Your Search For Philip Olivier Returned Results

philip olivierIf you don’t know who Philip Oliver is you should skip this unless you are the person who wants to know who he is …

And so as the curtain is drawn on March 2005 I am left with the realisation that I missed all of Philip Olivier’s performances in Channel Four’s The Games. The programme, which has been on our screens for the last week, is week-long athletics competition to which C4 added a pinch of celebrity and a handful of reality television. A whole pile of toned celebrities are then paraded on the television screens in competition with each other.

Living, as I do, in blissful ignorance of popular things until everybody else is well into them I only discovered all of this via a cursory perusal of the web logs where searches for ‘philip olivier‘ dominated last month. Actually, searches for Philip Olivier naked, nude or topless (pictures or pics) were the most popular while many wanted to know if he was gay or had a girlfriend? Of course, some of the searchers asked about Brookside but my favourite asked, Who is Philip Olivier?

UPDATE 4 April 2005: Times Online: A BARGAIN bundle of foregone conclusions, The Games gave us not only a runaway gold for Philip Olivier, the former soap actor, but also a rompingly obvious triumph for Kirsty Gallacher, the television presenter, in the womenÂ’s competition.

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