UPDATE: 17/03/2007:

OMG, TPT WON!  After winning the hearts of millions with performances much better than anyone expected, she took the crown.  Well done Tara, you old puppet!

UPDATE: 10/03/2007:

So what happens now? Tara sang a song from Evita on movie night, and looked like someone being told she had to smile or die.  Still in, though.

UPDATE: 08/03/2007:

Tara lives to fight another day.  She isn't even in the final three.  Also, I have a sneaking suspicion that she read cleverthingies; yesterday evening she came out with a towel.  But boy did she sweat.


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Comic Relief does Fame Academy has returned to BBC1. 

The usual mish mash of out of work 80's comedians, and people contracted wholly to the BBC came back in style.  There was one addition to the list of washed-ups which showed a true spark of casting genius; Tara Palmer Tomkinson.

While the other contestants were either good or bad, TPT was different.  Not different in a 'hmm' sort of way, more a 'please spare me, I have a family' sort of different.

Performing the Elton John tribute to calipers 'I'm Still Standing', she tried her best to be Rock and Roll, but looked more like Dick van Dyke doing his wind up doll impression in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

And sweat.  Don't forget the sweat.  At the end she looked like she had just stepped out of the shower.  Actually, combine the sweat with the look on her face, and she looked more like she had stepped out of the shower after having stabbed Janet Leigh to death.

Some other contestants were good (Barry, Edith Bowman's mate, Mel Giedroyc the Bold, Nope, still never heard of her), some where bad (Rowland Rivron, Rowland Rivron and Rowland Rivron), some were funny (Miranda Hart, Mel again), and some downright painful (Rowland Rivron), but none matched the sheer indescribability of Tara Palmer Tomkinson.

So, if you're going to vote for the good cause, then vote for who you want, but if you are voting for good TV, then Vote TPT.  She's a train crash that could last until the start of spring.


Run for your lives, it's escaped!!

PS. Just to show that there is some justice in the universe, the completely unfunny Rowland Rivron and his 'comedy' breasts were voted off the show.