More proof (if any was needed) that reality tv contestants aren’t exactly the brightest of people. “Shell” Jubin was touted as one of the cleverest people on this year’s UK Big Brother. During the course of the programme she got a first class degree in some fluffy subject.
But it seems that she’s not too clued up on gender politics. Within a few weeks of coming out of the house she’s posing for topless photos on page 3 of the Sun. And to compound her error of judgement she’s babbling on about how page 3 photos help to emancipate women.
I’ll leave it to The Guardian to explain just how muddle-headed her thinking is.
We’ve had it all wrong. For years, we thought that page three amounted to little more than the pornographic degradation of women, but it transpires that the Sun stalwart is up there with throwing yourself in front of a horse in terms of female emancipation. And it took Shell from Big Brother to inform us of this fact, while posing without her brassiere in that very paper on Monday. “Those who sneer at page three lack intelligence,” she explains. “It’s beautifully shot and tastefully pioneered the celebration of the female form,” she continues, before suggesting that page threes should hang in the Tate. The following day, the Sun featured the gay wedding of another Big Brother contestant, Kitten, who confusingly was also a feminist – an “arch-feminist”, even – but less sportingly wore all her clothes, which made her look “like a man”. But, back to Shell on the politics of page three: “In many ways, it emancipated women, letting them exploit their assets, earn cash and keep control. I see it as a modern art form.” By which fuzzy logic, Ms Jubin, you’ll also be classing prostitution as a modern art form, will you?