Never lose a bet, especially when the punishment is watching Geordie Shore for the first time.
Which is not to say it wasn’t instructive. In fact, I was struck by two things. The first was that being on television now seems to make you the perfect subject for a television series. You don’t have to be particularly clever, or terribly interesting. It’s no longer necessary to be charismatic, or funny. All that’s necessary to become a television star is an aching desire to be a television star. Celebrity is eating itself.
That was the first thing that occurred to me. The second was a sincere hope that celebrity would eat me next.
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