I have a guilty confession. It plagues me a little, it taunts me too.
Others taunt me because of it.
You see I….
Oh maybe I shouldn’t. Maybe it would be unwise to announce to the world my guilty confession. No, guilty pleasure. A secret best kept in the dark and only to be known and enjoyed by me. Sometimes I force my guilty pleasure on to Mr Chocolate. He endures, through gritted teeth and a dozey eye, he even musters a word or two directed at me in relation to it. But really, he would much rather do….most anything, then join me in my guilty pleasure.
I haven’t tried to stop, I haven’t gone without for a while. I still actively seek it out. I am truly loyal to this guilty pleasure.
But what is it? What could it be, that sits silently with me, and makes people raise their eyebrows in shock and followed by just a little scorn.
What could this colossal special guilty pleasure be? What could be enough to purse people’s lips, and harden people’s hearts at the mere mention of it? That’s right, some people’s hearts harden at just the mere mention of it. You what?!
You see, I like….
Survivor.
No. I love Survivor. Yes, I mean the American Reality Tv show based on Outwitting, Outlasting and Outplaying other competitors while living in an isolated location. Yes, it’s a little cheesy, a little staged, a little way too coordinated and I thoroughly enjoy it.
Every. Little. Bit!
I don’t read trashy magazines. I don’t smoke. I don’t go out clubbing all night. I don’t spend whole days shoe shopping. I don’t watch day time tv, I barely watch night time tv. I don’t guzzle soft drink. I don’t eat chocolate bars lying in bed at night. I don’t watch Neighbours, Days of our Lives, Eastenders painting my toenails. I don’t collect mugs with fluffy cats in pink ribbons.
I don’t… well, you get the picture.
But… I do watch Survivor, And this week a new season starts and I CAN’T wait.
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Wikipedia– A guilty pleasure is something one enjoys and considers pleasurable despite feeling guilt for enjoying it. The “guilt” involved is sometimes simply fear of others discovering one’s lowbrow or otherwise embarrassing tastes. Fashion, video games, music, movies, and can be examples of guilty pleasures.
Come on, cough it up….. what’s your guilty pleasure?
cityhippyfarmgirl 
Oh me too! I went off it for a few seasons but have been loyal again the last few years. Too much fun. Enjoy! Great post x
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I knew there was another reason why I thought you were fantastic MM 🙂
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I watch The Bold and the Beautiful. I know it is dreadful, but I watch it anyway. I can go away for months and when I come back i just pick it up and go on. It is on in Italy, but i\I can’t understand it. The man who provides the voice for Ridge in Italy died recently and it made the news.
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How long has that show been going for? Thanks for coughing up Debra 🙂
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My guilty pleasure is clubbing all night. Katherine and I used to watch this all the time, we’d have survivor nights with our two friends. But once we moved, it was no longer fun!
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Pre-kiddos we had survivor nights too with friends.
My clubbing shoes are dusty these days, have a dance for me Greg.
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Ah well…I’m hooked on Farmer Wants a Wife. Sometimes it makes me cringe so much though that I have to watch it in fast forward mode.. 🙂
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Does that make it speed dating? 🙂
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Huge Survivor fan here… have been since the start. I am proud of my addiction to it. Am holding out for my Jeff time, almost here.
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Have you seen Ozzy is back this season? Whoop!
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Yes, but so is Coach. I love Ozzy, almost as much as I love Boston Rob… but oh, Coach, I prefer Evil Russell to having to put up with Coach again. Though Coach has nothing on Phil.
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Oh no, i can’t play because i don’t watch tv.. hopeless and I don’t eat chocolate ..no fun.. c
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Come one Cecilia, there must be something lurking….
collection of pink flowered thimbles, Mills and Boon stash, a love for dog themed slippers 🙂
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My guilty pleasure is reading horoscopes – I’m addicted! I have to read at least three a day and if I read one I don’t like I just find a better one!
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What I love most about revealing a guilty pleasure and finding out others is how they can all be so different.
How are the stars looking today?
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I was reading along, wondering what it might be, sneakily put off onto the wrong track by your (gorgeous) first chocolate photo…and I never saw Survivor coming! 😛 I’ve actually never watched it, so don’t know if I’d be similarly entertained or not. I’m glad you have a new season coming up to relax into though 🙂
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Nah, no guilt with marzipan chocolate. (Unless I eat my body weight in it in a short space of time that is.)
You could always watch the new season and if you like it… there are always box sets 🙂 (all 22 ? seasons!)
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I have WAY too many guilty pleasures to simply pick just one … but I’ll throw one out there for fun … One of my newest is “So you think you can dance?”
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I blame the first season of So you think you can Dance for my eldest wanting to ‘dance’ standing on his head all the time.
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I love survivor but have stopped watching as it clashes with something else the hubby watches 🙂
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Poor you!
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Oh I have so many guilty pleasures…. especially chocolate… what’s funny is that I do a weekly guilty pleasure blog, and this week it’s my weakness for Peter Alexander pyjamas:)
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Oh you didn’t link your blog. I’m curious.
…and chocolate is always a good thing.
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I have lots of pleasures but not feelin guilty about any of them,,,the best is not working at the moment!!
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Enjoy not working Jen 🙂
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Well I am truly shocked that you don’t lie in bed at night eating chocolate bars – what is the world coming to!
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I know…crazy but true though.
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occasionally i like to watch one of those customs programs..it makes me happy to see people getting caught trying to smuggle in prohibited items..it’s sad but true..
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Some of them get quite hetted up don’t they. The more cranky they get, the more they seem to be hiding.
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New season of Strictly Come Dancing just started…. but I quite often watch it on replay and skip loads, it’s a very long programme. And this of course, reading blogs when I should be doing loads of other things, what can be a guiltier pleasure than that ?
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Hmmm, blogs I forgot about them 🙂
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I like Gordan Ramsay’s cooking shows- especially Master Chef. My husband is disgusted by the language- and won’t watch with me- but I love them. And I love Antique Road show- there is something about the way the people with treasure are so stunned and the people with junk are surprised that their stuff has no value at all.
I have to sneak these both in when my husband isn’t home- because he really hates the shows I like!
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Gordan Ramsey does have a mouth quite unlike any other doesn’t he.
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I’m sure I have lots. When I first read this I immediately thought chocolate, and then True Blood, a bloody drama about vampires, and the amount of sugary treats I would consume in one sitting, just because they taste good. Sometimes my off switch doesn’t work, and it can turn things into a guilty pleasure pretty quick.
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Law and Order. I was totally addicted to it, but I’m getting over the character-driven format that it has become. Loved it best when it was more plot-driven.
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You know, I’ve never watched it. It seems a lot of programmes over the past few years are more character driven now instead of plot.
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I love watching any cooking shows, and tinned smoked mussels- but please don’t tell anyone 🙂
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How timely, I got sucked into watching Survivor tonight! I sat down and was hooked, there is something about that show that is addictive. There was a time when I watched every season, now I will just catch it when my husband is watching, I have to be careful, or I will get HOOKED!
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Haha I have to many guilty pleasures I don’t know if I should start cataloging them! True Blood is my current main one though but chocolate is certainly up there! 😛
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I love embracing pleasure where I find it, and whilst I feel a bit sheepish sometimes, I’m almost always too far gone into it to feel much guilt! And the pleasures almost always involve finding, making, and ingesting some food or another. Yesterday I had a sensational ginger brulee Brydie – oh, it was a pleasure indeed!
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I think my guilty pleasure is buying cookery books that I don’t need at all, just because I enjoy reading them. Magazines too – I decided that it was cheaper to just get them on subscription because I can never resist them at the supermarket, and at least this way I don’t have to pay as much!
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I was shocked about survivor because I was just waiting to read what sort of chocolate was your guilty pleasure! What is my guilty pleasure – chocolate bars when a new version comes out – I know they are just trying to get my money but I still fall for it occasionally and regret it because the promise is much more exciting
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Mine is watching HGTV religiously when I go to the US – I don’t have any real interest in home makeovers, decorating, or real estate, but somehow I still end up watching it for hours. Weird.
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Without a doubt it is buying unnecessary craft goods. A new dress pattern? YES. A couple of metres of inviting fabric? You got it.. Bits and bobs to add to the clutter? Hell yeah.
*cough*
Great post, Brydie!
I totally get it with all the ‘I don’t’s too. Surrender is the only option. 😉
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I am embarrassed to admit that I like ‘Beauty and the Geek’. I find the geeks adorable!
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