Confessions of a Children's TV Presenter
Kirsten O’Brien is something of a pin-up for young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. She is also mental
As she points out at the beginning of the show, Kirsten O’Brien is something of a pin-up for young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. She is also mental.
A lethal combination of growing up in Middlesbrough and working in children’s television has left her man-hungry and emotionally insecure: when Alan Davies dumped her she tried to dive bomb his house in the Capital FM eye-in-the-sky; Brian Blessed nearly killed her in an effort to impress Kenneth Brannagh and she was once the victim of an assassination attempt in Skegness. She also entices men she meets on the internet into bed using an Otis the Aardvark puppet. Worrying.
Kirsten’s guide to kids' TV around the world reveals such gems as Hamas’s very own Jew-hating version of Mickey Mouse, and her journey through the world of BBC demi-celebrities has left her with a broom cupboard full of interesting stories and a succession of rejections from casting agents. It’s as if Alan Partridge has crossed the line into reality.
The sheer physicality and enthusiasm with which O’Brien performs ensures that the show never gets slow, and the faces of the kids in the audience when she shouts “you’ll always be a c**t” demonstrate spectacularly that this is not a show for kids. She deserves a much bigger venue.