JOHN MCKIE : VIC REEVES
AND drafting in Vic Reeves was plain wrong. Producers have failed to obey the golden rule of successful shows - don't mess with the format.
Why is Vic there?They don't need his turn asT he Pub Singer - even if Brian Harvey has just walked. Maybe they needed one contestant who's actually heard of Nancy Sorrell.
The wisest words, as ever, have come from that modern day Confucius, Peter Andre, who said yesterday: 'Brian Harvey is the new John Lydon.' Not even the most ardent believer in reincarnation could justify that comment.
They'll miss Brian, but Paul Burrell and Janet Street-Porter are endearingly hatstand.Thanks, too, for Professor Sheila Ferguson's observation on Sophie.
'Her selfishness and selflessness was driving everyone crazy.' Eh?
And as for Natalie 'I'm not feeling you, babe' Appleton ... at the time of writing there has to be a Psycho-Watch on that girl. She's starting all sorts of fights, sporting a Dado Prso headband and landing herself with needless Bushtucker Trials. On Thursday's trial, she addressed her friend on live TV. 'Kate Thornton. Can you cope?' (I've watched The X Factor. She can't.) Roll on week two,where Natalie may face more nasty trials. She's already told us scared of heights.That certainly explains her recent chart positions.
Natalie spent much of last week wailing 'I don't want my family to be ashamed of me.'
Your sis is engaged to Liam Gallagher, Nat.They've bigger fish to fry.
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