September 14, 2003
Animal Farm
What do you call a recovering alcoholic, a recovering cocaine addict, a recovering anorexic, a manic depressive and a bunch of farm animals ? Yes, RTE's idea of reality TV - Celebrity Farm. The idea was to get a bunch of celebrities to spend a week on a farm, acting as farm-hands, and one would get voted off each night. The winner would donate the winnings (50,000 euro) to a charity of his/her choice. Alas, there were no actual celebrities - when the most famous person in the group turned out to be Twink, things already looked bad. Some commentators complained that having so much booze around recovering addicts, particularly Mary Coughlan, was a bad idea. Personally, having such a bunch of incorrigible hams around the farmyard pigs was in even worse taste.
On Saturday night, the farmhands got together on the Late Late show to share their experiences. To hear the poor dears babbling about their incarceration..goddammit, it's not like they were handcuffed to a radiator in Beirut for a couple of years.
Except Kevin Sharkey, who went on Dunphy's chat show instead to complain about the show and how bad the animals were treated (the Sunday Tribune reports that the farm will sue over Sharkey's claims). Ah yes, everybody except poor Kev went onto it to start or restart their meedja career. Mar dhea.
Posted by Monasette at September 14, 2003 11:19 PM