True Beauty & thoughts to ponder

Last week on Australian TV, the finale of True Beauty went to air. (I believe this race was run and won in February in the U.S) But this became the talk of Twitter on a Thursday night. It was television watching that could replace comfort eating. It was comfort watching. Bad for you but it feels so right! The premise of the TV show were that ten contestants who thought they were going to be honoured with a ‘True Beauty’ trophy or honour – were actually going to be tested on outer and inner beauty, via hidden challenges in order to show the judges if they were also beautiful on the inside.

Pageant contestant, and queen of the oh-so-faux (or is it?) smile Julia Anderson won. The judges commented that she was under the radar, and nobody ever saw her coming on the show. Well of course not. She was nice. She always passed the challenges. She was decent, honest, charitable, compassionate. In TV terms that equates to ‘boring’. She wasn’t 100% perfect, and she still had some bitchy things to say about some contestants, but nowhere near on the scale of the other contestants – far more memorable because of how nasty, how vain, or how mean they were to even little kids.

Ray, who was my eye candy favourite in one challenge ignored a portly child sitting on his own, instead preferring to sit with the ‘cool kids’ and upon the loner kid walking away said ‘That kid’s going to grow up to be a sniper’. Shocking. But it was a scene that you couldn’t turn away from! The other kids at the table (actors) were offended. The judges were shocked.. and inevitably, Ray got booted with that particular comment served up to him after asking him ‘Do you think you’re a truly beautiful person?’

What does that say about just what keeps us entertained? Or how the winner of a TV show may not actually be that memorable? It just goes to show that being a villain or villainess may be a better option if you want more than 15 minutes of fame (though the picture above was published in People magazine’s Most Beautiful People issue as part of the prize). Just look at Heidi Montag. Look at Kristin Cavallari. They get invited out SO often because publicity is what they’ll get. Perez Hilton. Look at him. Surely he only has so many acquaintances because celebrities are far too afraid of incurring a child-like drawn on penis on a photo of them splashed across his website. Ah, fame.

Sam

I had to comment, I met Delta Goodrem the other week and she's just so lovely and nice and all sugar and spice and when I mentioned it on facebook, the comments that came back saying she was boring shocked me. Yes because she's not falling out of cars with no knickers on or getting trashed and totally embarrassing herself and entertaining us, she's considered boring. My response was that they must consider me boring 'cause I'm a 'nice' person. What is wrong with people?
I couldn't watch this show, I tried but it was just far too trashy for me. What's wrong with having 'nice' people as role models, may be having all these trashy little things falling out of cars and making an absolute disaster of their lives makes us feel better or superior in some way. If that's the case, that doesn't really say much about us now does it?
I love the way positive, constructive TV programs are starting to come to the fore, we need more of them, it's so easy to be negative, it's much harder to be positive but we need much more positivity in this world, there's too much negativity.
*steps down from soap box*

Kimberley

Glad you commented! :)

Whilst I wouldn't think Delta would be boring, I find the way she represented herself on Idol was a bit.. vain? I'm not sure – it might all be in editing but I think she came off as a bit self-righteous or preachy, but maybe she couldn't be a mirror image of Marcia's diplomatically sugary comments.

I know exactly what you mean, but True Beauty actually did inspire me to think more about being more giving, and generous of time and money – with their hidden challenges, seeing if people would stop for someone on the street. Or clean up litter. Or comfort a crying stranger. It really does make you think if you're naturally compassionate, oblivious, or would purposefully walk away. It was worth a watch!

P.S Nobody would accuse you of being boring, Sam. :)

Sam

I haven't seen Delta on Idol, I did hear though that she got peeved so many people were coming in singing her songs and they were totally trashing them, but I haven't seen it so cannot comment and I'm sure editing did have something to do with it. But like any professional who is a specialist at what they do, I think they earn that right. There is a fine line between constructive criticism and being nasty and I just can't imagine Delta being nasty.

I agree with that point about True Beauty, bringing that awareness to the fore, but some days you just don't want to be compassionate or pick up after someone else but most days I strive for that :-)

:-)

Sam

I had to comment, I met Delta Goodrem the other week and she's just so lovely and nice and all sugar and spice and when I mentioned it on facebook, the comments that came back saying she was boring shocked me. Yes because she's not falling out of cars with no knickers on or getting trashed and totally embarrassing herself and entertaining us, she's considered boring. My response was that they must consider me boring 'cause I'm a 'nice' person. What is wrong with people?
I couldn't watch this show, I tried but it was just far too trashy for me. What's wrong with having 'nice' people as role models, may be having all these trashy little things falling out of cars and making an absolute disaster of their lives makes us feel better or superior in some way. If that's the case, that doesn't really say much about us now does it?
I love the way positive, constructive TV programs are starting to come to the fore, we need more of them, it's so easy to be negative, it's much harder to be positive but we need much more positivity in this world, there's too much negativity.
*steps down from soap box*

Kimberley

Glad you commented! :)

Whilst I wouldn't think Delta would be boring, I find the way she represented herself on Idol was a bit.. vain? I'm not sure – it might all be in editing but I think she came off as a bit self-righteous or preachy, but maybe she couldn't be a mirror image of Marcia's diplomatically sugary comments.

I know exactly what you mean, but True Beauty actually did inspire me to think more about being more giving, and generous of time and money – with their hidden challenges, seeing if people would stop for someone on the street. Or clean up litter. Or comfort a crying stranger. It really does make you think if you're naturally compassionate, oblivious, or would purposefully walk away. It was worth a watch!

P.S Nobody would accuse you of being boring, Sam. :)

Sam

I haven't seen Delta on Idol, I did hear though that she got peeved so many people were coming in singing her songs and they were totally trashing them, but I haven't seen it so cannot comment and I'm sure editing did have something to do with it. But like any professional who is a specialist at what they do, I think they earn that right. There is a fine line between constructive criticism and being nasty and I just can't imagine Delta being nasty.

I agree with that point about True Beauty, bringing that awareness to the fore, but some days you just don't want to be compassionate or pick up after someone else but most days I strive for that :-)

:-)

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