An article in today's Courier-Mail has Australia's Funniest Home Videos host Toni Pearen saying that she doesn't pay too much attention to criticisms such as a recent newspaper article calling her a "pissy" celebrity. I have no issue with Pearen at all - in fact, I met her many years ago when she was doing a stage show in Brisbane and found her to be a bright and charming person. I do have an issue with her show, though. I don't watch it, but from what I've seen on the promos, it just amounts to "funny" footage of people - often children - and animals being hurt. A few years ago, I saw a group of boys filming each other riding wheely bins down an innercity street in the hope of winning a prize on the show. How would Pearen, or her producers, have felt if these kids had seriously injured themselves?