Articles tagged with: Dermot O’Leary
Just like Christmas, Easter, St George's Day and the mourning of our office hamster, X Factor has made its mark and become a regular calendar fixture. Entering series number six, the programme will once again whittle down a select few hopefuls from hundreds of thousands and give them the belief they’ll win an elusive record deal. And for the rejects? Well for a good five weeks ITV can boost its audience share by editing together programmes that contain utterly shoddy performers. Will there be tears? Burly council estate dads threatening the judges when their tubby daughter is rejected? Quite likely yes, but will there be Japanese monkeys wheeled in to work with the chosen few in bootcamp? We don’t really know, which is why we present our predictions for X Factor 2009.
Every man and his dog knows that Big Brother Celebrity Hijack was a big stinking tub of old porridge. Every man, it seems, except its host Dermot O'Leary - he thinks the whole thing was great. Though he doesn't want to make another one.
During January of this year, digital station E4 ran Big Brother spin-off Hijack for three and a half pitiful weeks that felt longer to endure than a spectacularly constipated shit. Essentially it was no more than a rehash of their regular Big Brother show with some minor-list celebrities 'pulling the contestants' strings' - i.e. making them act silly and squeal a lot.
While press and public responded to this fiasco by turning off their television sets and beating the next-door neighbour's cat to get their anger out, E4 owners Channel 4 still insists the show was a rousing success.
X Factor presenter and general counter-culture icon Dermot O'Leary has stuck it to the man once again, but it may be once too far, as this time the man is Celine Dion. You'll remember that when she was on the show, Celine Dion was discussing the X Factor contestants with O'Leary live on air. Celine wanted to discuss all the contestants on the show, one by one, in a slow, dragging dialogue, with no regard to TV scheduling or the interests of others. And why shouldn’t she; her voice, after all, was the voice that sang over the closing credits of Titanic, making her forever synonymous with the sight of our lovely Jack’s tiny frozen face sinking away into the awful darkness of eternity.
