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OMG Miriam Margolyes Andi Peters

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Temptree · 03/09/2026 12:16

I've got an annual leave day today and am spending the morning shamelessly on the sofa watching daytime TV with cups of tea and biscuits after an exhausting school summer hols. Kids back at school today. I've given myself permission to vegetate till 3:15pm.
So here I am watching This Morning and have just spent 5 minutes with my jaw wide open and hand over my mouth at what Miriam Margolyes just said to Andi Peters.
Did anyone else see it??
I mean it takes a lot to shock me. I am not easily shocked.
And this woman is currently doing a sell out tour??
Whoah.

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Temptree · 07/09/2026 18:47

"What are you"
"High yella"
Impersonating NI accent for fun.
"Cripples"
"Fat people"

Words fail me.
I want to say something all outraged. But actually.......I'm lost for words.

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Fast800goingforit · 07/09/2026 19:05

She's awful. I watched a video of the interview today. She is absolutely tone deaf, as her tone curling explanation exposes.

Lomonald · 07/09/2026 19:09

Holidaymodeon · 07/09/2026 16:05

Fucking hell 🤦🏽‍♀️

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I mean eh !

Holidaymodeon · 07/09/2026 21:18

She’s sinking as low as she truly is. Occasions like this always help bring the scum to the top, at least her cheerleaders are making themselves identifiable…

JHound · 07/09/2026 22:09

Her “explanation” just makes it worse and worse and worse….

https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16111127/Miriam-Margoyles-says-didnt-want-hurt-Andi-Peters-insists-shes-interested-black-people-fat-people-cripples-feel-speaks-Morning-racism-row.html

“I wanted to know what he thought about it because that's what interests me.'
Miriam then used an offensive term for disabled people as she continued: 'How do black people feel? How do brown people feel? How do cripples feel? How do fat people feel?
'You see what I mean? All of us feel something about who we are and how people see us, what they think of us.'”

”People”. Miriam. People see themselves as people. Just because you fixate on an aspect of their physical nature doesn’t mean they do.

Miriam Margolyes says she 'didn't want to hurt' Andi Peters

Miriam Margolyes has addressed the backlash to her 'racism row' with Andi Peters on ITV's This Morning.

https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16111127/Miriam-Margoyles-says-didnt-want-hurt-Andi-Peters-insists-shes-interested-black-people-fat-people-cripples-feel-speaks-Morning-racism-row.html

Triskellion75 · 07/09/2026 22:17

'Cripples'. Jesus.

Ponderingwindow · 07/09/2026 22:22

I’m American and I have never heard that phrase. I hate when things get blamed on us that we don’t do.

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Temptree · 07/09/2026 22:26

''How do black people feel? How do brown people feel? How do cripples feel? How do fat people feel?"

I can't cope with her saying this on top of everything else she said on Thursday.
It's so othering, I can't stand it.
We are nearly at 1,000 posts so this thread is going to end shortly. I'm going to start a new thread to discuss further.

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PrettyLittleRose · 07/09/2026 22:44

Link to OP's new thread/second thread about this

Hope you don't mind @Temptree Some people may not know which one it is/where it is.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5575961-how-do-black-people-feel-how-do-brown-people-feel-how-do-cripples-feel-how-do-fat-people-feel?reply=154624880

AndyKitten · 07/09/2026 22:49

She needs to know how fat people feel?

Really!

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Temptree · 07/09/2026 22:52

PrettyLittleRose · 07/09/2026 22:44

Link to OP's new thread/second thread about this

Hope you don't mind @Temptree Some people may not know which one it is/where it is.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5575961-how-do-black-people-feel-how-do-brown-people-feel-how-do-cripples-feel-how-do-fat-people-feel?reply=154624880

Good idea.
Thank you!

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Cardisncocktails · 07/09/2026 23:18

Aluna · 07/09/2026 15:06

I see you picking up fag ends. What utter nonsense.

This is my parents’ generation. If you think you can provide a summary of attitudes, feel free to have a crack.

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Poor quality trolling @aluna
Try harder next time.

Lalgarh · 08/09/2026 01:18

AndyKitten · 07/09/2026 22:49

She needs to know how fat people feel?

Really!

Maybe she can have her own chat show

labtest57 · 08/09/2026 05:58

JHound · 05/09/2026 20:34

I guarantee she was rolling her eyes at you. And likely told her group chat later.

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Doubt that very much

moderate · 08/09/2026 08:15

labtest57 · 08/09/2026 05:58

Doubt that very much

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She’s projecting how it would unfold in a WhatsApp group whose primary purpose is virtue signalling.

user1492757084 · 08/09/2026 11:14

It's weird that the station put the conversation to air. It came across as offensive so the producers should not have put it to air.

Fast800goingforit · 08/09/2026 21:17

It was live.

Jane379 · 08/09/2026 21:50

Not sure if anyone's raised this, but it shouldn't be forgotten that Margoyles has also made a very questionable claim that Jacqueline du Pre died by assisted suicide and claims it was 'her duty' to 'reveal the truth'.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/sep/05/miriam-margolyes-it-was-my-duty-to-tell-truth-about-du-pres-death

Miriam Margolyes: It was my duty to tell truth about Du Pré’s death

Veteran actor has no regrets about controversial claims that tragic cellist died from lethal injection in assisted suicide

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/sep/05/miriam-margolyes-it-was-my-duty-to-tell-truth-about-du-pres-death

PrettyLittleRose · 08/09/2026 21:56

NovemberMorn · 07/09/2026 13:22

I don't agree. If you have watched her on talk shows, she feigns interest so she can suddenly chip in with what she hopes will be a shocker...usually sex related.
It's all an act,

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Exactly. Either sex related, or the c-word. And the audience will howl like banshees at how utterly hilarious she is. 🙄

JHound · 08/09/2026 22:01

labtest57 · 08/09/2026 05:58

Doubt that very much

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Sure.

JHound · 08/09/2026 22:02

moderate · 08/09/2026 08:15

She’s projecting how it would unfold in a WhatsApp group whose primary purpose is virtue signalling.

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How do you “virtue signal” in a whatsapp group?

likelysuspect · 08/09/2026 22:06

I might have already said this on this thread, but I wonder if she's got EUPD

SameBoatSally · 09/09/2026 00:33

Extremely Unpleasant Personality Disorder?

moderate · 09/09/2026 00:38

JHound · 08/09/2026 22:02

How do you “virtue signal” in a whatsapp group?

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The same way you virtue-signal in any other conversation.

Someonesomewhereinsummertime · 09/09/2026 07:17

Lalgarh · 08/09/2026 01:18

Maybe she can have her own chat show

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Hopefully not.

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