Reality Television’s Rat Pack
Hey, it’ Sunday. The majority of Americans are getting their ducks lined up for the upcoming week. Some are still in our underwear watching football from our beds, while a handful are still fuming after fighting with their girlfriends over what “went down” last night. Me? I’m the guy working today, writing on all the latest gossip in the entertainment world.
I’m no hero. I’m just a man with a job to do…apparently.
Your Daily Drama for Sunday December 6, 2009.
Have you ever had rat before? Those answering no, have never eaten at Del Taco, before. Well, a couple of pseudo-celebrities from the amazingly creative television show “I’m a Celebrity…get me out of here” are being charged with animal cruelty—for eating a rat.
For those with a social life and are unfamiliar with “I’m a Celebrity”, the show strands C-list celebrities in the Australian jungle, allows the assclown to make fun of themselves, and subsequently allows the public to vote them off the show.
Chef Gino D’Acampo and actor Stuart Manning were the show honorees charged after animal welfare activists lodged a complaint, when the show filmed them killing and eating a rat.
Isn’t that punishment enough? Apparently not.
“The killing of a rat for a performance is not acceptable. The concern is this was done purely for the cameras,” David O’Shannessy of the New South Wales RSPCA told the British Broadcasting Corp.
You don’t mess with the New South Wales RSPCA. They’re next target is rumored to be The Simpson’s writing team, for the character Cletis, the slack jawed yokel. His popularization of raccoon, possum, and even prairie dog consumption, has been frowned upon by the Rodent Protection agencies.
Here’s an even more meaningless story: remember Barbara Streisand? It’s been a while since she sang “memories”, and even longer since we have any memory of her in a good film.
Hello Dolly was solid.
She’s getting sued by a carpenter, who I refuse to name. He’s claiming Streisand “failed to take steps to either make the dangerous condition safe or warn of the ditch — which he fell into while exiting an on-site trailer.” He sounds like an idiot. Wait, did I say sounds?
He’s also claiming “humiliation, fear, discomfort, anxiety, loss of enjoyment of life, mental anguish, and emotional and physical distress.”
That’s because I asked him to write my column for a day. You can sue me all you want Mr. Carpenter, I have a chevy cobalt and a couple hundred bucks to my name. Take the cake but leave me a couple of crumbs.
Okay, now I’m being dramatic…
