I have no acceptable excuse, what I have done is unforgivable. What I have done, to try and make it up to you, is written a beautifully large piece for the student newspaper, which I will copy into this entry, just so you can have a read.
Once again I can only apologise, and you have my word that I'll be back to my usual blogging ways from now on!
Take me out- 'Are you tuned in, or turned off?'
Having recently started its 3rd series on ITV, Take Me Out is a guilty pleasure that so many of us choose to indulge in. In case you’ve been living under a rock and are unaware of the format, I’ll fill you in. The idea of the show is for a man to come out and try to impress 30 scantily dressed, over made up, and sometimes quite terrifying women. If the women are ‘turned off’ then they turn off the light they are standing behind, if they are ‘turned on’ they keep their light on, with the general motto of the show: ‘No likey, no lighty!’
Hosted by Paddy McGuiness, the show was obviously never intended to be intellectually challenging, but what is it about this program that gets us all hooked? What is it that makes us want to watch the often painful process of 30 desperate women concocting cheesy responses to suggestive questions, all in the vague hope of being picked, purely on face value, for a date with a total stranger?
Your guess really is as good as mine. Is this what society has come to? Do girls really feel the only way to get a date is to go on TV dolled up to the nines and rely on their looks to blag them a date with a guy that could be anyone? And in this series there have been some real gems. Amongst the girls is Toni Anwyll, an ex of footballer Joey Barton, mother of a child with Bristol City player Nicky Hunt and linked to Desperate Scousewives star Joe McMahon. It doesn’t stop there though, Toni has apparently voiced her desire to attract the attentions of Take Me Out: The Gossip’s host, and ex TOWIE babe, Mark Wright. Friends have described her as fame hungry and desperate to be a reality TV star, so it’s no wonder she seemed to get overexcited when Saturday night saw Harry from McFly feature as a friend of a male contestant. Unfortunately she still didn’t manage to get a date.
As well as wannabe WAGs the show has also had the honour of featuring not one, but two escorts this series, one in the form of Wen- Jing Mo who revealed herself as having been a £200 an hour prostitute. Wen managed to bag herself a date with Aaron Withers, who then supposedly ‘manipulated her into bed’, only for her to learn of his own sordid past. Aaron was found to have been a £50 an hour escort (not of the same class as Wen clearly) and also of having a criminal conviction for attacking a female and her boyfriend with a pool cue in a pub brawl. Now, if that’s not boyfriend material I just don’t know what is. ITV decided not to reveal footage of the couples date on the infamous Isle of Fernandos as they were rightly embarrassed that both members had slipped through the careful checks that occur during the selection process.
Other reports surrounding the current series includes rumours of a 48 hour sex party thrown by one of the contestants in a rented multi million pound mansion. However, that might be a decision they live to regret as the 90 plus entourage reportedly caused several thousand pounds of damage whilst guzzling away £3000 worth of alcohol.
So what is it about this crazy, scandal infested, repetitive show that keeps us watching every week? Are we really that bothered whether these people manage to get a date? And what self respecting person would sign up to go on it in the first place? All we can hope, escorts and criminal convictions aside, is that they go on the show for the same reason we watch it: for some light entertainment and a good bit of fun. If, however they truly do go on it with the hope of finding Mr. Right, well then they deserve all they get. So until you find yourself dropping out of Uni to pursue your long life dream of appearing on the show, then there really is nothing wrong with that weekly dose of ‘No likey, no lighty!’
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