[chrysostom]

It's good that it's hardcore evidence you're basing that on. A sex tape release which is followed by a video portraying emotions of shame and guilt.

Not exactly the classic marketing ploy, with a clear sense of direction as to what the end game is. The release of a sex tape doesn't fit in with the brand that Tulisa portrays, an I think the release of the tape wasn't a publicity stunt. I don't know for sure, but neither do you guys.

[swaddon1903]

I've never heard of her, but I listened this morning and she was not bad. I didn't turn the radio off immediately, as I would have done if Olly Murs was filling in for Dave.

[R94N]

Not as good on air as Olly in my opinion.

[McGuinness-89]

Olly > Tulisa. The opening link with the Deal or no Deal chat was funny, I can't really remember anything from his last stint on the show apart from the toilet tour with Dom, which was funny.

[chrisjames]

You can tell she's not the brig htest sparkler in the box can't you...

[HA94]

You can tell she's not the brig htest sparkler in the box can't you...

Can tell you're not either with that grammar

[chrysostom]

You can tell she's not the brig htest sparkler in the box can't you...

Can tell you're not either with that grammar

[Yudster]

It's good that it's hardcore evidence you're basing that on. A sex tape release which is followed by a video portraying emotions of shame and guilt.

Not exactly the classic marketing ploy, with a clear sense of direction as to what the end game is. The release of a sex tape doesn't fit in with the brand that Tulisa portrays, an I think the release of the tape wasn't a publicity stunt. I don't know for sure, but neither do you guys.

Of course I don't know for sure but I think a decent level of cynicism is in order when forming opinions about 21st century "celebrities". Two things specifically lead me to believe it was a deliberate marketing ploy - first, this type of "coincidence" happens too often to be - well, coincidence. And second - she's come out of it smelling of roses with a lot of attention and all of it sympathetic, and with good sales of her new record.

I don't know that this is the case, but personally I do believe it to be.

[Yudster]

You can tell she's not the brig htest sparkler in the box can't you...

Can tell you're not either with that grammar

[chrysostom]

The sex tape is the last resort of the Z list as it completely shames the individual, damages their reputation and only serves to thrust the celebrity into the public consciousness briefly. It sets up their brand to be vacuous and based on image/sexuality, something that her brand's mission statement of 'The Female Boss isn't in keeping with, especially her affiliation with clean cut Little Mix.

Given that Tulisa's standing in the celeb world is fairly high (in terms of interest and exposure) it would be a very confusing piece of advice to say that a sex tape was a good (or neccesary) idea - and a huge risk to bank that she would come out of it better off (which in a lot of people's opinions she hasn't...presumably because they believe that only bad people allow themselves to be filmed while doing something sexual).

If she hadn't done anything other than N-Dubz then I might think you're right, but I don't think she needs a potentially damaging spike in popularity for the sake of one single.

[English Bob]

I think she's a bad choice. Is it just me, or did she sound grumpy today? I hope she's not like that all the time...she just sounds stand-offish! Also we get the delights of Chris doing his endless 'yoofspeak' impressions which I hate.

Can't wait til Chris mentions her 'tape' by the way. Has anyone else seen it? It's so bad, it's funny

[steve leady]

I listened for about an hour whilst getting up and for half of my drive to work. Then I turned it off. It was absolutely dreadful. Is the entire show for the rest of the week just going to be Chris taking the piss out of her accent?

Tedious Link? Tedious Week by the sound of today's show.

[Yudster]

I think you may be crediting her with more intelligence than she has ever shown herself publicly to have. Putting yourself in a position where any sex tape you have of yourself is anything other than totally in your control - whether you are famous or not, but surely especially if you are - indicates a certain stupidity to me. And I would argue that she is any or much more than a Z list celebrity. The X-Factor gig has given her increased exposure but its hardly of the type to enhance her credentials.

Even so - this -

The sex tape is the last resort of the Z list as it completely shames the individual, damages their reputation and only serves to thrust the celebrity into the public consciousness briefly.

-hasn't been borne out anyway - the exposure she has had has had a very positive and sympathetic net result. And given that (I believe) the reason for it was single sales, it only needs to be brief.

Its been a very successful campaign. Has done her far more good than harm, and all she has had to do was allow a short clip of video of her having sex to be publicly accessible for a very short time. What more could she ask?

[bmstinton93]

[Emmy]

all she has had to do was allow a short clip of video of her having sex to be publicly accessible for a very short time. What more could she ask?

It's still publicly accessible now. I do agree with you though, I've always thought it was a publicity stunt.

[hdsport82]

I listened for about an hour whilst getting up and for half of my drive to work. Then I turned it off. It was absolutely dreadful.

Surely the only people (beside Tulisa's record company) pleased with this will be Dave (and his agent) 3 more days of this bilge should drive his stock sky high

As far as I'm concerned the show's on a 3 week break now. I might given the Golden Hour a listen on iPlayer at some point on Thursday but won't be listening live at all.

[Clarkehhh]

It's definitely an interesting one. I can tell that Chris is enjoying her, but the rest of the team don't seem to be opening to her. Dom and Tina definitely seemed to be acting towards her as if she was a guest rather than a team member, you could hear the difference between how they acted to Olly and then how they acted to Tulisa.

[jamiec21]

Definitely an elephant in the room. But what I heard of today's show with her wasn't too bad. Do think these one guest weekly runs run the risk of getting very boring, very quickly. Still think a different Dave replacement each day would have been better. Anything is better than a week of Olly Murs though.

[J.E.D]

What a very odd choice..not sure yet if it was the right one.

[The Deadly]

I'd rather Dom was promoted to Dave's slot and they just got a new news person for the week. I hate bitching about the show but I really am not a fan of Tulisa or N-Dubz.

[McGuinness-89]

You can tell she's not the brig htest sparkler in the box can't you...

You're just the gift that keeps on giving.

[chrisjames]

day 2 and I swear she's even worse than yesterday...


O..M..G Chris is making some pretty obvious references to the sex tape scandal now..what else could feeding her black pudding and white pudding and 'open your mouth wide' mean? I hope OFCOM isnt listening !

[DarroM]

She sounds annoyed with Chris making fun of the accent but then again I would be the same way. Been listening to today's show and yep, totally prefer Olly Murs. It seems that she can't be bothered and is pretty much bored out of her mind.

[Zoot]

She is so dull! I quite like Tulisa but she does seem bored to tears and sounds like she really doesn't wanna be there!

[Yudster]

She added nothing to the opening link except the opportunity for Chris to spend what seemed like ages doing his awful "omgi" voice - which he does really badly - but she was waking up a bit after 7. I liked her comment during Classical Class - "what is this FOR exactly?!"

But she's not got a lot to say for herself has she - and it might be because she's tired but she sounds even dimmer than I thought she was. Its only for a couple of days, like a bad case of wind, it will pass.