Big Brother’s Pete Bennett Gets £1m To Write A Book
Then buzz it up
August 30th, 2006 at 14:00 by Stuart Heritage
Some people have lives that demand to be heard about, don't they? Gandhi, Churchill, Noel Edmonds… all have had difficult, inspiring lives that people can learn from. Pete Out Of Big Brother, on the other hand, probably hasn't.
Not that it's stopped HarperCollins throwing a million quid at Pete Bennett, the winner of Big Brother, so that he can write a book all about himself. Or - more likely - let a ghostwriter write a book about him while Pete practices pulling a crazy face for the cover photo. Apparently the story of Pete winning Big Brother will make for a wonderfully inspiring story that will appeal to the masses like nothing before it, or something. A HarperCollins slave said:
"This is hugely exciting for us. We have been watching him from the beginning and he has inspired us all."
We can't help wondering if getting paid a million quid to vaguely spout on about people's minds being like birds, the colour of heaven and how his Mum played the violin on a pop record once was part of the 'spiral' that Pete's dead friend came all the way down from heaven to tell him about in the final week of Big Brother. Or perhaps HarperCollins is wrong, and by the time Pete Bennett's hastily-written lowbrow sensationalist autobiography does hit the shelves, everyone will have forgotten all about him and will instead be excited about whichever pleb is doing quite well at X Factor.
Still, the Pete Bennett autobiography Wow! Meow! Wankers! will be published in time for Christmas. Probably.
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October 28th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Your opinions about Peter are, of course, your own, but at least get some facts right!
Pete’s mother is a hugely talented violinist who has played with and been on the albums of Texas, Manic Street Preachers
Brian Ferry and Peter Gabriel to name a few, as well as the RPO.
You clearly have never met Pete or his mother, or you would know that he IS a truly inspiring person - and yes - his life so
far has been sensational and very difficult. I am proud to be a friend of the family. Guess you won’t publish this though!
November 6th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
heya i luv pete i reali loved watching him in the big brother house if he wasent in it i doubt i wud have watched it i wud reali luv to go n visit him n his friends n family in brighton to c wot his life is reali like luv from lisa thomas xxxxxx LUV YER PETE ALL THE WORLD xxxxxxxx
January 28th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
i love pete bennett he’s so cute he’s the best in the whole wide world xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx