posh man in BB??

[dremm]

I been trawling the Big Brother UK contestants looking for a character I remember as someone (a man) being quite posh, not Ben Duncan, he was older. One time I remember he was listening to someone reading and complained because they couldn't read fluently. Another time, outside of the house, I think he was picked up by the Police for possession of drugs, on his very own doorstep!

I think it was Big Brother, if no then another reality show..

[Lee.]

what year?

[Mystic Mock]

what year?

this.

[Shasown]

Michael Barrymore

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00090/F_200601_january06ed_90106a.jpg

[Angus]

Michael Barrymore

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00090/F_200601_january06ed_90106a.jpg

POSH!?:laugh3:

[Shasown]

POSH!?:laugh3:

Depends on the OP's definition of posh, doesnt it? After all he is able to speak clearly, he dresses smartly and can express a thought as a logical easy to understand sentence. (Bugger me, I am posh) ;)

[Niamh.]

Derek? not saying he was picked up for possession of drugs but he was posh!

[Omah]

Derek? not saying he was picked up for possession of drugs but he was posh!

No, he wasn't ..... :nono:

My parents, Lyn and Samuel Laud, came to England from Jamaica in the late Fifties, like countless immigrants at the time, to look for work.

My mother was a nurse, a hard-working woman. I'm afraid I have no idea what my father did.

I don't have muchin the way of memory of him and I can't say for sure how old I was when he left, though I think I was younger than eight.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-459448/My-mothers--saved-life-Big-Brothers-Derek-Laud.html#ixzz1B0QaHKny

He's just very "affected" ..... :eek:

During his "quizzes" on BB, his answers were frequently wrong but he said them such assuredness that everybody thought he was right ..... :rolleyes:

[Niamh.]

he spoke with a very posh accent:joker:

[Benjamin]

Was it George from BB7?

He was a posh boy but walked after a week, just after Shabaz walked, Bonnie was evicted and Dawn was booted out.

[Omah]

he spoke with a very posh accent:joker:

To hide his origins - he grew up in run-down Battersea ..... :laugh2:

I was six or seven when the council started pulling down a lot of the terraces in my neighbourhood.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-459448/My-mothers--saved-life-Big-Brothers-Derek-Laud.html#ixzz1B0Wiv4VD

[Niamh.]

To hide his origins - he grew up in run-down Battersea ..... :laugh2:

oh right:joker: well, he could have come across as being posh though to someone who didn't read up on him (like me!)

[Omah]

oh right:joker: well, he could have come across as being posh though to someone who didn't read up on him (like me!)

That's what he depended on ..... his "front" ..... :joker:

[Lee.]

Was it George from BB7?

He was a posh boy but walked after a week, just after Shabaz walked, Bonnie was evicted and Dawn was booted out.

I thought of him too, but the OP said older than Ben..

[Omah]

20 October 2009 9:06 AM, PDT

The champion of last year's U.S. reality TV competition Big Brother has been arrested in a narcotics bust, after he allegedly used his $500,000 (£333,330) winnings to fund a drug-dealing business.

Adam 'Baller' Jasinski was detained on Saturday night by officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), who allegedly caught him with 2,000 oxycodone pills during an attempted drug deal in North Reading, Massachusetts. The pills are also known as "hillbilly heroin".

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni1101172/

[Niamh.]

ah ok US BB, never watched that

[Patrick]

Derek from 2005 or George from 2006.

[Omah]

The Gran of Big Brother housemate Josie Gibson, is a fugitive and has been on the run for years, after she was found with £240,000 worth of drugs in the boot of her car.

The Sun reports that Diane Gibson skipped bail at Bristol Crown Court after being found guilty of possession and has since left the country.

http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/big-brother/big-brother-2010-josie-gibsons-gran-is-a-drug-dealer/

:dog: ..... not recent, though

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

dennis BB9

[Omah]

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Former%20Big%20Brother%20housemates%20probed%20for %20drugs%20in%20Zambia%20%20/-/1066/1075238/-/rd537m/-/

Zambia’s anti-drug trafficking unit has searched former housemates of Big Brother Africa (BBA) All Stars on allegations of “serious drug abuse” while on a two-week visit to the country, according to the Drug Enforcement Commission.

The former housemates – Mwisho Mwampamba (Tanzania), Code Sangala (Malawi), Meryl Shikwambane (Namibia), Lerato Sengadi (South Africa) and Jen Mussanhane (Mozambique) – were in Zambia to support their colleague Paloma Manda’s charity activities.

Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) public relations manager, John Nyawali, said investigators searched a house where the former housemates of BBA were lodging in Kitwe – about 380 km north of the capital, Lusaka – last Tuesday after receiving information that “one of the male housemates was seriously abusing drugs”.

:shocked:

[Lee.]

dennis BB9

ooh yeah! He was classy right enough! :joker:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

OMG i know who he means!

Freddie!

http://images.contactmusic.com/newsimages/big_brother_1110135.jpg

i think -_-

[Niamh.]

Freddie wasn't arrested for having drugs though was he? also he's younger than Ben

[LemonJam]

20 October 2009 9:06 AM, PDT



http://www.imdb.com/news/ni1101172/

Adam is anything but posh :p I highly doubt it's him.

[Omah]

Adam is anything but posh :p I highly doubt it's him.

Nor are Barrymore, Laud, McHugh ..... ;)

What's your suggestion ..... :conf:

[Omah]

Freddie wasn't arrested for having drugs though was he? also he's younger than Ben

He IS posh, though :

http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/06/07/freddie-leaves-lavish-lifestyle/

Freddie grew up in a stately home, where, at the time of Big Brother, he still lived with his family, two gardeners and a cleaner.

The stately home has tennis courts and a lake.

Freddie Fisher first went to boarding school when he was 9 and he was a Cathedral chorister until he was 13.

Freddie George Fisher studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University.

[Beastie]

Tim from bb3? lol

[Niamh.]

Tim from bb3? lol

he wasn't older than Ben either

[Omah]

he wasn't older than Ben either

Nor was he posh :

Tim Culley, from Upton-upon-Severn, was a contestant in Big Brother 3 in 2002. He was drafted in after the shock departure of another contestant who could not bear the lifestyle, and eventually came fifth.

Mr Culley's father, Neil Culley, used to own the Swan Hotel (http://www.cylex-uk.co.uk/company/the-swan-hotel-17279397.html) and High Street restaurant Neilanos (http://www.cylex-uk.co.uk/company/neilano%27s-ristorante-italiano-16767655.html) in Upton, before retiring and moving to Doncaster, Yorkshire.

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/features/lifestyle/2320425.Davina___s_back__but_where_are_Nush__Steph _and_Tim_now_/

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

the only posh guy i can think of that is older than ben is derek 0_0

[Angus]

Are we talking about Rex Newmark BB9? He was a cocaine user - don't know about him being busted by the police though.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

my pubes are posher than rex

[Omah]

my pubes are posher than rex

:joker:

[Shasown]

Are we talking about Rex Newmark BB9? He was a cocaine user - don't know about him being busted by the police though.

Could be, Rex got done for threatening behaviour or disturbing the peace for kicking off in a restaurant or something.

[Niamh.]

Could be, Rex got done for threatening behaviour or disturbing the peace for kicking off in a restaurant or something.

He's younger than Ben though isn't he?

[Shasown]

He's younger than Ben though isn't he?

Yeah Rex is younger than Ben.

I suppose it would be helpful if the OP gave a rough idea when the person in question was a housemate.

[Niamh.]

Yeah Rex is younger than Ben.

I suppose it would be helpful if the OP gave a rough idea when the person in question was a housemate.

well he's not even sure if the person is even from BB:joker:

[Angus]

He's younger than Ben though isn't he?

Rex does look older though, must be all that cocaine sniffing he's done in the past! The OP only thinks he was older, and seeing as how they can't remember sod all about the guy, there's not a lot to go on.:laugh:

[Niamh.]

Rex does look older though, must be all that cocaine sniffing he's done in the past! The OP only thinks he was older, and seeing as how they can't remember sod all about the guy, there's not a lot to go on.:laugh:

He does not look older!! what age is Ben anyway? he looks mid to late 30's to me

[Shasown]

He does not look older!! what age is Ben anyway? he looks mid to late 30's to me

Ben is about 30 Rex is 26 I think

[Niamh.]

Ben is about 30 Rex is 26 I think

is Ben only 30?:shocked: I would have said older

[Angus]

Since the OP gave us only three clues, ie Posh, Male and Drugs, Rex is the only one I know who fits the profile.

Maybe it was someone on Celeb BB, but I can't think of anyone.

[Niamh.]

Since the OP gave us only three clues, ie Posh, Male and Drugs, Rex is the only one I know who fits the profile.

Maybe it was someone on Celeb BB, but I can't think of anyone.

Omah named someone from US BB that sounds closest

[Shasown]

Omah named someone from US BB that sounds closest

Matthew McDonald was also done for oxycodone distribution

Preston claimed to have indergone a drugs nightmare

Dane Bowers was arrested last year in a drugs investigation.

Tommy Sheridan was accused by a newspaper of drugs and sex scandal, though posh is not a word I would use for him

Loads of them have been involved with nose candy etc.

[Niamh.]

Matthew McDonald was also done for oxycodone distribution

Preston claimed to have indergone a drugs nightmare

Dane Bowers was arrested last year in a drugs investigation.

Loads of them have been involved with nose candy etc.

yeah but I wouldn't call Dane or Preston posh really and I don't know who Matthew McDonald is

[Shasown]

yeah but I wouldn't call Dane or Preston posh really and I don't know who Matthew McDonald is

A contestant from the same US BB as the one named by Omah

Bez has been arrested a few times for drug offences, again he isnt exactly posh.

[Omah]

Ben is about 30 Rex is 26 I think

I believe that you are right ..... :D

[Niamh.]

A contestant from the same US BB as the one named by Omah

Bez has been arrested a few times for drug offences, again he isnt exactly posh.

ah ok, never watched any of the US version

[Angus]

I doubt the adjective "Posh" could ever be applied to an American:D:

[Shasown]

ah ok, never watched any of the US version

Nah Bez from the Happy Mondays is British, he was in Celebrity BB, UK in 2005, he won.

[Shasown]

I doubt the adjective "Posh" could ever be applied to an American:D:

Same as it being used for Bez I suppose.

[Omah]

yeah but I wouldn't call Dane or Preston posh really and I don't know who Matthew McDonald is

Preston IS posh and well-connected, too :

Samuel Preston was born in Worthing, West Sussex. He was educated at Sompting Abbotts public School and Bishop Luffa School. He is son to Anthony and Miranda Preston, and brother to Alex and Lucy Preston. His grandfather is the Princeton University English professor Samuel Hynes. Preston is the direct descendent of the former British Prime Minister Charles, Earl Grey.

Yes, they named a tea after the second Earl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Grey) ..... ;)

[Niamh.]

Nah Bez from the Happy Mondays is British, he was in Celebrity BB, UK in 2005, he won.

no, I know who Bez is I meant that matthew mcDonald person

[Shasown]

Think I have it.

Jonathon Durden the multi millionaire who walked out when he got bored of the BB experience BB8

Posh Older and there were articles about his drug addiction.

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/jun2007/5/8/3434B08A-E9DA-4383-BD8CFCED7A52B004.jpg

[Niamh.]

Think I have it.

Jonathon Durden the multi millionaire who walked out when he got bored of the BB experience BB8

Posh Older and there were articles about his drug addiction.

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/jun2007/5/8/3434B08A-E9DA-4383-BD8CFCED7A52B004.jpg

he certainly fits the description anyway!

[BB_Eye]

I would have said Rex, but he was so adenoidal, he couldn't even speak fluently and his grammar wasn't great.

[Omah]

Think I have it.

Jonathon Durden the multi millionaire who walked out when he got bored of the BB experience BB8

Posh Older and there were articles about his drug addiction.

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/jun2007/5/8/3434B08A-E9DA-4383-BD8CFCED7A52B004.jpg

He was the subject of tabloid scrutiny (http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletin/brandrepublicnewsbulletin/article/669560/Durdens-future-doubt-News-World-expose/) but I don't recall him being "picked up by the police", though ..... :puzzled:

He's not really posh, either, he's a just a millionaire businessman ..... ;)

[Shasown]

He was the subject of tabloid scrutiny (http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletin/brandrepublicnewsbulletin/article/669560/Durdens-future-doubt-News-World-expose/) but I don't recall him being "picked up by the police", though ..... :puzzled:

He's not really posh, either, he's a just a millionaire businessman ..... ;)

Depends on the persons definition of posh I suppose. I wouldnt call him posh myself but I know some people would.

He didnt turn up for the final night because he was either in rehab or had just came out for his coke and call girl addiction as I recall, went on to write a book.

[lostalex]

ben and freddie were just spoiled children of posh people. And i doubt their parents were as upper-class as they like to think. I wouldn't consider them legitimately posh themselves.

[Niamh.]

ben and freddie were just spoiled children of posh people. And i doubt their parents were as upper-class as they like to think. I wouldn't consider them legitimately posh themselves.

I think you're wrong about Freddie tbh, have you seen where he lives?

[Shasown]

ben and freddie were just spoiled children of posh people. And i doubt their parents were as upper-class as they like to think. I wouldn't consider them legitimately posh themselves.

And what in your esteemed opinion is "legitimately posh"?

[Omah]

And what in your esteemed opinion is "legitimately posh"?

I'd suggest Alexander Armstrong (comedian, actor and television presenter) :

Armstrong was born in Rothbury, Northumberland the youngest of three children to Emma Virginia P (née Thompson-McCausland) and Henry Angus Armstrong. He was educated at Durham School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English and was a member of the college choir. Armstrong was featured in an episode of the BBC One genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, through which he discovered that he was a descendant of William the Conqueror. With his father's side of his family already well-known to him as the land-owning Armstrong family of Rothbury and William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, the series traced his mother's side of the family, beginning with the McCauslands seated in Drenagh in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, through the Rouse-Boughton family, to Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of William the Conqueror via Edward III and the Beauforts, Dukes of Somerset.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Armstrong_%28comedian%29

[Shasown]

I'd suggest Alexander Armstrong (comedian, actor and television presenter) :


I will see you Alexander Armstrong and raise you Freddie Fisher

Freddie Fisher IV is the son of Freddie Fisher III (who graduated from Harvard University and subsequently gained an MA from Oxford University and his MBA from Harvard Business School before starting his 30 year career in international investment banking and finance, much of it spent in the City of London. Current directorships and partnerships:
Oakley Hall (Stable Block) Ltd
7 City Learning Limited
7 City Group Limited
Directorships and partnerships held in the past five years:
The Battlefields Trust Limited
Trinity Capital Limited
Trinity Group Limited
Trinity Partners Limited
Ovate Group Limited
Oakley Assured Tenancies Limited
Capital Sports Group Plc
Global Group Europe Plc
Carrera Entertainment SA
Equiniella SA) owner of Oakley Hall in Market Drayton where they all live, brother, Charles, sisters Virginia and Maddy, parents Freddie III and Anne.

Oakley Hall is a privately owned early 18th century mansion house at Mucklestone, Market Drayton, Staffordshire. It is a Grade II listed building.

There was a substantial manor house at Oakley in the 16th century.

In about 1710 Sir John Chetwode Bt, ( High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1691 and 1698) replaced the old house with a two storey mansion, the ballustaded entrance front having eleven bays, the central three bays of which were pedimented.

The 1881 census discloses the 6th Baronet and his family in residence with a staff of fifteen servants. The Chetwodes sold the estate in 1919.


Oakley Hall is set in 100 acres of rolling parkland, is an example of a Queen Anne mansion Thestately home has tennis courts and a lake.

http://www.oakleyhall-park.com/

Freddie Fisher first went to boarding school when he was 9 and he was a Cathedral chorister until he was 13.

Freddie George Fisher studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University.

[Omah]

I will see you Alexander Armstrong and raise you Freddie Fisher

Freddie Fisher IV is the son of [QUOTE]Freddie Fisher III (who graduated from Harvard University and subsequently gained an MA from Oxford University and his MBA from Harvard Business School before starting his 30 year career in international investment banking and finance, much of it spent in the City of London. Current directorships and partnerships:
Oakley Hall (Stable Block) Ltd
7 City Learning Limited
7 City Group Limited
Directorships and partnerships held in the past five years:
The Battlefields Trust Limited
Trinity Capital Limited
Trinity Group Limited
Trinity Partners Limited
Ovate Group Limited
Oakley Assured Tenancies Limited
Capital Sports Group Plc
Global Group Europe Plc
Carrera Entertainment SA
Equiniella SA) owner of Oakley Hall in Market Drayton where they all live, brother, Charles, sisters Virginia and Maddy, parents Freddie III and Anne.

Money but no blue blood, though - well down the "posh" pecking order ..... merely nouveau riche ..... :rolleyes:

Oakley Hall is a privately owned early 18th century mansion house at Mucklestone, Market Drayton, Staffordshire. It is a Grade II listed building.

There was a substantial manor house at Oakley in the 16th century.

In about 1710 Sir John Chetwode Bt, ( High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1691 and 1698) replaced the old house with a two storey mansion, the ballustaded entrance front having eleven bays, the central three bays of which were pedimented.

The 1881 census discloses the 6th Baronet and his family in residence with a staff of fifteen servants. The Chetwodes sold the estate in 1919.


Oakley Hall is set in 100 acres of rolling parkland, is an example of a Queen Anne mansion Thestately home has tennis courts and a lake.

http://www.oakleyhall-park.com/

Yeah, the house has a pedigree ..... :cool:


Freddie Fisher first went to boarding school when he was 9 and he was a Cathedral chorister until he was 13.

Freddie George Fisher studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University.

So Freddie's only first-generation posh, living off daddy's dirty money ..... :laugh:

One of Alexander's family:


Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (1601? – 3 April 1667), styled Lord Herbert of Ragland from 1628–1644, was an English nobleman involved in royalist politics; he was also an inventor. In the book he authored in 1655, of over 100 inventions, the power and applications of what would become the steam engine are clearly described.

Lord Herbert was a Cavalier who supported Charles I in Wales and raised a regiment of horse for him. He was rewarded in 1644 with a peerage, being created Earl of Glamorgan and Baron Beaufort, of Caldecote. He succeeded his father as Marquess of Worcester in 1646.

He was formally banished in 1649, but after four years in Paris returned to England in 1653. He was discovered, charged with high treason (for his liaison with Catholics in Ireland) and sent to the Tower of London; he was treated leniently by the Council of State, and released on bail in 1654.

[lostalex]

Remind me again how many brits feature in the top ten of the Forbe's top 10- richest list?

That's a good start. If we wanna talk about posh.

[Niamh.]

Remind me again how many brits feature in the top ten of the Forbe's top 10- richest list?

That's a good start. If we wanna talk about posh.

richest doesn't necessarily equal poshest

[lostalex]

When the british royalty start getting "poked with sticks" i think it's time to retire the fantasy that britsh royalty is very royal at all. lol

I think it's time we started calling a spade a spade. The British royals are just a bunch of inbred white-trash living on the DOLE.

I think you need to take a page out of the American playbook. Put your inbreds in trailer parks, not palaces.

If they want attention, let them go on Jeremy Kyle like all other desperate attention seeking inbreds.

[Niamh.]

When the british royalty start getting "poked with sticks" i think it's time to retire the fantasy that britsh royalty is very royal at all. lol

I think it's time we started calling a spade a spade. The British royals are just a bunch of inbred white-trash living on the DOLE.

I think you need to take a page out of the American playbook. Put your inbreds in trailer parks, not palaces.

lmao, why did you even join a site filled predominately with Brits:joker: why not one full of lovely Americans?

[lostalex]

lmao, why did you even join a site filled predominately with Brits:joker: why not one full of lovely Americans?

Because i care. Only the one that cares about you the most will tell you the truth.

[InOne]

Have you ever been to the UK lostalex?

[Niamh.]

Because i care. Only the one that cares about you the most will tell you the truth.

I'm not British but it's good to know that you care anyway:love:

[Omah]

Remind me again how many brits feature in the top ten of the Forbe's top 10- richest list?

That's a good start. If we wanna talk about posh.

richest doesn't necessarily equal poshest

Exactly, the richest people in the world today are probably Russian gangsters or Colombian drug cartel warlords ..... :eek:

[lostalex]

Have you ever been to the UK lostalex?

ONly once. My parents dragged me there when i was 15 for a week to look at churches and tourist traps. I wanted to go to disney world.

[Niamh.]

Have you ever been to the UK lostalex?

well, he sure does watch alot of British shows:joker:

[lostalex]

well, he sure does watch alot of British shows:joker:


Well you can't blame me for that. American TV is DIRE.

[InOne]

ONly once. My parents dragged me there when i was 15 for a week to look at churches and tourist traps. I wanted to go to disney world.

Well, at least you can say you've been to the greatest place on earth at least once :hugesmile:

[Niamh.]

Well you can't blame me for that. American TV is DIRE.

I cannot believe my eyes!:o

[lostalex]

Well, at least you can say you've been to the greatest place on earth at least once :hugesmile:

yes i did eventually make it to Disney World. How did you know?

[lostalex]

I cannot believe my eyes!:o


I only speak the truth.

[Shasown]

Remind me again how many brits feature in the top ten of the Forbe's top 10- richest list?

That's a good start. If we wanna talk about posh.

More running away from questions and muddying the water.

I really am beginning to think you hate Europeans particularly the British with a vengeance. Did we hack you off in a previous life or something?

[lostalex]

More running away from questions and muddying the water.

I really am beginning to think you hate Europeans particularly the British with a vengeance. Did we hack you off in a previous life or something?

Now THAT's hilarious. YUr actually accusing me of being anti-brit?? As an American on here, i find it HILARIOUS that you'd accuse me of anti-european, you must be new. Read through the threads here, and tally the anti-American comments, to the Anti-european comments... then tell me again that you think that YOU are the victim. lol

Gimme a break. Get real. Learn how to count, plzzz.

[Shasown]

Now THAT's hilarious. YUr actually accusing me of being anti-brit?? As an American on here, i find it HILARIOUS that you'd accuse me of anti-european, you must be new. Read through the threads here, and tally the anti-American comments, to the Anti-european comments... then tell me again that you think that YOU are the victim. lol

Gimme a break. Get real. Learn how to count, plzzz.

You are the one coming onto a predominantly British forum and making ignorant comments, then you expect people not to point out the errors of your ways.

Not only that but every time someone points out your ignorance you change your argument and go off on a different tack.

Incidentally join up dates are shown on the left of the page under the users name and avatar.

[Beastie]

Nor was he posh :



http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/features/lifestyle/2320425.Davina___s_back__but_where_are_Nush__Steph _and_Tim_now_/

Tim spoke posh.

[dremm]

Sorry guys, your all wrong . No go, I'm beginning to think it was another reality show, perhaps around the early BB3/4 time? Anything else on UK TV at the time like the Jungle stuff or something?

All I remember was he was middle aged and in the press a lot after as a bit of a cad.

[lostalex]

You are the one coming onto a predominantly British forum and making ignorant comments, then you expect people not to point out the errors of your ways.

Not only that but every time someone points out your ignorance you change your argument and go off on a different tack.

Incidentally join up dates are shown on the left of the page under the users name and avatar.
what did i say that was ignorant? the royals are inbred. that's a fact. they live in a palace. That's a fact. They are "on the dole" (they receive money from the taxpayers) that's a fact.

What exactly am I ignorant about?

[Shasown]

what did i say that was ignorant? the royals are inbred. that's a fact. they live in a palace. That's a fact. They are "on the dole" (they receive money from the taxpayers) that's a fact.

What exactly am I ignorant about?

The Royals receive money from the civil list, thats slightly different than the dole.

Its a bit like saying Obama receives national assistance. After all he receives his money from the taxpayer.

[Omah]

Tim spoke posh.

So can anyone, even Michael Caine in Zulu ..... :joker:

[Shasown]

So can anyone, even Michael Caine in Zulu ..... :joker:

And got a VC for his efforts.

[Omah]

Sorry guys, your all wrong . No go, I'm beginning to think it was another reality show, perhaps around the early BB3/4 time? Anything else on UK TV at the time like the Jungle stuff or something?

All I remember was he was middle aged and in the press a lot after as a bit of a cad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ronald_George_Nall-Cain,_3rd_Baron_Brocket

Charlie Brockett, AKA Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain, 3rd Baron Brocket (born 12 February 1952), is a peer, former prisoner and television presenter in the United Kingdom.

An Old Etonian, Brocket served in the 14th/20th King's Hussars as a Lieutenant in Germany. He became known as a playboy, and collected classic cars, once owning forty-two Ferraris, which he became known for in the eighties and early 1990s. He was convicted of insurance fraud in 1996 and sentenced to five years in prison, of which he served two and a half years. In 2004 he was a contestant on the third series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. Finishing in fourth place, his new found fame made him a popular TV celebrity, making almost £1 million in offers.

[lostalex]

The Royals receive money from the civil list, thats slightly different than the dole.

Its a bit like saying Obama receives national assistance. After all he receives his money from the taxpayer.

Umm, but Obama actually has national duties. You know, he's a democratically elected leader, not just an inbred monarch.

Do i really have to explain the very VAST differences?

[Shasown]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ronald_George_Nall-Cain,_3rd_Baron_Brocket

Good one, you beat me to it.

[Shasown]

Umm, but Obama actually has national duties. You know, he's a democratically elected leader, not just an inbred monarch.

Do i really have to explain the very VAST differences?

And the Queen and all recipients of funds from the civil list carry out official duties, the payments being in line with the amount of duties they perform.

Sorry you dont agree with what they do, or how much they earn, you dont pay taxes over here so your opinion means squat on that one.

[Omah]

Umm, but Obama actually has national duties. You know, he's a democratically elected leader, not just an inbred monarch.

Do i really have to explain the very VAST differences?

Every year, the cost for presidential campaign has been increasing significantly. As a matter of fact, if the costs being shelled out by both the Republican and Democratic parties for their campaigns are added the cost will reach more than twice than that of the cost eight years before. As an example, in the year 1996, the cost was $448.9 million and in 2000 it was $649.5 million. In 2004, the cost soared to $1.01 billion.

Imagine that huge amount of money. You can actually run a small country with it, or finance some third world universities, or help relieve the hunger in Africa.

:rolleyes:

http://english.sina.com/world/1/2008/0115/141641.html

The outcome of the 2008 White House election remains up in the air, but one thing is certain -- the bid to succeed President George W. Bush will be the most expensive race in history.

Common estimates of this year's total outlay have tended to come in at around one billion dollars, and Fortune magazine recently upped its overall cost projection to $3 billion.

As a historical comparison, the campaign two decades ago that saw Republican George H.W. Bush succeed Ronald Reagan at the White House cost 59 million dollars.

Historians believe that the nation's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, spent 100,000 dollars in his bid to take the executive office in 1860.

[Shasown]

Imagine that huge amount of money. You can actually run a small country with it, or finance some third world universities, or help relieve the hunger in Africa.

:rolleyes:

Or you could just hype up what is simply an election of one more official into a massive borefest.

Ooops thats what they have done.

[lostalex]

Every year, the cost for presidential campaign has been increasing significantly. As a matter of fact, if the costs being shelled out by both the Republican and Democratic parties for their campaigns are added the cost will reach more than twice than that of the cost eight years before. As an example, in the year 1996, the cost was $448.9 million and in 2000 it was $649.5 million. In 2004, the cost soared to $1.01 billion.

Imagine that huge amount of money. You can actually run a small country with it, or finance some third world universities, or help relieve the hunger in Africa.

:rolleyes:

http://english.sina.com/world/1/2008/0115/141641.html


maybe you don't pay attention, he has to raise that money himself.

And unlike in Britain, we actually have primaries so that even the party leaders is a democratic process.

Remind me again who voted for Gordon Brown to be Prime Minister?? Oh yea, NO ONE.

Democracy??? lol

[Omah]

maybe you don't pay attention, he has to raise that money himself.

And unlike in Britain, we actually have primaries so that even the party leaders is a democratic process.

Remind me again who voted for Gordon Brown to be Prime Minister?? Oh yea, NO ONE.

Democracy??? lol

So what's one billion dollars used for in a US Presidential election ?

Oh, yeah, bribery and corruption ..... good ol' US democracy ..... :evilgrin:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0916/US-adds-3.8-million-more-to-ranks-of-the-poor-as-poverty-rate-jumps

US adds 3.8 million more to ranks of the poor as poverty rate jumps

US poverty rate hit 14.3 percent last year, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. The jump bring the number of the poor to its highest level since 1959, five years before the Johnson-era War on Poverty.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20936


Is the US becoming a Third World Country?

During recent years, the gap between the rich and poor has increased at a staggering pace, systematically wiping the existence of the middle class from America.The United States is on the brink of sliding down to a Third World country, as it struggles with massive debts, rising unemployment and a deteriorating economy.

Some of the warning signs that indicate America's fantastic fall from a First World nation include rising unemployment and poverty.

According to Spiegel Online, the United States is recently faced with a new phenomenon called "the new poor."

In Ventura California - a luxurious resort city - about 20 percent of the residents are at risk of homelessness.

The once-rich, who have lost their homes, are now forced to sleep in their expensive cars parked in the city's corners, Captain William Finley, the head of the local branch of the Salvation Army said.

Another signal that marks the demise of America's so-called greatness is the disappearance of the middle class.

During recent years, the gap between the rich and poor has increased at a staggering pace, systematically wiping the existence of the middle class from America.

Income inequality in the US has reached a stage where only one percent of Americans own as much as 37 percent of the total national wealth.

[dremm]

Its kind of Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain but I can't see anything with his name online and I should be able to get a lot of stuff because this guy I'm after was in the paps a lot.

Imagine its like him, right sort of profile, but, I don't know, he can't have been part of big brother, but he was on a reality show and I remember him sitting at a table with some other people and (maybe) someone like Jade Goody was reading an article from a book and she kept stopping and starting and he said "oh for christ sakes" ...that and his apparent affinity with the interesting life of the other half got him a lot of coverage outside of the house.


I still can't find the guy, so it might have been the jungle game show or some other reality show.

[Shasown]

Its kind of Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain but I can't see anything with his name online and I should be able to get a lot of stuff because this guy I'm after was in the paps a lot.

Imagine its like him, right sort of profile, but, I don't know, he can't have been part of big brother, but he was on a reality show and I remember him sitting at a table with some other people and (maybe) someone like Jade Goody was reading an article from a book and she kept stopping and starting and he said "oh for christ sakes" ...that and his apparent affinity with the interesting life of the other half got him a lot of coverage outside of the house.


I still can't find the guy, so it might have been the jungle game show or some other reality show.

I am a Celebrity Get me out of here contestant Charlie Brocket aka Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/10/article-1169133-0464C695000005DC-941_237x255.jpg

Not the best picture in the world.

[dremm]

Its not, he's more reserved this one. I'd like to think I'd got the guy, but its not him, this one I'm on about is more reserved, like a cad.

I can't think why I've not found him.

[Omah]

Its kind of Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain but I can't see anything with his name online and I should be able to get a lot of stuff because this guy I'm after was in the paps a lot.

Imagine its like him, right sort of profile, but, I don't know, he can't have been part of big brother, but he was on a reality show and I remember him sitting at a table with some other people and (maybe) someone like Jade Goody was reading an article from a book and she kept stopping and starting and he said "oh for christ sakes" ...that and his apparent affinity with the interesting life of the other half got him a lot of coverage outside of the house.

Reality show, posh, cad, Goody can only be James Hewitt on BTR :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hewitt


In 2003, Hewitt took part in the Five reality TV show Back To Reality and eventually won it.

Events included the threatened walk-out of the contestants after Nick Bateman was referred to as "Nasty Nick", the planned addition of Jade Goody's then boyfriend Jeff Brazier (from the reality TV show Shipwrecked) as a thirteenth contestant, Uri Geller walking out, the suspicion of Josie D'Arby being a mole (and the subsequent arguments and divides), the love interest between James Hewitt and Sarah Kozer, the rushing of Jade Goody to hospital and the "Ricardo Incident" when the flamboyant cross-dresser Rocardo Ribero argued with other housemates and then proceeded to destroy the kitchen. The show ended when the public voted The Games star James Hewitt to be the winner with Maureen Rees coming second.

In July 2004, Hewitt was arrested outside a restaurant in Fulham with Alison Bell, a CNN journalist, on accusation of possessing cocaine. A drunken Hewitt had .36 grams of cocaine in his pocket. He was given a warning, and Bell was released without charge. As a result, he was refused reinstatement of his gun licences because of his "intemperate habits" after police found a disassembled 16-bore shotgun on his living room floor.

He's your man ..... :cheer2:

[dremm]

bingo! thanks!

[Omah]

bingo! thanks!

Nae prob ..... :dance:

[ILoveTRW]

Prince Harry's Daddy

[Niamh.]

so he calls me an "arrogant twat", and doesn't get an infraction??? seriously?? I was fgiven an infraction for "personal insults" but he get's away withcalling me a "twat".

Yea, very fair moderation going on here. *rolls eyes*

how do you know whether or not she got an infraction?

[lostalex]

how do you know whether or not she got an infraction?


because she was able to post and i wasn't. obviously.

[Niamh.]

because she was able to post and i wasn't. obviously.

Infractions don't always result in a ban. Depends on how many you already have and how many you get

[lostalex]

Infractions don't always result in a ban. Depends on how many you already have and how many you get


who's side are you on?

[Niamh.]

who's side are you on?

What do you mean?

[lostalex]

What do you mean?

i see how it is.

[Niamh.]

i see how it is.

That's nice:hugesmile: