Firstly: I should have said The Hills not Jersey Shore. These rubbish shows are all the same to me.

Secondly how did Brian Belo 'create' the show (your words) when it is based on an American reality show?

Brian Belo created the concept of having a hills like show based in Essex is what i said.

He spent 2 years pitching it and it was originally like a documentary (Totally Essex) which then developed into the show it is now.

See below...Brian Belo also stars

Hmmm. :suspect:

These TOWIE bitches don't let them do anything. :bored:

She'd be alright, but funny how they disapprove of it when without BB we'd not have nearly as many reality shows as we do tbh

Ew, I'M SO GLAD. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

You cannot create a concept which is basically a British version of an American reality show.

It's would be like me saying "I'll pitch a British version of Friends" and saying I CREATED it. I didn't. I just ripped off the idea.

Brian Belo can hardly construct a full sentence let alone the concept of a show.

Stop nit picking and bickering.

You said it was a rip off of Jersey Shore.

I posted the "Totally Essex" clip which is what Brian originally created and the cast then went on to star in TOWIE.

My point is Brian pitched that idea to ITV2 and now its one of their biggest shows and winning baftas and all sorts of awards.

Now ITV are looking down and cussin' down BB when they got the idea for the show from a former BB winner.

HE PITCHED IT. NOT ITV.

That is my point.

I think she was pulling someone's plonker ..... :joker:

The Only Way Is Essex is not a British version of The Hills though. It's a show that is inspired by The Hills with regards to its similar concept/format, but that's about as far as it goes.

It's not exactly BBUK/BBUSA, it's a show of it's own, not a UK adaptation and the idea for an Essex show was indeed devised by Brian Bello!

Amy is the only remotely good thing about TOWIE. Its nothing without her.

Joey Essex is hilarious too CharlieO

Can you all shut the ****** up about her not being an A Lister?

When have we ever had a REAL celebrity on CBB?
Either never, or maybe one or two times.

Amy, might not be some big Hollywood name but she's ******ing big here at the moment - same goes for Jedward.

You all seem to want 'Big Celebrities' by who exactly do you mean?
The likes of those Hollywood American Actors in their 50s that no one other than maybe Pyramid has heard of?

Just face the fact that most celebrities in the UK are people like Amy, they're only famous of tacky TV Shows - so infact she is a Celebrity whether you like it or not and she would pull in ratings for the show.

We were never going to get 'BIG NAMES' so just deal with what we've got, or could get.

:nono:

Lucy :love:

:joker:

Had a look at TOWIE after I read about this and saw Amy asking her date "where is North London?" - East Angular, anyone? What I really want to know is if that level of thick is faked for effect, or if it's real. If it's real, it doesn't exist anywhere I've ever lived. We'll have to go to enormous expense soon to recall every single dictionary and completely obliterate the word 'meritocracy'. How sad...............

Amy Childs is the only thing about TOWIE that I actually quite like. The rest of them are either so think they need to be put down or just absolutely loathsome *****.

i think this could be true because i remeber her manager thingy writing on twitter that amy childs is not on towie enough! she dosnt need towie anyway (Y)

They say there are no heroes or roll models anymore. Then I watch ten minutes of The Only Way Is Essex, and I know that to be true. Honestly... these people are TERRIBLE! I have friends in Essex who are mortified by this programme. If we're going to have celebrities in BB, at least let them have some modicum of talent and/or be able to string a sentence together.