Posts Tagged ‘BBC’

Dublin, Wednesday. Eddie Jordan is on a shortlist of three to scoop the prestigious ‘Irish Sports Personality of the Year’ award, due to be decided next weekend. According to our Ireland correspondent, Albert O’Balsam, Jordan faces stiff competition from Ipswich… Town manager, Roy Keane, who may be honoured for his dog walking skills, and legendary racehorse, Sea The Stars.

O’Balsam though thinks that the horse will win it by a nose; “Apart from being the best racehorse of the last decade, Sea The Stars is the only one of the three not to irritate the beejaysus out of anybody unfortunate enough to be listening everytime he opens his mouth.”

Rumours that the BBC are considering hiring the horse as part of its commentary team for 2010 are believed to be wide of the mark.

F1 fans, who were initially overjoyed when newspapers reported that ‘Jordan quits TV show’ were soon disappointed when they realised the story was not about Eddie Jordan doing the decent thing and quitting the BBC F1 team but was in fact… about a big breasted, empty headed woman leaving the jungle set of ‘I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!’

Maybe they should move EJ in and see how long it will be before the other celebs also bolt for the exit…

In other Eddie Jordan related news, this man, believe it or not, is a professional Eddie Jordan look-alike. John Fry, based in the Midlands, is on the books of alistlookalikes.co.uk and for a presumably small fee, he will turn up at an event of your choice and talk complete and utter rubbish for an hour or two. Mr Fry took up his career after he was mistaken for the real Eddie at a Grand Prix awards bash and you have to say that apart from the fact he is a good ten years younger, has real hair and a ginger beard the likeness is almost amazing.

Three time Olympic sailing champion, Ben Ainslie, yesterday had the BBC’s professional arguer, Eddie Jordan, on his boat during day four of the Louis Vuitton trophy. Apparently, despite several tempting opportunities, he failed to push Jordan over the side.

Ainslie… is likely to be stripped of his gold medals and Buckingham Palace are expected to rescind his recently awarded CBE.

Internet rumours that the BBC are to drop Eddie Jordan at the end of the season saw callers jam the switchboard, with most people just wanting to know from what sort of height the Beeb were considering dropping Eddie from.