Jermaine Runner Up In Celebrity Big Brother

Wow, how time flies (since my last post).

Jermaine Runner Up
Jermaine Jackson finished runner up to Bollywood superstar Shipa Shetty in this years Celebrity Big Brother 2007.
He seemed very pleased with the result and complimenting Shilpa as a deserving winner.
I did personally carry on watching the show since my last post, but only half watching it while doing other things. I realised I wasn't really going to get much of an insight into Michael or the Jackson family. Plus the show did become very distasteful for a while, so I didn't feel like blogging about it. After all, this is my Michael Jackson site blog, not a general rant on the world blog.

I did see one headline report on the net saying David Gest had said Michael was watching alot of the show. Well in a way I hope he wasn't watching too much as the younger British women in the house were a disgrace to our country.

As for Jermaine, he was very quiet and had to put up with questions like, "Was Billie Jean based on the tennis player?". That from a former popstar. Oh well.
Jermaine certainly conducted himelf with great dignity. It was great though when he did the Jackson 5 song, "I Want You Back".

Jermaine also stated he will be in London for a while working on a show based on his family. Well thats certainly one to watch out for.


Site Updates
I have a great new section to upload shortly, I just need to add some finishing touches and prefer to upload it it as a completed section in one go.
It will liven up my site a bit more and certainly provide alot of information on one specific aspect of Michael's career where he has led the way.
Actually, I had an email question about one aspect of it today and let them see a page of it, so it's definetly going to be of interest and informational to a large number of fans.

Jermaine caught up in the racism of the Celebrity Big Brother

Well there's been a whole lot of headlines on the evening news channels, our Prime Minster Tony Blair and the Indian Prime Minister have both commented on the programme and some Indians in Indian have taken to the streets to demonstrate against percieved racism.

Jermaine was the first to spot the racism against Shipa Shetty. Actually going back to the start of the programme I was quite surprised when Jermaine said he was glad when he saw Shilpa Shetty enter the house because it was another non white person. Even a star as big as Jermaine still felt consious of his being because of his colour. I won't go into possible reasons for him thinking this.

Jermaine hit upon the fact that Shilpa was being victimised by Jade for an action of voting a contestant out, even though a fellow white friend of hers, Jo from S Club 7 had also voted in the same way as Shilpa.

Jermaine had previosly put the issues down to being differences of class.

Is there racism in the house? Jermaine definetly put the issues down to colour. Ian, (H from Steps) had recognised there was bulying going on. So is it bullying or racism?

Channel 4 say its not racism. However I believe when you look down at another race and comment on why they are all skinny, that they eat with there hands, they don't cook or eat properly, use body language to let the person know they are not liked or welcomed in a group, its racism. This and more has gone on in the house.

Channel 4 may not choose to think its racism because no one has walked up to Shilpa Shetty and called her a racist name, but theres alot more to racism than that!

Anyway, somehow Shipa Shetty has managed to carry on with the show and no doubt has been helped by Jermaine who has constantlly there to reassure her she is not the one who has the problem and she is fine as she is.

Anyway I certainly made a complaint to OFCOM, and today I heard there's been over 15,000 complaints.

January 17th 9pm Showing of Celebrity BB
Now this was pure distasteful. Shipla certainly questioned in tonights airing of the show whether she was the victim of racism. At one point Jermaine put it down not to being racist but a difference of class, something he has said before.

I questioned tonight why Jermaine and Shilpa even stay in the house.

Anyway with regards to the reason I continue to watch it and blog it (for any insights into Michael and his family) Jermaine did mention his family upbringing, that although strict it has certainly helped him in good stead throughout his life.

Tonight was Jermaine Jackson and Jackson 5 Night!!!

Tonight was the night for Jermaine Jackson in Celebrity Big Brother.

Big Brother announced a Battle of the Bands contest. The 2 captains were Jermaine Jackson who was to head a Jackson 5 tribute band and Ian from Steps, who was to lead a Steps tribute band.

Well Jermaine picked Shilpa the bollywood star, Cleo (Kenny Everets 80's sidekick), Dirk Benedict (The A Teams Face), and Danielle Lloyd (former Miss Great Britain).

We saw them rehearsing the dance moves learning some of the lines. Then we were treated to the full performance of "I Want You Back", the first Jackson 5 Mowtown hit, and one of my personal favourite songs of all time. Both bands were dressed in full authentic band clothing. The Jackson 5 had typical high heeled boots, chequered coloured (strange) 1970's pop star clothing and of course the big Afro wigs.

It was great on all counts. Jermaine took lead role and sang most of the song. He still has a great voice and its so great to see him perform. His voice is very soft and full of star quality. The whole performance was hilarous and great entertainment. Even Jermaine was laughing within the song. All memebers of the group were great.

The footage was shown live yesterday and online streaming viewers voted for the winners. Jermaine's, Jackson 5 tribute band won 75% of the vote.

All housemates were later awarded a Jackson 5 theme party. Jermaine seemed alot happier as did all the housemates in general. We heard the orginal "ABC" blasting during the party out with Michael Jackson singing, which lead to some crazy dancing by Dirk.

It was a good show tonight and finished on a couple of the housemates (Jade and her boyfriend) talking about asking Jermaine for his autograph after the show. I think his star quality shone very bright!!!

Jermaines progress in Celebrity Big Brother

Jermaine Jackson revealed this week he had told himself that he entered the house with dignity and he shall leave with dignity. Not as easy as it sounds for most people, especially Leo Sayer who completeley lost it before busting out a fire exit door and leaving.

I only found this out yesterday, that on entering the house and asked what he would bring to to house Jermiaine said "Peace". Well that is certainly true, although maybe "peace and quite" would have been more fitting.

He has admitted to Shilpa that if he knew what the show was really like he wouldn't have done it. Also stating it was much harder than anyone on the outside could have imagined.

He seemed very disappointed that Leo Sayer had left, and even without saying goodbye. The two had known each other over the years, although from what I saw they barely spoke much. Its also worth noting that Leo left because Big Brother didn't give him clean underpants. However Jermaine, who has been a bigger star for longer than Leo, albeit as part of a group and a few solo hits. However he has been handwashing his own underwear.

Jermaine certainly has a good strong bond with Shipa. After Leo left one of the housemates said they might expect Jermaine to leave, and Shilpa said he Jermaine leaves, she will go with him. This was something they had spoke about when Jade and her family first enter the house.

Jermaine is certainly one of the calmest housemates I've ever seen in the house. In this Celebrity big Brother he is by far the wisest in terms of the entertainment industry. He has had to give Shilpa some sound advice when she has fallen out with the other girls in the house. Not really due to any of her own doing, mainly because of lack of respect and understanding from some of the lower class housemates, the ones proud to be dumb, i.e Danielle Lloyd and Jade Goody.

I heard yesterday that Jermaine was given a task to lead half the group in a band competition against the other half of the group. They were then treated to a Jackson 5 style party. I haven't seen the footage yet but I hope it proves fun and interesting.

2 New Michael Jackson Tracks

Today I discovered 2 new Michael Jackson tracks.

The first is a demo of a beautiful song from the Thriller era called Love Never Felt So Good. A pretty simple song and one perfect for Michael Jacksons voice. I'm not sure how long it's been out in the public domain but until now I've not heard of it.

While looking up some info on the above song I also discovered another new track which heavily features Michael Jacksons backing vocals. The song is either called Gangsta or No Friend of Mine. I gather the song is fairly new although I have no idea yet as to when Michael recorded his vocals.

There's a stark contrast between the vocals on both tracks. The Michael's Gangsta vocals sound recent, but I'm most interested in exactly how recent.

I really like both tracks. Although I think Love Never Felt So Good would have broader appeal. Michael singing in his soft fresh voice. Whereas the harsher style doesn't generally appeal to the older generation who just think music like that is a racket.

Of course I like both songs, although I felt the first song a much better discovery musically and the second more interesting as I'd like to know when it was recorded as it might show some direction Michael may want to take with his eagerly anticipated comeback.

Jermaine Quizzed by Jade Goody

Still can't beileve I've got Jade Goody in my blog.

Anyway, somehow Jermaine has managed to stay in the Celebrity Big Brother House with Jade and her family. Actually Jade isn't so bad I suppose although I begrudge having to watch her on telly. Her boyfriend, Jack, is just boring, so boring it's not problem as we simply never see him. Jade's mum, Jackie, well you need an award for living with her.

After Jades family entered it wasn't long until Jermaine was whipsering in the toilets with Shilpa about leaving. Since then 2 celebrity contestants have left by there own accord.

Still haven't seen too much of Jermaine. I've seen him laughing alot at bedtime at Jackies loud farting. Although I read he was very displeased by her loud farting in the day, especially in the kitchen!

He did face a few questions from Jade, who jokingly accused him of "putting it about" after he told her about some of his many children with different mothers. One of his children is called Jermaine and another Jermajesty.

Jade also fired some questions about Michael. She questioned in her typical way about Michael's appearance being white, and asked if both his parents black. Of course Jermaine said he had a skin condition, although he couldn't remember what it was called (Vitiligo). She also asked about the way he has changed his face and Jermaine said that Michael had changed things but he was still "Michael the person".

At some point Jermaine also talked of Neverland and how beautiful it was. He said he had been and stayed there very recently.

Jade also said she had watched a programme which looks at celebrities finances and the conclusion it gave was that Michael Jackson was bankrupt. Well thats certainly a headline I read every couple of weeks one way or another. Jermaine said "No, not at all. That's what they (the media) want you to think"

La Toya to be in Reality Show Armed and Famous
On another note I read today another of Michael's family is to take part in a reality show. La Toya Jackson is to appear in Armed and Famous where she will be trained to become a reserve police officers for the Muncie, Indiana police department.

According to latest reports from the show La Toya has helped deliver a baby!

She would probably make an interesting contender on a show like Celebrity Big Brother and if I knew a Jackson was going to appear she would have been the one I thought it most likely to have been.

Jermine Big Brother Update

Apparently one of Jermaine Jackson's reasons for going into the Celebrity Big Brother House was to help overcome his shyness.

Well, boy is he shy! This is certainly a trait he shares with his brother Michael. I've never really seen that much of Jermaine and find it difficult to imagine him so shy. I think he needs a few tasks to really get him up and out in front of everybody otherwise he is quite content to get away with sitting quietly in a corner.

I have only watched the highlights so he may well be more active but I did see a piece on the offical site saying how other housemates were discussing how quiet he was.

He has also escaped the latest big shakeup in the house. He has become part of Jade Goody's adopted family and will be waited on hand a foot for a few days by 8 of the other celebrity housemates along with the Good family, Ken Russel and the beautiful Shilpa Shetty . I think he got away with this mostly for respect as an elder and also his star status. However, I think it would have been more fun to see him as a waiter, as apparently he has servants in real life.

How will Jermaine cope living with Jade and her mother? Well that will be interesting!

Jacksons Reality TV Takeover!!!

Ok, first one, Tito Jackson. For some reason I wasn't overally surprised yesterday to see Tito Jackson as a judge (with bowler hat) for the TV show Just The Two of Us.
I'd seen him recently on I'm a Celebrity as a friend of David Gest, so maybe this appearance stems from that, as an appearance of a Jackson family member usually generates some extra interest.

Tito comes across very nice and friendly. Although harsh in some of his scoring he doesn't seem to like to give scathing critism like some of the other judges.

Now for the next one, which to be honest was a total shock and a huge surprise. Jermaine Jackson was the first celebrity in the Uk's Celebrity Big Brother. Its a huge surprise because he is probably the second most well known of the Jackson 5/Jacksons. Also Celebrity Big Brother is huge exposure, on camera 24 hours a day for I think 3 weeks, if he stays in that long.

I missed the very beginning of the show so I missed Jermaines reasons for doing it. Of course I hope he does very well. Hopefully he wins it. Of course I wonder what he'll say about Michael, hopefully they'll be a couple of good insights.

Its going to be a very interesting couple of weeks.

A New Year - New Goals

It's good to be back in the New Year 2007.

What will 2007 hold for Michael Jackson and also my website.

Michael Jackson 2007
I read today that Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am has annouced he is to work on Michael Jackson's next solo album. I was most pleased to read he said "Man, he still sings like a bird".

I know we have seen and heard a bit about Will.i.am, most notably in the Access Hollywood interview. Although at the time, you never know for sure if they were just testing out a few ideas and then maybe Michael moves on to test out ideas elsewhere.

Also I'm a fan of the Black Eye Peas music, well I have there last 2 albums. They produce some great singles liked by both youngsters and clubbers. If thats the wide range Michael wants to appeal to then it seems like a great partnership.

Michael is going to be 49 years old in 2007. Madonna is the same age and she had a great year in 2006, one her best in a long while. So I'm sure Michael can do even better if he wants to.

Will Michael release an album in 2007? Thats a big question. I remember all to well waiting for Dangerous and HIStory albums to be released. I kind of gave up waiting for Invincible.

I'm not pinning any hopes on a new album in 2007. I know Michael's a perfectionist. He'll no doubt need to record a hundred songs before hes happy with a selection for an album. I have no idea how long all that would take. By all accounts its taken him years per album in the past and now he has 3 children so I guess it would take longer.

AllMichaelJackson.com
I started this site after Michael Jackson released his Invincible album. I wanted to present Michael the talent and provide a useful resource for new fans. There's no doubt young people are discovering the talents of Michael Jackson every single day. Many will have known him a some kind of freak as portrayed by the tabloids and media. My site was to show the TALENT. The ENTERTAINER.

I think it's even more important at this time. Not only is he misportrayed as a freak but now many young people will only know the negative news surrounding his trial.

So therefore its even more important I produced the best alround Michael Jackson site and show what Michael Jackson is really all about.

There's so much more information I want to add. Most importantly I want to make the site a little more fun and add lots of videos to really illustrate his life and talents. Video streaming is something still fairly new and only over the last 12 months did YouTube really appear. Now its full of videos I can use to show Michael Jacksons talents as I have done on my Dance Moves page or how I show the first Moonwalk. Well there will be plenty more of these over the next year. I think it's great to be able to read about a song or performance and then WATCH IT or HEAR IT!!

Currently my Alexa ranking is 193,061. I'll be intending to get my ranking alot higher so its the most visited Michael Jackson website on the net! Most important of all I want everything in place before the release of any new single or album.