The Second Obligatory Big Brother Blog
So the biggest forgone conclusion in the history of mankind came to pass last night. Silly girl Grace was evicted. Unlike with Sezer the geezer, they didn't say what percentage of votes she got, but I suspect it was somewhere in the region of 99.999999999%.
Much has been made of the fact that she's a spoiled little rich girl whose mother bought her a house in Notting Hill, and gawd knows in the 15 years I lived there I met tons of girls like Grace, who come and 'slum it' with the urbans for a while, then marry a doctor or a lawyer and decamp to the Home Counties.
In my day, those same girls (plus a few of their more well-heeled mates from Chelsea) used to head down to the Titanic club on a Saturday night where they could be really "fierce" with boys from the wilder side of life.
Grace's bitchiness really depressed me, she's a gorgeous young woman, with so many advantages at such a young age, and the only way she can feel good about herself is to be nasty about people with less going for them. How sad.
They reckon that we are both attracted to and repelled by people who display qualities we recognise. Long before Susie nominated her, Grace decided that she was an 'old hag'. The water chucking incident last night just enforced all the repellent qualities we already saw in Grace.
The irony of Grace's intense dislike of Susie, is that Susie is Grace in 20 years' time. Married well, living in the country, and slightly bored that life wasn't quite as fabulous as she thought it would be at the age of 20. Why else would Susie have been so desperate to get in the house?
Poor little Gracie, even Davina's very tactful pointing out of the facts didn't register. I don't know many 20 year old girls, but I hope there aren't too many around like Grace.
The arrogance of youth is a wonderful thing, that feeling of invincibility, that you're gonna live forever, that life owes you plenty...those are the qualities that make you fearless, that propel to you achieve, and you need that when you're young.
I just pray that when things have settled down a bit for her, Grace takes time to seriously reflect on the part she played in her own - very public - downfall, and learns from it.
Much has been made of the fact that she's a spoiled little rich girl whose mother bought her a house in Notting Hill, and gawd knows in the 15 years I lived there I met tons of girls like Grace, who come and 'slum it' with the urbans for a while, then marry a doctor or a lawyer and decamp to the Home Counties.
In my day, those same girls (plus a few of their more well-heeled mates from Chelsea) used to head down to the Titanic club on a Saturday night where they could be really "fierce" with boys from the wilder side of life.
Grace's bitchiness really depressed me, she's a gorgeous young woman, with so many advantages at such a young age, and the only way she can feel good about herself is to be nasty about people with less going for them. How sad.
They reckon that we are both attracted to and repelled by people who display qualities we recognise. Long before Susie nominated her, Grace decided that she was an 'old hag'. The water chucking incident last night just enforced all the repellent qualities we already saw in Grace.
The irony of Grace's intense dislike of Susie, is that Susie is Grace in 20 years' time. Married well, living in the country, and slightly bored that life wasn't quite as fabulous as she thought it would be at the age of 20. Why else would Susie have been so desperate to get in the house?
Poor little Gracie, even Davina's very tactful pointing out of the facts didn't register. I don't know many 20 year old girls, but I hope there aren't too many around like Grace.
The arrogance of youth is a wonderful thing, that feeling of invincibility, that you're gonna live forever, that life owes you plenty...those are the qualities that make you fearless, that propel to you achieve, and you need that when you're young.
I just pray that when things have settled down a bit for her, Grace takes time to seriously reflect on the part she played in her own - very public - downfall, and learns from it.
Labels: Misc and TV
posted by JoJo Smith at Saturday, June 17, 2006
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home