For some inexplicable reason I put the radio on whilst I was driving to the city cat stop to get to work.  I almost never do that because I hate radio.  Actually not so much what they play as the people who are employed to dribble a lot of rubbish which is, we are told, entertaining talk and commentary.  I was disappointed to learn that the BB winner this year was Terri.

Now I don’t claim to have watched the show that much.  Some of the ‘housemates’ I still couldn’t pick in a line up, but this woman seems to have seared her presence into my, and indeed most of Australia’s minds.  To be perfectly honest, I think that she is classless, rude, white trash at worst, annoying at best (and that's the scrubbed version of what I originally thought).  It was clear from the outset that she and the other old bloke on the show were merely there to prove a point – the BB production crew was caving in to criticism that their show was mostly full of young white people.  Not that the other people I saw this year delivered a viewing experience that should be rewarded with a quarter of a million either.  (As an aside, what is with having such a small prize, you can’t even get a house for that these days, just a very nice car.)

To my way of thinking, this woman winning the show is akin to Casey Donovan winning Australian Idol.  Anthony Callea was clearly the more talented singer and has had more career success since finishing the show.  It seemed more of a political choice to promote Donovan and crown her the victor.  (I’m not advocating the voting was rigged, but the footage we see on TV is definitely edited to bias our preferences).

But all in all, I’m not sure why I’m even bothering to vent.  The first series of BB was interesting and innovative.  It’s since been over taken by increasingly attention whoring, trashy contestants who are far from engaging (imho).  So eh, if that’s who you wanted Australia, so be it, but I think less of those who supported or participated in the decision this year!