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Channel Four very kindly broadcast ‘Celebrity Sex Tapes Unwound’ a week or two ago… not a show you deliberately set out to watch but hey, if it’s on late at night you’ll watch it for sheer amusement won’t you? It featured a run down of the top ten celebrity sex tapes of all time. The order was based on the number of returned results in Google, I got quite annoyed (shouting at the TV etc.) because this implies that there are millions of people downloading this stuff all the time. In addition, the programme makers seemed not to understand that the number of text references to a given video, does not dictate real audience popularity in terms of downloads. I decided to take 5 minutes to see what the real order should have been. Channel Four can thank me later.

According to the Yahoo / Overture search term generator, the number of ‘movie / video’ based worldwide searches for each of the candidates was quite different. The real celebrity sex tape popularity order should have been:

1st Spot - Paris Hilton - 1 Night in Paris
(actual monthly searches 140,000 - Correct)

2nd Spot - Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee - Hardcore & Uncensored
(actual monthly searches 20,700 - Correct)

3rd Spot - Colin Farrell & Nicole Narian
(actual monthly searches 7,000 - Up 1 place!)

4th Spot - Tonya Harding Wedding tape
(actual monthly searches 6000 - Up 6 places!)

5th Spot - Jenna Lewis
(actual monthly searches 4000 - Up 1 place!)

6th Spot – Katie Price (Jordan) - Dane Bowers
(actual monthly searches 3000 - Up 1 place!)

7th Spot - Abi Titmus, John Leslie & some
(actual monthly searches 1200 - Down 4 places!)

8th Spot - Rob Lowe
(actual monthly searches 800 - Correct)

9th Spot - The Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal
(actual monthly searches 200 - Down 4 places!)

10th Spot - Suzanne Shaw (allegedly)
(actual monthly searches 0! - Down 1 place!)

Now I feel I can relax, having pointed out this inaccuracy which was eating me up

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