Why blog?

Dear Degrassi,

Why, after all this time, have you decided to blog?

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Why? I'll tell you why! I've got a heap of stuff to do, and I just don't want to do it. So with all that there is in the world of the interwebs to distract me from my regular life, I've decided to start blogging... Also, since I gave up my column all those years ago, there's a whole stack of ramblings about pop culture that need to be vented and I'm sick of Perez Hilton getting all the hits...

Not enough of my friends watch Eastenders and my other half just doesn't want to know, so I've got to let it all out somewhere. Where else can I tell the world how happy I am that Janine is back, albeit reinvented as Judith Bernstein... And since the actress who plays her, Charlie Brooks, has gone and released the obligatory exercise DVD in her hiatus since leaving the show she's now slimmed down... Of course, she has that whole Sophie Monk thing going on where it doesn't matter how much weight she loses, she's always going to have a fat face, so she looks like a lollipop.

Just as Neighbours at one point seemed to spawn an unusually large number of teeny-bopper fodder, Eastenders seems to prompt its ex-cast members to release fitness DVDs. Patsy Palmer, Natalie Cassidy (or Fossy Jaw as we like to call her in our house), Letitia Dean... and they were just some of the ones I could find with a cursoury google search... Perhaps it's the fact that the 'Enders producers like to keep it real and ugly up many of their stars, so it's generally a plus to be a little on the plus side for starters. Once they leave the comfort food eating confines of Albert Square and try to get work out in the real world, reality sets in and they need to follow in the likes of Ginger Spice, shedding kilos and basically going through the motions whilst a professional shows everyone how it's done... And let's not forget that they have to bitch and moan the whole way through too... It wouldn't be a real celeb DVD if they showed the slightest bit of enthusiasm!