I’m aware of the mild irony that, just as I’m noting a story on the rise of the ‘me too’ figure… non-celebrity Chantelle wins Celebrity Big Brother. This is taking the peer-to-peer thing one step too far.
I genuinely don’t know how to read this. Perhaps it’s the voting audience being deliberately perverse. Or maybe it’s the backlash against the cult of the celeb. The fact that a blonde PR bunny, the archetypal Essex girl is leading that charge? Now that, dear readers, really is irony.
We’ve had plenty of celebs who have been labelled as ‘famous for being famous’, and little else. With millions of viewers having cast their votes, we now have someone who is nationally famous for not being famous. Getting my head around that will take some time.