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Celebrity Big Brother
January 3, 2009
It’s back. Yes, a new series of Channel 4’s covertly Proustian analysis of societal mores, Celebrity Big Brother, returns to our screens.
Here at Swordplay, we can’t wait, for one of the housemates - alongside rapper Coolio, a former Sugababe and Ulrika “£175,000 (allegedly) for three weeks” Jonsson, to name but three - is none other than Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan.
Sheridan famously won a £200,000 libel action against the News of the World, only to be charged with perjury. He is the second high-profile Scottish politician to appear on the series, following in the pussy cat’s paws of George Galloway. Odds on whether he will seek to emulate Galloway’s cream-licking antics are not available, but we do know that Sheridan is a self-confessed “hairy ape”. Let’s hope he keeps his clothes on while in the house.
Pictured: former Sugababe Mutya Buena. Right-thinking London libel lawyers hope to see rather more of her than Tommy Sheridan.
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It’s back. Yes, a new series of Channel 4’s covertly Proustian analysis of societal mores, Celebrity Big Brother, returns to our screens.
Here at Swordplay, we can’t wait, for one of the housemates - alongside rapper Coolio, a former Sugababe and Ulrika “£175,000 (allegedly) for three weeks” Jonsson, to name but three - is none other […]
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