So Jason Gardiner, in case you don’t know, is one of the judges on ITV’s Dancing on Ice. He’s basically got the Simon Cowell role of bluntly telling people they’re rubbish – usually because they are. In case you weren’t watching on Sunday, he had a bit of a fight with one of the former judges, Karen Barber, who is now the dancing coach for the contestants:
Ooh, nasty, hey? What I find odd is that Jason Gardiner was the “culture gay” on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (UK) – the nice one, in other words. How versatile – or is it MPD? And why did some producer somewhere at ITV think “You know what – let’s have him as Mr Nasty”?
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
