In response to frandowdsofa's post ...

[fiat_knox]

frandowdsofa just posted to comment on a dreadful ITV1 quiz show, Goldenballs, hosted by Jasper Carrott OBE.

Yes. Honest. The Brummie's got an Obe. Who knew?

Anyway, there's a link to his official site, if you want to post your condolences at the death of Jasper's career.

And now here's the list I posted to frandowdsofa, detailing the rungs of the descending ladder of one's spiralling career, from the beginning of the end to the bottom of the barrel, and one dishonourable mention which you get when you go poking straight through the bottom of the barrel and start scraping at the floor beneath:

1 - Any daytime TV chat show
2 - Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
3 - Celebrity Big Brother
4 - I'm A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here!
5 - Any other celebrity reality show e.g. Love Island, The Farm
6 - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? celebrity special
7 - The Weakest Link celebrity special
8 - Children In Need, Comic Relief, any other fundraiser
9 - Any other quiz show with celeb panellists; panellist
10 - Any quiz show with members of the public.

Once you get to 10, it's the end of the line. Or a new beginning, if you're Nick Hancock.

I must also add 11 - a photoshoot with the Prime Minster or President of the United States. Hardly feels like a career low for the celeb, but trust me ... if your need to be famous is such that you're having to be seen with the Prime Minister you're wretched because the PM / POTUS is generally held to be lower than whale flop.

Works for "being seen with the Beckhams / Tom Cruise / Michael Barrymore / Keith Chegwin" etc.

Right. As you were.