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Steven Bridge  |  by www.sundaymirror.co.uk. All rights reserved. 16.01 | 1:51

WHAT to watch on Friday night - the vegetables on BBC2 or the vegetables on Channel 4? It's a dimella.
Turnip-like family from hell - the Goodies - have completely ruined this year's Celebrity Big Brother.


To such an extraordinary extent that the Beeb has an unlikely hit on its hands. The meddling idiots at CBB are reeling after being trounced in the ratings by Grow Your Own Veg.
How humiliating!

But let's face it - human Niagara Falls Jade, her revolting mother Jackiey and her nice-but-dim grandparents have been a tawdry TV turn-off. Now I hear they're drafting in Jade's best friend from Ireland Lip O'Suction.
Talking of people who are ruining the show: Could Davina get any worse!

When one-armed bandit Jackiey Budden was inevitably kicked out at the first possible opportunity, Foghorn McCall's post-eviction "interview" was pathetic.
Sporting a new dragged-through-a-hedge-backwards look, dozy Davina was so incapable of dealing with the motor- mouth reject she lost her way completely. "Jackie!

Shush for one second," bellowed the harassed host before desperately trying to fill the gap with the utterly pointless: "Crikey, it's all going completely mad."
By Friday Davina had returned to wearing one of her weird wicked witch outfits. Gurning, shouting, twitching, forgetting her lines while doing lousy Leo Sayer impressions, mad McCall brought nothing to the party - yet again.

I'll say this one more time: Davina - you're not funny.
Nor is the still-fat Goody girl. Bringing her back was a massive mistake.

Ooh wasn't it saucy as the surgically-improved former Miss Piggy staged that sordid little fiddling session with her moronic boyfriend Jack Twit? No. It was so grubby I felt like taking a shower.

After tosser Tweed stylishly pleasured himself between the sheets, Jade's loving response was worthy of Romeo and Juliet.
"You f***ing just did that all over me," she hissed as the other horrified housemates tried their best to sleep. There's nothing wrong with underclass vulgarity.

That's what Big Brother's all about.
But scumbag behaviour isn't necessarily interesting. And, as Jack might say, here's the rub - Jade and her chums are as dull as ditchwater.

They're certainly infinitely more boring than dazzling drunk Donny Tourette and curmudgeonly Ken Russell - the best two contestants who walked out rather than share the house with the gruesome Goody gang. Not much of a swap was it?
We were also shortchanged when - realising he was so horrible appalled viewers were sure to evict him - pint-sized prat Leo Sayer quit the show in a foul- mouthed rage.

Ludicrous Leo's expletive-ridden exit meant that my friend and fellow Sunday Mirror columnist Carole Malone had to go. Which was a shame because, thanks to her big heart and her common sense, she was faring well.
"F** off," stormed Sayer to security guards after smashing through the door with a shovel, "Don't touch me you bastard.

This is f***ing bullsh*t. I'm going to leave this f***ing stupid country and get the hell out of here."
Gee, we're really going to miss you!

A-grade git Leo - who seems to think he's the new Elvis Presley - was by far the nastiest Big Brother participant ever. Obsessed with his self-styled status as the world's biggest star, he dismissed w***er Jack and dog (breeder) Jo O'Meara because they weren't "proper celebrities". Like he is!

If has-been Sayer's career wasn't over before he disgraced himself in CBB - it is now.
Back in TV's house of horror, most of the week's non-action was blotted out as Jade tried to prove what a lovely person she is by theatrically sobbing over other people's misfortunes and acting like an over grown girl guide.
"Dirk" she simpered, "Could you give half your whisky to Jo because Jo likes whisky as well?

" "No" said Dirk, fed up with the tedious caring, sharing mentality you have adopt if you want to win Big Brother. Which Jade does.
Meanwhile Cleo, "44", declared: "You should never tell anyone your age - because people make assumptions.

" Carole agreed.

THE good news - Jack Osbourne has just leapt off a 700ft-high bridge and he's plummeting to the ground.
The bad news - he's attached to a rope.


But there is still hope.
As he discusses the safety record of the world's biggest bungee jump, Jack's mate Mike leans over the abyss and whispers: "It's a system that has never failed - but there's always a first time!"
Sadly, it wasn't to be.

Fat-boy Jack came through his ordeal unscathed.
Now we'll have to suffer more of the odious Osbourne boy - thanks to TV's fixation with his tedious family.
While his sister Kelly was struggling with the autocue as Liz Hurley's monotone replacement on Sky One's fashion contest Project Catwalk, Jack-ass was on ITV launching his new series of Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie.


But following his death-defying exploits in South Africa, our hero switched to the Sahara Desert where he proved to be a little less dynamic. After an anguished phone call to his mummy and daddy, Tourettes-style swearer Jack pulled out of the 151-mile Marathon Des Sables at an embarrassingly early stage.
"I felt useless," he sighed.

This, I assumed, was an assessment of his talents as a TV presenter.
BLOOD on the cobblestones as Tracy Barlow smashed Charlie Stubbs' skull with what looked suspiciously like an Oscar statue. Talk about an inappropriate weapon!


No awards necessary after Corrie's most explosive couple fought their final battle in a toe-curling torrent of over-acting.
"You've been plotting to kill me," snarled Charlie as he ordered bunny boiler Barlow to pack her bags. "Can you see how that might affect my desire to live with you?

"
"Well, yeah but...

" stuttered Tracy (Kate Ford), unable to deny that he had a point.
It was billed as the volcanic moment when Tracy exacted fatal revenge for Charlie's two-timing treachery. Dressed in fishnet stockings and sexy top, the scheming brunette beguiled the excited chippie with her lapdance of death.

Then she viciously battered the poor bloke senseless while he sat on the sofa listening to Oasis.
"I hate you!" hissed Tracy, convinced her meticulous plan to get away with murder was proceeding seamlessly.


AFTER his distressing rendition of what I believe was supposed to be Luck Be A Lady Tonight, unknown Home and Away actor Mark Furze revealed: "I thought I was going to vomit."
You weren't the only one!
Welcome to ITV's money-spinning symphony of despair, Soapstar Superstar.

Kerching! Get dialling now..

. telly's top premium-rate telephone exchange is open for business.
This pathetically pointless eight-day marathon consisted mainly of shouty host Zoe Ball reciting endless lists of highcost numbers while encouraging viewers to waste their money.


To be fair to the producers, they did allow a little time for the "music". But, God, I wished they hadn't.
If people really want to endure a gaggle of soap duds fantasising that they can sing - fine.


But the weird mix of oddball judges shouldn't have insulted our intelligence by pretending that tone-deaf warblers like Coronation Street's Tupele Dorgu, Hollyoaks' Gemma Atkinson and Neighbours' Alan Fletcher weren't utterly hopeless. Disguised in slick X Factor-style wrapping, the absurdly named Soapstar Superstar was in fact a village hall standard lack-of-talent contest that ought to have been played for what it was..

.a great big joke.
It was crappy karaoke.

Superstars? You're kidding! Only one contestant understood this: Likeable Corrie queen Antony Cotton, whose terrific tongue-in-cheek Shirley Bassey medley was pure gold-finger.


When Michael Ball took time off from his judging duties to teach the wannabes how to murder show tunes the great David Gest stepped in and proved he should have been on the panel from the start.
"Boy George is not for you," he told Mr Cotton, following an excessively-poor version of Karma Chameleon.
"Don't want him," replied gay Antony.

And who was that ancient American Cher-obsessive Billy Nobody? Damned if I know..

. or care.

1 CRACKHOUSE CHALLENGE: Another brilliant Beeb "social experiment" in which youngsters are made to smoke crack and chase the dragon to see if they get hooked.

Hosted by Kate Moss.
2 THE PITBULL BORROWERS: Families with little kids attempt to look after banned dogs. A deeply important programme aimed at finding out why ferocious pets attack.


3 SECRET SUPERMARKET SWEEP: Contestants rush up and down the aisles grabbing what they can before exiting the store in less than a minute. But ITV bosses haven't told the shop's staff!
4 STD SWAPSHOP: People with sexually-transmitted diseases sleep with each other in a bid to discover who catches what from whom.

As each loser is discharged the audience yells the catchphrase: "You're a gonner 'ere!"
5 TOP GEAR: Vroom-vroom! The BBC allows a bunch of overgrown schoolboys to tear around nearly killing themselves in very fast cars.

Bloody boring - but at least the adolescent hosts enjoy themselves.

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Keywords: Big Brother, Soapstar Superstar, Jack Osbourne, Leo Sayer
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