Best Reality TV 2008
It is of course the final of Strictly Come Dancing tonight, and last week was the X Factor final, but which reality TV show has been your favourite this year?
There’ve been plenty to choose from, that’s for sure! Apart from Strictly and X Factor, we’ve had Big Brother and its spin off early in the year, Celebrity Hijack. There’s also been I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Dancing On Ice, I’d Do Anything – which was about the search for three young actors to play Oliver in London’s West End – Britain’s Got Talent, The Apprentice and Celeb Air.
For me, my favourites have to be – rather predictably – Big Brother, X Factor and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, in that order. I can pretty much take or leave the rest but those three were compulsive viewing for me, so let’s take a quick look back at some of the best bits from those three shows…
One of the most exciting bits of this year’s BB was the big fight over Jen’s painting. It made for some brilliant viewing! Here’s a clip of the moment Dennis sealed his fate in the BB house… Be warned it contains uncensored swearing!
And there was the moment the vile Alex was removed from the house too… my life she was repulsive wasn’t she? Here’s the moment she was booted out.
But without doubt, one of the funniest moments was when Mikey ate a Scotch Bonnet chilli… I nearly wee’d.
In fact, Mikey provided some of the funniest and grossest moment throughout BB9. Here’s a fan made top five Mikey moments…
Now onto X Factor and one of the series biggest shocks was of course Laura White’s departure. Let’s take a look at the moment she was voted off by the judges…
To be honest, if it was based on the survival songs alone, then Ruth without question deserved to stay. I absolutely loved her version of Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door. It’s on my Youtube playlist and I play it at least once a day! Here’s a reminder of it in case you’ve forgotten it… The first couple of minutes aren’t that great but she really revs up after that!
This year’s show had a lot of ups and downs, and one of the biggest downs for me was the Britney Spears appearance. After all the hype, I was expecting something truly remarkable, but it was pants. She mimed, had nothing to do with any of the acts and in general was just disappointing.
I found a lot of the ‘super star’ appearances to be pretty lame in all honesty. I personally can’t stand Mariah Carey and she looked like something out of the Thunderbirds on X Factor. Her heels were so high she could barely walk, her face so botoxed she could barely talk and her live performance was so warbly, it just irritated me. The bit where she sang ‘and you and you and you’… yikes it was bad. Here’s the video of it so you’ll see what I mean about the wobbly singing.
Still, at least she spent time with the finalists, unlike Britney.
Back to the contestants and I was devastated when Austin left, especially as it meant that Rachel stayed in. I couldn’t bear that woman – worse than I disliked Mariah even! – and I remember sitting on the edge of my sofa willing the judges to send Rachel home, but no, they sent Austin home…
However, in the end, the right woman won on the night but the standard of the competitors this year was incredibly high and even at boot camp stage, there were acts being sent home who in previous years could well have ended up in the final.
So onto I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and the jungle produced some great moments again this year. One of my favourite themes that ran throughout was the friendship between George and Joe.
Here’s a round up of the best bits of this year’s series…
I was sooooooo glad when Timmy Mallett left; he has to be one of the most annoying people on the face of the planet! I couldn’t believe that David Van Day stayed in so long either. Every night I was just willing Ant and Dec to announce that David would be leaving but it was not to be until the final night.
It’s been a great reality TV year and of course, as of January 2nd we’ve got Celebrity Big Brother to look forward to! Let us know which show has been your favourite this year.
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