Thursday, November 01, 2007

When a celebrity is clutching at straws

How do you know when your career is heading down the drain?

Perhaps it is when you accept a second offer at becoming a reality television contestant. When your career appears to be headed for the sunset and no one buys your records, remembers your sporting achievements or cannot recognise you from those b-grade movies you starred in, become a reality television contestant.

Still, if no work comes off this then why not have a shot at another reality television series that screens in the dead of the night with audiences that didn't even know why your on television in the first place and who you really are?

Vanilla Ice for example, an American rapper who spun the tune 'ice ice baby' has appeared in a myriad of reality tv shows and so has Australian Imogen Bailey. Not exactly household names, but hoping to be.

Is there something worse than being a repeat reality tv contestant?

Maybe being a repeat reality tv judge or host like Ian 'Dicko' Dickson. Not only has he starred in Australian Idol but remember his failed venture to 7 working on My Restaurant Rules and Celebrity Survivor. Add into this a weekly trip to the US to judge an American Band Idol-like show.

Surely Kyle Sandilands has learnt this... now he will be fronting Idol and Big Brother