loser of the week part four
It seems that this column might actually have some sort of following. The mag it appears in told me that they had a competition which required readers to send in their favourite article and that most of the entries sent in copies of Loser of the Week. Of course, since it was the one about Kyle Sandilands, I'm thinking maybe hatred for the subject had a little bit to do with it...
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LOSER OF THE WEEK
“Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me, why won’t they just let me live?” asked Bobby Brown on his break-out hit ‘My Prerogative’. Not content with the publicity that has surrounded his decade-plus marriage to pop queen Whitney Houston, the former New Edition band member and briefly successful solo star, has become another victim of this year’s most devastating illness: the Celebrity Reality TV Show Bug. The symptoms of this illness include delusion, shaky camera-work and frantic self-justification.
Naturally, the critics are raving! The bile reserved for Being Bobby Brown seems extraordinary given the competition it has in the vying for the prize of ‘Top Thing To Shoot The Osbournes For’ from Britney and Kevin: Chaotic, Chasing Farrah and Kelly Osbourne’s second album. One critic called it “undoubtedly the most disgusting and execrable series ever to ooze its way onto television”, and another suggested it “almost makes Britney and Kevin's show look deep and revealing”.
Yes, even Britney Spears’ freeloading ‘love rat’ of a husband can look down on Bobby, who in recent years has managed arrests for child support avoidance, drunk driving, assault, and for abusing Houston, who herself cops a serve from commentators for her role in this schmozzle. “Houston seems to enjoy a love-hate relationship with the rest of the world,” notes the Boston Herald’s Mark A. Perigard, “She loves herself and hates the world.”
It is hard to understand why Brown wants to expose the world to his charming behaviour (such as asking Houston “Do you think I can impregnate you tonight?" within ear-shot of their twelve year old daughter), but besides the obvious blinding egotism (this is a man who has a son called Bobby Jnr and a daughter called Bobbi Kristina), another motivation was revealed by Brown himself, who said in an interview that the presence of cameras was helping him avoid drugs. Within a few days of that interview, members of his posse were stabbed in a fight at an Atlanta restaurant, and the following week a judge issued an arrest warrant after Brown skipped a child support hearing.
As he once said in song (‘Don’t Be Cruel’), “You just keep on actin' just like a fool / You know it ain't cool.” Bobby Brown is more than a fool, he’s Loser of the Week.
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LOSER OF THE WEEK
“Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me, why won’t they just let me live?” asked Bobby Brown on his break-out hit ‘My Prerogative’. Not content with the publicity that has surrounded his decade-plus marriage to pop queen Whitney Houston, the former New Edition band member and briefly successful solo star, has become another victim of this year’s most devastating illness: the Celebrity Reality TV Show Bug. The symptoms of this illness include delusion, shaky camera-work and frantic self-justification.
Naturally, the critics are raving! The bile reserved for Being Bobby Brown seems extraordinary given the competition it has in the vying for the prize of ‘Top Thing To Shoot The Osbournes For’ from Britney and Kevin: Chaotic, Chasing Farrah and Kelly Osbourne’s second album. One critic called it “undoubtedly the most disgusting and execrable series ever to ooze its way onto television”, and another suggested it “almost makes Britney and Kevin's show look deep and revealing”.
Yes, even Britney Spears’ freeloading ‘love rat’ of a husband can look down on Bobby, who in recent years has managed arrests for child support avoidance, drunk driving, assault, and for abusing Houston, who herself cops a serve from commentators for her role in this schmozzle. “Houston seems to enjoy a love-hate relationship with the rest of the world,” notes the Boston Herald’s Mark A. Perigard, “She loves herself and hates the world.”
It is hard to understand why Brown wants to expose the world to his charming behaviour (such as asking Houston “Do you think I can impregnate you tonight?" within ear-shot of their twelve year old daughter), but besides the obvious blinding egotism (this is a man who has a son called Bobby Jnr and a daughter called Bobbi Kristina), another motivation was revealed by Brown himself, who said in an interview that the presence of cameras was helping him avoid drugs. Within a few days of that interview, members of his posse were stabbed in a fight at an Atlanta restaurant, and the following week a judge issued an arrest warrant after Brown skipped a child support hearing.
As he once said in song (‘Don’t Be Cruel’), “You just keep on actin' just like a fool / You know it ain't cool.” Bobby Brown is more than a fool, he’s Loser of the Week.
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