(L to R): Tagoe, Thomas, Rives, Grove, and Darby Look To Solve That Thing
Sadly, they’re not on camera in the manner we might hope: soft lighting, smooth electro music and lingerie.
Instead, the BBC has commissioned a five-part documentary that will send a quintet of WAGs to South Africa to report back on the HIV epidemic, orphan crisis, crime, and other pressing social issues.
Titled “WAGs, Kids, and the World Cup,” I have high hopes for such a project. After all, who better to provide stinging, acerbic reportage from a struggling nation than Jermaine Pennant’s ex-girlfriend, Amii Grove?
Let’s forget the syntactical nightmare that is trying to unravel ones WAG status if they’re currently unattached (the other four in the program: Frank Lampard’s ex Elen Rives, Emile Heskey’s partner Chantelle Tagoe, Matthew Upson’s partner Ellie Darby and Jermain Defoe’s ex Imogen Thomas); we’ll instead focus on just what this program hopes to achieve beyond a few cheap ratings points and cooing adoration from a brain-dead populace.
Furthermore, the five-part series will be juxtaposed nicely against a prettier, more luxurious five-parter detailing their glamorous lives. Each episode will give the drooling, jealous viewer a glimpse inside what it’s like to be romantically involved with a soccer player, and will likely trump the hard-thinking series from South Africa on just about any quantifiable measure.
Nothing against the WAGs themselves, who I’m sure will have plenty of help to give their subjects in South Africa, but the entire premise surrounding shows like this eludes me. Maybe that’s why I barely watch TV. Is this sort of heart-tugging drivel popular?
To be honest, i would love for a show like this to happen in the U.S.A. they’re doing this in england because they have covered everthing else about the world cup. Over here we (at least i do) record a 7 minute spot E:60 about Clint Dempsey because i know coverage will only be around for a few more months.
*on* E:60
@Tno
I’m certainly not. I find these shows cloying and rather useless. Celebs getting paid to go and look distraught for the camera before coming home and living as usual. The fact that they’re counter-programming these docs with 30 min shows devoted to their largesse as WAGs makes it look even less genuine.
Then again, I’m a cynic about this stuff.
It reminded me of this classic Ricky Gervais video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DgIRjecItw
I guess i just want everybody to like the sport, a lot of people my age like the sport (18) i guess i just want any type of advertisement of the sport to be out there. Because i think it was on the Scott van Pelt show that his cohost guy said he wasn’t a soccer fan but he said if you sit down and really watch a full game in the prem most people will become fans.
i think that with this new generation in 20 years it will be on of the top four sports. On a bad note though so will UFC and Dirtbike
This isn’t about the sport though. This is shameless pandering to the heart about hardship, with soccer as the convenient backdrop.
Still, I get your point: more soccer breeds more fans
I hate the whole premise of the show as well, i guess my point was that i’m just jealous that other countries have this much coverage that they can actually get through all the good ideas to greenlight that show.
…and all five of those women are decidedly unattractive.
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@Anon – yes, Amii Grove is positively hideous
(umm, NSFW)
this is the end of public service broadcasting as we know it
that photo is not flattering, but Rives is more than attractive…(sorry, no NSFW link)
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OMG Amii grove is topless in a picture, she must be hot. Plus, two i’s at the end of her name? That’s HOTT with two t’s.
@LE – why do you hate
Americathe British?No hate. But let’s be real, anyone who dated Jermaine Pennant has to be pretty low rent.
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