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UK TV: CHANNEL 4 RESPONDS TO ‘MY CRAZY NEW JAMAICAN LIFE’ BACKLASH

November 7, 2013

Several weeks ago Channel 4 and production company Acme brought viewers the documentary ‘My Crazy New Jamaican Life’, in honour of ‘Black History Month’. ‘My Crazy New Jamaican Life’ (which was originally going to called ‘Yardie Wives’) focused on two English women,Debbie and Holly who ‘are each immersed in or passionate about Jamaican culture, from X-rated bashment styles to food, patois or having a family with a Jamaican-born man’. After the documentary aired the backlash came thick and fast and singer Shola Ama also […]

“CONTROVERSIAL” VUVUZELA FACES WORLD CUP BAN AFTER PLAYERS, FANS AND BROADCASTERS COMPLAIN OF NOISE

June 14, 2010

Via The Mail The controversial vuvuzela horns could be banned from World Cup following thousands of complaints from fans, broadcasters and the players. South Africa’s World Cup organising chief Danny Jordaan revealed his officials had been swamped by protests about the ear-bursting horns being blown during matches. Mr Jordaan told BBC Sport the vuvuzela would be banned ‘if there are grounds to do so’. Continue Reading…. When England eventually get knocked out of the tournament I bet they blame it on the vuvuzela, […]

UK TV: KERRY KATONA’S SHAMBOLIC APPEARANCE ON ‘THIS MORNING’

October 23, 2008

For those of you who are not so familiar with Kerry Katona, she burst on to the UK music scene back in the late 90s as a member of the defunct pop group Atomic Kitten.   Katona now makes a living endorsing budget supermarket chain Iceland, OK Magazine pays the “star” around £500,000 a year to “write” her own column for the publication (she doesn’t write squat!!!), and she has also appeared in her own MTV (Europe) reality show, ‘Kerry Katona – […]