Thursday, January 08, 2009

Alpha Male

CBB6 Day Six

It's not the age difference, even though I was a little taken aback (thanks Wikipedia!) to learn that Oor Tam is only 44 years old. Plainly this political career and lifetime of bellowing socialist dogma has taken its toll. With Michelle a mere 17 years behind him, that is not the problem.
The problem is the embarrassing fantasy, that anyone, even including a baying pack of red top media hounds, would ever have even dreamt in their wildest of nightmares, that we would 'misinterpret' a harmless shimmy around the kitchen as a relationship. Now this was a very odd moment in BB history, as it is rare for the camera to stay long enough with someone to give them time to ponder (great word, 'ponder') their stupidity.
Here though, the camera lingered. Tommy is media-aware. He knew he had just committed a massive faux-pas; probably one of the greatest in the history of middle aged men trying to grasp on to the last wispy strands of their youth. He (as we have established already) pondered, and realisation hit him as if he had been on the end of a left hook from Joe Calzaghe. He tried to back track. He tried to recover the moment. But as anyone who has ever blurted something out, and then wished to turn back time, knows - you can't get the toothpaste back into the tube once it has been squeezed onto the toothbrush.
Michelle was gracious. She could have hooted with laughter and said "You?...and me?.... waaaaahaaaaahaaaaa!" But no. She was kind, and rather sweet, even though you could read her mind, "I've got a right one here...."

I'm not, I suspect, amongst the target audience, that A1 were set to appeal to in their glory days. So Ben Adams was unknown to me before he turned up at Elstree less than a week ago. Seems a pleasant bloke. I have never heard of anyone making a career of establishing relationships with girls by scouring Facebook, but Ben made it sound such an every day occurrence that I am wondering if I should log on immediately and get interacting. 
However, if like in Ben's experience, that involves sitting up at 3.00am with a stranger, trying to compose songs with the help of a dictaphone, I may stick with more traditional methods.
It could be though, that Ben is setting the tone for the future. In years to come wedding speeches may include humorous stories of how the bride and groom met because of a misdirected Yahoo email, or how the happy couple got together after the bride saw a video on YouTube of her hubby falling off a skateboard and tumbling into a hedge.
Perhaps couples may even link up by meeting on a reality tv message board or forum. No, that could never happen.... could it?


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