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The story of the award that Ant and Dec shouldn't have got is a collectors item because absolutely nobody wins. Let's go over the main points.
In order to secure the services of Robbie Williams as a celeb presenter the producers assured him that he would get to give the gong to Ant and Dec, because he liked them. But then they found that all the actual awards had been decided on by an actual jury and obviously they couldn't change them.
So they decided that Ant and Dec should be The People's Choice because that was a phone vote that was going on during the evening. Only one problem there. Catherine Tate was the actual winner. So let's just count up the scores and see who's most embarrassed.
Ant & Dec - they only won because it was fixed. Boo.
Robbie Williams - he'll only come if he gets to choose the winners. Boo.
ITV - all this in the same week they've been fined nearly £6 million for stealing the money of viewers voting on the phone. Quite funny when you think about it.
Catherine Tate - You want her to accept second prize? Click. Brr.
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The marginally talented,
elected by the spectacularly tasteless, cheated by the bogglingly stupid, replaced by the mystifyingly feted presented by the occasionally mildly entertaining.
What a carve up.
They all deserve each other, and we deserve them for putting up with it all.
Awards shows
Awards shows are just so tediously dull aren't they? It's just a load of self important people patting themslves on the back so they can arbitrarily hand out prizes to each other and give themselves even more screen time. I don't think a phone vote is any more valid than a decision made by a ratings hungry producer. Who actually votes and why?
Taste is subjective so what is the point of these ceremonies? Oscars, Golden Globes, Grammys, Brits, Mercury prizes - I despise them all. The only one with any entertainment value is Eurovision because it's so hopelessly unfair and rubbish that it's almost a parody. It's hilarious and I love it.
I've been thinking just this point lately.
Famous people giving awards to other famous people for being famous. It's a big ole' load of nonsense.
Ant & Dec, Robbie etc
A surefire guaranteed kite mark for a rubbish programme I wouldn't waste time while there is a drop of Tipex to watch dry. I couldn't care less about the lot of them, but it does slightly depress me that the mass populace seems to.
Rule of thumb
Only watch award shows if Stephen Fry is the host.
Oh sweet Christ, no...
He's just Jonathan Ross for people who claim to read books.
what strikes me as odd..
is the idea that people had wasted their money because the result was fixed. What on earth has the result got to do with it?