[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.

[Cherie]

Awful but wouldn't Angie have agreed to air it

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Awful but wouldn't Angie have agreed to air it

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

[jennyjuniper]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Awful but wouldn't Angie have agreed to air it

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.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by jennyjuniper

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

[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.

[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.

[Xtopher]

Anything for ratings... very distasteful.

[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.

[susie q]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

[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

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

[Maxxie.]

Originally Posted by 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

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.

[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]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I thought they were telling her in private? Gross

So did I, so much for respect.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by 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.

I 100% agree with everything you have said Vicky.

[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

[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.