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• Bo Selecta - Series 3 | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £5.81   |  Saving you £14.18 (244.06%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Celebrity stalker Avid Merrion returns with a third instalment of Bo' Selecta! featuring a host of brand new celebrities immortalised in latex including Kat 'Slater' Moon from EastEnders the over-sized Jordan Justin from The Darkness and Simply Red's Mick Hucknall. And there'll be a very welcome return of old favourites including Craig David Michael Jackson and Mel B. And Avid takes on the role of the chat show host with guest appearances from real celebrities as well as backstage

• Bo Selecta - Series 3 / Christmas Special | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Aided by 'The Bear' and various rubber-masked celebrities obsessive fan Avid Merrion hosts the third series of Bo' Selecta! as well as the Christmas Special episode!

• Alan Carr's Now That's What I Call A Ding Dong | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alan Carr can't wait to prove once and for all that celebs are no better than ordinary folk! Alan Carr award-winning comedian and one half of the irrepressible Friday Night Project team hosts a showbiz bash with a difference! With tongue firmly in cheek Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong is the only show on television that pits members of the public against famous faces where both teams can win a slice of the high life!

• Bo Selecta | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £5.78   |  Saving you £17.20 (616.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring Avid Merrion as the Scandinavian stalker/host and sketches in which he plays the parts of pop stars like Craig David and Britney Spears in lurid, latex masks, Bo' Selecta! is a brilliantly surreal take on celebrity culture. This first series (originally broadcast in 2002) features a number of cameos and guest appearances from minor celebs: Boyzone's Keith Duffy, Davina McCall, Vanessa Feltz and the hapless Christine Hamilton, one of numerous guests to be interviewed by a puppet bear played by Merrion whose feverish line of questioning invariably results in him sprouting a little erection. Another character is hauled up in a neckbrace (following an altercation with Lisa Tarbuck), but Merrion's innocent broken English can't conceal the fact that he's a psychotic sex maniac who explicitly lusts after celebs who "make me do a sex wee", keeps Craig from Big Brother locked in a cupboard and his dead mother in a wardrobe. Merrion's pop spoofs are also masterly: rather than mimic the stars, he reinvents them--Mel B and Britney Spears--as farting, hairy-chested Northerners, slobbing out on fry-up breakfasts washed down with lager and, most improbably, Michael Jackson as a cussing, jive-talking black dude à la Huggy Bear. Bo' Selecta! doesn't so much satirise celebrities as debase them, exposing their humiliating none-dimensionality by drawing them into a vortex of vulgar absurdity, not unlike Vic Reeves' Shooting Stars. Of course, they play along--they're on television. Although initially off-putting to some, once you get into Bo' Selecta! there is, as for Big Brother's Craig, no escape. On the DVD: Bo' Selecta! on disc features numerous extras, including a behind the scenes feature in which the production team discuss making the show ("like directing a squirrel on roller-skates"), deleted scenes including Gareth Gates as a Tourette's victim, which was deemed a little beyond the pale, some unfunny bloopers and a feature on the life story of "Craig David" with Kate Thornton, including an unmissable nativity scene in which the infant Craig plays Jesus. There's also a commentary, with Merrion as his stalker self watching himself with consternation (It's strange seeing yourself on TV"). It's a pity we don't get to hear from the "real" Merrion. --David Stubbs

• Bo Selecta - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (100.20%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Aided by ""The Bear"" and rubber masked celebrities obsessive fan Avid Merrion hosts two full series of Bo' Selecta! from the squalor of his bedroom guiding us through an eclectic mix of celebrity stories interviews and gossip.

• Bo Selecta - Series 2 | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £4.97   |  Saving you £20.02 (402.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Aided by ""The Bear"" and rubber masked celebrities obsessive fan Avid Merrion hosts another series of Bo' Selecta! from the squalor of his bedroom guiding us through an eclectic mix of celebrity stories interviews and gossip.