HOT 100 2010
ALSO RANS It’s not been a great year for everyone. Here are a few Scots who ever so narrowly missed out on the main list
GILLIAN MCKEITH ITV’s popular experiment in the power of schadenfreude, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, welcomed former poo pusher Gillian McKeith onto the show this year, with spectacular results. The 51-year- old Perther suffered several fainting fits, claimed at different points that she had rabies, was hearing voices and that she was pregnant. She then went on to wear a red swimsuit in a Baywatch-themed shoot for Heat magazine, inadvertently becoming the new pin-up for primetime TV’s sadistic, rubbernecking goons (aka the general public).
GERARD BUTLER Last year’s number 39 has slipped out of the main Hot 100 list thanks to a consistent run of stinkers, culminating in a performance as the swarthy bell-end you love to hate in Jennifer Aniston rom-com The Bounty Hunter. After Law Abiding Citizen, Gamer and The Ugly Truth last year, we’ve still got Burns, in which Gerard Butler, yes, plays Rabbie Burns, to look forward to.
GORDON BROWN The former PM found himself vilified this year after calling a Rochdale pensioner a bigot, a gaffe that confirmed the Kirkcaldy MP’s status
as a charisma vacuum. Not even harping on about how he’d saved the banks could save Gordon, and Labour’s crushing election defeat left him time to go back to Kirkcaldy and reflect more on how much he agreed with Nick.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL For a short while, around the general election, Campbell enjoyed a revival as one of the government’s most articulate spokespeople, showing
particular pleasure in turning Sky news anchor Adam Bolton purple with rage. He appears in this list for his nomination for a Literary Review Bad Sex Award, for some steamy sections of his novel Maya.
JAMES NAUGHTIE Naughtie is currently enjoying brief infamy after he accidentally replaced the letter ‘h’ with a ‘c’ in culture secretary Jeremy Hunt’s last name live on BBC Radio 4’s the Today programme. The mistake was compounded when Andrew Marr made exactly the same mistake a few hours later. The slip means that ‘Naughty Naughtie’ deposes Frankie Boyle as the most famous Scottish C-word user of the year.
DONALD TRUMP
In Emily Maitlis’ painfully odd BBC2 documentary covering the life, loves and weird hair of billionaire Donald J Trump, one of the most painful and oddest moments was when the ‘Scot’ met some of his long lost Aberdeenshire cousins near to where he has commandeered some coastline to build his new golf course. After shaking hands with the locals he then decided to rename the Menie Dunes as the ‘Great Dunes of Scotland’. What a Jeremy Hunt.
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