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Or is Dawn O' Porter really irritating?

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StoneTheFlamingCrows · 25/06/2014 09:18

Don't know what it is about her. That advert for her new programme makes me feel stabby. I know ia probably bu...

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TheAverageJoanne · 23/07/2026 08:02

HannySweetRatty · 22/07/2026 23:05

Yes,unfortunately. She has taken the Saturday afternoon slot over and by God, she's getting more and more irritating!

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It just doesn't seem to be her thing to me!

HannySweetRatty · 22/07/2026 23:05

TheAverageJoanne · 22/07/2026 21:34

She's on Classic FM?

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Yes,unfortunately. She has taken the Saturday afternoon slot over and by God, she's getting more and more irritating!

GretchenWiener · 22/07/2026 21:47

@TheAverageJoanne
this is a really old thread that's dead

TheAverageJoanne · 22/07/2026 21:34

HannySweetRatty · 11/07/2026 13:08

Afraid that her presenting style on Classic fm's Saturday afternoon show is seriously irritating. I'm tempted to turn it off although her choices of music are nice. She really hasn't got a filter, and it's getting very annoying.

She's on Classic FM?

GretchenWiener · 11/07/2026 16:01

THIS IS FROM 2014

HannySweetRatty · 11/07/2026 13:08

Afraid that her presenting style on Classic fm's Saturday afternoon show is seriously irritating. I'm tempted to turn it off although her choices of music are nice. She really hasn't got a filter, and it's getting very annoying.

TheAverageJoanne · 18/03/2024 09:19

I found this as I'm just reading her book Life in Pieces. Three pages in and she's on about being high and about weed more than once. She strikes me as trying to be cool but actually immature instead.

windchime · 04/07/2014 21:42

YANBU. She looks like she is wearing a cheap nylon wig.

I8toys · 04/07/2014 20:39

Too try hard and the name is pretentious. She looks like my mum from the 70's wearing a dress fashioned from the curtains we used to have. Quite liked her when she was doing the sex programmes - now part of some sort of hippyish power couple.

squoosh · 04/07/2014 20:21

'But when they have a young woman as part of their programme who she calls the "coolest girl in the room because her boyfriend is in the band" I can feel Andrea Dworkin rolling in her grave.'

YES.

I did a lot of eye rolling when she kept wittering on about the girl being cool due to going out with some drummer.

She probably has pictures of Anita Pallenberg up around her house.

GretchenWiener · 04/07/2014 17:56

knobends

mind you actors - we must remember they are vain twats

GretchenWiener · 04/07/2014 17:52

i hated that photo her H tweeted on her on the phone in her cacks 'against her wishes'

yeah

right

Partridge · 04/07/2014 17:50

What is it with that? I find it hard too. This line sums it up though, "
"Start with that username though. @HotPatooties. It’s infantilized. Knowing. Affected. Precious. Precocious. Like a burlesque routine performed to Shirley Temple songs, and only less slightly vomit-inducing. @HotPatooties is not a name I would adopt as a professional adult, it’s a name I would adopt if I was selling bespoke nipple tassels on Etsy. Then I would plunge a tant? into my abdomen."

SarahAndFuck · 04/07/2014 17:22

Partridge every time I try to read that my internet freezes.

Every single time. I think my computer objects to her more than I do Grin I've had to give up but what I did read was funny.

hellymelly · 04/07/2014 12:59

I couldn't care less about someone's hair, or their choice of name. But when they have a young woman as part of their programme who she calls the "coolest girl in the room because her boyfriend is in the band" I can feel Andrea Dworkin rolling in her grave. I am old enough to remember 70s feminism, and stuff like this makes me feel that the generation below me have gone back about five decades, and that isn't just the frocks Dawn.

BringMeTea · 04/07/2014 09:13

Partridge very funny. Thanks for that.

Step · 04/07/2014 08:52

I like here..... really she's done some entertaining stuff.

Partridge · 04/07/2014 08:21

this says all I feel about dop more eloquently than I ever could...

Thefishewife · 04/07/2014 08:05

Why is her hair getting so big she looks like Dora the explora

At the start she had a lovely retro bob but now she looks mad

ToAvoidConversation · 04/07/2014 07:24

I like her a lot. I also like that she merged her maiden and married names and found her solution.

I don't really understand what she's doing that deserves such criticism. If it's not your cup of tea turn it off.

So she merged names, has hair that is 'different' from the norm and thinks she's a bit kooky. What is wrong with that??

She's working hard and good on her for it.

cerealqueen · 03/07/2014 23:23

I love her, her hair, her clothes and I love her new programme.

If the show were hosted by Claudia Winkleman, I'd hate everything.

hellymelly · 03/07/2014 23:14

Yes, it made me really Grrrrr. So for girls to be thought cool they have to have a boyfriend with a "cool" job? Is that really at all aspirational? I have two daughters, i found all that really depressing. And agree that beige polyester frock covered in sparkle was a waste of good rhinestones, but the girl did have the perfect shape for the dress and even though it was both beige, and highly flammable, she made it look ok.

EhricLovesTheBhrothers · 03/07/2014 18:17

I thought that too Helly! Fucking fuck off Dawn, is that the only thing you're impressed by? Load of retrogressive bullshit.

Weathergames · 03/07/2014 17:53

She did the programme about her tits because her mum died of breast cancer when she was a kid.

DumDumDeeDay · 03/07/2014 17:51

I love her she's my girl crush Grin