Press the accelerator Tele 5 promoting the return (next Thursday) of the ‘Big Brother racket‘. This network has been hiding for a few years, keeping this program in the freezer, waiting for the fire that they themselves caused with the sexual assault of Carlota Prado (2017) to be resolved in court. Mediaset has come out on top. It is the platform that prompted that sexual abuseand she has not even been prosecuted.
Sunday in the program ‘Party‘They took out Ismael Beiro, the winner of the first ‘Big Brother’. He remembered with joy that spring of the year 2000when he and nine other contestantsyoung, humble, ordinary and cool creatures, They were locked in a cage in Guadalix, surrounded by cameras. Neither they nor we – the audience – knew anything about that way of making television.
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At that beginning there was a lot of naivety. Smokers were even provided with tobacco, so that the withdrawal syndrome would not excite them more. They spent the day playing to entertain their idleness. A very funny contestant, Israel Pita, from Orense, he livened up the evenings by reciting couplets. “Better a bird in the hand than piles in the anus” was one of his most celebrated verses. And Merceditas Milà, amazed, believed that she was inaugurating a colossal sociological experiment. She actually played the Pied Piper of Hamelin in the commuter town, drowning little mice in a new form of work activity: the exhibitionism of altered intimacy. In subsequent editions, the alteration of the intimate was increasing. They unhinged them to get more spectacle. Until the Carlota case ended up breaking out, after a night in which they were provided with alcohol at the tip of a shovel.
As I write these lines I see the demonstration of the Diada on TV. TV-3’s monitoring is informative. They are no longer ‘hooligans’. I celebrate it a lot. Toni Soler said on Friday in ‘Està passant’ that it has been a good idea to end the demonstration in Plaça d’Espanya. He said that this square is actually a roundabout where you can only go around in a circle and you are always in the same place. Ah! In that first ‘ratomachy’ of Ismael Beiro they gave them a static tape so that they had the feeling that they were walking and that they were going somewhere. And they didn’t leave the cage.