Eeeek - was on Five Live Breakfast show this morning, talking about children on TV and found myself in a rather intense debate with Nina Steele, mother of Holly Steele, who famously burst into tears on Britain's Got Talent... forever proof that I am not a morning person...
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Posted 3 years ago #
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I don't watch any of the so called reality talent shows, but is it not sort of a given that people on them will burst into tears?!
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Especially if they are 10 years old and far too young to handle that kind of pressure in my humble...
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Oh absolutely. What kind of fame hungry harridan would put their child through that!? Not that the Young master has any special talent that would lead him to wish to appear on one of those shows, but even if he did, there is no way I'd let him go on until he was at least 16.
Holly has no doubt been told how special and talented she is for her whole life, and for someone to say otherwise would be devastating.
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If I have a child, he'll be given an electric guitar for his second birthday and told not to come out of his room until he has a multiplatinum album.
I'm not having a child of mine having to use his brain for a living.
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Jen - we were separated at birth! That's exactly what I said - wouldn't put my kids through it. Although also made point they have yet to evince any talent that would qualify them for these shows, so unlikely to be a dilemma I ever face...
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The only talent that the YM is displaying at the moment is his increasing similarity to a young Brad Pitt.
If any Hollywood producers are looking for someone to play the role of a younger Brad Pitt, he is available for work. Contact me for details....Posted 3 years ago # -
Ask him to give me a call in 10 years. I'll have a role for him in a Mrs Robinson remake by then...
Posted 3 years ago # -
Isn't this known as "grooming"?
I never thought I'd see this side of the internet.
Well, not on here, at least.
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Ah Mr Square, it happens all the time on here. I am in fact a 73yr old man masquerading as a 38yr old woman in the hope of befriending all these NB lovelies.
It seems to be working, and as long as no-one finds out, I'll be sa...
Damn, damn, damn.Posted 3 years ago # -
Wasn't Brad Pitt famously a spotty ugly duckling as a teen though. Mr Square I wouldn't give my 2 year old daughter an electric guitar as she would almost certainly smack me (and everyone else) round the head with it... delicate little flower that she is !
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Was he?! Must google that. The YM is but ten, and although going through the pre-puberty hormonal thing, has a while to go before the spots kick in. Mr B escaped spots entirely (bastard), and I didn't suffer from them until I'd had the YM at 28, so he might just be lucky.
I had to hide the YM's drum kit from him at 3 due to his tendency to use the sticks to whack everything in sight.Posted 3 years ago # -
Ah - perhaps I'm just an ugly teen and waiting to blossom into a beautiful swan. 30 is the new teens, right? Right? RIGHT???
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Ahem...
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You, Maz are a mere babe in arms. I am staring down the barrel of 40. In exactly one month and 12 days, I will be 39, and what exactly have I done with my life?! Eh? Apart from produce my wonderful child of course. Not a fecking lot is the answer. And how shall I be celebrating this almost, but not quite milestone birthday? Well, apparently, the day after I shall be going paint-balling for the first time ever, with one other girl, and 23 boys!!! All of whom are so stuffed full to the gunnel's with testosterone, that I think I'll be sprouting testicles from inhaling the stuff.
However, 40 is the new 20, so that's all good then.Posted 3 years ago # -
I bloody hope its the new 20, I have 31 hours to go and counting...
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Oh it is Madjez. Well, there is no way, that I'll be behaving in a 40yr old manner. Not when I'm still 19 in my head.
(Let me know if it hurts btw).
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No way would I give my 2 year old son a guitar. But last Christmas I DID give my 2 year old NIECE a drum kit...(seriously!)
She loves it!... that's the kind of uncle I am. (My sister lives 300 miles away... and she foisted all sorts of noisy brightly coloured crap on my 3 when they were younger... if she didn't have a sense of humour she wouldn't have had me as a brother!)
Posted 3 years ago # -
Will you keep off the age thing? I'm almost 47. Meh.
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