Being Completely Oblivous

One of the promotional photos taken for Lara Bingle's new show.

If you missed Channel Ten's first episode of their highly publicised new series, "Being Lara Bingle", GOOD! 


The show was an attempt at making an Australian "Keeping up with the Kardashians" and a complete failure at that. While I mean nothing harsh to Lara Bingle personally, the show has left her portrayed as nothing but a completely spoiled ditz. From driving without a license to walking around in her bedroom in the nude with blinds open, Bingle's absolute common sense mistake's have become trivialised to the point where she is completely un-phased from breaking the law, but in her defence it's probably too hard for her to comprehend. I mean, I know 6 year olds that aren't that oblivious!


However, my description really does not do the episode justice. At all. Other misadventures we are witness to the frustration of moving from a perfectly decent apartment, to an even more lavish one living with her brother and best friend. But the real punchline - it's all in an attempt for us to relate to Lara Bingle as just another Aussie girl.


You might ask yourself, why do they even bother?! 


Well, the peak of over 1 million viewers would be why. (But lets not mention that the ratings soon halved that number before the show was over)


But the Twitterverse united in making there opinion known of Ten's new "hit":

And, my personal favourite, lets make the best of a bad situation...

I'm closing the book on this one, and I think I'm not the only one. Lara Bingle is just another superficial, spoilt and immature girl who does not need her own reality television series to further add to her empty fame from her vacant, good looks. While she does seem like a fun girlfriend to have on your nights out (aside from the fact she would no doubt constantly be the attention seeker she came off as on the show), she is definitely not the type of person I would want to subject my kids to as a roll model. Unless of course you're the type of parent that's into "Toddlers in Tiara's", in that case - go right ahead (or seek professional help, you're choice).