God.

but it's not telly is it? It is of no value to anyone.

I got two minutes in and had to stop watching.

Atomic Kitten. Does anyone here actually remember her contribution to that group. When I saw them miming at a corporate gig she was certainly not involved then.

wipe her vocal from Whole Again before it was released?
There is absolutely no excuse for her to take up any more of our time, with the possible exception of the two minutes it will take to read her Obit.

that thinks she is refreshed in any way ?

and good on Philip Schofield for actually pointing it out.

no one here gives a monkey's for the pneumatic "refreshed" prawn ring peddler and yet she still gets discussed. Her whole "career" is maintained by people who should know better.

She needs to get a proper job and she needs to get herself off the telly under her own steam double-quick.

This probably won't be the catalyst but in the next couple of years she's not gonna be 'Hello!' worthy anyway.

.....salt of the earth, scouser common touch.....
I thought Iceland had gone bust, not Icelands bust to pot.

I feel sorry for the kids. If this is Mum of the Year then I shall have to go and visit my nephew the monkey.
What on earth do they serve in the green room on morning telly?

... at least he's have had the sense to stop it before it started. The interview was done without his knowledge - and the 'quality' control on the product that is Kerry Katona was all down to her and her husband.

There seems to be no incentive for her to stop, since MTV seems to have complete control over her life, and the crazier she becomes - the more saleable an asset they have.

It's all a bit like a perverted Truman Show.

Making Shaun Ryder sound like Stephen Fry by comparison. It's a tawdry achievement, but an achievement nevertheless.

and in another you despise all that she and that world has to offer. The girl is obviously very sick and I must say I find watching anyone self destructing before my eyes quite upsetting, whether I know them or not.

I know she courts all of this exposure, I'm just sorry that no one is there to put it right and unfortunately I don't think anybody ever will. There is too much blood yet to be drawn and Reno Dakota is right, is is a bit like a perverted Truman Show.

The sad thing is that I know a girl who was her hairdresser and who said she was a very nice and generous girl (with very little education) who was just not prepared for life or anything her industry put in front of her. And who now thinks she is in charge of her life but is in fact now more exploited than ever.

Like lots of them confusing celebrity with success etc.

Her hubby ever said..

"Guess who had in the back of my cab..."

Sorry.

...who would say 'sorry, we're not broadcasting this'?

...I can still bear to watch clips of Kerry Katona is if I regard her as an experiment, by a cartel of gossip magazines and publicists, into extending the life of a C-list celebrity past its natural 15 minutes (the Warholian equivalent of three score years and ten).

Measured in celeb years her fame long ago entered the realm of false teeth and adult diapers. In a world where common sense and decency prevailed her ailing career would have been euthanised and she would have been allowed to fade public view with no further loss of dignity. Years later my young niece and nephew would ask me “What happened to Kerry Katona?” I would lie to them and say that Max Clifford had taken her to live on a nice farm somewhere.

The death of Levi Stubbs gets just 6 comments
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/levi-stubbs-1936-2008

A wreck of a kid on some crap tv programme merits 25 comments.
Go figure.

There were 3 separate strands on Levi between 17 and 20/10, admittedly garnering just over 30 between 'em.
And of course these 2 posts now "add" to Kerrys tally......

I think it's a bit pathetic.

...some of these celebrity mishaps raise an occasional cheap laugh but this doesn't, I couldn't take more than a few minutes of that to be honest. Shocking that it was ever broadcast in the first place, she's bad enough in the excerpts from that new MTV 'documentary' so surely that was some indication to ITV??

And yes, I never posted on the blog (I'd posted on other forums though) but I dug out a Four Tops best-of when I heard of Levi Stubbs' passing too.

Handled it well. Likeable chap him.

hardly new though, is it?

She says she's on Chlorpromazine - 150mg I think.

Thats a pretty hefty doze of a major tranquilizer used to treat psychosis. In her case Bi-Polar Disorder. Side effects of which include muscular stiffness, in particular the jaw muscles, slurring, confusion and difficulty concentrating. Its entirely consistent with that drug for her to be experiencing side effects the following day.

I'm with Kerry here. Sticking mentally ill people on telly who are experiencing side effects of the horribly damaging medication often used to treat it then accusing them of alcoholism is pretty barbaric, bear baiting TV.

If anyone should be mocked and attacked here its not Kerry Katona.

isn't she? A 'mumsy vixen', indeed ((c) Andrew Harrison). And I've liked Schofield since he was appointed the face of kids' BBC and promptly stopped using the Grecian 2000. Kerry? Blame MTV. They've turned her life into a soap knowing she's so flaky, her life so dysfunctional and her craving for attention (and money) so absolute that they'll never be short of material & always have her on a string. I bet it's trebles all round for the producers tonight - they've got a starting point for the next series..

..but I thought she were allright in "Showbands," me.

that Schofield actually challenged her than I was by her behaviour. You could sense her mind ticking over..."er, this is not in the script, can't we just talk about my boobs/book/tv show...?".

I can also imagine her agent/pr/lifestyle guru having kittens in the background and crossing Schofield's name out of his book of media party invites!

Having been out of the country for the last 15 years and not reading any tabloids / etc, I for one had no idea who she was - looks like I didn't miss anything.

Philip Scholfield's looking good though - last time I saw him on the telly,he was presenting Going Live!!

SMOKING CAN MAKE YOUR NIPPLES TURN BLACK AND DROP OFF.

Okay, so in the interest of not wanting to feel left out I've watched a bit more of it now. Ha ha. Very good. They had me completely fooled until that line. So this is the new UK version of The Onion, right?

Please tell me it's so.

....frankly, yes, it will contribute to that risk.

Kerry Katona is David Cameron's running mate in the next general election.

It now seems that Philip Schofield is being blamed for 'ambushing' Katona during the interview.

That's not what I saw (while watching from behind a metaphorical sofa). I saw one human being genuinely concerned at the parlous state of another and doing his best to help while doing his job. I thought Schofield came out of the whole event with his reputation enhanced.

As for Katona, I hope she gets better soon and that her "people" keep her away from the media while she's dealing with whatever it is she has to deal with.

have had their kids taken into the care of Social Services long ago?

She went to school with a former classmate of mine. The stories aren't pleasant, to be honest.

It's unfortunate that she feels the need to be in the public eye, maintaining some kind of 'media career' for want of a better phrase, when there are obviously more pressing concerns. I think that for Phil and Fern to *not* mention the state she was in would have been to ignore the elephant in the room, and I think they handled it reasonably well. It's not easy trying to conduct a live TV broadcast in those circumstances.

God but I'm like a dog with a bone sometimes.

I work in psychiatry and can confirm that Chlorpromazine, or Largactil, is still in frequent use in cases of Bi-Polar Disorder particularly in the manic stage.

If she does indeed have that awful illness, and given the drugs shes on she almost certainly does, she has my sympathy. Its just as serious as, say, schizophrenia, and just as profoundly damaging. I think, in this case, its a little more serious than David Beckham's "OCD" for example. The woman is seriously ill.

I remember Dennis Potter slurring a great deal in his justly famed interview with Melvin Bragg and, the absurdity of comparing Potter and Katona apart, I don't recall him being asked if he was an alcoholic. But, then, he had cancer. A "proper" illness.

Without wishing to jump on a soapbox here most of the things the woman is being criticised for here are exactly what you would expect from someone with Bi-Polar. Exhibitionism, lack of control, lack of judgement, inability to judge relationships, likelihood of being exploited etc etc.

If she is "in control" she clearly isn't. If someone else is they should be in custody.

People have no shame anymore. Every tawdry facet of the talentless, the desperate and the obnoxious is poured over, discussed and commented on.

Celeb watching is the drug du jour of the 21st century.

Come the revolution the wall won't be big enough to line them all up against.

who said..."The rich have got their TVs in the bedrooms of the poor."
While she´s not exactly finacially strapped , you know what I mean.