Well, as Chantelle would say OH MY GOD! Preston, the lead singer of the Ordinary Boys, and husband of Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle is, according to my sources, going to stand for the Conservatives in the local council elections in May in Brighton. He joins former Dollar singer David van Day as a candidate. Let's hope he is slightly more judicious in his remarks than Mr van Day, who has received a lot of coverage this week for some remarks which have annoyed some members of Brighton's gay community.UPDATE: Oh dear. Danny Finkelstein RECKONS Preston is not likely to stay 'on message' for long!
UPDATE: Someone in the comments reckons this is a load of rubbish. Well, I double sourced it, but who knows!
What's strange about that?Tories stand,Socialists lie.
ReplyDeleteWhere is he standing? It is rathe rlate for a candidate to be selected for May. I would think that this may not be true story?
ReplyDeleteIt is rathe rlate for a candidate to be selected for May.
ReplyDeleteIs it? Ten signatures to the town hall by a small number of weeks before the election date, I thought.
you might want to check this a bit more carefully, iain... because it's not true.
ReplyDeleteIs it April 1st?
ReplyDeletePreston is the humourless scrote who walked off "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" and who is attached to Chantelle, the famous non-entity.
ReplyDeleteSurely shome mishtake?
As for poor David Van BurgerVan, why is it ok when Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton do those gags? Perhaps the choir should go and give David a bit of a mouthfull.
Hope he stands in in Tower Hamlets. Then he could have a rematch with George Galloway.
ReplyDeleteDo you think this is what the Tories meant when they said they were looking for more Ordinary Boys (and girls) as candidates? ;-)
ReplyDeleteTory ordinary boys have usually been to eton, oxford and smashed up the local gastro pubs, whilst having a "beastly good time".
ReplyDeletewell i suppose his music career was going down the pan, may as well follow it up with a political career trundling to the same destination.
Preston? Chantelle? The Ordinary Boys? I must be completely out of touch with the 'yoof' of today, I'd never make it past the first round of a candidate selection ...
ReplyDeleteJesus christ this better not be true. Adam Rickett I can stomach, Zac Goldsmith I can't really stomach but I'll put up with it - BUT THIS???? The man who couldn't be taken seriously even by Never Mind the Buzzcocks???????????
ReplyDeletePah. If he gets a seat, he'll have the joy of maybe being a member of the Health Inequalities Scrutiny Committee, or the Police Liaison Board or somesuch as well as fortnightly surgeries, a plethora of emails from obsessive-compulsive ward citizens who note the growth of every weed and the development of tarmac cracks, the turgid striving prose of officers new to literacy, the fiendish machinations of Conservative Group, a babel of regulations and initiatives known by their TLAs (three letter acronyms) such as LAA, SRB, HEC, HRA and CPA, evening meetings in community halls with dishrag tea and the smell of rising damp, incomprehensible committee reports, a few real planning issues on which ward councillors are excluded from commenting and about six grand a year in allowances.
ReplyDeleteIf he can hack it, good luck to the lad.
And Adam Rickett is now doing what precisely?
ReplyDeleteAfter the pathetic way he walked out halfway through the filming of Never mind The Buzzcocks, you are welcome to him.
ReplyDeleteI saw the Ordinary Boys at the UEA last year and ai was underwhelmed.
How long before Preston is on Question Time? You never know, he might be good. But did Galloway turn him into a Tory?
ReplyDeleteTalentless humourless tosser to stand for Tories... surely not...
ReplyDeleteThis is rubbish surely - The Ordinary Boys are still doing quite. On a very basic point he won't be around often enough to do the job as most the time thy'll be on tour.
ReplyDeletePreston is quite a pleasant chap though - i think he should just wait until he dosen't have a pop career left.
Aah, he can join the ranks of other Tory Councillors in Brighton, like Peter Willows who was recently prosecuted for saying all gay men are paedophiles, or Dawn Barnett who refused to condemn an arson attack on an occupied traveller encampment.
ReplyDeleteNice bunch.
Another winner from Bullingdon boy and Stevie.
ReplyDeleteNot correct. Preston moved from Brighton to London a little time back. Think you should check your sources.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Chantelle as the new party chairman.
ReplyDeleteAnother hilton winner?
is he going to be at conference? Might make it worth going for once :¬)
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, if he has moved to London then how come the BBC Radio 1 "Live Lounge" session about 6 weeks ago was broadcast from his house in Brighton ?
ReplyDeleteFirstly he never lived in a house. Secondly he has moved to London.
ReplyDeletePreston is from Worthing
ReplyDeletePreston actually lives in Brighton.He has just moved into a new house there after moving from 3 streets away. He was moving to London but changed his mind as he didn't want to leave Brighton.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea if this story is to be believed The Ordinary Boys still have a decent career I don't see why he would want to do this at this present time.
They just bought a house in Brighton
ReplyDeletehttp://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2007/03/01/chantelle-preston/
Let's hope he bring some of the excitement and wisdom from his diary to the Tory campaign. His latest entry:
ReplyDelete[quote]Yo...
We've been in the studio for a few days...
I crashed my jaguar into a wall...
I'm moving house tomorrow but only three roads away... I bought some new Ray Bans... White with black lining on the inside... Big plastic ones... the new demo is really good... It started off as a Studio One-esque ska instrumental and turned into a Dinosaur Jr spazz out... We sort of clipped it at the edges and now it's a freakish hybrid of opposing genres...
It's about shoes.... peace xxx[quote]
Backed by the intellectual might of Chantelle, he can't fail. Unless he walks off Question Time in a huff when someone reads from the Tory manifesto