What a bunch of wasters. Please tell me that these people are not representative of the next generation.

 I'll admit it. I come clean. I watch and like Big Brother. Of course, it is an intellectual exercise, a chance to stretch my amateur psychology skills and feel ever so good about myself that I am not that freaking dumb. In my normal TV viewing life, I almost exclusively watch Channel 4 news, BBC News, The Apprentice and Dragons Den. Oh and Doctor Who. Big Brother is very much a wildcard I allow myself.

Each year we get a new set of contestants, and with each year comes the more bizarre and socially inept examples of human nature. In previous years, we have had a Turk who dresses as a female belly dancer, a post-op trans-sexual, gay people galore, a sufferer of Tourettes Syndrome and a girl who makes it with a wine bottle. Let's make this clear, I am not prejudicial against any of these people, it is merely an example of the interesting cases for the public to study every night at C4 at 9pm. It makes great telly, even if it is car-crash telly.

Now, Big Brother has become a career move for the uncharismatic, talentless people who couldn't make it using legitimate means ... you know, like developing a stage act or talent and busting your ass working in clubs or private functions. When you are in the eighth series, people start to figure out that they can just use the show as a way to get noticed. You're pretty much guaranteed your 15 seconds of fame when you come out. Even now, minor members of previous years of BB have changed their lives after leaving the house.

Let me introduce you to some of the members of this years house:

• Charley : A girl who is the cousin of a famour footballer. She parties and purchases and does little work, if any.
• Chanel: A girl whose role model is Victoria Beckham, and who wants to be a 'WAG'. (Wife and Girlfirend of  a Footballer)
• Shabnab: A girl who cannot eixst without make-up, even in bed. Admires herself constantly in mirrors, striking more vogues than Madonna.
• Emily: A girl who in her audition says "Isn't it about time you put an intelligent girl in the Big Brother house"? And then gets thrown out for using a racist word knowing full well that Channel 4 are still stinging from their OFCOM ruling regarding their last racism incident.
• Sam-anda (Sam and Amanda): Two 18-year old identical twins who speak a strange incomprehensible language of warblings, cooings and the work "PINK!".

These girls all seem to be work-shy. They either embark on a life where they commit to a programme of not working, instead concentrating on finding a footballer with a big credit card; or, they are just lazy around the house and lazy around the house probably means they'll be lazy around the work-place too.

What happened to a work ethic? If we look at these girls role models, we can quickly see what has happened. Chanel's role model is an ideal example: Victoria Beckham. What exactly does she do? She tries repeatedly to force her singing on us but when even the 'chavs' hate it, she hasn't got much hope. Currently, she is designing her own fashion range. Mmmm. I can't really see her with a desk full of blue prints and cuts of cloth, to be quite honest. If one is to use her as a token of success and adopt her as a role model, then I think maybe standing at the staff entrance of Manchester United FC might be your only chance in life of "success". Let us look at what has become of the other Spice Girls. Nothing. Where is Gerry now? Where is Mel G and Mel B? What about Emma? It's all quiet. Unfortunately, it seems they lucked out on marrying a famous footballer.

It really galls me that people think that work is optional, not for them, and for boring people. Work is what allows you to live. These girls must see Jordan, Tara Palmer Tompkinson, and whatever other it-girls there are these days and think, "Well if they have done it, so can I". Wrong. Even these girls, for what little they contribute to society, must have worked to some extent to get where they are. While you see parties, photo-shoots and interviews, even a cynic like myself can see there will be long hours and travel and bad food involved in this lifestyle somewhere. It's probably also quite stressful to, to be fair.

The aversion of these characters to work is so entrenched that a lot of these girls have now said they have done their first week, have got in to the public eye and now want to leave. What happened to 13-weeks away from society? What happened to the £100,000 prize at the end? When the press and associated deals probably amount to far more than £100,000, the answer is obvious. Why try harder? Why complete the job at hand when you can quit early and get money and fame anyway?

BB is a great opportunity to see social malfunction, and I firmly believe one can learn a lot from it. I will be sure to blog more on it, including discussing meetings, communication, etc.