Daily Mash is very funny. And I love Gail.

I know this thread has tailed off now but just saw www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/gail-trimble-to-be-burnt-as-a-witch-200902251601/this on the Daily Mash and thought some of you might like to see it...

I don't think there can be anyone on this thread who doubts that she is very intelligent and who thinks that she should be villified for being clever (leave that to the tabloid press). We are all intelligent women and men who enjoy University Challenge for what it is, have no problem with the students on there, realise they are top of their cohort etc etc. BUT I still find her bloody irritating.......so there!!!

Absolutely nothing to do with her a) being a woman or b) doing classics or c) being at Oxford or d) any other subtext.

It's a shame the press have latched on to her. As usual it will become a great big story commented upon by the great British public who probably never, ever watch University Challenge. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Totally agree with all this, but surely you can't be the same Mumsnetters who diss everyone who contributes to the Gifted thread? The ones who pounded those people on the telly with the child genii? Does intelligence become ok at 20, or something?

Did you see her on bbc breakfast this morning? She was great I thought - bravo la Trimble!

I heart Trimble.

As for that DM Goodey vs Trimble [sigh] what a surprise, DM spouting sh*te again. Surely Jade was the one being vilified in same rag last week - er... now she's a national treasure?

Video image not flipped - or the names would have been written in mirror-writing! She wasn't the captain for the first round. A chap called Hamid was. What happened to him? I know they are allowed to bring one reserve in, which must have been Miss Schwartzman.

Does anyone remember the infamous (and almost unbelievable) occasion on which a contestant was changed after 5 minutes and they used computer wizardry to cover the fact up?

Jealousy Pruners!

We heart Trimble.