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Can this be true? Frankie Dettori’s name is being openly talked about re being in CBB which starts next week.
If true then I can only say how the mighty have fallen.It is virtually impossible to emerge with any credibility or dignity from this guilty pleasure TV trash so why on earth is most people’s idea of Racing’s number 1 public figure getting involved in a show whose participants almost without exception have the distinct whiff of desperation tainting what is left of their careers,if they ever had one.
Also,from what we know about Frankie there are two ( maybe 3 if you factor in his highly publicised ‘recreational’ habits <!– s:shock: –>
<!– s:shock: –> ) sides to his personality i.e the lovable,all smiling people’s champion when things are going well and the occaisionally heard about sulky ,moody character with a drooping bottom lip when times aren’t so good.The BB house is no place for faking and from the point of view of exposing Frankie’s true personality this will be don’t miss TV.All of that said I still think that if he is going on it,he is heading for a low point in his career.
I wouldn’t think he counts as a celebrity, even by Big Brother’s distorted sense of the word. What portion of the general non-racing fan public would recognize him?
I first read the thread title as "Is Frankel going on Celebrity Big Brother?". That’s a much better idea.
Most people in the UK would recognise Frankie Miss W. He and John McCririck are racing’s only ‘celebrities’ in the wider world over here. Even Frankel (sadly) didn’t quite make it.
I wouldn’t think he counts as a celebrity, even by Big Brother’s distorted sense of the word. What portion of the general non-racing fan public would recognize him?
Obviously being in the States has influenced your view. Frankie would rate high up on the celebrity status on the normal standard of entrants to the house and he is very well recognized in this country.
It could work out well for him as he is suspended and would certainly get me viewing as I did with McCririck.
I wouldn’t think he counts as a celebrity, even by Big Brother’s distorted sense of the word. What portion of the general non-racing fan public would recognize him?
Frankie would rate high up on the celebrity status on the normal standard of entrants to the house and he is very well recognized in this country.
It could work out well for him as he is suspended and would certainly get me viewing as I did with McCririck.Frankie is very well known by lots of people outside racing. He seems to have made that transition from sport to general recognition that very few jockeys have ever achieved.
It’s his outgoing personality (in public at least), showmanship and seeming likeability that are the keys to it.
Hardly any of the same ordinary members of the public, with no racing interest, would recognise Kieren Fallon, Ryan Moore, Tony McCoy, Eddie Ahern, Richard Hughes or Jamie Spencer if they fell over them, despite their racing achievements.
Richard Johnson would only be recognised because of his ill-starred and fiery romance with Zara Phillips.
Frankie has made the breakthrough by flashing that famous smile, doing his flying dismounts and generally being a bit different.
Let’s face it. He hasn’t got a great act to follow in Celebrity Big Brother after Julian Clary, Julie Goodyear and Coleen Nolan in the last series. Vanessa Feltz, Jack Dee and Mark Owen were the "highlights" of previous shows.
Although I never thought of him as a great jockey he was a good one. He teamed up with the Sheiks at the right time and had another jockey been in the right place at the right time they would have had as much success as Frankie.
That aside I would like to see him in just on the off chance he talks about corruption with in the sport and his thoughts on his fellow jockeys
Also he may open up about his problems with illegal substances and also about alcohol within the sport.
Racing is a realtively closed shop so it could be an eye opener if he goes in.
Genuinely still astonished that someone as genuinely famous in his field as Frankie has ended up on this show.Fascinating………but misguided surely.
Let’s face it. He hasn’t got a great act to follow in Celebrity Big Brother after Julian Clary, Julie Goodyear and Coleen Nolan in the last series. Vanessa Feltz, Jack Dee and Mark Owen were the "highlights" of previous shows.
If you know Feltz, Dee and Owen were the "highlights" CP, does that mean you’re an avid viewer of this rubbish?
Apart from a couple of soap ex-stars and an ex-saint, didn’t recognise any of the other "celebrities".
Value Is EverythingI can think of more interesting things to do than watch Frankie parading around in his jockey shorts
Watch paint dry comes to mind.Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Frankie said ‘I’ve met Neil Ruddock and he has a huge ego’
Pot, kettle, black.
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I wouldn’t think he counts as a celebrity, even by Big Brother’s distorted sense of the word. What portion of the general non-racing fan public would recognize him?
I first read the thread title as "Is Frankel going on Celebrity Big Brother?". That’s a much better idea.
Written like a true American using the logic that the public has no idea who anyone in racing is.
Dettori is one of the most famous people in the UK. Team Captain on BBC Question of Sport. Preseented Top of the Pops. Frankie Dettori pizzas used to be sold at "Iceland" supermarket. Now there are a chain of his restaurants.
His ban recently was the lead story in the papers and TV sports news…and he has countless other non racing related media appearances
I can think of more interesting things to do than watch Frankie parading around in his jockey shorts
Watch paint dry comes to mind.hear hear
According to John McCririck, Frankie also has a very moody side, " like everyone else " , so it will be interesting to see how he copes with the atmosphere in the artificial house, especially with the likes of annoying and oily Z celebrity – and X factor loser, Rylan Clark, moaning ( whilst no doubt endlessly mincing away ) at everyone.
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According to John McCririck, Frankie also has a very moody side, " like everyone else " , so it will be interesting to see how he copes with the atmosphere in the artificial house, especially with the likes of annoying and oily Z celebrity – and X factor loser, Rylan Clark, moaning ( whilst no doubt endlessly mincing away ) at everyone. :roll
Nobody has the Ego or mood swings of Spencer Pratt. Im thinking of a real confrontation between him and Frankie.
Spencer will view Frankie as a complete nobody…as most Americans would view people in racing. However there was a huge cardboard cutout of Frankie on Ravens Pass suspended from the Westfield Mall by Santa Anita this past Breeders Cup…
According to John McCririck, Frankie also has a very moody side, " like everyone else " , so it will be interesting to see how he copes with the atmosphere in the artificial house, especially with the likes of annoying and oily Z celebrity – and X factor loser, Rylan Clark, moaning ( whilst no doubt endlessly mincing away ) at everyone.
Not just according to John McCririck either.Frankie has shot himself in the foot yet again,instead of winning the publics support this latest stunt will expose him for ‘The spoilt little Brat’ that he is.If anyone genuinely says to him,sorry Frankie never heard of you, he’ll Self destruct.Frankie is the Big I am in the Racing world but in the Real world he’s nothing more than a Big Mouth and we all know what I say about those……….
Frankie is the Big I am in the Racing world but in the Real world he’s nothing more than a Big Mouth and we all know what I say about those……….
Frankie Dettori, the "Big I am" of racing Gord? Surely not as big as the self proclaimed "King"?
No idea if going in to BB is a good thing or not. Good luck to him.
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<!– s:shock: –> ) sides to his personality i.e the lovable,all smiling people’s champion when things are going well and the occaisionally heard about sulky ,moody character with a drooping bottom lip when times aren’t so good.The BB house is no place for faking and from the point of view of exposing Frankie’s true personality this will be don’t miss TV.
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