Saira Khan and her recent revenge play for headlines. For some reason, she says she failed to see the humour in Charlie Brooker’s assessment of her character when she was in The Apprentice about ten years back. Taking advantage of the ‘all men are bullies and cunts’ strategy which all the media ladies must be reading books about somewhere, she forgets that he rarely put a nice word about anyone in print, his commentary usually summed up British opinion, and, in my opinion actually was outrageous enough that you knew it wasn’t to be taken too seriously.
She claims it made her depressed. Okay, we all get depression and it fluctuates from time to time and she was in a bad place having exhausted all her energy on trying to win fights in the boardroom against a bunch of people who’s delusions were similar to her own. I don’t see she needs to bring Brooker into it. I mean, why not blame us all – he only wrote a version of thoughts lots of people had because, quite simply, her first forey into the public eye (and every one since) does not always show her in the best light.
She accuses often but doesn’t like it when the shoe is on the other foot. Perhaps if she wasn’t trying to force her opinion down other peoples throats she would have more time to listen and understand.
She has opened herself up hoping for pity but has been shown on camera as someone very conscious of her plays for power so it angers me, just as the other women who have been completely compliant in their own actions find a way to blame others, particularly men.
I do feel sad for her having gone through the sludges of media life and publicity and not dealing with it well but accusing someone else of making you want to kill yourself because of a few aimed barbs from a funnyman (and he didn’t even make her a running joke a la Boyle style) is also a form of bullying. She wants revenge and revenge is never pretty. She ought to remember that when considering her image she cares so much about.
In fact, let’s make this a cunting for all celebrities that try to manufacture an image based on blame, instead of focusing on what they are actually sometimes quite good at.
Nominated by Quirk
