One can only hope/presume this will be the last post pertaining to the Unfortunate Haircut. This probably doesn't even warrant it's own post; apologies for the flippancy, but wasn't it obvious he was dabbling with Columbia's marching powder? Yes, at 18 he's got youth on his side, but it's not the norm for a boozing body to survive on half an hour's sleep without some form of external stimulant being employed, even Dermot O'Leary must know that.
As ever Louis Walsh was on hand with his opinion: "It's no surprise about Frankie at all. He's had the worse attitude all along. What really annoys me is that people who really cared and worked hard to be on the show are gone while people who were there for the wrong reasons got to stay (Frankie had openly admitted to entering the competition in the hopes of "scoring with as many women as possible" - 'cause, let's face it, that wasn't likely to happen on his own merit). Gary Barlow has to take the blame for not controlling his acts. I control my acts. I tell them what is and what's not acceptable. He should have done that too from the start."
Given Louis has been in charge of the sensitively entitled "Overs" two years running, you would expect them to mostly behave like adults. As for "I tell them what is and what's not acceptable"; tell Kitty to put on a pair of bottoms for at least one results show, purrlease.
That malarkey aside, Louis has only been told to pick this point with Gary for ratings. That's what all of this boils down to in the end. Ratings. Forget about well being and the aftermath, they do not = ratings. A Russel Brand haircut circa 2007, house parties, honk and hooch = ratings. If this farce gets re-commissioned next year, they might as well cut the bullskit and just feed contestants to live lions roaming around Fountain Studios. The winner gets their own reality show in which we get to see how they're rehabilitated.
Apologies, of course you want to read what Gary Barlow had to say on the matter: "Frankie has apologised publicly as well as personally to me and the producers for hiss actions that led to him leaving the show (to clarify, he hoofed coke, bragged about it in front of staff, who then told the producers, who then got worried). I'm hugely disappointed he's thrown away this opportunity after working so hard to get here. I hope Frankie continues to look to me as a friend and as a supporter and works it out, picks himself up and tries to turn this into a positive."
Yep, I switched off around the "after working so hard to get here" point as well.
The only positive thing to possibly come out of this would be to get Twiggy Stardust back on the show so he can land that job as a Caribbean Queen. Make it happen *snaps fingers*
