To think the world has gone to shit if a reality TV couple ‘breaking up’…

Starlingexpress · 2024-08-14T16:22:03+00:00

Is one of the headlines on the BBC webpage? 🙄

Flumpie59 · 15/08/2024 10:44

Exactly!

''So-and-so SPLIT''. After they've been ''married'' for 3.1 seconds.
So-and-so GIVES BIRTH.
So-and-so STRIPS NAKED.
Who bloody cares?!
Not me!

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Starlingexpress · 15/08/2024 09:53

Coughsweet · 14/08/2024 23:41

My DCs don’t watch Love Island but for most information and definitely for any kind of celeb swaddle the last place they’d be looking is the BBC. It’s so depressing that they are dumping this nonsense on people who actually use their service but don’t care about this sort of news in a desperate bid to appeal to a bunch of people who absolutely don’t care about BBC news
at all.

It isn’t the first place I go to now either though. Not since it stopped being straightforward news and it all got a bit “This Morning”. It used to be really good.

It’s almost as if they want licence payers to stop paying 😎

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Hisapsy · 14/08/2024 23:58

yanbu

I have heard of them, I know roughly what they do and think they have a child. On the basis that they were married with a child, I’m sorry for them that they’re getting divorced.

but I have no idea why it’s front page news

thebillcollector · 14/08/2024 23:55

Starlingexpress · 14/08/2024 23:11

Haven’t seen any coverage on this?

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I know, there hasn't been any coverage on national news that's for sure.
Here it is . . . https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdeyl3pkrdxo

Police 'very concerned' about missing boys from Liversedge

Yousuf Ahmad, 13, and his brother Muhammad, 10, were last seen in Liversedge on Monday, police say.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdeyl3pkrdxo

Coughsweet · 14/08/2024 23:41

My DCs don’t watch Love Island but for most information and definitely for any kind of celeb swaddle the last place they’d be looking is the BBC. It’s so depressing that they are dumping this nonsense on people who actually use their service but don’t care about this sort of news in a desperate bid to appeal to a bunch of people who absolutely don’t care about BBC news
at all.

It isn’t the first place I go to now either though. Not since it stopped being straightforward news and it all got a bit “This Morning”. It used to be really good.

Zow · 14/08/2024 23:38

Feliciacat · 14/08/2024 17:51

It’s because Mollie-Mae and Tommy were the only couple from Love Island to get married and have a baby (as far as I know). It’s a lot of young girls’ idea of a fairy tale romance. They were extremely prolific; Tommy is a boxer and Mollie-Mae is a fashion designer off the back of her Love Island stint.

I absolutely agree with yours and other people’s sentiment that the priorities are wrong though! Especially about Gaza.

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Wrong.. OTHER couples went on to get married and have Children. From Google...

Jess Shears and Dom Lever: The couple from the 2017 series married in May 2018 and announced their first child's birth in October 2019. They announced the birth of their second child in June 2022. Their wedding was streamed live on Good Morning Britain in February 2018, and they officially tied the knot in Mykonos in October 2018.
Olivia and Alex Bowen: The couple married in 2018 and had their son, Abel Jacob, in June 2022.
Camilla Thurlow and Jamie Jewitt: The series three finalists have two children, Nora and Nell.
Cara De La Hoyde and Nathan Massey: The season two winners have two children, Freddie, born in 2017, and Delilah, born in 2020.

I honestly give zero shits about MM and TF splitting.

Yeah I know, someone is going to ask why did I even click on the thread yada yada yada! Spare me!

TheFormidableMrsC · 14/08/2024 23:35

I don't watch Love Island but am familiar with the girl and she was in my daughter's social circle a while back because of where we live. It's a shame they chose to have a baby.

LindorDoubleChoc · 14/08/2024 23:32

Yes, there's another thread on exactly the same subject, in AIBU, last posted on just before 9 tonight.

wtfissummer · 14/08/2024 23:29

I got a "breaking news" story via sky

What a nothing story

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Starlingexpress · 14/08/2024 23:22

NoSnowdrop · 14/08/2024 23:17

yabu to expect the bbc to report the news lmao have you only just noticed?

now let’s see how long we have to wait to find out how this shocking revelation affects drag queens.

I’d love to hear your opinion on how Z list ‘celebs’ breaking up qualifies as news but if your response makes as much sense as this one then it’s probably not really going to add much to my understanding 😂

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NoSnowdrop · 14/08/2024 23:17

yabu to expect the bbc to report the news lmao have you only just noticed?

now let’s see how long we have to wait to find out how this shocking revelation affects drag queens.

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Starlingexpress · 14/08/2024 23:11

thebillcollector · 14/08/2024 21:21

. . . and two children that have been missing since Monday hasn't even made the TV news.
If they televised their faces there may be more chance of finding them.

Instead we have to look at some privileged randoms crying about their short relationship ending.

Haven’t seen any coverage on this?

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thebillcollector · 14/08/2024 21:21

. . . and two children that have been missing since Monday hasn't even made the TV news.
If they televised their faces there may be more chance of finding them.

Instead we have to look at some privileged randoms crying about their short relationship ending.

Plastoslax · 14/08/2024 21:08

Shades of Idiocracy!

ssd · 14/08/2024 20:51

Who cares about these 2 eedgits

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Starlingexpress · 14/08/2024 20:45

itsmylife7 · 14/08/2024 20:38

It's truly embarrassing .

I'd like updates on the soldier that was recently stabbed .
Is he still in hospital , what happened to the lunatic that stabbed him.

And the little girl stabbed in London.

If I wanted to read about z list celebs I’d read Take a Break. Seems like the BBC is heading a similar way.

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JohnTheRevelator · 14/08/2024 20:44

I think it's pathetic,to be honest.

Mespher · 14/08/2024 20:44

It must be a distraction thing

itsmylife7 · 14/08/2024 20:38

It's truly embarrassing .

I'd like updates on the soldier that was recently stabbed .
Is he still in hospital , what happened to the lunatic that stabbed him.

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Starlingexpress · 14/08/2024 20:34

LittleRedHen77 · 14/08/2024 20:05

Distraction of the masses...

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Scary how many of the masses are distracted by this nonsense.

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LittleRedHen77 · 14/08/2024 20:05

GingerScallop · 14/08/2024 17:38

Well what else is there to report? That reported deaths in Gaza are now at 40,000? That these are still countries that haven't signed the declaration prohibiting attacks on schools, students in war? That yet another settlement, Nahal Heletz, is being build? Cheaper groceries (that poor families in uk depend on) have increased in price faster than more expensive products? Naaa! Let them read celebrity news

Distraction of the masses...

Favouritefruits · 14/08/2024 19:55

I bet the residents of Ukraine were devastated by the news!

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Starlingexpress · 14/08/2024 19:50

Instaflan · 14/08/2024 19:42

Yeah it’s bonkers. But it’s especially annoying that people keep making threads about the same thing.

And yet here you are keeping this one running 😂

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ichundich · 14/08/2024 19:47

Tiredforfive45 · 14/08/2024 17:33

Look on the bright side…Surely it’s quite reassuring that this is a top news story, rather than some other awful thing that could have impacted negatively on many people’s lives.

A slow news day is a good news day.

Only that it isn't:

WHO declares mpox public health emergency in Africa
unprecedented number of heat records broken this year
Ukraine is fighting Russia on its own territory
arrest warrant issued against Ukrainian citizen for blowing up the Nordstream gaspipeline
war in Gaza & ceasefire talks
Thai court removes prime minister from office
US approve weapon deal for Isreal
at least 68 people die in Sudan floods

But none if this more newsworthy to the BBC, it seems! I hope they'll get a lot of complaints.

Instaflan · 14/08/2024 19:42

Yeah it’s bonkers. But it’s especially annoying that people keep making threads about the same thing.