THE PRESS, Christchurch Saturday, May 12, 2012 WORLD B7 BRITAIN So, Amanda, why did you watch that vile tape? peek; that it would somehow be each other, then no-one else will? The treatment of Tulisa Contostavlos over prudish not to watch footage of a How difficult is it to refuse to girl unwittingly being set up. engage with misogynistic the ‘sex tape’ was cruel and unthinking, Don’t tell me that this is bullying? To refuse to view such inconsequential. If porn terms an artefact and explain that you writes BARBARA ELLEN. make it clearer, what Holden and know the difference between a Dixon did was a high-profile act of ‘‘must-see’’ YouTube footage of, t feels strange to be angry and moment is a ‘‘sex tape!’’, then you girl-on-girl treachery, full-frontal say, a puppy being silly and the disappointed in Amanda or I humming along to the radio is female betrayal. What else could public humiliation of a young Holden. It feels like being let a Vegas dance routine. explain such shallow bitchery at woman? down by the little girl Contostavlos was clearly still another female’s expense? Oddly, Holden made some Ichalking on the blackboard on the distressed about the tape on the What hypocrites they both are. reference to females supporting old-fashioned test card. It feels like same Alan Carr show the week Holden received lots of female each other on the same chat show, being angry at a sub-par bowl of before. But never mind that. After empathy when she had a horrible moments before smirking about Instant Whip. Amanda Holden sits her sofa-mate David Walliams said time with her pregnancies. Does the sex tape. Clearly, she doesn’t on the panel of a television talent he’d like to watch the tape, Holden she think that it was men feeling realise that feminism, at its purest, show. She’s rather pretty and has smirked that she already had and her pain? Similarly, many, is women simply trying to look out always seemed quite sweet. Why that their Britain’s Got Talent including myself, felt that it was for each other, something she and on earth would anyone be angry or colleague Alesha Dixon had sent unfair to denounce Dixon as the Dixon could have done, instead of disappointed with her? her the link: ‘‘It’s a terrible thing to Not so pretty: Amanda Holden, left, is villain of ageism, after she what they did do. Maybe it was Except that on Alan Carr: confess, but everyone wants to see guilty of unsisterly behaviour towards replaced Arlene Phillips on Strictly this – the offhand cruelty that Chatty Man last week, Holden it. It was her.’’ The atmosphere fellow celebrity Tulisa Contostavlos, Come Dancing. Both women have made this female-on-female giggled about how she’d watched was suddenly very sub-Dick above. been recipients of female support betrayal such an unedifying the Tulisa Contostavlos ‘‘sex tape’’. Emery, along the lines of: ‘‘Ooh, and goodwill on a national scale. spectacle. Well, if you can’t beat The sex tape that is not a sex tape – aren’t we awful?’’ Actually, The sheen of showbiz does not supporting the abuser and the another Simon Cowell show), the How sad and ugly that this did not ’em, join ’em. To borrow from the one where Tulisa is a teenage Amanda, as women, you and alter the fact that the video of her abusive situation. Despite all this tape apparently became something translate into ordinary human Britain’s Got Talent, where female girl and her then boyfriend films Alesha truly are. performing a sex act was (the degradation of a young for Holden and Dixon to girlie- compassion for Tulisa. solidarity is concerned, I’m her with him and later it goes Let’s be clear: the filming of effectively trafficked. In this way, woman who’s not only in their bond over. It was as if the only When will high-profile women buzzing Holden and Dixon off. public. If this private stolen Contostavlos was not a sex tape. anyone viewing it is directly own profession but appears on acceptable response was to have a learn that if they don’t stick up for Observer QUOTE UNQUOTE Bill Cosby Zsa Zsa Gabor Jerry Seinfeld Lana Turner ‘‘Anyone who says he can see ‘‘Experience is what you have through women is missing a lot.’’ after you’ve forgotten her name.’’ – Groucho Marx. – Milton Berle. ‘‘A child of 5 would understand ‘‘Food, love, career, and this. Send someone to fetch a mothers, the four major guilt child of 5.’’ – Groucho Marx. groups.’’ – Cathy Guisewite. ‘‘A James Cagney love scene is ‘‘Get your facts first, then you one where he lets the other guy can distort them as you please.’’ – live.’’ – Bob Hope. Mark Twain. ‘‘A lot of baby boomers are ‘‘Fashions have done more baby bongers.’’ – Kevin Nealon. harm than revolutions.’’ – Victor ‘‘A successful man is one who Hugo. makes more money than his wife ‘‘Food is an important part of a can spend. A successful woman is balanced diet.’’ – Fran Lebowitz. one who can find such a man.’’ – ‘‘He taught me housekeeping; Lana Turner. when I divorce I keep the house.’’ ‘‘A 2-year-old is kind of like – Zsa Zsa Gabor. having a blender, but you don’t ‘‘Housework can’t kill you, but have a top for it.’’ – Jerry Seinfeld. why take a chance?’’ – Phyllis ‘‘A word to the wise ain’t Diller. necessary – it’s the stupid ones ‘‘How many people here have that need the advice.’’ – Bill Cosby. telekenetic powers? Raise my ‘‘All right everyone, line up hand.’’ – Emo Philips. alphabetically according to your ‘‘I am the literary equivalent of height.’’ – Casey Stengel. a Big Mac and Fries.’’ – Stephen ‘‘As a child my family’s menu King. consisted of two choices: take it or ‘‘I cannot sing, dance or act; leave it.’’ – Buddy Hackett. what else would I be but a talk ‘‘Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Or show host.’’ – David Letterman. as they call it in Beverly Hills, ‘‘I cook with wine, sometimes I Dad’s Third Wife Day.’’ – Jay Leno. even add it to the food.’’ –WC ‘‘Everybody knows how to Fields. raise children, except the people ‘‘I did not have 3000 pairs of who have them.’’ – P J O’Rourke. shoes, I had 1060.’’ – Imelda ‘‘Any girl can be glamorous. Marcos. All you have to do is stand still ‘‘I distrust camels, and anyone and look stupid.’’ – Hedy Lamarr. else who can go a week without a ‘‘I buy expensive suits. They drink.’’ – Joe E Lewis. just look cheap on me.’’ – Warren ‘‘I don’t have to look up my Buffett. family tree, because I know that ‘‘Always end the name of your I’m the sap.’’ – Fred Allen. child with a vowel, so that when ‘‘I don’t need you to remind me you yell the name will carry.’’ – of my age. I have a bladder to do Bill Cosby. that for me.’’ – Stephen Fry. 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