There is a long article
HERE about reality TV stars etc. It is very negatively written, so be warned.
Here are a few quotes from the article, but it does also mention some of the Celeb BB people as well and also Pop Idol, Popstars, I'm a Celebrity, get me out of here and Fame Academy etc.
Quote:
This year has been the year of the nobody. From Big Brother to Fame Academy, Popstars to Survivor, TV shows have been dominated by real people grabbing the limelight.
Overnight they found themselves on the front covers of magazines, dating their idols and rolling in cash. This was the year that reality TV hijacked the schedules and gave us all bland, boring and instantly forgettable flopstars.
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PJ
TRAINEE lawyer PJ (Peter James) Ellis achieved brief notoriety for his drunken fumbling with Jade in the Big Brother house.
On being evicted, he and housemate Spencer Smith hit the party circuit.
PJ, who hails from Birmingham, is in no rush to qualify as a lawyer, milking his five minutes of fame for all he's worth.
But with no advertising deals, exercise videos or tell-all books on the horizon, it's likely he'll be back studying again soon.
ALEX
AFTER complaining that his fellow housemates were urinating in the shower, Alex Sibley landed an advertising job with Domestos on leaving Big Brother.
However, a much-touted deal with Brylcreem never materialised.
Previously a model, he moaned that his first big break - fronting an ad campaign - was ruined when it was overshadowed by the terrorist attacks of September 11.
Since then, he's released his own calendar and presented an edition of the Channel 4 motoring show, Driven.
JADE
FALLING for PJ, showing off her `kebab' belly on national TV and bitching about everyone made Jade Goody Big Brother's most notorious housemate yet.
The former dental assistant finished third, but soon raked in around £250,000 in advertising and interview deals.
Since leaving the house, she's lost weight and released her own exercise video. A documentary film crew followed her for weeks after she left the house and she's currently appearing in panto at Gravesend, Kent, as the Evil Queen in Snow White.
KATE
KATE LAWLER walked off with the top Big Brother prize and a date with Duncan James from boyband Blue but quickly dropped from view.
The IT temp from Essex used her prize money to pay for her sister's wedding and a trip to Bali and claims she still gets pestered for her autograph.
She's released a kick-boxing fitness video but her hopes of landing a major presenting role have come to nothing and she could soon be signing on at the Job Centre.
