liam Gallaghers Brit award and what did they do with it? Well they stuck it on Ebay of course. Within a day the Brit award had bids reaching above and beyond £1mill with 10 days remaining. It’s safe to say I’m jealous!

A timeline of social networking sites

Social networking sites seem to have been around forever and personally, i don’t know what i would do without them. From the age of about thirteen, i was a member of Myspace, later joining Bebo and more recently, Facebook and Twitter. Here, i have layed out a timeline of launch dates of major social networking sites, incase you were curious as to when these beautiful time-wasters came into our lives:

• 1997: Six Degrees - This was the pioneering social network site which lasted from 1997 until 2001 and paved the way for further, more successful networking sites
• 1999: LiveJournal – This social networking site allowed users to create a blog, journal or diary in a virtual community
• 2002: Friendster – This site offered users to contact other members, maintain contacts and share online content and media with those contacts
• 2003: Myspace - One of the most dominant social networking sites, although now more popular for its music content
• 2005: Youtube  - Is the largest online video sharing community making video blogging popular
• 2005: Bebo - Bebo is an acronym for ‘Blog early. Blog often’ a popular social networking site for a younger audience
• 2006: Facebook - Facebook is currently a very popuar social networking site that allows its users to join networks organised by city, workplace, and school or college
• 2006: Twitter - Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.
• 2010: Google buzz - Google Buzz is a social networking and messaging tool from Google, designed to integrate into the company’s web-based email program, Gmail. Users can share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organised in “conversations” and visible in the user’s inbox.

Will Google buzz replace Facebook in popularity in years to come? Who knows. Keep your eyes peeled

Princess Lashes

I’ve never been a big fan of Jordan. I will admit that my perceptions of her did change whilst with Peter Andre but after the breakup my negative impressions were confirmed. My housemate and dear friend Jenna Rattue finds her fascinating and enjoys both her books and television shows (each to their own) however, not wanting to leave the living room and retreat back to my cave, I decided to accompany her in watching What Katie Did Next (on ITV 2 Thursdays at 9.00pm if you’re interested).  I watched in awe as Katie manipulates the paps, I wouldn’t consider her a business woman but credit where credits due in her ability to remain in the press, especially after her negative experience in the jungle (I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here). As I continued watching I noticed that spent more time on the phone to her kids (Harvey, Junior and Princess). I understand that this is a programme about her as a “career woman” rather than a show purely about her family life and that selected clips are used and this is not an accurate representation of her life but nevertheless, I still found it quite shocking and sad.

Anyway, I’ll get to the point. The most shocking and horrifying part of the episode was when little Princess posed wearing Katie’s false eyelashes and lip gloss, which was encouraged by Katie as she proudly says to her two-year old daughter ”You’re a mini me!”. I found it to be irresponsible. Sure, I agree it’s fun for children to play around with make-up such as blusher and lipstick but for me the false eyelashes crossed a line promoting value to things that are inappropriate for a child. Not to mention the comparison of Jordan, a woman marketed as a sexualised object to an innocent child.

 

Review of Jimmy Carr

Rapier Wit

A few weeks back, my wonderful boyfriend bought me tickets to see Jimmy Carr in the Oasis in Swindon. I’ve always quite enjoyed his comedy, from the panel shows, most notably 8 of 10 cats, to the outrageous game show distraction. I had low expectations I wont lie, as much as he used to make me laugh, more recently I find his jokes to be  predictable and in bad taste but i wasn’t disappointed. We arrived  early and our seats were literally spitting distance from Carr which was exciting to begin with but once the show had begun I could feel my face heating up and my heart fluttering praying that he didn’t pick on me for the butt of one of his popular and well-loved cruel jokes. Luckily, I wasn’t the target, others had offered themselves up for the role, one girl at the back in regular intervals kept shouting out various  slurs (I presume it was her birthday or a hen party or something, anyway, she was annoying) but Carr wasn’t deterred and just playfully joked with her about throwing her out (unfortunately, nearer the end of the show, we all felt like this was a good idea and the crowd started shouting at her to shut up.. or words to that effect).  Disappointingly, there was no opening support act, however the crowds were worked up with an interactive video that Carr had written prior to the show, it was an entertaining introduction but for me, it wasnt a brilliant replacement.

Having enjoyed Carr’s stand up dvds, I had expected snappy comebacks, quick wit, dark comedy and blunt delivery and all these character traits were packed in to the show. His routine, in my eyes, was genius, a mix of childish insults, crude and inappropriate jokes delivered by an emotionless charming middle class man, that leave the audience wondering whether it’s actually ok for them to laugh. At various points in the show Carr invited audience participation the audience heckles and Carr’s responses were unique and hilarious.

Carr reminded the audience continuously throughout the show that afterwards he would be staying behind for signing, I wasn’t expecting to meet Carr after the show. I thought the queue would wrap around the venue and that I wouldn’t get a look-in. However, after the show, my boyfriend and I had a 15 minute wait and were able to get our programme, poster and ticket stubs signed. I was a bumbling mess but my boyfriend actually shook his hand! He was an incredibly friendly and happy man and the show was thoroughly enjoyable.

Top-notch!