{"id":2230,"date":"2010-10-04T17:34:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T16:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2010-10-04T19:54:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T18:54:52","slug":"teflon-cowell-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2230","title":{"rendered":"Teflon Cowell-ted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doubtless you will have seen this piece that’s been floating round<\/a>\u00a0– The X Factor<\/strong>‘s Katie Waissel was on the books of Sony BMG (the company that Simon Cowell works for) and oh look! She appears to have made the final twelve ahead of several people apparently more talented.<\/p>\n

Of course, this should be an outrage. And yet. And yet and yet and yet. Nobody cares because over certain things, people basically\u00a0secretly enjoy\u00a0being wound up. It allows them to have an opinion on something, and they’ll keep watching to see precisely how wound up they get, despite protestations that they will never watch again. Also that Simon Cowell is a bit of a bastard isn’t he? That’s exactly the sort of thing we’d expect from him, and so we secretly chuckle along because that’s sort of what we want.<\/p>\n

The X Factor<\/em> has only ever superficially been a singing competition. Sure, the cream rises, but the first six weeks of the live show or so have always really been about the order that never-had-a-chances go out and the SHOCKING DRAMA AND OUTRAGE when they go out in the wrong perceived order. Hint to Fantasy X Factor managers: Like Jedward last year, Katie isn’t going anywhere for a few weeks.<\/p>\n

In other news: it’s Only Connect<\/strong> this evening!<\/p>\n

In other other\u00a0news, I’m not entirely sure I can be bothered following The Amazing Race<\/strong> this season. And I’m not really feeling Survivor<\/strong> either. This certainly isn’t the first time I’ve given these shows a break and come back to them seasons later, although I am quite looking forward to following this season of The Challenge<\/strong>. And I have yet to watch last week’s 71 Degrees North<\/strong>. Can anyone give good reasons why I would be wrong to take a break from these shows for the moment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doubtless you will have seen this piece that’s been floating round\u00a0– The X Factor‘s Katie Waissel was on the books of Sony BMG (the company that Simon Cowell works for) and oh look! She appears to have made the final twelve ahead of several people apparently more talented. Of course, this should be an outrage.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-zY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}