Hold on to your seats all you reality TV adoring couch-potatoes, here’s a revelation you could never have expected to hear! In a recent interview with the surprise–make that miraculous, actually–winner of Celebrity Big Brother, Alex Reid, the cage fighting secret softy who doesn’t crave being famous at all—if you believe that about the boyfriend of media addict Katie Price then you will literally believe anything—has admitted that as much as a whopping 10% of his ’personality’ was kept completely hidden from view of the public as a deliberate ploy to make the man somehow…Well, more mysterious. Now, judging by the 90% of what we ’learned’ about Alex in the show—much of which can be summarized by saying he was willing to believe just about anything anyone told him, including that he could quite easily knock Daniel Craig off his James Bond perch with a couple of acting classes—that mysterious 10% may be not a lot to write home about. In fact, you could probably write it on the back of Alex Reid’s head, underneath the label that reads This puppet is 100% the property of Katie ’Jordan’ Price and still have enough room to scribe the new testament that Reid was so keen to learn all about.
One has to ask who, when looking closer, was really the most naive–or just plain stupid–house-mate in the show. And judging by Stephen Baldwin’s quotes—“You know what I like about you? You’re not stupid”—he may well even outdo Alex in a future episode of Celebrity Mastermind for dummies.
What does 2010 hold in store for Alex Reid? Who knows; it’s a safe bet to say that he probably doesn’t. I suppose it will depend on who he bumps into.
Much as Alex got a hard time, I think we might eventually discover that he’s actually a secret genius. After all, if his girlfriend can sell that many books then there’s hope for the boy yet. Mind, if she ever breaks up with him, he might be stuck stocking luxury kitchen accessories at the local corner store!