Kelly Osbourne: Turning Japanese
Kelly Osbourne has a new show on ITV2 in the UK called “Turning Japanese.” Apparently Kelly has always had a fascination with Japanese culture, and the program rather sadistically aims to test her love of Japan to the limit with a series of grueling challenges and weird jobs. In the first episode, she has to serve coffee and cake to geeks in an Akihabara “maid cafe”, work for a day in a sleazy love hotel (she describes the smell as if “someone came in a wet sock then put it in the microwave”), and learn to sword-fight with a samurai master. Although she’s hoping to become “more Japanese”, most of the bizarre tasks Kelly faces are beyond the realm of experience for most Japanese folks, let alone westerners in Japan. (Anyone had to deliver a foot-massage in a maid cafe, or sell dildos in a love hotel?) Well, at least she doesn’t have to teach English!
Kelly is a self confessed “spoiled brat who grew up in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills” and her incessant whining grows tiresome after a while, and makes you wish her dad was the star of the show instead. But at least she avoids the casual racism that you usually find in this kind of show, and it’s not as painful to watch as, say, Tom Green’s “Subway Monkey Hour” special. In next week’s show, Kelly learns how to be a nun, which is about as Japanese as it gets (?!)
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Are you foxing kidding me?! Subway Monkey Hour was great! The monkey’s tearing up the mini-van, the scene with him on the train with the loudspeaker? HILARIOUS.
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i think it has potential to be funny, i just hope she stops whining about the language barrier. and why was she so freaked out about an unsharpened piece of metal just because she thought it was going to be a wooden sword?
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never seen the programme, but that picture of her looks ruff. looks like a right dog
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According to a web log http://myhome.cururu.jp/mikmik/blog/article/61000834290,
she seems making fun of Japanese culture.
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I think japan should kick Kelly out!
As if shes a fan of japan..she knows sh*t all about japan and this TV program offends Japanese and certainly helps mis-educate the masses about Japan. This is more a program about kelly and some western attitude’s than learning anything about japan or even turning Japanese…as if! They could of learnt so much more… missed opportunity.
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well there’s only been one episode so far right? i know it’s kind of useless to keep hope that she will learn something from her stay, but it’s kind of too early to call it a missed opportunity
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Don’t hold your breath- there’s only three shows!
Well, at least it wasn’t Paris Hilton.
The show seems to be lame. What’s point of the show? To complain and superficial conclusions about Japan, Japanese culture and the Japanese people? It reminds me of “Lost in the translation”.
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I for one will be tolerant about the show.
I haven’t seen the show, but I have read the link Ken provided. It surely seems the show takes a look at the peculiar aspect of Japan from a peculiar angle. But what I think Japan needs is to provide the multiple aspects of Japan.
For instance, Japanese TV often air the car race in the US. If that is the only news Japanese got about the US, people would think “wow, the US is a scary country.”But people know that is not all about the US.
My impression is that in general Japanese have been poor at sending the message to the world.
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Hey if you want the episodes you can download them all here. http://rapidshare.com/users/EUG084
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I liked Kelly in Japan. She showed a side of herself that I´ve never seen before. She is always portraied as a cursing, doped up little brat. In Japan she was a likeable, giggly young girl. I think that is what she is.
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