Are Celebs Smarter Than A 10 Year Old? Xmas Special

A whole lot of Kiwi adults proved they just were not smarter than TV2's class of 10-year-olds in game show Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old? Will three of NZ's favourite celebrities fare any better in this extra-special Christmas quiz?

Find out this Sunday 23rd December at 7.30PM when Pop’s Ultimate Star contestant and ex Shortland Street actor David Wikaira-Paul, Builder and Celebrity Treasure Island winner John “Cocksy” Cocks and My House My Castle presenter Rob Harte battle to prove they are smarter than a 10 year old.


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Cocksy in Mongolia while Wife sorts DIY Nightmare

Happy whistling in the background leads us into part two of this miniseries on My House My Castle. Cocksy has another TV show and will be going away for 10-13 days. Ooooh. Where’s he going? What’s he doing?

Meanwhile Brenda, the three kids, the dog and designer Hamish are sorting out the design. Well Brenda is sorting out the design. Hamish is along for the ride. He admits he missed the boat last time, so this time he feels they can sort it out. Sure. Just nod and say yes. Brenda will sort it out.

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Brenda makes Miss Prozac chuckle. Here’s a woman that knows what she wants and isn’t about to be persuaded by a TV crew or designer. First tiles, next joinery. She is very decisive. You’d think she’d be a pleasure as a client … so long as the designer doesn’t have an ego.

Cocksy return and says Brenda is too slow at chipping bricks. He reckons he can do five bricks to her one. Miss Prozac is inclined to agree. Hammer and bolster Brenda!

Oops and guess what. Cocksy is jetting off on yet another TV show for 10 days. Hmmmm. The plot thickens. What is this television show? Another reality TV show, perhaps?

Brenda battles on with the council, the kids, the bricks and life. Turns out Cocksy is building a hut or something in Mongolia. Say, what? He says, don’t worry about the consent from the council. Don’t change a thing he says. What I did was right. I’ll sort it when I’m back. Sounds like famous last words…


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Builder Cocksy's Home DIY Nightmare

After the success of A Desperate Renovation, My House My Castle is again taking inspiration from one of TVNZ's hit shows... this year it's Builders' Wives. Based on Footballers' Wives, the show will find out what happens when a TV builder tackles his own home and tries in vain to keep the other half from losing it.

The stars of the show are John Cocks (Cocksy) and Brenda. Despite what Cocksy says, his wife Brenda wears the pants in their relationship. But, even so, it is a battle it has taken Brenda their entire marriage to win - she wants to live in their dream home, but Cocksy's so busy working for everyone else, he hasn't had time to build it. She's even gone as far as buying a do-up on the North Shore, though two years later construction is yet to begin.

This looks like it will be a ripper of a show. In last week's episode we were introduced to their home - and it looked like something out of the DIY Makeover show. Talk about a mess! Miss Prozac wasn't surprised. All the builders' wives she knows have to threaten to hire a tradesman, just to get the window latch fixed. We hope Cocksy is rightly embarrassed.

Brenda's builder/presenter/husband has promised to make a start this year. (Nothing to do with the fact that there will be a camera present!) They will be transforming their three bedroom, "eleven-metre-by-nine-metre-box", into a four bedroom, three bathroom double-garaged mansion, with the help (or hindrance) of interior designer Hamish Dodd.

The first episode was hilarious. Designer Hamish came up with increasingly bland choices including olive green for the kitchen and grey for the roof. Brenda quite rightly said no. Good on her. Meanwhile Hamish was bonding with Cocksy when he was quick to approve the choices. Miss Prozac suspects he would have said yes to anything just to get the guy out of his hair. He didn't care; he just wanted to keep the wife happy.

Anyway, the show is a good watch, with lots of interesting consumer tips and exposes the shoddy tradesman, dodgy developers and exasperating city councils. The team also reveals the loopholes that could cost you thousands, and meets the people who've gone to war with the bad guys. While the primary aim is to inform and entertain, wherever possible it is My House My Castle to the rescue. It's certainly a darn sight better than Nailed, Sorted, Exposed which also screens on TV2.

The next episode airs tonight on TV2 at 8pm. We're looking forward to some fireworks from feisty wife Brenda. We wonder how long it will take before she sends designer/landscaper Hamish packing?


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So you wanna be a popstar flashback

So You Wanna be a Popstar? contestants
Louise Wallace, Cocksy, Jessie Gurunathan, Mikey Havoc,
David Wikaira-Paul, Katrina Hobbs and Blair Strang

David Wikaira-Paul won this celebrity karaoke show winning himself a place in the battle of the wannabes Pop's Ultimate Star, which we can't resist referring to by it's appropriate acronym PUS.

Online Etymology Dictionary
pus
1392, from L. pus "pus" (related to puter "rotten," see putrid), from PIE *pu- (cf. Skt. puyati "rots, stinks," putih "stinking, foul;" Gk. puon "discharge from a sore," pythein "to cause to rot;" Goth. fuls, O.E. ful "foul"), perhaps originally echoic of a natural exclamation of disgust

See if you can spot the difference:

• In So You Wanna be a Popstar? the celebrities had to warble solo and duet pop songs chosen by the producers and wear gimmicky costumes and wigs that were meant to make them look like the original singers.
• In P.U.S. the contestants attempt to be heard over a loud band and get to sing pop songs chosen by the producers who take pleasure in making them wear gimmicky op shop clothes slung together in the least flattering combination designed to make them look fat and frumpy. No wonder Keri Harper didn't mind leaving.

Both are produced by reality television giant Eyeworks Touchdown.

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