Planet Earth is already an insane place. 2011 news broadcasts brought some of the most jaw dropping visuals I thought I was ever likely to see. What with the funeral of Kim Jong-il and the publicised mourning period and not to mention the deaths of both Osama Bin Laden and Gaddafi, the world truly became a different place in time for the arrival of 2012.
You might be wondering, how can the world become an even crazier place? Well a couple of bored, really bored, business tycoons have come up with a humdinger of a stupid idea that might just be the most terrifying thing I’ve heard in quite some time.
BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT Simon Cowell has been chatting with Virgin fatcat Richard Branson and it looks as if they are keen on the idea of awarding the winning contestant of BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT a trip into outer space on a Virgin Galactic flight.
It seems an unlikely prospect, but who knows it might well happen. When two people with that much cash to throw around get chatting I suppose even the most ridiculous idea can be accomplished.
‘Richard Branson is the sponsor of the show with Virgin. We are trying to work out a way so that the winner of the show gets to go up in the spacecraft and will be the first person to perform in space,’ Cowell told The Sun. ‘I’m being serious. You could be the first singer or dog act, whatever, performing in space.’
It certainly is a funny idea, but the thought of having the one group/person with the least amount of aptitude or flare in music or generally performance, burdening the entire planet just takes the biscuit.
‘I would go on the spaceship myself – you have to have a lot of training. I love the idea that, if they are up for it, then they have the option of performing in front of the whole planet in space.’ Said Cowell before adding ‘But I will make it happen. If it had been a few years ago Susan Boyle could have been singing ‘Unchained Melody’ in front of the whole planet.’
The prize must be worth millions and is definitely an opportunity the thousands of egomaniacs who enter the competition will fight like animals for. The prize is so unbelievably stupid that the series could well be (if it happens) a revolution in reality TV as we know it. I only hope that the winning contestant is an animal of sorts who doesn’t quite understand what’s going on. Regardless of who wins, it’s essential that Ant and Dec are in attendance ready and willing to cram pack the commentary of whatever drivel they perform up there with space pun after space pun after space pun.
The sixth season of the show will be judged by David Walliams, Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell… The fact that Amanda Holden gets to decide who performs to Planet Earth in outer space is truly a premonition of a bleak future.
Source: Digitalspy
