Regarding Harry, I went off him when I saw him on Celebrity Race Across The World. He participated with his mum who seemed genuinely sweet and eager to spend some quality time with her son exploring, and he was being unbearable, pushing her to run when she had mobility issues and getting very snappy with her. He didn't come across very well on that show imo.
I wish I could go back to the 15 yr old lilchicken and explain to her: look, those bands you like? With the members you fancy? With the girls you think are so cool? The McFlys, the JLSs, the Saturdays, the Boyzones, the HearSays…
Sure, you like them now. Can’t get enough of them now.
but one day, long after their “music” careers have dried up, and you’ll think that’s it, last you’ve heard of em? That’s when you’ll turn on the morning news and see them presenting morning TV. You’ll turn on the radio and they’ll be hosting their own friggin show. You’ll get on the tube and see them advertising a vitamin. Youll buy a pint of milk and see their faces beaming back at you from OK magazine, with the most asinine headline you’ve ever read, like “Washed Up Singer invites us into Dream Pad with baby no.7”. You’ll pop into Boots but won’t be able to move for all the beauty collab and products attached to them. From Veet through to deodorant, nothing will be left unscathed.
You’ll try and shop online but they all have an X collab or a range at Very.
Youll turn on a reality TV show, and there one of them will be. In fact any regular reality show you enjoy will have the word “celeb” tacked onto the title and BAM, one of them will turn up. You’ll try and escape and buy a book maybe, and lo and behold, they’ll have “written” some cookbook masterpiece with a groundbreaking recipe for spaghetti bolognese, or a book for kids that no one needed. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, you’ll think to yourself - let’s check the podcast charts. And they’ll pop up YET AGAIN. What about the last great British bastion of entertainment? The soap opera? Surely that’s still sacred? NOPE. There. They. Are. From Hollyoaks to Corrie to Eastenders, none are safe from the Washed Up Noughties Pop Band Member™️
The whole lot of them will descend upon ITVX like a plague of locusts and you’ll wonder what you ever did to deserve this. You only bought their CDs because they had a couple of bops. You never thought you’d be signing up to this.