Celebrity Talent

[andygates]

We need another celebrity talent show.  No, wait, put down that taser, I'm serious.  We need Celebrity So You Think You Can Fight?

Imagine it: Z-list celebs cage-fighting in the octagon.  No butting, gouging or biting.  Russell Brand getting pwned by wee Jimmy Krankie because wee Jimmy's secretly been doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for the last twenty years.  Middle-aged soap stars squaring off against pop producers.  The WAGapocalypse: Two WAGs enter, one WAG leaves.  Lembit Opik and George Galloway in tight shorts all tangled up and bloody.

It's a golden win.  And it would franchise across the world (except Russia, maybe, where Putin would enter wearing the skin of a bear he killed himself and the opposing celeb would tap out as soon as the first bell rang). 

Comments

[katebush.livejournal.com]

Just lol :D

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Didn't they already do that? I'm sure I remember a spate of bus-stop posters of z-list celebs in faux-y boxing outfits about five years ago.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

There was the Gladiators reboot, and there was The Games, which had boxing one season. The Games was actually pretty good as it had real sports. But Glads aren't Z-list slebs until they've been canned so maybe you mean something else?

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Eh, I could well have been mistaking working Gladiators for I'm A Celebrity fodder, since the only one I could ever recognise was Wolf. :)

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Jet... :)

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Jet and Wolf. Never liked Hunter. Far too much the pretty boy.

Actually, fuckit. I still want to be a Gladiator.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

You will go on my second whistle!

Jet and Wolf and a couple of bottles of wine and a sauna. Mm-hm.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

We really have to do an adventure race this year.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

So you can come stay with us and sample my Japanese cooking?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Hai! Kore wa nom nom nom desu!

Plus so we can keep convincing ourselves that we're leet affleets.

[skean.livejournal.com]

We could maybe call it "Celebrity Death Match"?

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

I'd watch. I wish they'd bring back Tough Enough, too. Because, every once in awhile, one of the wrestlers gave a genuine beating to one of the 20-something pretty-boys. One of the guys who was on as a trainer one season (Tazz) summed it up (this is a paraphrase; I couldn't track down the footage): "I spent 20 years busting my ass to get where I am, and the WWE is setting these kids up in a nice apartment and then handing one of them a contract. So, if you think I'm not bitter..."

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a TV show that's basically America's Next Top Model for MMA cage fighting?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I think that was Tough Enough, wasn't it? Lots of pretty boys with expensive hair and someone like Stallone anchoring it?

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Hurm. Maybe. But I'm sure there was one with some sort of celebrity (as in, proper, respected) cage wrestler. And there was one with Hulk Hogan, amirite?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Curse my Hulkalike tache, I cannot remember for the life of me.

Anne Robinson and Carol Vorderman. That's worth the licence fee, right there.

I wonder if there's a gumshield fetish site out there?

[maythen-apple.livejournal.com]

In America there was (briefly) such a TV show. I think it was just called Celebrity boxing. I don't care for reality shows or watching boxing, so I don't have much personal recall. I do remember that the guy who played Screech on Saved By The Bell (he played the nerd) beat the crap out of some other guy. He turned out to be a savage beast.

It didn't last long. Most pretty people don't want to risk messing up their faces, especially when it's how they earn a living.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

But that's the whole point!

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Hercules!!!!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Mike Dixon is a god!

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Still!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I was explaining him and Hercules to my physio while he acupunctured my knee, and his face when I described the events was a picture.

[carldem.livejournal.com]

In New Zealand there used to be a charity boxing match. It was something like 3 rounds between volunteers. All proceeds and donations went to the "yellow ribbon for life appeal". Quite often there were popular sports celebs going against each other, or radio talk show/politicians and I think we saw a couple of TV people (but they couldn't punch for #$%^).

The PC crowd closed it down, and almost got the charity iced because of the relationship to violence.

[sciolist.livejournal.com]

I'd watch it.