Take 20 people and put them in an enclosed environment where the media and public can scrutinise and watch their every move. During that time we will watch these strangers grow from unknown people to something of a celebrity.
Yes welcome to the world that was Big Brother.
Each summer for the past decade we have witnessed hundreds of people cram into a tiny house where cameras follow their every move. We have had all sorts of characters all desperate for their fifteen minutes of fame, although I think if Warhol were alive he would describe it as two minutes.
Eviction after eviction the fame hungry wannabes will do whatever it takes to ensure that they stay in the public eye. Attending a Danny Dyer film “premiere”, gossiping about what it was like in that “tortured environment” as they had to ensure several days with no alcohol and just pasta for a living. These self-deluded idiots who seem to have landed from planet freak have no idea what the real world is.
Let me enlighten them.
Take another thirty people, put them in an enclosed environment and let the media and public watch their every move. Yet these are not fame seeking attention loving wannabe celebrities. No these are hardworking family men who venture underground every day working in squalid, dark and often cramped conditions to provide food for their families.
Following one of the biggest mining accidents in history these men have been trapped underground for around the same time as the duration of a series of Big Brother. Yet these men did not complain when all they had to eat was “boring pasta”, these men took what ever could be passed down to them. They did not complain that there was no more wine or beer, they were grateful for every sip of water that passed their lips.
Yet in the months they were trapped their spirits and optimism shone through like a light emitting from the very darkness that surrounded them. These men were colleagues that became brothers, men who bonded together in order to survive and whilst the dwindling careers of those fame seeking freaks from Big Brother comes to a grinding halt the miners today slowly emerged from their own isolation and tasted the greatest prize that a human can receive. Life.
If these miners go on to sell their stories I would not begrudge them a single penny as it is a story worth telling down the ages. Each one of these men in my eyes are heroes. As for the celebrity seeking wannabes. Live and learn.
