I have so far not paid a bit of attention to this year’s Big Brother, and hadn’t a clue who was in it – at least until today when browsing in WHSmiths I spotted a familiar face on the cover of Star magazine. Either that is Zac from Northern Line, or he has an extreme doppelgänger in the Big Brother house! The guy is even called Ziggy, which, while a ridiculously stupid name, is also not so far from Zac. I then went through every gossip magazine in the shop (well, I had a long wait for my bus) trying to find info on this Ziggy, but nothing told me whether he was our ex-popstar or not. Now, a quick Wikipedia search tells me he is indeed Zac from Northern Line. What with lovely Kavana making his way into the finals of Grease Is The Word recently, it really is the time for pretty boys of turn-of-the-century pop to make a resurgence.
While gossip mag flicking today I made yet another strange discovery, but this time it’s a girlband member making a TV comeback and it’s not such a glamorous role. Melissa Graham, a member of Solid HarmoniE who had a brief solo career in Europe (I loved her song Bulletproof), gave up pop music for nursing, and now she appears in a show called A&E on Discovery Home & Health, and in this week’s Real Life magazine talking about her sacrifice. But wait… is this strictly true? It seems she may not really have given up the limelight after all – here’s Melissa advertising a strange new chat show called LegalTV, in March 2007! She may have once been part of a fabulous pop group, but now it seems she’s a fame-hungry fraud!