The new series of Big Brother starts in the UK tonight. I'm happy to admit that I find it all fascinating and will therefore be glued to my TV for large portions of the next ten weeks.
The nasty British tabloid rag The Sun likes to think of itself as the "official Big Brother paper" and will be covering the programme in great detail. Their journalists must love this time of year as they get get to watch TV all day and write about what they are seeing.
You can tell the level of The Sun's coverage however from the fact that earlier this week they offered £50,000 to the first couple to have sex in the Big Brother house. This wuldn't be worth mentioning if it wasnt' for the fact that only heterosexual sex will be considered. Or as the paper puts it "the first boy-girl bonk". The Guardian had a nice piece about this in yesterday's diary.
Homophobia is alive and well in the UK and The Sun is its spiritual home.
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