big brother celebrity hijack

developdomains · Jan 4, 2008

did anyone else see the big brother celebrity hijack show last night? there was a 19yr old kid on their who runs his own webhosting company that turns over £200k and he has been running it since he was 8????

rob · Jan 4, 2008

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=644374 thats him

Good thread on it on http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=722539 , seems the bloke is a bog standard kiddy reseller

Joke is on Channel 4 it seems, and the lads rep has gone up in smoke.

LOL @ http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=660543&highlight=big+brother !

developdomains · Jan 4, 2008

hehe nice info Rob

seems he's one of those pesky lil kids u get a unis, u know the irritating ones

why would he need to go on big brother? its only going to destroy his business.

i dont believe for a second he's been running his own business since he was 8!

developdomains · Jan 4, 2008

according to statbrain, his site is hosted in the US!

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http://www.statbrain.com/www.oxyuktechnologies.com/

SF · Jan 4, 2008

He looks a bit like this guy McLovin taken from the new film SuperBad

I would recommend this film as its a top laugh

James · Jan 4, 2008

Didn't this kid say something like "often I get called a prodigy, but I take it with a pinch of salt" ? Wowsers... he has some gaul, eh. Perhaps he will do well someday though... he can self-publicise pretty well. I think he is mistaken about his company turnover and number of employees however.

Overall I thought the program was really funny actually, I liked the trick with the earpiece, seen it before but always makes me giggle.

cm1975 · Jan 4, 2008

What the hell is this guy up to??

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=448560

It says he has 2 million customers worldwide, but that was over 2 years ago. Surely he must be a whizz kid to get the 2 million customers in the first place and he would have easily grown his company during that 2 year period?

I'd love to see this guy on Dragon's Den!!!! :mrgreen: He'd be torn to shreds in seconds!

rob · Jan 4, 2008

The bloke is a complete muppet http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=436765

And the turnover question:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=644374&highlight=liam+big+brother

There is 'self-publicise' and 'outright lies'

Craig · Jan 4, 2008

It is people like this that give our industry a bad name.

What a twat.

retired_member3 · Jan 4, 2008

It's been said "theres no such thing as bad publicity"

but what a cock!

mattonline · Jan 4, 2008

HAHAHA Am i right on this one....

Someone alarmed me to this said he is using a template, (not a custom one)

Look at his page source

</script>
<link type="text/css" href="http://www.homestead.com/~media/elements/Text/font_styles_ns4.css" rel="stylesheet">
<style type="text/css">
@import url(http://www.homestead.com/~media/elements/Text/font_styles.css);
div.lpxcenterpageouter { text-align: center; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100% }
div.lpxcenterpageinner { position: relative; margin: 0 auto; text-align: left; width: 749px; }
</style>

Links to homestead.com which is a free template company?

So is it just a simple free site you get on freewebs or something?

would be funny as hes offering design services

correct me if im wrong

mat · Jan 4, 2008

Isnt everyone overlooking the fact that probably the only reason he got on BB was because of his overinflated ego and lies?

Hes going to be the one laughing if he ends up winning it.

mattonline · Jan 4, 2008

one theory springs to mind on this one, do you think BB put him on there to gain more controversy (publicity from news papers like they got with the jade goody incident, because ratings skyrocketed. When this gets on the news there ratings will boost up again, i cant imagine a BB researcher putting him in because they thought he was a real entrepreneur.

just my 2c

From digital spy

Seems they were just e-mailing random hosts on web hosting talk, in hope that one would be their entrepreneur. As one host here claims he was also asked: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ht=big+brother
Wish I was still hosting, I could have been asked, there again, would I want to be on TV? Nope lol.

mat · Jan 5, 2008

mattonline said:
HAHAHA Am i right on this one....

Someone alarmed me to this said he is using a template, (not a custom one)

Look at his page source

Links to homestead.com which is a free template company?

So is it just a simple free site you get on freewebs or something?

would be funny as hes offering design services

correct me if im wrong

Even worse is the amount of royalty free images of Random "Office people"

I HATE sites like that. It makes sites look so fake on first impression. Plain wrong and shouldnt be used!! It would put me off using the company straight away.