BB using David Bowie's death in this way...

[Vicky.]

Does anyone else find this seriously distasteful?

I don't know why I expected anything else, but I can honestly imagine the producers rubbing their hands together at the news this morning and thinking of the publicity the show will pick up off the back of it as people tune in to see how the ex wife copes :S

I said in the chat thread, it wouldn't surprise me if they offered her more money to stay.

[Shaun]

I'm not surprised.

[Xtopher]

Anything for ratings... very distasteful.

[Cherie]

Awful but wouldn't Angie have agreed to air it :suspect:

[Jordan.]

The promo for tomorrows show was gross

[EspeonBB]

Complete agree. It's completely shameless and tacky of them to use a woman mourning her ex-husband to promo their show. I would have thought Angie would want those moments to be kept private and not be broadcast all over the nation :umm2:

The producers have always been shameless though. Putting in a known homophobe for controversy/buzz and just last series they showed Janice having a fit in the diary room on camera

[zakman440]

In very bad taste, but I wouldn't expect anything less from the current crop of producers.

[Headie]

That's the most distasteful thing Channel 5 have ever aired imo. Especially after they said they wouldn't film it.

[Niamh.]

I thought they were telling her in private? Gross

[joeysteele]

Does anyone else find this seriously distasteful?

I don't know why I expected anything else, but I can honestly imagine the producers rubbing their hands together at the news this morning and thinking of the publicity the show will pick up off the back of it as people tune in to see how the ex wife copes :S

I said in the chat thread, it wouldn't surprise me if they offered her more money to stay.

I 100% agree with everything you have said Vicky.

[joeysteele]

I thought they were telling her in private? Gross

So did I, so much for respect.

[MB.]

I'm fairly sure that's just afterwards (she was told off-camera by her representatives), but it's still beyond tacky to advertise tomorrow's show with the clip

[jaxie]

I thought it was a distasteful promo but her reaction in the diary room was very genuine and very human. Very sad.

The worst thing sometimes is that when someone dies, and there has been bad feeling, you realise that there will never the chance to say we had a good time didn't we and I'm sorry.

[Daniel-X]

It was in bad taste for sure. They're just grabbing as many viewers as they can but it's wrong on every level.

[nonstop]

It's Channel 5, I'm mean what did you think they were going to do?

[smudgie]

Disgusting.
They have seriously crossed the lines of human decency.

[GiRTh]

Channel 5 will forever be sucking on the sump pump of sensationalism. Very tacky to promo the show with Angie mourning her ex husband.

[Kazanne]

Does anyone else find this seriously distasteful?

I don't know why I expected anything else, but I can honestly imagine the producers rubbing their hands together at the news this morning and thinking of the publicity the show will pick up off the back of it as people tune in to see how the ex wife copes :S

I said in the chat thread, it wouldn't surprise me if they offered her more money to stay.

It's disgraceful Vicky,they could at least have kept it private for now,i didn't think they could sink much lower,they just did.

[Pete.]

Honestly I expected it (they could get into trouble if Angie did not give permission)

[Josy]

Yes its bad taste.

I'm thinking they must have asked Angie if it was alright to air the scenes of her being told though.

[Kazanne]

I would stop watching in protest,but I can't I am far too nosey.

[Jack_]

I'm yet to watch the episode but they seriously created a one-off 'tomorrow' teaser to promote scenes involving a woman who has just recently been informed of the death of her ex husband? :umm2:

A new low.

[Cherie]

Yes its bad taste.

I'm thinking they must have asked Angie if it was alright to air the scenes of her being told though.

I agree

[Beso]

the news has been showing people mourning all day. for me it looks heartfelt and fitting.

[BB4fan]

Not really shocking as it was to be expected.

[Jamie89]

I'm yet to watch the episode but they seriously created a one-off 'tomorrow' teaser to promote scenes involving a woman who has just recently been informed of the death of her ex husband? :umm2:

A new low.

It was disgusting. I actually feel guilty watching it.

[susie q]

I thought it was a distasteful promo but her reaction in the diary room was very genuine and very human. Very sad.

The worst thing sometimes is that when someone dies, and there has been bad feeling, you realise that there will never the chance to say we had a good time didn't we and I'm sorry.

Yes I think its the final realisation that it cant be changed thats difficult to take.
I hope that she is able to reconcile with her son.

[wendywillow]

I missed the promo....they aired them telling her or her reaction afterwards?

[BigBrotherfan4ever]

Does anyone else find this seriously distasteful?

I don't know why I expected anything else, but I can honestly imagine the producers rubbing their hands together at the news this morning and thinking of the publicity the show will pick up off the back of it as people tune in to see how the ex wife copes :S

I said in the chat thread, it wouldn't surprise me if they offered her more money to stay.

Totally agree with you Vicky

[jet]

Yes its bad taste.

I'm thinking they must have asked Angie if it was alright to air the scenes of her being told though.

I certainly hope so.
Angie being told should be a very private moment without the eyes of the nation gaping at her.
I don't like the thought of her giving permission to screen it either, but it's preferable to them doing it without asking her.

[Jarvio]

Can we have Bowie added to the title? To not confuse with David the HM

[Braden]

So ****ing tacky.

[Maxxie.]

Complete agree. It's completely shameless and tacky of them to use a woman mourning her ex-husband to promo their show. I would have thought Angie would want those moments to be kept private and not be broadcast all over the nation :umm2:

The producers have always been shameless though. Putting in a known homophobe for controversy/buzz and just last series they showed Janice having a fit in the diary room on camera

The whole point of BB is showing footage 24 hours a day. Besides, Janice's fit was overly dramatic anyways.

[Visage]

I kinda expected it and if the news channel was anywhere near Angie's home they would be filming her coming out of the house. That doesn't make it right but it's the world of media and paparazzi we live in.

Bowie touched so many people's life's his death will no doubt-ably attract more people to tuning into the news programs to see how other people have reacted.

Death has a morbid curiosity about it that draws people in.


It's awful, but I am curious with how Angie reacts to this news tomorrow and the rest of the housemates for that matter.


I hope Angie talks about the positives from her relationship with David.

[Brother Leon]

She obviously gave them permission to air it. They would hardly have decided to do so themselves. Don't see the issue.

[arista]

I thought they were telling her in private? Gross


Yes they did
then got 2 others
to do a Edit.

Its a Set Up

Get Angie Out

[Calderyon]

Maybe they had inside information about DB´s condition and that´s why they cast Angie in the house.

They might have had this planned all along.

[reece(:]

Maybe they had inside information about DB´s condition and that´s why they cast Angie in the house.

They might have had this planned all along.
Illuminati?

[arista]

Maybe they had inside information and that´s why they cast Angie in the house.

They might have had this planned.


No Way
some knew he was going die
but it was kept Private.

She could leave in a Black window Car
to a place no press can touch her


Its Bollocks

[arista]

Awful but wouldn't Angie have agreed to air it :suspect:


Its a Deal
they want Ch5 on Front pages


But the BBC hates showing Ch5.


It Stinks
Viacom have big money
USA Owners of Ch5

[arista]

I missed the promo....they aired them telling her or her reaction afterwards?


I hope a Top Member posts it

[arista]

She obviously gave them permission to air it. They would hardly have decided to do so themselves. Don't see the issue.


Pre Scripting Collusion


Collusion is
[secret or illegal cooperation
or conspiracy in order to deceive others.]

[minty3]

OMG they aired it that's awful haven't watched yet as I've been at work

[Northern Monkey]

They must have asked her if they could show the reaction.Otherwise i'd agree.They surely can't just show her finding out without asking her first?

[Erik B]

Poor Angie, this was supposed to be private. There are things we don't need to watch. It says a lot about the producers of the show.

[arista]

Vicky Live on GMBHD

Piers Morgan
agreed with you at 6:24 AM today

Croc. Tears


The only Channel showing the Fake Ending to last nights show
ITV licking Viacoms ASS

[sungrass]

I dont think Angie would have agreed to show those scenes and I doubt it was up to her - these billionaires that run shows like this have the best lawyers - and make the best contracts- she signed up for it...she wasnt to know he was going to die. Of course its low however its also a tribute - her emotions will be real and I think we are all grieving and in a stange way its comforting. Especially for those of us who grew up with those two.

[jennyjuniper]

Awful but wouldn't Angie have agreed to air it :suspect:

I can see her making a meal out of this. While David was alive Angie didn't seem to have a good word to say about him.

[waterhog]

Does anyone else find this seriously distasteful?

I don't know why I expected anything else, but I can honestly imagine the producers rubbing their hands together at the news this morning and thinking of the publicity the show will pick up off the back of it as people tune in to see how the ex wife copes :S

I said in the chat thread, it wouldn't surprise me if they offered her more money to stay.

it will say allot about the people that just tune in on hearing this news ?

[Cherie]

I can see her making a meal out of this. While David was alive Angie didn't seem to have a good word to say about him.

Unfortunately I think so too, happy to be proved wrong

[Crimson Dynamo]

Does anyone else find this seriously distasteful?

I don't know why I expected anything else, but I can honestly imagine the producers rubbing their hands together at the news this morning and thinking of the publicity the show will pick up off the back of it as people tune in to see how the ex wife copes :S

I said in the chat thread, it wouldn't surprise me if they offered her more money to stay.

They gave her the option not to show it but she said show it. It was her call not BBs

source: Lorraine ITV1HD This Morning


(She has been estranged from her son since he was 13 in 1984 and she divorced Bowie in 1980)

[Josy]

I don't want to sound horrible here, but honestly I can see Angie milking this, just the way she was sitting with John and David Gest in the second clip last night already made it pretty obvious to me.

I really hope she doesn't though, and I honestly do feel for her because no matter how much she declared she hated him they were still married, had a child together and spent a good few years of their lives together.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I don't want to sound horrible here, but honestly I can see Angie milking this, just the way she was sitting with John and David Gest in the second clip last night already made it pretty obvious to me.

I really hope she doesn't though, and I honestly do feel for her because no matter how much she declared she hated him they were still married, had a child together and spent a good few years of their lives together.

She is still milking his surname 36 years after their divorce

[kirklancaster]

Jenny Juniper and Cherie - I totally agree with you both.

This may lower my popularity on here even more, and I am sorry, but - to me - Angie's reaction was totally fake and she was deliberately using this tragic and sad incident for her own personal gain.

I am sorry, but I can only speak the truth as I perceive it.

I shed a quiet tear for Bowie because he represents a huge part of my life when I was young, and - as with Elvis or The Beatles and others - I cannot ever hear his records without it evoking in me almost tangible memories of the happy times I enjoyed, the pretty girls I dated, and also some sad times.

I shed a tear for Bowies passing, but that tear was also for my long passed youth and I thank God for Bowies music so I can relive it in my memory.

Angie was married to Bowie and shared a son with him, and Bowie and his music must be a million times more meaningful to her because of that intimacy.

Yet, it did not appear that way to me judging by her reaction when the news was broken to her.

I KNOW that people react differently to tragic news, but her first reaction was very measured and she bordered on being totally dismissive:

"I haven’t seen him in so many years I can’t make a big drama about it, but I feel an era has ended, it’s so very sad,’ Angie said.

Then, she buried her head on her knees and seemingly wept uncontrollably but when she raised her head I saw no tears.

This grief was repeated in front of David Gest, John Partridge AND the camera but I could not help sensing that this was 'theatrics' rather than the genuine and heartfelt sorrow and grief which even I felt.

If I am wrong, then I unreservedly apologise, but her illogical and contrary reaction, and the fact that she elected to remain in the house after such shocking and saddening news, persuades me, that to Angie, this was nothing more than 'deus et machina' a totally unexpected incident which may salvage her personal desire to remain in the house longer if not even win the show, and therefore restore her to the fame which she only ever enjoyed because of Bowie, and which only ever really endured whilever she was with him.

[kirklancaster]

I don't want to sound horrible here, but honestly I can see Angie milking this, just the way she was sitting with John and David Gest in the second clip last night already made it pretty obvious to me.

I really hope she doesn't though, and I honestly do feel for her because no matter how much she declared she hated him they were still married, had a child together and spent a good few years of their lives together.

I agree Josy, and my post mainly echoes yours, though you posted whilst I was typing.

[bots]

For me it doesn't matter if Angie's reaction was true or false. History dictates by her actions and words what her position was. Also, by the words and actions of David before he died and her son. So, how she reacted to the news is pretty meaningless.

For me, the producers are milking the death in an unsavoury way. They didn't need to show that trailer, but they did. They don't need to focus on an event that occurred outside the house, but they will. All to try and gain a few more viewers who are only watching out of some morbid fascination.

The producers have shown repeatedly that they have no moral compass. They are the TV equivalent of the gutter press. Its no longer a show I want to watch

[jaxie]

Most people seem to have the impression that what was shown was Angie being told of his death when they stated this was done privately.

Come on folks they aren't going to call the woman into the diary room and tell her. I don't even know if they need special permission to show diary room footage, that they have in this instance leaves some ethics to be desired. It seems to me that after she was told she must have gone to the diary room and bb probably asked her if she was doing all right. Then when she got upset they probably called in a couple of housemates she is comfortable with to give her a bit of moral support.

Her reaction seemed pretty genuine to me when she was talking to BB, well I haven't seen him for years and then the tears, sometimes things hit you like that, but you know what, it's actually kind of tacky for us to be analising her feelings. She was married to the man for ten years and she literally made him a star. She was the one with the connections. Then he dumped her. They had all kinds of history and baggage that none of us know about, angry hurt people lash out, so lets her cut her a little slack.

[Crimson Dynamo]

For me it doesn't matter if Angie's reaction was true or false. History dictates by her actions and words what her position was. Also, by the words and actions of David before he died and her son. So, how she reacted to the news is pretty meaningless.

For me, the producers are milking the death in an unsavoury way. They didn't need to show that trailer, but they did. They don't need to focus on an event that occurred outside the house, but they will. All to try and gain a few more viewers who are only watching out of some morbid fascination.

The producers have shown repeatedly that they have no moral compass. They are the TV equivalent of the gutter press. Its no longer a show I want to watch

she agreed for it to be shown

BB would not have shown it IF SHE HAD SAID NO



i hope this is clear

[jaxie]

she agreed for it to be shown

BB would not have shown it IF SHE HAD SAID NO



i hope this is clear

Not really since I don't know if they would have to ask permission to show diary room footage. Surely permission for that is taken care of when they go in.

[smudgie]

She won't have been told about it in the DR, her representatives will have been in one of the task rooms to have a private chat with her.
No doubt she will also have been advised as to if she should stay in the show or not, or even if she wants to stay in.
Once she had made her decision the chat in the DR will have taken place, no doubt with her permission.
No matter how it was done, I still find it distasteful.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Not really since I don't know if they would have to ask permission to show diary room footage. Surely permission for that is taken care of when they go in.

It was stated on tv this morning that she granted permission for that to be shown

[jennyjuniper]

I agree Josy, and my post mainly echoes yours, though you posted whilst I was typing.

Hi Kirk, I agree with you about the memories. David was never one of my all time faves, although some of his songs stir wonderful memories. I liked him better as an actor. Labyrinth was great and that prisoner of war film was really good too. (What was it called? You are my go to guy when I needed my memory jogging!!):wavey:

[chuff me dizzy]

Yes ,very distasteful

[chuff me dizzy]

I don't want to sound horrible here, but honestly I can see Angie milking this, just the way she was sitting with John and David Gest in the second clip last night already made it pretty obvious to me.

I really hope she doesn't though, and I honestly do feel for her because no matter how much she declared she hated him they were still married, had a child together and spent a good few years of their lives together.

I bet she has not got a single nomination this week ,and lets face it If David had not died she and Nancy would both be up

[bots]

she agreed for it to be shown

BB would not have shown it IF SHE HAD SAID NO



i hope this is clear

But that is irrelevant. Its still contrived gutter television.

[Livia]

Bowie's death is the most interesting thing to happen to Angie Bowie for decades and she's going to milk it for all it's worth. Meanwhile. Big Brother should be hanging their heads in shame at this appalling lack of taste and decorum.

[Ashley.]

Disgusting.

[Crimson Dynamo]

But that is irrelevant. Its still contrived gutter television.

welcome to Channel 5 and reality TV

[kirklancaster]

Hi Kirk, I agree with you about the memories. David was never one of my all time faves, although some of his songs stir wonderful memories. I liked him better as an actor. Labyrinth was great and that prisoner of war film was really good too. (What was it called? You are my go to guy when I needed my memory jogging!!):wavey:

Hi Jenny,

It was the excellent 'Merry Christmas Mr lawrence' I think Jen.

[Vicky.]

I don't want to sound horrible here, but honestly I can see Angie milking this, just the way she was sitting with John and David Gest in the second clip last night already made it pretty obvious to me.

I really hope she doesn't though, and I honestly do feel for her because no matter how much she declared she hated him they were still married, had a child together and spent a good few years of their lives together.

I said this yesterday..I hope she doesn't but she has been clinging onto his name for the past however many years and tbf she is only in there because of him :S

[wendywillow]

using the bowie stuff in the promo was tacky, but theyre going to show the aftermath on the show obviously and angie signed off on it so I don't have a problem with that

[chuff me dizzy]

I said this yesterday..I hope she doesn't but she has been clinging onto his name for the past however many years and tbf she is only in there because of him :S

True ,and Im sorry but the crying into her hands looked mighty fake to me

[Crimson Dynamo]

cant wait for all the fawning and croc tears tonight...

[Slevin]

when she said "the stardust is gone" made me cringe with something being fake. it was like she was acting with that line.

[Crimson Dynamo]

lets hope amazon and ebay and his label dont cash in on his death...

:umm2:

[Lostie!]

So people are morally appalled by what C5 is doing (rightfully so) but are happy to accuse a woman of exploiting her ex husband's death based on not much whatsoever?

Alright then.

[Shaun]

To be fair LT unless they started bringing out more albums / "unreleased material" of his, I can't really see how it's cashing in on his death? If people are more interested in buying his albums all of a sudden out of respect/suddenly realising his legacy/whatever reason these plebs don't already have them (:fist:) then I can't really see what these companies are doing wrong. :shrug:

And re: Angie yeah I don't really get the "she's going to milk this, I can just tell..." comments. If she hadn't reacted at all people would call her an ice cold bitch :laugh: Woman can't win.

[Crimson Dynamo]

To be fair LT unless they started bringing out more albums / "unreleased material" of his, I can't really see how it's cashing in on his death? If people are more interested in buying his albums all of a sudden out of respect/suddenly realising his legacy/whatever reason these plebs don't already have them (:fist:) then I can't really see what these companies are doing wrong. :shrug:

And re: Angie yeah I don't really get the "she's going to milk this, I can just tell..." comments. If she hadn't reacted at all people would call her an ice cold bitch :laugh: Woman can't win.

i cant blame BB for getting promo from this

[jennyjuniper]

Hi Jenny,

It was the excellent 'Merry Christmas Mr lawrence' I think Jen.

That's the one.:wavey: You never let me down Kirk.