Who would you force to be in Celebrity Big Brother and why?

[scoundrel]

I have always seen "reality televison" as a form of cruel and unusual punishment, all the more fiendish because the participants are so often deluded and willing volunteers, not aware even after the program has been aired of how monstrously they have been humiliated and exposed to ridicule.

In the 18th Century, people with money could pay their penny and be taken on a tour of Bethlehem Hospital (the original "Bedlam" mental asylum) in order to laugh at the lunatics. That really happened; people mocked the afflicted for sport. We need not feel superior and above all that; Celebrity Big Brother is the Bedlam of the 21st Century and the viewing figures show how many of us are still willing to pay a penny and laugh at the lunatics. The technology moves on but we, the lumpen proletariat, do not. The only difference is that the inmates of Celebrity BB are willing participants in their own humiliation, too thick-skinned and deluded to even realise that they are being mocked. Money, fame, exhibitionism, the appeasement of overweening vanity; it is all on display like tropical fish in the aquarium of London Zoo.

But what if they did realise? What if they reacted like ordinary and well-balanced people and would kill or die rather than be exhibited on TV in the Big Brother House?

Who would you incarcarate there against their will? Who do you think is so bad that they deserve it?

[tabler]

Good thread idea scounds.

For me, I would like to see Angus Deayton. A self satisfied, smug, arrogant person who always seems to talk down to people. He nicely got his comeuppance when his rather large appetite for cocaine and prostitutes became public knowledge.

In May 2002, the News of the World newspaper published allegations about his private life suggesting that he had taken cocaine and had sex with prostitutes.[7] He was ridiculed by Paul Merton and Ian Hislop in the following episode of Have I Got News For You, but was allowed to continue as presenter. Deayton took the lampooning good-naturedly, beginning the episode with: "Good evening and welcome to Have I Got News For You, and this week's loser is presenting it." He added later "Do not adjust your set, my face is this red". This ridiculing concealed a bitterness felt by the others on the show when it had been revealed shortly before then that Deayton was on £50,000 a show whereas contestants received only £12,500 each a show. After a second round of allegations emerged in the papers that October, Deayton was fired as presenter two episodes into the new series of Have I Got News for You, after both Merton and Hislop repeatedly implied during the programme that Deayton should resign for the good of the show. Since then, the show has been hosted by a different guest presenter each week.

I would like to see him paired with someone down to earth who would take complete umbrage to deayton's personality. Someone like Russel Crowe...

Crowe has been involved in a number of altercations in recent years which have given him a reputation for having a bad temper.[62]

In 1999, Crowe was involved in a scuffle at the Plantation Hotel in Coffs Harbour, Australia, which was caught on security video.[63] Two men were acquitted of using the video in an attempt to blackmail Crowe.[64]

When part of Crowe's appearance at the 2002 BAFTA awards was cut out to fit into the BBC's tape-delayed broadcast, Crowe used strong language during an argument with producer Malcolm Gerrie. The part cut was a poem in tribute to actor Richard Harris who was then terminally ill, and was cut for copyright reasons. Crowe later apologised, saying "What I said to him may have been a little bit more passionate than now, in the cold light of day, I would have liked it to have been."[65] Later that year, Crowe was alleged to have been involved in a "brawl" with businessman Eric Watson[66] inside a trendy Japanese restaurant in London.[67] The fight was broken up by British actor Ross Kemp.

In June 2005, Crowe was arrested and charged with second-degree assault by New York City police, after he threw a telephone at an employee of the Mercer Hotel who refused to help him place a call when the system did not work from his room, and was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon (the telephone).[68] The employee, a concierge, was treated for a facial laceration.[69] Crowe described the incident as "possibly the most shameful situation that I've ever gotten myself in... and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life".[70] He was sentenced to conditional release. Prior to the plea bargain, Crowe settled a lawsuit filed by the concierge, Nestor Estrada.[71][72] Terms of the settlement were not disclosed but amounts in the six-figure range have been suggested.[73]

Crowe's altercations were lampooned in the South Park episode, "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer".

In June 2011, Crowe expressed his views against infant circumcision on Twitter, calling the practice "barbaric" and asking, "Who are you to correct nature? Is it real that [God] requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are [born] perfect."[74][75][76] The comments coincided with a debate to ban the procedure on infants in California.[77] Crowe removed the comments the following day and tweeted an apology: "My personal beliefs aside I realize that some will interpret this debate as me mocking the rituals and traditions of others. I am very sorry."[78]

Now, that would be a match made in hell and worth watching.

[scoundrel]

Kanye West: not for being a talentless waste of space. Not for making a public spectacle of himself in the name of art, but for his actions at the MTV Music Video awards in September 2009.



Taylor Swift was 19 years old, scarcely out of High School, had released all of one CD and a few singles, and was getting her first ever major music industry award for really excellent work in the official video for You Belong With Me. So, naturally, 32 year old Mr West puts down his nearly empty bourbon bottle (drinking straight out of a bottle of bourbon without a glass in public isn’t cool btw, especially when you have consumed the whole bottle without any help), leaps onto the stage, seizes the microphone, and declares that Beyonce’s video for Single Ladies should have won instead. That was a mean, bullying and malicious act against a relatively defenceless young woman. I say “relatively” because sooner or later, Taylor Swift will write a song about this incident and if Better Than Revenge is anything to go by, Mr West will have good reasons to be sorry then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2UoxlVSvcA

Miaow! nice kitty...

[Nobody1]

I'm sorry scoundrel, but in my opinion nobody (not even Nobody1) deserve such a destiny. What happens if you lock too many rats in a narrow cage? They'll go crazy and start to kill and eat each other. I've once seen this in an experiment and must remember it every time when i see this sick BB shit somewhere. This show really tells us more about the mental condition of the producers than the naive little victims of this stupidity.

(Fortunately, i don't have TV anymore for 3 years now. It was a hard drug withdrawal, but it was worth it.)

Well, now when i think about it, maybe Glenn Beck. Just to see how, shortly after his arrival, annoyed roommates beat the dumb shit out of him. Mhhh...yeah, that would be funny. I'm sure, this i would like to watch.

[tabler]

Ok, so just for fun, lets throw Naomi Campbell into the mix...

Between 1998 and 2008, Campbell was accused ten times of committing acts of violence against employees, associates, and, in one instance, police officers. In 2000, Campbell pleaded guilty in Toronto to assaulting her personal assistant Georgina Galanis with a cell phone. Campbell paid Galanis an undisclosed sum and agreed to attend anger management classes; her record was cleared in exchange for her expressing remorse.[42][43]

By 2006, eight other employees and associates had come forward with claims of abuse: secretary Vanessa Frisbee claimed she was physically assaulted by Campbell, housekeeper Millicent Burton claimed Campbell had slapped, kicked, and scratched her, assistant Simone Craig claimed Campbell held her hostage and threw a phone at her, housekeeper Ana Scolavino claimed Campbell threw a BlackBerry personal organiser at her, maid Gaby Gibson claimed Campbell hit her and called her names, and assistant Amanda Brack claimed Campbell slapped and beat her with a BlackBerry.[14][43][44] Campbell's drug therapist claimed Campbell scratched her face during a counselling session.[43] Actress Yvonne Sciò claimed Campbell left her "covered in blood" after an altercation at a Rome hotel.[43] Sciò said, "She punched me in the face. She was like Mike Tyson."[43] In 2005, Campbell was photographed wearing a Chip and Pepper T-shirt that read "Naomi Hit Me...and I Loved It".[14]

In 2007, Campbell pleaded guilty in New York to assaulting her former housekeeper Ana Scolavino.[8][14] She was sentenced to pay Scolavino's medical expenses, attend an anger management program, and perform five days of community service with New York's sanitation department.[14] She attended her community service wearing designer outfits, including fedoras, furs, and—upon completion of her sentence—a silver sequined Dolce & Gabbana gown.[7][14] Campbell detailed her community service experience in a W feature titled "The Naomi Diaries", in which she wrote, "I keep on sweeping. I'm getting very protective of my pile of rubbish—kind of the way I feel about my Hermès handbag."[14] That same year, Campbell settled the lawsuits brought by actress Yvonne Sciò and her former assistant Amanda Brack.[14][45] She spoofed herself in a Dunkin' Donuts commercial, directed by Zach Braff, which showed her breaking her heel while gardening and throwing it through a window.[14]

In 2008, Campbell pleaded guilty to assaulting two police officers at Heathrow Airport in London.[8] She had spat at the officers following an argument about her lost luggage.[14] Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and fined $4,600.[8] She was banned for life from British Airways.[7] In 2009, Campbell settled the lawsuit brought by her former maid Gaby Gibson.[46]

I can see sparks starting to fly.

[sydney1]

Well, now when i think about it, maybe Glenn Beck. Just to see how, shortly after his arrival, annoyed roommates beat the dumb shit out of him. Mhhh...yeah, that would be funny. I'm sure, this i would like to watch.

I would pay good money to see that. Could someone please organise it for me.

My choice to go with Beck would be...Muamar Ghaddafi. He seems to be in a spot of bother at the moment and needs another rat-hole to crawl into.

[Mal Hombre]

The Big Brother production team and the I'm a Celebrity team,Let Them rot together in the mire They have created.As an additional punishment it would not be televised.

[Historian]

I can think of about 650 candidates straight away- especially if the weekly viewers' vote includes the option to lock the doors, switch the cameras off and leave them all in there for good....

[billybunter]

I haven't watched the show. But I would like my "local Gov" at Stormont chucked in

[steve40]

i would put gordon ramsey in there, the arrogant foul mouthed sack of crap and then i would love to see him burn his own cooking and throw one of his tantrums and hopefully someone would turn round and deck him.