The case for, and against, resurrecting the reality show that started it all
05.08.2022 - 17:35
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death of someone called David. The David who is actually dead is the former husband of another housemate, Angie Bowie.
The David she thinks is dead is David Gest, Liza Minelli’s former husband … and a fellow contestant on the series. What ensues is a maelstrom of chaos, mistaken identity and pathetic hilarity that makes Shakespeare look one-dimensional, as the likes of former EastEnder Danniella Westbrook and crooner Darren Day try to figure out who is dead and who is alive.
While Celebrity Big Brother was, by the time it ended in 2018, a horrible show in so many ways, it could also occasionally still be the funniest, most surreal thing on television. But when that techno soundtrack and the iconic eye logo popped up in the ad break of Love Island (but of course) on Monday night, announcing the return of Big Brother to TV, it instantly took me back to a simpler time.
I wasn’t thinking of “David’s dead” or TOWIE’s Gemma Collins calling people who used hair straighteners “weirdos” or George Galloway imitating a cat – I was thinking about the simple pleasure of the original Big Brother as a format, a petri dish for all the weird and wonderful and problematic things that people do when they’re locked in a house together for several weeks with no contact with the outside world and a fridge full of booze. I was thinking of the show that laid the foundations for Love Island, The Circle, and so many others besides – and how completely genius it is to resurrect it as the world seemingly crumbles.
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