It’s a small miracle that people who watch The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent think it’s a level playing field, when the shows are quite clearly as choreographed as WWE events. They’re not based in competition, rather, the drama of perceived competition. They are, first and foremost, television programmes: scripted, edited to within an inch of their lives and in both hugely successful franchises.
And now, the allegation of ‘FIX!’ is being thrown around again, as if the shows weren’t hugely manipulated in the first instance. It’d be a surprise if they weren’t, but we always worked under the assumption that they were rigged, and didn’t really mind (mainly because we are part of the viewing public that don’t pick up the phone to vote in such shows, thereby, investing little more than sarcasm and occasional lust).
However, feathers are flying at the moment. That’s because a supposed Sony executive has anonymously blown the whistle on this year’s Britain’s Got Talent which claims that eerie child crooner, Ronan Parke, has already ‘won’ the show.
As such, Simon Cowell has been forced into issuing a statment flatly denying these claims that BGT is a con.
The anonymous blog (which you can read in full here – be warned as it is rather lengthy and you probably don’t care that much) alleges that Ronan Parke already signed up to Cowell’s SYCO label two years ago with the intention of him entering the talent show, guaranteed a victorious spot.
The hugely not-creditable source claims to be an employee at the label who is disgusted with it all, and wants to lift the lid on the scam, which involves an accusation that Cowell designed Ronan to ‘act more gay’ as some kind of unique selling point to audiences.
The blog says:
“Until now Ronan had been encouraged to “boy-up” and it was planned to present Ronan as an everyday skater-boy.? But with his girliness still showing through, the image just wasn’t? believable.? So a decision was taken to encourage and allow Ronan to “release” and enhance his campness.? Disgustingly, SYCO planned to sexualise him.? They were well aware of? course, that if they sexualised a young girl to look sexually older than she is, all hell would let loose.? But with Ronan, as one executive put it, ‘no one has ever seen a ‘gay’ kid before,? it’ll be a novelty.'”
In return, Cowell’s statement says:
“There has been speculation on the internet that Britain’s Got Talent finalist Ronan Parke was known to and worked with Syco/Sony Music before entering the show. There is no truth in this story whatsoever. Ronan first came to Syco/Sony’s attention when he entered this year?s competition. Syco/Sony Music will not hesitate to take whatever legal action is appropriate to prevent further publication of these unfounded allegations.?
This all sounds bogus as hell to us, but amusingly enough, adds another layer of drama to a TV event we figured was rigged anyway. Is this surreptitious ‘multi-platforming’ on behalf of a production team? If it is, you have to doff your cap to them because this is about to generate some buzz, thanks to the internet already being something of a celebrity bogeyman after all the injunction rumours that have been flying around.
So what do you think?
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jessica says
its no different than the x factor manipulation when diva fever eliminated from show by producers when having more public vote than belle ami good luck to the little lad i hope he can handle it