Saturday, January 20, 2007
the conspiracy theory
CBB5 Day Sixteen
Unlike Jack and H from Steps seeking to find Norfolk on the map, we find ourselves seeing the world of CBB in crystal clear fashion. I can see clearly now the reign (of Jade) has gone.
Let us muse upon a conspiracy for a moment...
Who looks after Jade's 'career'?
While we're about it, who looks after Davina McCall, Russell Brand and Dermot O'Leary (and Chantelle Houghton too, for good measure)?
Just a doggone moment - they are all managed by the same company! Step forward into the spotlight please, John Noel Management.
Is it too big a leap to consider that this may be the fundamental reason why Jade was briefed so succinctly by the producers of CBB, in order that she could be led into a vague sort of apology, and thus redemption, prior to being hoofed out?
Don't let us ever think for one moment, that this whole shebang doesn't work to a script. The behaviour is manipulated and then packaged to run to the pre-ordained conclusion. Shilpa, too, was led down the same path, and to this day is still unaware of what was said and implied, out of her earshot.
However, Shilpa is decent and well-mannered, and her instinct would always be to overcome the conflict and seek resolution, when it is offered.
Yet we should not automatically follow down the expected route of demonising Jade (see David Beckham 1998 for the template). Jade is not stupid at all. As an example, she cottoned oh so quickly to the reality of what this episode could mean for her future. Wiping her nose on her sleeve, she wailed that she had so much to lose, and dreamed up a line made for headlines by noting that this was the programme that made her and now was going to break her.
She is not articulate, nor is she very well educated in the formal sense, and she has clearly had a troubled life.
Jade has issues with anger, certainly. She relishes, at times, conflict, beyond the scope that is considered normal. Indeed she seeks it out. She appears to exhibit bullying behaviour and the comments that have been highlighted could be deemed to have a 'racial', in Jade's own word, aspect to them.
However, we are not defined solely by two examples of our behaviour. For Jade can also be kind and look for the best in people. She clearly dotes on her children, and, touchingly, has a very well balanced view of her mother, treating her with respect and love, yet fully understanding her mother's issues, and, indeed, the impact those issues have had on Jade herself.
I won't be sucked in by the "I've learned my lesson", £100,000 interview being lined up by tomorrow's News Of The World, but nor will I believe we can define the whole person by a few day's worth of blisteringly bad behaviour.
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# posted by Terence : 7:36 AM
