JLS Announce They Are Spliting Up

In the early days I thought they were a cool boyband that us guys could like without being ridiculed. They seem a set of decent lads and come across as likeable. Where I think they went wrong is trying to sound too American with their sound. Their early singles were far better than their recent stuff. Beat Again and Everybody In Love will long be remembered as good pop songs. Do You Feel What I Feel and Hottest Girl In The World not so much.

The boys spliting up is hardly TakeTake calling it a day yet people have been crying as if they have died. Five number one singles is decent enough, but from as many as four studio albums it’s not outstanding. This is their 5th year and the greatest hits album will bring up their 5th album. That’s made them overexposed instead of a good rest between albums so when they come back people are making more of a big deal about it.

Only one of their four albums got to number one. The last one Evolution has sold less than 150,000 copies and there has been a dip in sales with every new album released. Better to go out now then continue the downward spiral if you ask me. I’ve never bought anything JLS but will probably buy their greatest hits album as they have made enough good tunes to justify the purchase.

As a group they worked good together. But I don’t see any of them being a success as a solo artist. Maybe in a few years time they will do a reunion for nostalgia. It’s a good time to split for Marvin. It wouldn’t have been easy for him to be on the road away from his child when it’s born and he will now be able to spend more time with his wife rather than using Skype so often.

Made In Chelsea Season 5 Episode 1 Views

Episode 1 of Season 5 sadly turned into the Spencer Show. I like his heel persona as it makes for good TV, but he doesn’t need to be in so many scenes. Has he developed a drink problem? Nearly every single scene he was in involved him drinking. I was half expecting him to crack open a bottle of red at the contract signing for the flat.

What is Louise playing at? It’s very hard to feel sorry for her and she doesn’t make things easy for herself. She’s got to look at herself and realise how bad her relationship is when her own friends are seemingly turning their back on her. Spencer can’t be trusted and I don’t blame anyone for wanting to distance themselves from what goes off in that relationship.

I’m liking the new pairing of Ollie and Ashley. Over the past four seasons it’s been done to death the Ollie/Cheska/Binky segments so it’s nice to see him involved in scenes with someone else for a change. Long may it continue and I hope it works out for them both. Much in the same way i’m enjoying Binky and Lucy paired together. Although i’m not sure where it leaves Carly who was seen at the band gig but didn’t get to speak.

It was nice to see my favourite Mark Francis more than usual. It was funny seeing how disgusted he was at the thought of drinking out of a plastic cup and he looked totally out of place watching the band playing their gig. With the demin look he had going on I do wonder if he’s been watching the Big Reunion. You could see when talking to Victoria how passionate he is about his new job.

The only lame part of the episode was the explaination for Sophia no longer being about. Could something better have not been thought up? I liked Sophia and she’s a good looking lady, but was clearly never comfortable being filmed with the permanent uneasy smirk on her face no matter if it was an happy or sad scene she was part of. It’s far too early to comment on the three new ladies, but were they really necessary?

From the list the press showed for who’s signed up for this season only Sophia was missing off it. Yet as many as three new ladies have been added to the cast which is too much. Now so many people are involved in the show that originals like Millie hardly get any camera time. For me no new characters needed to be added. Producers could easily drop about half a dozen people and the show wouldn’t suffer for it.

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Brian Dowling Replaced On Big Brother: Is It A Good Decision?

The rumours of the past month have today been confirmed as true. Brian Dowling is to be replaced as host of Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother by Bit On The Side host Emma Willis. Anyone else disapointed at this news? Nothing against Emma who’s a decent TV presenter but she’s not Brian Dowling. With Brian under contract for the next two years I assume he’s now being paid his salary for doing nothing. I’m sure he’d rather still have his job to earn his fee though.

The statement released mentioned what a sterling job Brian has done for the past two years. If they genuinely thought that they wouldn’t replace him. He was the perfect host. The guy has won Big Brother twice and never got one nomination in either show. He is the number 1 person in the history of the show and nobody knows the programme better than him. Emma herself hasn’t even been in so is only an everyday fan of the show like ourselves.

I can’t see Channel 5 paying out another salary to replace her on BOTS so I think Alice and Jamie will continue as a duo. I hope Brian was offered the chance of a demotion to the secondary show and told them where to stick it. Dowling brought something different to the show and now Channel 5 seemingly just want to copy Channel 4 by getting a young brunette Davina clone to take over. Sad days.

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Mick Norcross Quits TOWIE

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4830555/mick-norcross-quits-towie.html

While i’m sad to see him go, I don’t blame him. Sugar Hut was a hugely popular nightclub long before TOWIE came along. Since then the place has got a reputation for filmed arguements to show on TOWIE. You can’t really blame him for thinking the name of his club is starting to be dragged into the gutter. I actually think the show will suffer from no longer being able to show this pivotal cast drinking establishment.

He seems like a really decent bloke so good on him for sticking up for his staff. If any of us had a business and one of our workers was called a slag we wouldn’t like it either. Despite his vast wealth he’s never come across on screen as up himself or as someone who’s better than everyone else. Plenty of cast members in TOWIE episodes have talked down about him which is clearly out of jealousy for what he’s achieved in his life.

Mick doesn’t need the show. He’s not skint or fame hungry. He’s a down to earth family man. I just hope that quiting during a series isn’t going to ruin things for his son Kirk. I’d not put it past producers to take it out on his son by giving him less airtime. Kirk wasn’t exactly seen much last night was he? As one of my favourite cast members of any series I hope he gets himself his own television show so he’s not off screen long.

I could definately see him in a Dragons Den or Apprentice style show helping young people get an idea they have off the ground or by looking for someone to take under his wing to help with expanding his empire.

Towie Cast Get Eggs Thrown At Them

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4823582/TOWIE-stars-pelted-with-eggs.html

What a waste of perfectly good eggs. I love a nice egg so wouldn’t go wasting them by throwing them. They couldn’t even hit their target due to how bad the throw was. It’s a shame the footage won’t be shown as part of the show. I bet the cast aren’t even allowed to talk about the incident on the next episode. It will be swept under the carpet as if it never happened so people can still think that TOWIE cast members are loved by everyone.

I think they should count their blessings that it wasn’t fermented eggs hurled in their direction. When you see them on I’m A Celebrity they don’t look good at all, even though in Asia they get eaten all the time. It’s the production staff I feel sorry for as it was them that got to see the eggs up close but it wasn’t them that were being aimed for. If they didn’t already know at least they do now that not everyone is happy with their show.

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Geordie Shore Needs To Stop Being A Bore

This show used to be so good and now I only really watch it out of habit. I had high hopes for this series with the cast touring Europe, but that’s not happening in every episode. If you miss an episode you don’t need to catch up on what happened as every episode has the same platform. I never thought i’d actually miss Rebecca and the show has definately suffered from the loss of Jay.

That house is just not the place for spoken for people. It’s much more fun when single people are in who can do what they want. Ricci and Vicky used to be pretty fun, but all they do now when they aren’t moaning about something or arguing is act like an old married couple. James I can see being the next departure either by him leaving or maybe him simply being dropped. What does he bring to the show? He’s more dull than watching Newsnight, never involves himself in situations and acts like a love sick puppy.

For the Australia series later this year i’d drop a couple of cast members and bring in some new blood. Imagine the fun from the off as current members get jealous of newbies getting to go to Australia from day 1 in the show. They take being young too far. You can bet when they look back on their time in the show in say 20-30 years time when they have grown up kids of their own, they will wish they hadn’t done alot of what they get up to.

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Harry Styles Shouldn’t Rise To What Taylor Swift Did At Grammy Awards

Watching her sing We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together was cringey at best. The song is really good but she just had to use the moment to have a jibe at Harry Styles by putting on a terribly stereotypical British accent. Do foreigners think all us Brits sound the same and don’t have regional accents? God help Harry when the time comes that she releases a song about her failed relationship with him like she has done with ex boyfriends in the past.

When it comes to boyfriends reports suggest she’s a Bunny Boiler and i’d be inclined to agree. Her second album Fearless was released in 2008. Six years later and she’s already had six high profile relationships. Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Conor Kennedy and most recently Harry Styles. Many who have had songs written about them. There will come a time she will struggle to get a guy and maintain a decent relationship due to her constant retaliation at the end of her failed relationships. She should be the bigger person and not try to humiliate her exes in public through song.

For some reason all her relationships are short. I don’t know her personally so don’t know if it’s picking the wrong man, how she is or a combination of both. It has been reported though that she’s got trust issues. If that’s the case dating one of the most popular males in the world probably wasn’t a wise decision for her. She couldn’t expect Harry to ignore his fans in public when it’s those fans who made him who he is today.

Harry Styles is clearly fond of his fans, appreciates what they have done for his lifestyle and isn’t about to tell them no when they want a picture or autograph. He’s a young lad and does right enjoying the attention he gets from his female fanbase. He doesn’t need a lady pressuring him into doing something he doesn’t want to do.

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Court Came To Right Decision On Workfare Case

It’s great to see the court have come to the right decision about the man and woman forced into free work. Is it the 1800s again? It was nothing short of slave labour what was asked of them and it should never have come to this. Getting people back into work is a massive thing that needs to work much better. Why is a company with a turnover of half a billion pounds allowed in the first place to get a worker for nothing? They can afford to pay that person a proper wage. With JSA they will have been on around 65 quid a week. Working the job they would need five days of dinners and five return train/bus journeys. After that they will be down to about 40 pounds a week to live off on a 30-40 hours a week job.

It’s important those out of work continue to do something constructive with their time and learn new skills. I don’t see how sweeping the floor at Poundland for no wage is learning a new skill though. The lady in question wasn’t even stock taking, working the till etc. If it had been a non profit organisation like a charity shop it would have been better.

While big super rich companies are allowed to have free labour it’s keeping someone else on the dole and away from contributing to our society through paying tax. What happens when this mandatory six months of free labour is over? Would it matter how hard the person has worked in that six months to prove themselves? No the company is more likely to say they can’t afford to keep them on and then go back to the Job Centre to be sent another skivvy for another six months.

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Rylan Clark To Present Xtra Factor?

Rumour as it that due to the busy year ahead for Olly Murs, that Rylan will be taking over in the role on Xtra Factor alongside Caroline Flack. If it was me though Rylan should turn it down and set his sights higher than a spin off show of a bigger show he used to be on. I was one of the many people annoyed last year that he kept going through each week despite no singing ability. Yet much like with Frankie Cocozza the year before, a stint on Celebrity Big Brother has helped me grow to like him more. He will never be a talented singer but as a person he came across really well and good luck to him.

He’s won a tremendous amount of people over as evident by winning Celebrity Big Brother last month. Does he really need to go back to X Factor? I’m sure it’s very tempting for him as that is where he became known in the first place. But wouldn’t appearing on the secondary show feel like a come down? I’m sure he’s got his choice of dozens of offers right now and a chance to try something completely different.

He got good reviews from critics for his work on Daybreak when Richard Arnold was away on holiday. Also if he plans on releasing an album he should strike while the iron is hot and his career is doing well without distractions. If he releases a song this autumn he would no doubt be invitied to sing it on X Factor and that one performance would generate many sales for him. That should be the only reason for him to go back there. Other than being one of the judges but that isn’t going to happen…..

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Gazza Gone To Rehab In America

I’m really happy that he’s accepted that he needs help and still hasn’t given up the fight to try and stay clean of alcohol in the long term. His actions as seen over the weekend in the paper were really disapointing of the England football legend. He’s got a really bad illness and it’s a fight he’s simply got to win or he will end up dead. People can try and give him all the help he needs, but it means nothing if he can’t help himself.

Moving to Bournemouth to get away from it all seemed to work for a while. People need to get to the bottom of why after being in reletively good shape for a while he fell back into booze. Was it going without it for so long? Did he have something bothering him? Even if he does eventually stay clean the rest of his life, the addiction will forever be there. It’s definately better than us losing him at a young age like we did with George Best.

Paul was a super talented football player, but fame and fortune doesn’t always bring you happiness. People can’t expect someone to have nothing to worry about simply because they have money. He’s made well known mistakes in the past involving his ex wife Cheryl, but then everyone makes mistakes. If he doesn’t stay clean his days will be numbered. He needs his friends, family and supporters to rally around him more than ever before.

Get better soon Paul.

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