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When Beckham acts
So, there was something quite triumphant about Victoria Beckham's cameo in Ugly Betty after all. Watching it straight after Anne Widdecombe's marshalling of Have I Got News For You, it made Widdy look like the greatest comedy talent in the world.
The Betty team went wrong giving her lines: it's perhaps heartbreaking that Beckham is incapable of playing herself convincingly, but at least if all she had to do was wave and stand up, she'd have got away with it.
You do wonder if the 'Beckham locked in a cupboard' part of the episode was the result of a quick rewrite having seen her mangle her lines in earlier scenes. "Oh, bugger, just lock her in a cupboard..."
It says a lot about stage schools that, despite not having gone to one, Vera Wang out-performed Beckham, who had.
Fans of Beckham's acting will also have had the pleasure of the Tesco advert appearing. We're not quite sure we understand this: the five Spices independently turn up at the same branch of Tesco at the same time, and try to hid from each other. But why? Are they ashamed of being seen in Tesco? And if that's the point, why would Tesco have spent a fortune creating an advert suggesting that its stores are the sort of place where even Mel C would be embarrassed to be shopping in? Is their big Christmas message really supposed to be "Go on, try the Co-Op; you can hold your head up in there"?
The underwhelming nature of the Tescos ad has, at least, allowed me to find some rare common ground with Kerry Katona. She's not impressed, either:
Well, that's going a little far, Kerry. It's not that rotten.
3 comments:
Eh? In what way is the Spice Girls' offering 'competition' for Katona's deep-fried honkings? Because they're both adverts for supermarkets which star 'celebrities'? Sure, there certainly aren't any other adverts like that out there this year, unless you count that one for Morrisons. And Sainsburys. And Asda.
And which of Katona's adverts is she referring to, anyway? All of them, or one in particular? Because there seems to be about 200 of them, spawning like an endless stream of hard-to-kill bad-guys, spurting forth from a particularly tough end-of-level boss. Kill off the one where Katona pretends she's a newsreader and - blip! - It's instantly replaced by one where she's hosting a party for her pretend family. Kill that one and - Spoink! - Her and her lank-haired boyfriend pop up for another witless exchange.
Awful though the Spice Girls' advert is, at least they don't pop up every ten minutes in different guises to make you hate them in new and varied ways you never thought possible.
(To be fair though, Katona's advert does have one plus point over the Spices; At least you can actually believe Katona gets her food from Iceland)
(Which is why I don't go there any more)
Isn't the point supposed to be that they're buying presents for each other?? So don't want to be spotted with a trolley full of gifts (at least not till they've got home and taken off the 'Tesco Value' labels)?
Or am I reading too much into things?
Worry, worry...
Anon: It's hard to believe the Spices shop in Tesco. Asking us to believe they like each other enough to buy gifts for one another is really pushing it...
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