Big Brother Live Launch 2009

Big Brother Live Launch Show 2009

“Tonight, 16 people move into that house. They have no idea that none of them are housemates.”

-BB Theme Tune-

*screams in excitement*

Awww, I love the BB theme. It’s just that moment at the beginning where it kind of wipes and then it kicks in … love it. And Davina’s opener, although already known by the press and general media of assembled BB fans who read spoilers, was still pretty exciting. Welcome to Big Brother 2009!

We are back … and ready to rock!!

Thank you dave (walking up steps to House) … his first and last mention in the whole series.

Moments away from moving into pure luxury … right?

WRONG davina and me say together

Lovely décor on the way in lol

Walking around house, futuristic looks nice – one room and crates

What is the chair for … and should you answer the phone? Lol

One room and a garden … I don’t like the really short look around the house

Lets meet the first housemate who will be sleeping on its floor

HOUSEMATES:

FREDDIE – posh arse, stupid hat, free love, musical, thinks he is cool, serious girlfriends, booed on way in, desperate to experience public disliking him, he is now, “enjoy the show everyone”, wants to get into politics, stop shouting!!, right side of stairs for us, “hello everyone” – no one in the house yet you tit. Answered phone – toilet, enjoy the show – would without you on it. Pushed door and it didn’t open, must feel like a tit.

Davina – posh: do make your self at home, but its not exactly the home he is used too

LISA: I would love women, I would like to turn them, loud crazy chick, no a leels, can do anything, herself, the loud crazy fun one, go into the house before they start booing – woops they have!fun run on the walk way in lol, right side of stairs,

Freddie: Company – Lisa: Like yer hair/ hat?,

F take that bloody hat off – L: mad all the way



SOPHIE
S: Ask me anything intelligent and I can answer it: BB: What’s the capital of Uraguay? S: U

Glamour model, blonde bimbo oh dear. Ive got 3 sports bras on. Boobs! Urg stereotypical blonde bimbo with boobs. Thinks she has huge ears, but we aren’t looking at them are we… love davina! Wanted to be air hostess, but doesn’t like flying! Right side, and mirror check! Ive got such a flat hair do! Lol

L: how you, lisa (shaking hands) so confusing and annoying, but asking lots of questions to make people feel welcome

L: Press moving them on, and didn’t get to see Davina!

After the break for some prospective television tenants.

KRIS – curly hair! Know what looks good, slim is in and curls get girls, don’t know how to charm a girl, don’t care too much about anything or anyone, more cheers on way in, some boos, (sign saying “we’re mps and we’re here at your expense”)
Quickest walk in ever! Right side of steps, mirror check!!,

S: I like your hair! Flirt bag already lol!

NOIRIN – thinks she is very gorgeous, irish, beautiful, grown up with religion and lives by 10 commandments, got very drunk and forgot to put on underwear, will be faithful but if something comes along that is better – walked straight through press, booed!, left side of stairs!!!

K: eyes made at her already! Arranging his hair already! Preening!

CAIRON – whats your name? whats your name first? Canadian britisj – bright colours. Always look neat when you go out on the street cos you don’t now who you might me?! i know I am attractive! Don’t lie, hate back stabbers, got some toy stuck out his back pocket, right side of stairs,

F has removed his hat! Finally! Im from the countryside!
K has blanked him already!

Dav: are they not wondering where the other rooms are?

Half way through … next with love - from Rusia then?

ANGEL – boxer. Messenger – spread the word of fitness. Named her abs. used to be a rockstar. Theatrical antics – hats and walking stick? Pantomime thing is not going to work says Dav. Just go in the house love! LOL. The more they boo her, the slower she gets. Lots of booing, even though she loves you all. Hello crazy people, she says as she comes in! Left side of stairs.

KARLY – Blonde and Brunette! Blonde looks for BB. Thinks she is very hot. Likes footballers. Likes money and successful men. Loves attention, and will deffo be one of the popular in the house. People perceive this as being a bitch. And she is getting booed. Oops. Drooped out of uni after 3 weeks. Right side of stairs.

Enters as Freddie saying We Are The Show

MARCUS. Wolverine. Action hero. Generally cheered! Nickname Dark horse. Really quickly into the house! Right side of stairs. Nice meet and greet.

7 more to go, see you after the break.

10: BEINZAIR – Pakistani Muslim woman needed in the house. Don’t cover your self up, just be your self. Alpha female. Not scared to talk my mind. Cheers and boos. 149 pieces of jewellery into the house. Single because men are scared of her.
Jingling down the stairs.

SOPHIA small and fierce! Fun loving! Great laugh! In banking, and sooo short! Why would you want to be something that doesnt require any brain cells? Not an act, this is me? Screaming and very excited!!! General cheers, more from her though lol! First girl to be unanimously cheered on the way in, by Davina! Tired out from being excited lol! Left side of stairs.

RODRIGO Positive and laughing, from Brazil. Loes everything about Britain. England is turning me gay – everyone is good looking. Bi. Don’t like bright colours! Goes to church everyday apparently! Bright colours!! Right side of stairs. Very loud entrance hello lol! Blondes eyeing him up already.

CHARLIE – not nasty! Flirts with everyone. Geordie accent! In boxers! In a call centre. LUSH EYES. Walked straight through the press there! Let them get some pictures of you, you’re hot!!!! Quickest entrance ever!! Blondes like him already? Must have met some people in auditions?

Cairon has closed down with people. Rodrigo has a smile on his face ;)

Final 3 after the break!

14 – Zafia? Im not a nice person. I try to not be a bitchy person. I don’t see nice people in people. Not scared. Strong personality. Knows in 5 minutes if she likes you. Baby 7months, little girl 6 @ 19. split with two parents. Independent mother not single mother. Dental nurse. Brainy? Children are my number 1 priority – hence why going into house??? Silly billy. God a bit booed. Left stairs.

Bends over to hear peoples names. Nice to meet everyone everyone!

SREE Indian. Erg. Su president. Mum and dad. International business. They get very drunk very quick. Union jack shirt – didn’t notice before! Uk is safest place in world? Has flag in hand. Has fan club not friends! Given flag to dave the security guard! Lol right side of stairs!

Doesn’t seem very happy to meet people or be in the house. Yeah. Im Shree.

FINAL HOUSEMATE: Siavash, event organiser. Rock star look. Iranian. “Unique!” fashion sense. Cant help the fact that people think I am amazing. Huh. Booed. Religion was invented by a businessman.. nice concept. Daddy is home he says!

After the break, 2 of them just might just become housemates! See you in a sec!

Time to hand over to Big Brother … Rodrigo goes to the diary room, and remembers it is a slide door!

Diary room chair looks sweet!

Rodrigo is very happy to be here … but nobody is a housemate lol

Board with face sat next to him. Big brother explains no body is a housemate and so not guaranteed a place. No immediate reaction lol.

Has to get another housemate to shave off their eyebrows in the barbers chair witht the clippers , and draw a permanent marker curly moustache and glasses on their face. If completed, both housemates become housemates.

Moustache and glasses have to be redrawn on everyday!!! Haha!

He only has 4 minutes!!!
Everyone quiet!! Haha he says as he walks in

Explaining it, people want to split them.

OMG NOIREEN has been dragged and sat in the chair!! Eyebrows shave doff but may have drawn them on already?!!!

Expressed about permanent marker? Lol

Now she looks very upset in the mirror! Volunteer needs eyebrows shaved off – she still has black lines

Volunteer discussion takes a long time.

Congratulations – they passed and are guaranteed a place.

BB makes an error saying Rodrigo!!

Bedroom now open for these two housemates!!

Viewers decide rest of the cast – live on Sunday we vote for who we want to be a housemate!! See you live on Sunday!

The Sex Education Show vs.Pornography: Review P1

So, Im watching this on 4oD Cathcup (now it works, yay), and I'm also having an online conversation with the friend who told me to watch this documentary! Here is what I wrote:

omg quite a lot to deal with from opening few mins of first episode
im quite shocked already lols

z says she watched it with her dad
embarrasing

OMG
i couldnt cope with that

z: lol i know

my parents would flip and i would die

...

oooo bad times, he mentioned woman and horse
ewww

omg i would NOT want to be those kids
being filmed
what a gross invasion of privacy
hmmmm

gah these advert breaks arent half annoying. in skins you dont notice them, becuase the action is divided into 4 bits for the breaks, but on a dicumentary you want it all to keep flowing

stop bloody introducing everything as if we have just started watching

hmmmmmm
see from a psychological point of view, the research they are condutcing is not the nest way to go about it
and is not ethically sound either

the whole issue over group bias
arg
and social desireability!

i mean, "hands up if you've seen boobs in porn?" there might be one guy who hasn't, for what ever reason
oh i dont want to look like a jerk, ill put my hand up

i applaud the hands on approach, bringing the issue to light etc, well done, but still

i cant help my brain analysing these things from what i have already learnt lol

she just stumbled across a porn site with a video of a child in it ...
hmmmm several thoughts i wish to raise here - some perhaps should be anonymous!

interesting that the men seem to be enjoying the viewing of the freely accessible porn more than the women ..


omg
i can see that these boys are fine with it
but i wouldnt be in this situation
id be soooooo embarrassed at that age
but thats just me [having to look at boobs on a line to find the perfect pair and being filmed]


but the ones in the magazine are not normal, whereas the ones you have been looking at are .. but that guy said they're not normal ... oops

omg yes you interviewed the plastics for the video but ... dont you think 'all boobs have imperfections really' (yes, well done) and 'but dont that just like our bodies?' would promote some kind of response? - in a normal human? or is it just me that already knows this? is it the age thing?

omg full frontal female nudity of teh real life natural models now going down below" as the presenter put it - is the need to shock the children into learning?

"i found it very fascinating to find out that the clit inflates with blood like a penis" - i bet you did, you dirty bugger! lol but in all fairness, is this the reaction most of the kids gave too?

oh i wish these interviewers and presenters knew something about the technology or what they were reviewing
for example, buying a new pc with "adult content filters" would be via software preinstalled

i do know what a router is, she doesnt

(i didnt know you could use a router to filter out porn or adult content or whatever, if you get the "engineer out")
but that isnt the point

im slightly concerned about the pictures of vulvas ... perhaps im already an old fogey who needs to lighten up, this seems to be what the "kids" are seeing now a days? ? ? ?

the teenagers feel the pressure from porn to impress the boys ... becuase this is what the guys (at least the guys surveyed) like ...


Interesting perspective, of course edited for programme but some interesting insights and defiantly things to think about it ... personally and on a bigger scale, both positive and nagative

Thoughts on the New Facebook

I voted 'No' on the official poll
and these are the reasons I posted:


Didn't need changing! After getting used to the old 'new' facebook, I was quite happy with everything, the way it was laid out, the way you had different tabs for different things which separated pictures and status updates etc I was surprised to read you were changing it again, especially after the storm of controversy and unhappy users that created.
Ive got used to the change, and it doesn't particularly bother me anymore, except that it gets slightly confusing and a little of information overload, even though you have made it easier in layout. I do like the highlights section - some good things and some bad things appear here, but my main peve is the middle bit which can get swamped. I don't particularly want to filter anyone out either. I do like the new 'publisher' thing on each page, and the way groups and pages and people look like profiles.
If you were to extend the new design, add how many events one has across the top, with group initiations and application invites ...

Then I ran out of room in the box. Bad times. I hadn't finished what I wanted to say!

... and change the bar on the side, I don't like it! The tabs on the old facebook were much better, as you could seperate groups, links, photos and status updates.

However, saying all this, I have got used to the change and can cope with it, and can't remember the old layout (but this maybe because I use it too much ^^). I generally don't like change and takes me a long time to get used to, especially if the change is unnecessary.

Oh and add a 'Dislike' button :)

I Love Uni Because

I love University because . . .

I have freedom to what i want
when I want
and how I want

and to be who I am

away from my parents

with space

and friends

am responsible for own learning

and can make choices freely

can grow and develop

stay up late and do what ever I like

get drunk

hang out with good friends and be really close to them because I see them all the time and live with them

have good times

meet great people

have great times


<3

Skins, Sereis 3, Episode 2: THE RANT

**May contain Spoilers for Skins (Series 3) (Especially Episode 2) throughout**

OK, so have been soo excited whilst waiting for the new series of Skins, since buying and watching Skins 1 + 2 which I LOVED.
The first episode was poor, it lacked energy, punch and charm, and did little for making me want to like the new characters. It was entertaining, but because of what the characters were doing, and not the characters them selves. They seem to have replaced the old characters with new ones, and are probably going to do the same story lines.

The similarities I have drawn are:

Cook = Chris, Freddie = Tony, JJ = Sid (Boo! Hiss!)
Effy = Michelle (Queen Bee), Naomi = Maxi (Sexuality), Pandora = Sketch? (The weird one!!), Emily = Jal? The other twin would = Anwar out of process of elimination, but I don't think so. (The twins do look like my cousin though lol)

Th introduction of Effy was brilliant, and Cook and Freddie seem Ok. JJ (Or JJJ) is already annoying me - the stereotypical posh, slightly nerdy group hanger-oner, with opinions on 'fun' has been done, and better than the actor who plays him.

The new cast aren't as great as the old ones. Period.
And they set fire to Sid's locker :( :(


Anyway, Episode 2.

After Episode 1, I said I was going to carry on watching them just so I could see what happened, have something to talk about and show my loyalty to the show. At first I hoped it would be amazing, like 1 and 2, if not better, but it wasn't, so I carried on watching hoping and praying that this episode and the series would get better as it went along. They've only just started, I said, lets give them a chance.

Anyway, I tried to stream Episode 2 many many times, and it is either me and my PC, or a problem for 4oD, but it wasn't working, so eventually I started to download it so I could watch it later. (IT TOOK AGES TO DOWNLOAD - literally at least 8 hours. FAIL). Whether this is just because the episode is in demand, or because my PX has issues or just I was downloading in peak time I don't know).

So, I finally got round to watching it, at around ten past midnight, and I'm hoping it shall be good. I have been keeping up with The E4 site with some previews and trailers etc so knew it was going to be about Cook and his birthday party.

Firstly - he is 17? Actor looks much older. Secondly - He has already had a half a bottle of vodka and then does a million shots of tequilla or whatever - and doesn't show any signs of being drunk at all lol?

The entertainment of the party was fun, but it felt like it wasn't contributing to the story. In fact, the whole episode just felt like a massive party - this would be a good thing for Skins, especially since the trailers feature a 'Skins party', but it just felt empty and not linked to the new cast. The introductory episode of 1 has succeeded in showing us what the character are like, but they have failed in making us actually like or believe the characters.

Anyway, the drama continues along, good scene with getting on the boat for the party with the bouncer, but again it is so stereotypical. Blah blah blah - start creating havoc at the party. Great - the food fight and general mess is good - but we still don't care if Cook gets punched in the face . . .

Anyway, so the gang end up in the tunnel after the fight (Great when Cook just laughs on stage) and Effy turns him down - well done. Oh, Pandora on drugs - not believable at all. The fact that they showed them snorting drugs is barley acceptable - yes this is a teen drama and yes it is an 18 and is post watershed - but come on.

Then it starts getting bad. Yes, the whole brothel experience, done by Skins. What fun. NOT. The thing is, I don't actually want to watch the escapades of these new characters. The handjob - verging on the ewwwww. The girls accents = win, love it lol. The nervous guy at the brothel - well done. The kissing - lol.

The next bit I WAS NOT prepared for, and was not ready for what was presented me in that episode - guest star Mackenzie Crook handcuffed with his nipples attached to the electrocuter etc. This was totatlly uncalled for. Also, the violence of the punching in the face was too far, and I had to look away from the screen. No program should make me do this, unless I am scared. I wasn't scared, I was repulsed. The story did not call for this, especially in the second episode, and surely the writers should have found a better way to entertain (or try to) the viewers.
However, the main problem is that they cant justify the drama and the plot and these scenes, because we dont care about the characters! If we had, then it may have been OK, but so far I just feel like we are watching the lives of people, not friends or people we want to care about.

It was so lame.

The episode ended, and I just thought "that was bad - for all the wrong reasons". It wasn't bad as in evil, but was bad as in a let down for Skins, bad as in inappropriate, and bad as in not entertaining. This ultimately is an EPIC FAIL for a show that is supposed to be entertaining, and problems arise as this show is, yes, post watershed, but meant for teenagers. I am normally quite accepting to things people find offensive, as I can see both sides and see the point of view, but at one point I was nearly tempted to actually register a complaint, as so many other people seem to do, which would be a first for me.

Not impressed Skins. Sort it out.

I shall continue to watch the Series, just to see how it progresses, but now I feel its all downhill from here . . .

EDIT: P.S. Oh, and as an after thought - "I'll meet you in the shed! ;) HAHAHAHA

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Nicknames

A list of nicknames I have been called past and present.

Luke Warner

Luke

1) Warner
2) Mr Luke
3) lukey
4) lukeylu
5) lukeyluke
6) lucus
7) lucus mucus pucus
8) lucus warnerus
9) lukage

10) luke skywalker
11) luke skywarner

12) nerd
13) nerd warner

14) Deirdre
15) Deirdredoo

16) Paddington

17) Hubby

18)Campino

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailers

I recently got confused and entered into a debate with a friend as to how many trailers for HP6 there are. It turns out there are 3, and a teaser trailer which doesn't count as a real trailer (at least not in the eyes of Apple, anyway). So I made a list of the trailers that are available, and where they can be found.

Oh, and to really get you into the spirit, here is a countdown, from the wonderful Mugglenet.


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Trailer 1 - Train running through country beginning - (Mugglenet lists this as Teaser Trailer, Apple as Trailer 1)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/harrypotterandthehalfbloodprince/ (best quality)


=related

or a much better HQ version
here.

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Trailer 2/International Teaser Trailer - Cave, from http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/harry-potter-and-half-blood-prince/feature-trailer


This may take a while to load, after all it is pretty decent quality.

While you are waiting, you may want to view it from here:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3zf9IW-R5eI

Apple Trailers does not have this version.
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Trailer 3 - The most recent version - WB logo - Harry and Dumbledore at Beginning:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/harrypotterandthehalfbloodprince/ Trailer 3a

www.harrypotter.com - First trailer that plays

Just to point out: Apple and Warnerbros were very slow in adding the official trailer, it was online at Youtube:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lO3DrA1M0Tc (HQ) - Nov 14th
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pL8RZplmrss&e (cited from Mugglenet, but is not HQ) - Nov 14
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VxVZzAZanLw (with subtitles, HQ) - Nov 14th

Trivia for Bridget Jones's Diary (Film)

Just watched this film. Review coming later. Here is an incomplete list of things I noticed and researched and found out and found interesting (to me) :)

I should explain, some of the trivia about actors arose because I refer to actors as the character I see them first play, and hence if they appear in another film/tv program e.t.c, it is always "he played such and such, that's how I recognise him").

1) Natasha, Mark's friend, is played by the actress who played Miss Honey in Matilda - Embeth Davidtz

2) The actress who plays Bridget's Mother has the same surname as the character she plays - Gemma Jones as Mrs. Jones.

3) Gemma Jones plays Connie in Spooks.

4) Jim Broadbent, who plays Mr Jones - I recognised him from Harry Potter, (he will play Professor Slughorn) and Chronicles of Narnia - he plays professor Kirke. Ah, just found it on IMDB - the most obvious and eluding way I recognised him (his voice mainly) is because he played Percy the Park keeper, a program I used to love watching. Apparently he was also in Brambley Hedge as Basil!

5) Bridget Jones's Diary is based on a book of the same name, written by Helen Fielding. She wrote a sequel called Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (BJ2) from now on). Both have been made into films, and Helen also helped write the screenplay for them both.

6) Helen also helped produce Film 1.

7) The other screenwriters for BJ (Bridget Jones - this is an unfortunate acronym indeed) are Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis. This forms the basis for many many references and more trivia.

7a) Richard Curtis is a very well known screen writer, and has written, amongst others:
- Mr. Bean
- Blackadder
- The Vicar of Dibley
- Love Actually*
- Notting Hill*
- Four Weddings and a Funeral*

He was also fundamental presence in the MakePovertyHistory campaign.

*Significant links to BJ, as you can see below.

7b) High Grant who plays Daniel Cleaver, one of BJ's love interests, has significant links to Richard Curtis -
He plays roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually and Notting Hill (as well as BJ and BJ2).

Working Title Films is the same production company for BJ, BJ2, Notting Hill, Love Actually, FW&AF, and Pride & Prejudice (BBC 2005 TV serial, not Film Version), another film which has very significant links to BJ - see Point 8.

7c) Curtis knew the novel's writer Helen Fielding. Indeed, he has credited her with saying that his original script for Four Weddings and a Funeral was too upbeat and needed the addition of a funeral.

7d) Love Actually, another romantic chick flick comedy same as BJ, was written and directed by Richard Curtis, and also stars Hugh Grant and Colin Firth.

8) The other screenwriter for BJ, Andrew Davies, helped write Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV serial) with Richard Curtis.

8a) Helen Fielding has stated in many interviews that her novel (BJ) was based upon both Jane Austen's work Pride and Prejudice and the popular 1995 BBC adaptation.

8b) This was also reflected in the decision to cast Colin Firth as Mark Darcy in BJ (Yes, the same surname is not coincidence), since he played the 'real' Mr Darcy in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. [From Wikipedia, this article]

# When Helen Fielding wrote the novel Bridget Jones's Diary, she based the character of Mark Darcy on Colin Firth's depiction of Mr. Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice" (1995). In addition to the inside-joke casting of Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, there are several other allusions to Jane Austen's story: Mark disparages Bridget to his mother within earshot of Bridget. In Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy disparages Elizabeth to his friend Mr. Bingley within earshot of Elizabeth. Daniel Cleaver lies to Bridget about a dispute between him and Mark, claiming Mark stole his fiancée; in fact, it was the other way around. In Pride and Prejudice, it's a dispute between Mr. Wickham and Mr. Darcy, and Wickham lies about who's at fault. The Darcy in both stories fails to disabuse the heroine's misinformed notion until it's almost too late. Bridget works at Pemberley Press; Mr. Darcy lives at Pemberley estate.

# Both leading actors' names, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, are mentioned in the book of Bridget Jones's Diary. The first on "Tuesday 24 October" and the second on "Wednesday 16 August".

# Colin Firth is himself a featured character in the book's sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004).

# Aside from bearing a resemblance to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the film also features a number of veterans of Austen film adaptations. Writer Andrew Davies wrote the screenplay for "Pride and Prejudice" (1995) (mini), which starred Colin Firth and Crispin Bonham-Carter. Hugh Grant and 'Gemma Jones' both appeared in Sense and Sensibility (1995). And Embeth Davidtz can be seen in Mansfield Park (1999).

# When Bridget stops at a mall to see her mother, she begins the scene by saying (in a voice over) that, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another part falls to pieces." This is an update of the famous opening lines of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." [From IMDB Trivia page for BJ]

8c) There are elements of Four Weddings and a Funeral and even more so of Notting Hill. [From Wikipedia, this article]


Other trivia for BJ, from IMDB Triva Page:

~ Renée Zellweger gained a reported 25 lbs. to play Bridget Jones.

~ Renée Zellweger actually worked at a British publishing company for a month in preparation for the role. She adopted an alias as well as her posh accent and was apparently not recognized.

~ Renée Zellweger smoked herbal cigarettes rather than tobacco.

~ Director Sharon Maguire was the real-life inspiration for the character of Shazza in the novel. A friend of Helen Fielding's, her name also appears on the acknowledgements page of the book.

~ The film has different end-credits in different countries. In Europe, Australia and Latin America the credits show a montage of stills plus "interviews" about Bridget and Darcy with Daniel Cleaver, Mark Darcy's parents and Bridget's boss. In America, they show a young Bridget and Mark running around the backyard and paddling pool in a home video. The "interviews" can be found as the final deleted scene on the North American DVD, as well as the North American credits are found in the 'Deleted Scenes'-material on the European DVD.

~ While film goers were eager to see Hugh Grant play a character opposite to his usual type-cast, it is ironic that original author Helen Fielding describes him, in real life, as being more like Daniel Cleaver, than any of his "normal" roles.

~ In order to make her English accent seem more natural, Renée Zellweger retained it on set even while not shooting (Renée is American). Hugh Grant once noted that he did not hear her speak in an American accent until the wrap party, after the film was completed, where he heard her speak "in a very strange voice" that he soon found out was her own natural tone.

~ After discovering that Daniel is cheating on her, Bridget is watching TV at home. As she browses her channels, a film is shown. It is a scene from Fatal Attraction (1987).

~ While preparing for the role of Bridget, Renée Zellweger worked in a London office. On her desk in this office she kept a framed picture of then boyfriend Jim Carrey. Other office workers, who did not recognize her, found this to be odd, but never mentioned it to her for fear of embarrassing her.

Trivia collected from The Wikipedia Article:

# In the United Kingdom the film grossed a very impressive £41,692,598.
# In the United States the film made $71,500,556.
# The film has made $281,929,795 worldwide.
# Controversial author Salman Rushdie makes a cameo appearance as himself, with both Bridget and Daniel asking him for directions to the lavatory.
# Before the film came out a considerable amount of controversy surrounded the casting of the American Zellweger as what some saw as a quintessentially British heroine. However, her performance is widely considered to be of a high standard, including her English accent.
# Kate Winslet also auditioned for the part of Bridget and was almost considered for it, but eventually was dismissed since she was too young (25 at the time the auditions took place) to play Bridget.
# Renee Zellweger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film.

Monumental Moments in My Life

1) I watched Obama become the first black president of the US, as well as watching how the election unfolded live - I saw the magic numbers chnage that told me he was going to be president - online, at 2/3 in the morning, via BBC/Twitter/(CNN)

2) Lived through change of the millennium, and witnessed the not millenium bug

3) Watched Youtube Live.

4) Seen a solar and lunar eclipse

5) Lived through Girl Power.