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to hate Bill Grainger the aussie cook in his whiter than white smugage

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Cremolafoam · 09/02/2008 12:22

god he makes me irrationally mad

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mrswhiplington · 19/05/2024 13:25

This thread is 16 years old and Bill Grainger died a few months ago.

@Brettyboi69

Brettyboi69 · 19/05/2024 13:09

MaureenMLove · 09/02/2008 12:29

God no! YANBU! My dh thought he wass gay too! I can't stand the way he says, 'yoh gurt' either!

He was gay but then he converted. Apparently that is possible. Who knew.

skyatnight · 11/02/2008 22:12

Callisto and others...he must be gay, right?
Does he work for the Australian immigration board (or whatever it might be called)?

When I watch his programme, it is like he and his family live in a science fiction world where everyone has had a partial labotomy - mind you a lot of lifestyle telly is like that. Logans Run. Or is he on Soma (Brave New World). It is food and lifestyle porn of the highest order. Do the Australians watch it or is it only us vitamin-D deprived Brits who lap it up?

I'd love to see him lose his temper, foam at the mouth, or have a stomach upset, but he is too high, healthy and shiney on white linen, sunshine and fresh fish, fruit and vegetables. I can smell the wooden floors, the sea breeze and the lemon juice and erbs. How can someone so blond and childlike be such an astute businessman?

I am getting a bit sick of all these cookery and garden and design people who get us to buy their books and fund their designer lifestyle and then sell it back to us in the next book. I'm not paying for your next fitted show kitchen! I like Jamie Oliver but it is all getting a bit much.

Better out than in.

Looby34 · 11/02/2008 21:45

Looked at this thread as going to bed soon and wanted a little light relief after reading loads of heavy posts. Hilarious. Cloudhopper - I saw that episode and thought exactly the same. Bet they empty out their lunch boxes in the school bin .

Callisto · 11/02/2008 11:37

Nettiehay, surely no-one actually believes that the majority of Ozzies live in a Perfect Bill world though? It's like an Australian assuming that all British men have footballers saleries and all British women are WAGS.

Callisto · 11/02/2008 11:35

Ahhh, I love Perfect Bill with his perfect house and perfect children and perfect life. He is gay though, a friend of mine who knows him says he has had several boyfriends (the wife is complicit afaik).

nettiehay · 11/02/2008 11:16

I am Australian living in London and this is exactly the type of thing that gives Australians a bad name - he irritates the hell out of me! It's people like him in his perfect sun drenched world with linen trousers and cute children that make people think the whole of Australia is perfect. Granted it does have some nice places (mainly the coast) but what about the drought stricken farms or sun burnt outback??

GGGGRRRRRRRR

Cloudhopper · 10/02/2008 09:27

totally agree. only watched him once.

bill filled his little girl's lunchboxes with a mix of white beans, tuna fish with olive oil (i think). All i could think was "Yeah right - that might look healthy but are you telling me they are actually going to eat it?"

Followed by some kind of fruit thing that looked equally unpalatable.

then he walked the smiling girls to school down a sunny hillside.

all i could think was 'yeah right - you do that every day?' i bet his wife had her eyebrows raised in the background somewhere.

RubySlippers · 10/02/2008 09:20

his fish burritos are brilliant (sunshine mummy posted the recipe once)

however, i cannot trust a man who matches the colour of his teeth, with his china and clothes

dualcylindercod · 10/02/2008 09:11

my mate says he is tha gayest straighte man ever
eeveryoe DOES go to the fish market
and the beach
adn his recipes are good

GRRR

Cappuccino · 09/02/2008 17:39

I do like him though

I think he is lovely

I like his food too and his house and his garden and his white shirts

Cappuccino · 09/02/2008 17:39

I once watched him make elaborate side dishes for a takeaway curry

lolololol

Shaniece · 09/02/2008 17:37

Never seen such white teeth . YANBU!!

DualCylinderCod · 09/02/2008 13:13

but does he say 'erbs

bran · 09/02/2008 13:08

I don't think he does well on tv at all, he comes across much less poncily (is that a word?) in his books. His food is yum though.

Carmenere · 09/02/2008 13:01

I liked him a lot more a few years ago tbh. I think he was a bit more sincere then, he seems quite fake now, quite over designed iyswim.

Carmenere · 09/02/2008 13:00

Oh no MO I was not offended at all, sorry if I sounded chippish. Jeeze I would never survive in my house if I didn't develop the rhino hide that is my skin

MarmiteMe · 09/02/2008 12:59

Ugh, he's so smug and seemingly perfect he makes me gag.
That smile is almost sinister too

MaureenMLove · 09/02/2008 12:40

Apolgies Carmenere! Didn't mean to offend. Clearly its a language thing. Still hacks me off though!

Heated · 09/02/2008 12:39

Saw it for the first time last week and for a minute or two was convinced it was a spoof but the food looked too good, lol!

Sunshinemummy · 09/02/2008 12:33

His fish burritos are wonderful - one of my fave recipes.

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Cremolafoam · 09/02/2008 12:32

the smuggery know no bounds
the bondi shots
the perfect house
the avaocado lunch
the fish market on my doorstep
the 3 blond girls dressed in white

i want to stab them all with a fork

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Carmenere · 09/02/2008 12:31

I pronounce yoghurt 'yoh ghurt' too, I think it is an Americanism but most people in Ireland, the US, Aus, in fact everywhere else in the english-speaking world pronounce it like that. Who is right?

MaureenMLove · 09/02/2008 12:29

God no! YANBU! My dh thought he wass gay too! I can't stand the way he says, 'yoh gurt' either!

DualCylinderCod · 09/02/2008 12:28

ill sned this to my blogs syndeny correspondent

she lives htere btu is entertainignly acerbic re australians

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