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

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BishyBarnyBee · 11/10/2024 17:00

Sandi has given a few interviews saying her brain was atrophying on Bake Off and she had to leave for her own sanity. I know she's a comedian so her words are partly for effect - but it's so disrespectful to the people who love the show.

Richard Osman tweeted "I honestly don't think you should present shows you wouldn't watch" and I think that's right. She's really gone down in my estimation.

It would have shown more integrity to not take the huge pay cheque in the first place rather than phone it in for 3 years and then rubbish the show that's been paying your mortgage for you.

For the record, it's quite possible to be a very intelligent and well educated person and still be interested in cake - or at least, in other people, which is what that role is really about.

I've gone right off her!

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Livinginaclock · 12/10/2024 02:55

Oh don't be silly, I'm sure she loves women and would absolutely date a transwoman who are women...

MaryEllenWaldron · 12/10/2024 02:24

SpiggingBelgium · 11/10/2024 19:16

Let’s face, Sandi Toksvig could cure cancer and certain factions on here would knock her, because she committed the ultimate MN sin of being pro-trans.

"pro-trans". So anti-women then.

MaryEllenWaldron · 12/10/2024 02:15

TheDandyLion · 11/10/2024 17:09

"I honestly don't think you should present shows you wouldn't watch" and I think that's right.

She might have liked it before presenting it, then changed and mind and left.

She didn't. In the Radio Times interview, she said she couldn't see the point of it, because "you can buy cakes in shops".

timetodecide2345 · 12/10/2024 00:50

I've always absolutely detested the woman. Now her mask has slipped and the real her is materialising.

youhavenoshameonyourface · 11/10/2024 23:22

Just get off the telly and do some proper work ST if you reckon you're too intelligent for it.
Let's face it - all TV has to default to the average common denominator Sandy, so you're hardly a brain amongst brains.

Invented anything or written a thesis lately?
Thought not.

Ageing thesbians all think they're fucking better than everyone don't they.
Court jesters darling. Don't forget your place.

MrsPeterHarris · 11/10/2024 23:10

PaminaMozart · 11/10/2024 17:06

I do not give a toss about ST and GBBO.

However, she dropped WAY down in my estimation when she started talking nonsense about gender politics and getting on a soapbox claiming that Transwomen are Women.

I felt the same!

SidewaysOtter · 11/10/2024 22:29

Steven Fry is similar but he exudes a little more vulnerability

Only when it suits him. He strikes me very much as someone who can dish it out but not take it.

ThinWomansBrain · 11/10/2024 21:23

tbf, I've always found the more entertaining hosts to be the ones that genuinely seem to like cake more than themselves - even if they're people I don't like (or the non cake makers are people I like)
To actually have an interest (or be able to feign one) in the product would seem to be a basic requirement.

Whenwillitgetwarm · 11/10/2024 21:18

LostTheMarble · 11/10/2024 18:02

Ooh he’s another one who’s gone way down in my estimation…

I did love him in The Mighty Boosh but his friendship with Pixie Geldof when she was a teen didn’t sit right with me.

In regard to ST as PP said I used to love ‘Number 73’ but she does come across like she believes she’s the smartest person in the room. Steven Fry is similar but he exudes a little more vulnerability so is less off putting for me.

youheard · 11/10/2024 21:00

I’ve reread. This quote was definitely not in this article to which I was referring and I believe the OP was referring to - there are clearly two articles out there, one more diplomatic about BO than the other, so we’re talking at cross purposes.

To feel let down by Sandi Toksvig's Bake Off Comments?
Grimacethethird353 · 11/10/2024 20:56

KarmaKat · 11/10/2024 18:59

She’s allowed an opinion of her own experience.

She is. But if you are in show bizz I think it’s professional to keep your own counsel and not rat on a show that has given you a gig!

(Unless there has been actual abuse of course and then it needs reporting.)

FelixtheAardvark · 11/10/2024 20:53

I am generally unimpressed by Ms Toksvig's comments on most subjects.

YANBU.

GrandHighPoohbah · 11/10/2024 20:40

MissAmbrosia · 11/10/2024 19:17

I loved that show where she went on weekends to lovely places with different women and I was so disappointed when she took Eddie Izzard and was positively simpering over him.

I loved the first two series but the whole of the Eddie Izzard series was about Sandi acting as some kind of fawning therapist to her very specifically chosen partners on the trips. Such a shame as it was one of my favourite programmes before "Sandi making statements" seemed to take over.

ThePinkBiscuit · 11/10/2024 20:20

youheard · 11/10/2024 20:14

I didn’t read the article you’re quoting - I’m doing something now but the article I saw was in the Sunday Times on Sunday and didn’t say anything about BO being wonderful. i’ll post screenshots later

reread and you’ll see

LozzaChops101 · 11/10/2024 20:19

She occasionally came into my former workplace and she was so bloody rude I went right off her, even before her genderwank opinions. Her wife was lovely though.

I used to quite look up to her 🙃

youheard · 11/10/2024 20:14

ThePinkBiscuit · 11/10/2024 20:07

but given you “work in telly and know what i’m talking about” @youheard

I guess we all have to bow to you on this one 😆

Edited

I didn’t read the article you’re quoting - I’m doing something now but the article I saw was in the Sunday Times on Sunday and didn’t say anything about BO being wonderful. i’ll post screenshots later

LindorDoubleChoc · 11/10/2024 20:13

I find it seriously very odd that you would frame your feelings about this as "let down".

I read her comments and just thought she's more of an arse than I realised. I don't feel personally "let down" by her.

She hosted a pub quiz at my dcs primary school because her step child was there. She couldn't have been more disinterested, so I went off her years ago.

PinotDragon · 11/10/2024 20:11

That's a hard one.
When I watch her on QI I find her dry wit hilarious, but it doesn't translate to bake off. I don't find the humour on bake off overly funny though tbf apart from Noel Fielding who is wacky enough to do anything (found the Boosh when I was 15 which probs helped). I much prefer her on QI and don't think she was suited for the GBBO because she is just too dry and bake off requires silliness and innuendo as it's humour.

AnnieMcFanny · 11/10/2024 20:08

menopause59 · 11/10/2024 17:39

Gogglebox is great

I love Gogglebox but I didn’t like her on it as she spoke down to her partner at times and I thought she was a bit of a bully.

also TWAW - why is it that I thought it meant trans women are wankers? 🙈

ThePinkBiscuit · 11/10/2024 20:07

but given you “work in telly and know what i’m talking about” @youheard

I guess we all have to bow to you on this one 😆

ThePinkBiscuit · 11/10/2024 20:06

she never said she found the concept boring

Bake Off is a wonderful programme which has already proved it can happily withstand a change of hosting personnel.

ThePinkBiscuit · 11/10/2024 20:05

youheard · 11/10/2024 20:02

What has her loving Prue got to do with the fact she hates cake, had never watched the programme, found its concept boring and plainly disliked Paul and Noel?

you haven’t read the article!

CraggyIslandTouristBoard · 11/10/2024 20:02

PaminaMozart · 11/10/2024 17:06

I do not give a toss about ST and GBBO.

However, she dropped WAY down in my estimation when she started talking nonsense about gender politics and getting on a soapbox claiming that Transwomen are Women.

This ^^

youheard · 11/10/2024 20:02

ThePinkBiscuit · 11/10/2024 19:49

so you read the quote that i pasted up thread?
and you read how she said she adores prue and they are forever more joined et the hip?

What has her loving Prue got to do with the fact she hates cake, had never watched the programme, found its concept boring and plainly disliked Paul and Noel?

Ceilingplatter · 11/10/2024 20:01

PaminaMozart · 11/10/2024 17:06

I do not give a toss about ST and GBBO.

However, she dropped WAY down in my estimation when she started talking nonsense about gender politics and getting on a soapbox claiming that Transwomen are Women.

Aw see that makes her go up in my estimation. Good for her!

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