Bauer, Cena, Edge and Christmas

Bit of a bumper package for you today, which may contain a few spoilers if you ain't seen 24 : Redemption or WWE Survivor Series...

Been a manic week.

Firstly, lets just all revel in the welcoming back of a screen legend in Jack Bauer. Oh yes, 24 was back with a 2-hour prequel to the new season and it didn't fail to deliver. He dodged bullets, survived a torturing, saved a whole village of kids, watched his best friend sacrifice himself, shot numerous guys with one bullet each...and all within two real-time hours! No-one messes with Jack Bauer.

So now onto the WWE. Sunday was Survivor Series night and it happened. The inevitable occurred. For weeks now, the WWE have been building up a huge comeback for John Cena...in his hometown...facing Jericho for the title...and, well i'll let you guess what happened next.

But the biggest shock came in the match prior to the main event. Triple H Vs Vladimir Koslov (bet you can't tell which country he's from with a name like that) and when everyone was down and out...who came running to the ring? EDGE! I'd been talking to someone at work last week and said "I wonder when Edge will be back" and here he is...picking up the title! Sweet! I've always been an Edge-head.

According to the adverts on TV, "holidays are coming, holidays are coming" and apparently so is Coca Cola...but I thought that had been here ages! Aye, Christmas is upon us...just one whole calendar month away from the pinnacle of the festive season. And as today was payday...guess what I did? Nope, I didn't go down the pub for the usual payday piss-up which usually leads to terrible hangovers and even worse Karaoke singing...nope, I actually went out and did my Christmas shopping! That's right. I usually leave it until Christmas Eve, and in previous years have managed to do it in a manic 18 1/2 minutes in the White Rose, but here I am...prepared! What the hell is wrong with me?

All I need to do now is wrap them all up...i'm crap at wrapping. I've seen better wrapped Mummies! Should be fun!

So until next time...have fun, get your christmas shoopping done and I'll see you a few days closer to Santa's arrival!

Lights On!

Last night was the highlight of the year in terms of entertainment. Nope, not the grand opening £20million party at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai with guests such as Kylie Minogue performing...last night was the official turning on of Morley's lights.

Yup, in the freezing cold and blustery wind, I ventured up to the front of Morley Town Hall with Charlotte and my sister Louise (the eldest one because the younger sister didn't want to go...she's obviously "too cool" for something of this stature!). We managed to get right to the very front which, to be honest, wasn't very hard. Magic 828 were in charge for the evening with Glenn Pinder and his motley crew helping him out.

We had numerous "acts" performing for the evening. First up was a young girl dancing...boring. Second up was another young girl dancing...boring, next up were a "professional tumbling act" who had apparantly performed on Britain's Got Talent. Did you see them? Nope, probably not because they were shite.

Then we had a girl from Bruntcliffe High come out and sing a song which was quite good, then another lad from there sung "Shine" by Take That.

Then the real celebrities turned up...first of all we had Ronnie Rhino, the peanut-hugging mascot of Leeds Rhinos. He did a little dance which, to be honest was better than the two kids from earlier. Then out came Johnny Howson and Frazer Richardson, the Leeds United players who received at least a decent pop from the Morley crowd. Then out came the "surprise" Celebrity. So...usually we get a star from Emmerdale...and recently Eli Dingle has moved to Morley...so who did they get to help turn on Morley lights? The guy who plays Bill Webster in Corrie! Rock and bloody roll!

So the lights went on, the fireworks blew up and were actually quite impressive and then Howson and Richardson came around and posed with everyone who wanted/cared about having a photo with them. Charlotte got her photo with both of them and I got one with Richardson.

All in all, it was a fun night, very cold, but interesting all the same and according to Howson we're going to "do 'em" on Saturday in reference to Hartlepool at the weekend.

Celebrity? A definition...

ce⋅leb⋅ri⋅ty

 
–noun

1.	a famous or well-known person.

2.	fame; renown.

So there you go. The definition of Celebrity as offered by dictionary.com on the old World Wide Web. A celebrity is a famous, or well-known person. Kind of a broad description don't you think? A lot of people know Saddam Hussain...but was he a celebrity? My e-mail address book is bulging, but does that mean I can tread the red carpet at the next "celebrity party"? No of course it doesn't.

What does the word 'celebrity' conjour up to you? Do you think of your favourite footballer, singer, actor...politician? Politicians are well known people and indeed are famous, but would you look at Gordon Brown and point and exclaim "there goes a celeb"? I very much doubt it.

As the latest series of "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here" hits the TV screens I bet most people in the country have sat back and thought "why the hell are they classed as celebrities?"

This year they've chucked in a gay ex-cop, an ex-eastender, a WAG, a glamour model who no-one has heard of, the disgraced chat show host, an actor who hasn't done much of any notability for the last 20 years, an aged tennis player, an ages tv presenter, another tv presenter who ain't done anything in about ten years and the list goes on.

Everyone's definition of "Celebrity" is different. But one thing is for sure, they're actually bloody entertaining this year. George Takei is hilarious, Jo Swash is getting put forward for everything, the cop hates Kilroy and will no doubt end up sparking huge arguments, Carly is pretty cute, and hopefully this year will be as entertaining as ever before.

So Celebrity...anyone well known.

Just call me Celebrity Dave!