So Gareth Thomas is on CBB.

Some of the players seem to be supporting him on Twitter and it's great exposure for the game.

However, he doesn't seem to be bigging up League much which is pretty sad when he has a job at the RFL.

Nah, it's a blessing. I hope he keeps totally quiet about League, especially if he manages to do and/or say too much that is embarrassing. We want good publicity, not crap publicity!

Any publicity is good publicity though. Especially on a show as big as this

Its a joke of a programme and I hope he does not mention league at all. loose lips sink ships and all that

Hope he does well, can't see him being unliked.

The intro was 30 seconds long, he played Rugby League for 5% of his career. Bloody chill out you lot.

He could be this years Paddy. (not that i watch it)

I see that Natasha Giggs has entered Big Brother; makes a change from Big Brother entering Natasha Giggs

We don't need exposure from this crass, trashy, tin pot programme.

Are we actually that desperate for publicity?

When you posted this, he'd probably been in the house for an hour. Give him a chance.

I simply don’t understand why a respected professional athlete would agree to do such a programme – I know that the BB brand can start a celebrity career but surely Thomas should be looking at something better than this tacky route full of talentless wannabe’s and stinking of desperation

I have a lot of respect for Gareth Thomas but less now than I did before

Just my opinion of course

Natasha and Giggsy have alot more in common than people think.

For a start they are both on channel 5 this year!

I would guess he has done it for the money. He will probably get as much for doing this than playing a whole season in super league. I could be way out only a guess

dont forget about possible exposure for his film too - a lot more people will know his name now from being on this, rather than just the people who follow rugby = bigger box office receipts

So he is doing it as promotion for a film that isn't even in full pre-production let alone production?

There doesn't have to be just one reason for him going in you know. He's going to get a load of money, possibly kick start a 'celebrity' career, put his name out there to millions of people (which would undoubtedly help promote the film if/when it comes out). Heck, he may even enjoy himself! Can you really blame the guy?

No, i can't fo all of the reasons you mention bar the film. That people still think this will go ahead baffles me...when hollywood is struggling for cash (believe it or not) do you think a film like this would be top of a producers list?

Unfortunately, cant see it happening. And if it does, do we think league will feature much? i doubt it, wouldn't be surprised if they even tweeked it to NFL or something

Well he mentioned it as part of his entrance video, so maybe he knows more than you about it??

It wouldn't have killed him to say he played rugby league for Wales too.

Maybe it's the easy money route he wants to go down. (can't say I blame him)

Wouldn't surprise me to see him in the jungle or on Strictly Come Dancing later in the year.

He tweets suggested he would end up on one of these programmes, but this really is the bottom of the barrel. At least on the jungle, though eating bugs and the like, you end up being able to improve your standing in the world of celebrity. That Strictly and the ice dancing ones would be the best to help his post-playing career. This is just full of non-entities.

(Of course, this means I watched it last night. All the good work Thomas has made in coming out and being gay and playing rugby was pretty much written off by the presenter saying how he's like to be in the middle of a load of rugby players.)

Quote ="citywolf"Maybe it's the easy money route he wants to go down. (can't say I blame him) Wouldn't surprise me to see him in the jungle or on Strictly Come Dancing later in the year.'" From one Welshman's "reality" to a Welshman's true "reality" harndenblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012 ... s-rip.html

Quote ="citywolf"Maybe it's the easy money route he wants to go down. (can't say I blame him) Wouldn't surprise me to see him in the jungle or on Strictly Come Dancing later in the year.'" From one Welshman's "reality" to a Welshman's true "reality" harndenblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012 ... s-rip.html

I'd say we were, yeah.

Cant think which is more sad,,Gareth for going on the programme.or the the people who watch the rubbish.

A television programme too high brow for village idiots and Jeremy Kyle show audience members. Rendered even more irrelevant now it is on the dribbling imbecile of television, Richard Desmond's Channel 5, a channel most Sun readers think is too thick.

Good luck to him, hope he makes a load of money out of it but at this stage in the show's life he could allege that Richard Lewis was involved in an affair with Margaret Thatcher and no one of any note would ever find out or care.