I understand that potential contestants are now being approached for the next series of the appalling Celebrity Big Brother. Amongst those tipped to appear are the astronomer, Patrick Moore, the former presenter of the cult eighties TV show 'The Word', Terry Christian and the former leader of the Scottish Sicialist Party, Tommy Sheridan. It would appear that Sheridan has learnt nothing from the disasterous performance of his ally, George Galloway on the same show a couple of years back. Allegedly, Sheridan has seriuous financial problems arising from his current status as a phd law student, but it is indicitave of the times we live in that someone who made his reputation as the foremost opponent of the poll taxnow thinks it financially expedient to appear on a freak show for failed celebrities.
Sheridan was once a heroi to a very large section of opponents of Thatcherism both in Scotland and beyond and was elected to the scottish parliament on that basis. Due to his later legal problems and an insatiable lust for media attention he has now reduced himself to a figure of fun.
As The Stranglers put it 'No more heroes, anymore'.
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The Word had a section called "I'll do anything to be on television". In it, members of the public would do ridiculous things: put feet in flip flops full of dog poo, snog a granny after she takes her fallsers out, eat a cockroach etc as long as they got their mug on telly.
Not that I'm suggesting a connection of course.
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