Spain's Olympic Basketball Team, "preparing for Beijing"
Spain's Federation Cup Tennis Team
These look like the kind of hideously ill-advised photographs one might expect to be revealed by chance after a long trawl through various social networking sites. However, they came from Marca, one of Spain's best selling daily newspapers, and the official website of the Spanish Tennis Federation, respectively. If you're going to do something quite so stupid, why do it quite so publicly?!
It must be pointed out that China is not merely an innocent victim here. I happened to be watching the BBC's Olympic news roundup which is accessible via the 'red button', which showed the moment China won (yet another) gold at table tennis. When one of his German opponents hit the ball out to finish the match, one of the Chinese players celebrated the victory with a Nazi salute, coupled with a finger under the nose to denote a Hitler-esque moustache.
While I'm sure table tennis does not gather in a massive television audience, I cannot be the only person to notice this- it was pretty blatant, and the BBC have been playing it on loop all day! However, I can find no mention of it on the internet, and so thought I'd do the honours.
I really would recommend the red button for the Olympics though. None of the tennis was covered by BBC One or Two, and many other exciting sports miss out on premier schedule slots. I got to watch GB triumph over South Africa in one of the men's hockey pool matches, a bittersweet victory as my school's visiting hockey coach, Marvin Bam, was playing in defence for SA. That said, it was nice to see his face again- Google him and you'll see why!
There aren't strong enough words for the way I feel about this harridan! Mostly it's her no doubt self-proclaimed status: fashionista. Why would anyone take fashion advice from this woman? She dresses appallingly herself, and her approach to dressing her victims is entirely formulaic: coloured tights, pencil skirt, hideous tunic worn over long sleeved top and a massive black belt round the waist to set it all off.
This man is just creepy- that bit at the beginning where he snaps on the rubber gloves, and indeed this picture, make me shudder. I do find the surgery element to the show a bit off, to be honest. Gok et al work with what they have (and create better results, in my opinion), while 10YY is a total overhaul and I don't think that's a positive message to be sending out. Also, what's all this about him being a top surgeon? As far as I can see, he's only capable of acid peels and brow and face lifts!
Looks like a small child who's just found some scissors and is about to hack off the hair of his long suffering childminder: I would not let him touch my hair! He seems to have a thing about 'expensive blonde' (maybe he should talk to NHJ about this?), and like Stanek a bit of a one trick pony: obviously left hairdresser school after being taught how to do a bob!
There are awards for everything these days, and this woman has one for colouring hair. I suppose if she is the best it's only a pity she can't do herself, although I do doubt this accolade as she never manages a terribly convincing colour on any of her charges. With this said, I do think it is wise of Nicky not to let Andrew anywhere near strong chemicals- all hell would break loose!
I don't have a problem with her as such, though I do wish she would veer away from veneers! Everyone on this programme does have dreadful teeth, but a bit of whitening and some braces is surely all that's needed in most cases. I rather feel that when (as she never hesitates to point out) each tooth costs between £800 and £2000 and she knows Channel 4 is footing the bill, floating pound signs cloud her judgment and she goes all out. The procedure wrecks the actual tooth, and therefore they need to be replaced every ten years, presumably by Uchenna...
The only expert worth the name, in my view. She always does a good job, and does so in a way any viewer could achieve. I reckon she should assasinate the others and do the whole programme herself. The end result wouldn't be much worse: all they ever need is a bit of make-up, better clothes (and Lisa dresses far better than Nicki!), and some confidence!
