There’s not a Brit who won’t already know this. But readers outside the UK may not be so aware that Pete Bennett, the subject (along with his mum Anne Stephenson) of an earlier Fetish Dayz item One Mother Of A Ding Dong did (as widely predicted) win Channel 4’s latest Big Brother reality TV contest.
Pete, from Brighton, is open about being a regular participant in the South Coast resort’s fetish scene. So the reality for the rest of us is that the British edition of this massively popular TV show has been won by a genuine perv. What’s more, he’s a perv who suffers from Tourettes syndrome, and he still managed to come out on top.
No doubt there will be members of the British fetish scene old guard — not to mention the country’s entire contingent of fetish crusties (aka the scene’s foremost whingers and moaners) — who will not welcome the idea of someone like Pete Bennett as a fetish ambassador to the world at large. But I’m willing to wager, even though I hate reality TV shows, that a self-confessed perv winning a big popular vote like this is likely to do the rest of the perv community no harm at all. It has the potential, at the very least, to make fetish look cooler than it has looked for some time.
Of course, Pete didn’t just win the contest. He won £100,000 in prize money too. And what did he do with the cheque? He gave it straight to his mum. Diamond geezer!
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