As talent competitions became more staid, producers turned their attention to dating shows, churning out programmes that encouraged bitchiness.
The rumoured bitchiness on the set of the television show is, she says, "all so bogus.
Just when you thought it was safe to take politics seriously again, you're about to be hit by a slew of accusations, gossip and bitchiness worthy of a teenage girls' sleepover party.
They expected bitchiness, self-serving justification and cant and The Third Man gave it to them; they expected score-settling, distortions of the truth and a rewriting of Labour history, largely to the detriment of the author's many enemies, and he did not let them down.
Fashion isn't renowned for its friendliness: from Prada-wearing devils, to mobile-phone-throwing supermodels, bitchiness abounds.
The competitive bitchiness with which schoolgirls mask vulnerability may boast a long ancestry, but exposure to the heartless values of trashy glossies seems to have given the process an added cooler-than-thou viciousness.
Newspaper stories about Dannii used to make me angry – all that supposed rivalry and bitchiness.
It stops there being any stories about bitchiness and cattiness and any kind of competition (between women).
There's no bitchiness to it, but they wind each other up," O'Leary said.
It's bitchiness, isn't it?" **** By this time, the sun has gone down outside and Edney has disappeared into another part of the apartment.
There is the occasional spiky line – "It looks like she's been gang-raped by clowns" – but they are out of keeping with the overall tone of playground bitchiness.
