INVISIBLE INFLUENCERS

or the blog that should be titled Ross, Brand and the News That Shouldn’t Have Been News At All..

So a phone call was made, somebody commented on how an ugly 23 year old lap dancer wasn’t particularly good looking and was a bit of a dog and perhaps a regretable lay.. hey! Worse things have been said about me to my face and my Dad didn’t go and get 30,000 people to complain a week later???

Jonathan Ross lays low, head firmly under the parapets and, if anything, doing his own image some damage. Weak, jelly spined and shitting it in case his mega-salary should be compromised. Maybe? But then he has a heck of a lot more to lose than Russelll Brand given he's on a £6m salary deal.. which might also be the reason why so many people have complained. Jealousy manifests in so very many ways.

As for Russell Brand, a firm favourite entertainer/celeb/artist(?) of mine, once the next week or so have passed I think you’ll find that all the media furore has served to do is increase his own brand value.. pun intended. Watch him migrate to better paid fields than the BBC (actually, his new series Ponderland is beginning on Channel 4 in an hours time as I write this). As Malcolm McLaren once famously said, any publicity is good publicity.

Someone I don’t particularly like is Noel Gallagher. But, he made a telling remark on Irish radio today about the whole Brand-Ross-Sachs saga. Gallagher said he was "outraged" that columnists in the press had "dictated the tone and are telling people how to behave". "It's so typical of the English in general - 10,000 people get outraged, but only five days after it has happened.” "You know what? There's now a massive divide. Them and us," he added.

Here, here to that Noel. First sensible thing I’ve heard you say in a long time. The world is going grey. And, again in Noel's words, then there’s us. Thankfully.

With that, I’m off to call a few has-been shite comedians and abuse ‘em.

Good night.