To feel let down by Sandi Toksvig's Bake Off Comments?

Actually can't stand Alison Hammond. Talentless and loud, loud, loud.

I have to admit that was my impression of her so didn't think she'd do well in bake off tent - but I was wrong I think she actually more talented presenter than I thought and found so far this series it's been one of more enjoyable ones since it got to channel 4 and I think she is a huge part of that.

I do like Alison’s infectious enthusiasm. She always comes across as though she knows she’s got a great job and really happy to be there no matter what she’s presenting. Akin to the fan of a band being invited onstage to play tambourine!

There was a long period where many presenters affected a cynical style and I think it’s nice to see someone who appears to be genuinely happy.

I can’t either. She’s incredibly irritating.

Actually can't stand Alison Hammond. Talentless and loud, loud, loud.

Of all the people negatively affected by TWAW it is lesbians.

Exactly this. It's quite something for her to pretend she can't see the implications.

Even if she's in a long term relationship, you'd think she'd understand what that means for those on the dating scene.

She's a gay woman and totally at odds with all the gay women I know and love (quite a number including my sister and a few of my closest friends for decades) so her opining on TWAW is completely relevant.

Of all the people negatively affected by TWAW it is lesbians. So it's completely relevant - her comments on Bake Off prove is that she is happy to go along with whatever to ensure her income. I'm glad that Mumsnet at least has picked up on this.

It’s Mumsnet. Of course it does 😉

Working on a show is very different from watching it. Working isn’t for entertainment and she’s entitled to say it wasn’t challenging or enjoyable for her after 3 years.

I love M&S but my brain would also atrophy if I worked there.

Yeah, it certainly feels like aspects of her character are shining through

I think it's relevant though, isn't it?

You said in your OP that you expected her to have more integrity and you refer to intelligence.

Well I think her comments on the trans stuff have shown that either she hasn't got any integrity or she's not very intelligent (or both).

She's just someone who will say and do whatever is expedient to keep the pay cheques coming in, whether that's presenting a show that bores the arse off her or obediently chanting the TWAW mantra.

Agree with this. She even said she can’t understand all the “fuss” women are making about transwomen in womens’ toilets because toilets they often have a man cleaning them. Utterly stupid comment which dismisses women’s issues about sports, personal care, prisons etc etc etc.
She really is stupid.

Lol.

So we have the tedium of Bake Off to blame for the fact that her brain rotted so much that she no longer knows what a woman is, huh?

She appears to have entered the "Margoyles" phase of life and has become a tiresome old twat. She doesn't even know what a woman is anymore - of all things. Shame.

They need presenters who are actually interested in baking themselves. Sandi isn’t, neither are Alison and Noel. They just make increasingly off colour ‘jokes’ and behave as if they don’t care .

Now we have Noel and Alison though. Right at the other end of the scale. I really liked Mel and Sue and preferred Mary Berry to Prue Leith.

Can't stand either. Both were hosts of QI. I feel they are employed to appeal to a certain type of person with incredible intellectual snobbery. They would be caught dead in certain parts of the country mixing with the riff raff. Sandy's comments about the bake off tent stink of it. The whole, ugh why do I have to deal with THESE people. I'm so much better than this. To the point that she says she felt her brain rotting.

It's classism. It's really rather repellent.

I think she's being honest about how it affected her - that doesn't mean she's criticising everyone who enjoys the show or who enjoys working there, it's just not stimulating enough for her. We all enjoy and are stimulated or turned off by different topics.
I do think GBBO has gone more and more down hill recently, AH might be a nice lady but she has been awful in every presenting role so far.

There are a lot of programmes like that at the moment..

Lets be honest, watching a cake bake is not the most simulating of experiences especially when it gets slagged off by the judges cos it not just x or y etc. Must be hours of boredom.

I’d agree it’s gone stale, and is maybe ready for a rest. It’s very “same old” now. It’s still pleasant enough to watch but I do so over my phone these days, never really pay much attention, and if I miss an episode, I don’t watch on catch up.

I think it highlights her snobbery. She claims she had never watched it, didn't understand it - when you could go to the shop and buy cake and hadn't watched it since leaving She joined in series 8. At a professional you'd have done some research. Clearly she thought she was too good for it. Don't blame anyone for following the coins as she has a family to feed but there was no need to act so superior when it didn't work out.

All worked out hough Allison is better.

I’m with her - I find it boring now. It’s way past its sell by date. Series after series, same old stuff. Time to find something else to entertain us with.