The Out Crowd

‘WHERE were you when the call came? Too busy washing your hair? A can’t-get-out-of-it-no-matter-what engagement with a trouser press? The video you’d hired had to be rewound and returned to the store without fail?

RSPV

Come on, you can do better than that. Celebrities are not in what are now termed the creative industries for nothing. Jayne Middlemiss said she was filming a yoga DVD in Ibiza. Fran Cosgrove was DJing.

And so with all the best excuses taken, there was nothing else for it but to fake your own death or else rock up to the Celebrity Love Island reunion.

Judging by OK!’s photos of the do, held at London’s Embassy club, Calum Best seems to have got confused and come along as a moribund copse.

Whereas Lee Sharpe offers a broad grin to the cameras, Best goes dead pan. Later on, Best is pictured standing between his manager and the club’s boss, both of whom are smiling. But once again Best is closed mouth and devoid of expression. His sidekicks look like pillars holding the lad up.

Another page on, and here’s Best standing between Page 3 strumpets Lucy Pinder and Michelle Marsh. They simper to the camera, giving us their best come hither (and I’ll get ‘em out) look. Best looks limp.

While a mirror is held up to Best’s expressionless face and hovers over his mouth, we note that Michael Grecco and Rebecca Loos also had nothing better to do than attend the party for the “hit show”.

But though Michael and Rebecca are there, the organisers seemed to have realised that they need more. So along come a host of Big Brother liggers, including current BB champ Anthony Hutton, Craig Coates, Saskia Howard-Clarke, Maxwell Ward and the thrusting Orlaith McAllister.

Great to see them again. But even they are not enough, so here’s the X Factor’s Steve Brookstein and someone called Julian Benneth who has appeared on yet another reality TV show, this one called Queer Eye For A Straight Guy.

But the best is saved until last. For there, among all this Z-list dross, is C-list stalwart Darren Day.

There’s a nice shot of Darren looking a bit flushed and sweaty as he shares a space with “BB5’s Lisa Jeynes”. (Later in the piece she becomes a “Big Brother 4 housemate”. Or was it BB3 she was on? Has she ever been on the show? Does anyone know? Has love rat Darren mistaken this Lisa for another? Does he think its Jade Goody?).

And OK! shares a few words with the star of such productions as Darren and Tracy Shaw, Darren and Suzanne Shaw and Darren and Isla Fisher, to name but three of his notable performances.

“I’m happier than I’ve been for a long time,” says Darren. “My son Corey has changed my life.” But not so much that dad has an excuse not to go out.

Although if Darren had said he couldn’t attend because he was watching telly at home with his nipper, would anyone have believed him..?’

Posted: 4th, October 2005 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink