We intellectuals at Boggart Blog do not normally take much notice of daytime television but my wife drew my attention to This Morning this morning. Snatching the paper from my grasp she said urgently,

“Look at this, look at this, she’s drunk. half past ten in the morning and she’s drunk.”

When Teri gets excited enough to remove my morning paper whatever she is telling me to look at is worth looking at.

What we were seeing was former Atomic Kitten and Queen of the Jungle and a hundred Iceland ads Kerry Katona in a celebrity meltdown to rival that of Heather Mills (on the same show – perhaps I should watch more often)

Presenters Phil Schofield and Fern Britton were valiantly trying to interview the obviously intoxicated z-lister who was slurring her speech, giving rambling, incoherent answers and swooping from telling the presenters she loved them to being threatening and aggressive in the space of one sentence. This would not be difficult for verbose types like fatsally and me but for Kerry who normally converses in sentences of less than one syllable it’s quite an achievement.
Katona was on the show promoting her showbiz comeback after addiction problems and her new book “Whole Again.”

The performance gave me an idea for a regular Boggart Blog feature, or maybe a new realty TV show, Celebrity Train Wreck. Obviously the like of Kerry, Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse cannot take part, their celebrity vehicles are already derailed and lying at the trackside with their wheels in the air, but there must be plenty of others coming down the track, the needy and talentless who “want it” so much but cannot cope with the demands of fame.

The names Geldof and Peaches spring to mind.

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