Separated At Birth Update!

For Jaz, Sundays signal an impending sense of melancholy, which has forever reached its climax at around 7pm when the theme music to the Antiques Roadshow kicks in. It has long been my ritual to avoid this death knell to the weekend like the plague by instead participating in some traditional Sunday perusing of the Bible (aka Sunday Times' Style Magazine). Scanning the perfectly designed pages and acerbic, wry commentary, I feel at one with its world and my mood turns positive and hopeful that one day my life will reflect such fabulousness.

Tonight, my leisurely flicking provides great comfort as I land on regular columnist Jessica Brinton's PLT page (People Like Them to the soon-to-be-conformed). Herein always lies a review of what's been going on in celebrity circles. It would appear that at one star-studded party recently was un-funny man James Corden, pictured with Andrew Flintoff "and friend". Immediately I react with genuine sympathy: Precisely Jessica! - these situations require tact and feigning ignorance is often better than mistaking one semi-famous cretin for another semi-famous cretin. Jessica must have suffered the same confusion that Jaz reported on Friday (http://boomerang-kid.blogspot.com/2010/02/separated-at-birth.html) post-viewing the latest episode of Skins, wherein the cameo appearance of Bez was most troubling due to his apparent relation as long lost twin to regular Skins actor John Bishop. Here pictured is either Bez or John Bishop. Who knows? The only sure thing is that Jessica and Jaz are on the same wavelength, which clearly makes Jaz eligible for employment at the Bible's HQ now, doesn't it?

Jaz x

Separated At Birth

Brit teen-drama-come-national-health-warning Skins has featured its fair share of brilliant guest roles over the past four years: Danny Dyer, Bill Bailey, Harry Enfield, Peter Capaldi, etc, etc. Last night saw Will Young cameo as a Jacko-worshipping ultra-peculiar school counsellor, illustrating what may have happened had the camp one never entered Pop Idol.

Most confusion, however, stemmed not from that, nor from Effy's sudden overnight diagnosis of psychotic depression, but from the fact that Effy and Freddie treat their friends Emily and Katie Fitch's father like they've never met him before. Granted, the two plastered love birds are always mashed, gurning, baked, chewing their faces off, toking marijuana and dropping acid 24/7 (but in a totally non-lethal, still-living-with-parents, going-to-school way), and Father Fitch looks like he's having a bit of an off day, it's hard to imagine they could treat him like they have no idea who he is. My constant bewilderment as to the sheer discourtesy of some youngsters in Bristol means the episode is completely lost on me. Seriously, how rude...

Slowly it becomes clear. Stand-up comedian John Bishop who plays Father Fitch (he's anything but a priest - or a Bishop - Jaz just doesn't recall his first name) is not this man. This man is ex-Happy Mondays baggy nutter Bez who has very few acting skills (or skills of any kind) but possesses an unnerving likeness to the man Bishop. Was this a cheap trick by Skins' producers to make the audience feel utterly off their heads too, or is Jaz just going completely b-a-n-a-n-a-s?


P.S. MTV is planning an Americanised version of Skins. *Yawn*

Jaz x