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Jodie Turner-Smith Graham Norton

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Thunderpants88 · 12/10/2025 23:09

Just watched the Graham Norton show with Jodie Turner-Smith AIBU or was she utterly obnoxious? Every single move she made was the sickly sweet looking at the camera for attention. Whenever any other celebrity has the spotlight she interjected and tried to bring the attention back to her. Her whole time on the show was pathetic acting for attention and extremely false.

Did anyone else see this or AIBU?

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Sequinsoneverythingplease · 19/10/2025 20:14

GreySkySummer · 19/10/2025 18:53

Taylor Swift appeared for the first time (as far as I’m aware) with a completely new face.

Robbie Williams was completely unhinged the following week and performed the shittest song of his career.

Yet it’s a black woman with a personality that deserves a thread of people bitching??

The racism in the racism in this country is so fucking insidious

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fatphalange · 19/10/2025 19:17

She’s farrrrrr from the only chat show guest to have been a bit under the influence in the history of chat shows ffs

Oldconker · 19/10/2025 19:16

She was a stunning ‘Anne Boleyn’ .

stillavid · 19/10/2025 18:55

It was a weird episode - the lighting was heinous as Taylor looked completely different about 4 days later on a US show and I have fillers and know that a couple of days doesn't make that much difference.

All the women on that night were gorgeous and entertaining but the vibes were a bit off. I think Jodie and Taylor had met before when a bit pissed so Jodie was just picking up on that. In the real world it isn't that unusual to ask about plans for children I guess

GreySkySummer · 19/10/2025 18:53

Taylor Swift appeared for the first time (as far as I’m aware) with a completely new face.

Robbie Williams was completely unhinged the following week and performed the shittest song of his career.

Yet it’s a black woman with a personality that deserves a thread of people bitching??

The racism in the racism in this country is so fucking insidious

IHate · 19/10/2025 18:53

AzureCats · 19/10/2025 18:12

The literal Barbie comparison 😂 you couldn't make this shit up. It's not even thinly veiled any more.

They literally cannot help themselves. 🤣

VivienneDelacroix · 19/10/2025 18:48

IHate · 19/10/2025 11:48

There’s a particular sort of collective neck twitch that happens on Mumsnet when a woman is all three: stunning, successful and unambiguously Black. Commenters start qualifying their praise or picking apart tiny things, like they can’t quite process it.

They’re fine with mixed race or ethnically ambiguous Zendaya type beauty, but once it’s someone like Anok Yai or Jodie, the tone changes. Suddenly she’s “not that special”, or they start hedging the language, qualifying their admiration, or shifting the conversation to something else entirely. There was a thread about Anok earlier this year that went properly odd. Think I’ll try to dig it up.

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Well bloody said. 👏👏👏
As in life, black women are expected to behave in a palatable way to appease the white British majority. Don't be too loud, too different, too confident, too beautiful, too successful, too talkative.

AzureCats · 19/10/2025 18:12

The literal Barbie comparison 😂 you couldn't make this shit up. It's not even thinly veiled any more.

CoffeeCantata · 19/10/2025 17:00

IHate · 13/10/2025 00:06

She is so beautiful that she can literally do whatever she wants, as far as I’m concerned. Ridiculously stunning woman.

From what I’ve seen, Margot Robbie knows how to behave and it would be hard to find someone more beautiful than her.

Depends how you were brought up, I suppose.

unusualarrangement · 19/10/2025 16:35

I think it’s because Joshua Jackson has always come accross as being a nice guy and he was wronged in The Affair😀

Thisistemporary · 19/10/2025 15:46

I thought the exact same, I’d never seen her interviewed before and was surprised at how unlikeable she came across. And so much name dropping.

DrowningInSyrup · 19/10/2025 15:16

I google imaged her and still have no idea who she is.

Rabbittods · 19/10/2025 14:34

They were all behaving oddly at one point, because they were supposed to be listening to her new single but couldn't because it hadn't been released yet, so they were all weirdly bopping along to some none existent tune, even Taylor looked embarrassed at the ridiculousness of it. She is not ridiculously beautiful either just a bit ridiculous like the rest of them, I love how Graham gives them the side eye, as if to say ffs, this is all a bit daft isn't it, some get it and play along some don't, most don't.

IHate · 19/10/2025 14:30

SteakBakesAndHotTakes · 19/10/2025 14:25

Great point well made

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K.

SteakBakesAndHotTakes · 19/10/2025 14:25

IHate · 19/10/2025 14:05

K.

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Great point well made

Sequinsoneverythingplease · 19/10/2025 14:24

SteakBakesAndHotTakes · 19/10/2025 13:56

The thread was odd and goady from the beginning. Just posting a picture saying 'AIBU to think she is one of the most beautiful women on earth' and then turning it into a race issue if posters disagreed.

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Indeed. Bad faith thread in order to make bad faith accusations of “racism”. Utterly tedious.

IHate · 19/10/2025 14:05

SteakBakesAndHotTakes · 19/10/2025 14:03

You're right, the comments should all have been in glowing agreement like all the other threads on AIBU

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K.

SteakBakesAndHotTakes · 19/10/2025 14:03

IHate · 19/10/2025 13:58

Mmm hmmm. 🙄

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You're right, the comments should all have been in glowing agreement like all the other threads on AIBU

IHate · 19/10/2025 13:58

SteakBakesAndHotTakes · 19/10/2025 13:56

The thread was odd and goady from the beginning. Just posting a picture saying 'AIBU to think she is one of the most beautiful women on earth' and then turning it into a race issue if posters disagreed.

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Mmm hmmm. 🙄

SteakBakesAndHotTakes · 19/10/2025 13:56

IHate · 19/10/2025 12:20

Found the Anok thread. It’s like they can’t help themselves. https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5070287-to-think-anok-yai-is-one-of-the-most-beautiful-women-on-earth?page=1

The thread was odd and goady from the beginning. Just posting a picture saying 'AIBU to think she is one of the most beautiful women on earth' and then turning it into a race issue if posters disagreed.

Sequinsoneverythingplease · 19/10/2025 12:31

She’s obnoxious and apparently extremely difficult to co-parent with.

Vaninees · 19/10/2025 12:23

Has anyone ever seen her behaving normally? I get the impression she’s always a vacuous twat.

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 19/10/2025 12:20

I think she is beautiful but also think she acted odd on GN.

I've seen her interviewed before and she was fine, this time she seemd off.

GreySkySummer · 19/10/2025 12:02

IHate · 19/10/2025 11:48

There’s a particular sort of collective neck twitch that happens on Mumsnet when a woman is all three: stunning, successful and unambiguously Black. Commenters start qualifying their praise or picking apart tiny things, like they can’t quite process it.

They’re fine with mixed race or ethnically ambiguous Zendaya type beauty, but once it’s someone like Anok Yai or Jodie, the tone changes. Suddenly she’s “not that special”, or they start hedging the language, qualifying their admiration, or shifting the conversation to something else entirely. There was a thread about Anok earlier this year that went properly odd. Think I’ll try to dig it up.

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Completely agree with you.

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