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Temptree · 07/09/2026 22:34

As stated by Miriam Margolyes today, as she gets worse and worse...... and worse.

Link to previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5574225-omg-miriam-margolyes-andi-peters?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

It was intolerable what she said on This Morning last week.
And now what she's saying today by way of defending herself is even further intolerable.

OMG Miriam Margolyes Andi Peters | Mumsnet

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 exha...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5574225-omg-miriam-margolyes-andi-peters

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AInightingale · 10/09/2026 08:04

LuckyHazelFox · 10/09/2026 07:46

Old dogs and new tricks springs to mind. She's made a living off being controversial. If she wasn't who she was, she would be called a grifter.

But she doesn't have to be like this. She's got an impressive knowledge of Charles Dickens and Victorian Britain and women in history, so why the hell she goes onto shows and tells dirty stories and swears her head off is beyond me. It's really very sad that she seems over the years to have re-adapted herself for a popular culture that's aimed at the LCD and thrives on shock and controversy. She wasn't like this years ago, I remember her.

Holidaymodeon · 10/09/2026 08:11

likelysuspect · 09/09/2026 16:36

Wouldnt you expect his empoloyers to have said something? Or perhaps they have, Ive missed it?

Im wondering if she does have some sort of condition, Ive mentioned EUPD, could be ND, impulsive and socially deaf?

Unfortunately I have had many many people like her in my life, I am mixed heritage but some family members are very similar as well as a job which constantly put me in proximity with these colonial types. They are vile, and they try to soften it with a laugh and a smile or feigned innocence.
all of them ‘posh’, many of them ‘christian’.
colonialism still walks among us

Anarchy99 · 10/09/2026 08:12

AInightingale · 10/09/2026 08:04

But she doesn't have to be like this. She's got an impressive knowledge of Charles Dickens and Victorian Britain and women in history, so why the hell she goes onto shows and tells dirty stories and swears her head off is beyond me. It's really very sad that she seems over the years to have re-adapted herself for a popular culture that's aimed at the LCD and thrives on shock and controversy. She wasn't like this years ago, I remember her.

Just shows I guess that all the knowledge in the world can’t stop someone being a total arsehole

Anarchy99 · 10/09/2026 08:19

Those saying she may be ND - as someone who is ND myself I have managed to avoid deliberately being racist to someone just to get attention

TotaleclipseinFrance · 10/09/2026 08:25

'Useful idiot' who's so right on with her love of the boat people has managed to make herself unpopular with both sides. Lol.

This is the trouble with wokeism - you have to keep up with what's in and what's out.

Though to be honest even if you don't subscribe to the cult of woke what she said to Andi Peters was beyond the pale and unacceptable even to those who are not woke at all.
I mean for goodness sake, I hate woke but not even I would say that. It's grossly offensive ffs.

I bet even Farage himself was cringing with embarrassment.

Holidaymodeon · 10/09/2026 08:36

Anarchy99 · 10/09/2026 08:19

Those saying she may be ND - as someone who is ND myself I have managed to avoid deliberately being racist to someone just to get attention

Same

EuripidesTrousersEumenidesTrousers · 10/09/2026 09:21

TotaleclipseinFrance · 10/09/2026 08:25

'Useful idiot' who's so right on with her love of the boat people has managed to make herself unpopular with both sides. Lol.

This is the trouble with wokeism - you have to keep up with what's in and what's out.

Though to be honest even if you don't subscribe to the cult of woke what she said to Andi Peters was beyond the pale and unacceptable even to those who are not woke at all.
I mean for goodness sake, I hate woke but not even I would say that. It's grossly offensive ffs.

I bet even Farage himself was cringing with embarrassment.

'Cult of woke' 🙄

Holidaymodeon · 10/09/2026 11:07

LuckyHazelFox · 09/09/2026 10:00

Ah thanks. Went off her after I saw her sneery face interviewing Giovanni Pernice from Strictly. So she's a coward.

Yep she just smoothed everything over for mm to feel more comfortable even though mm knew exactly what she had done and her motives for doing so

Anarchy99 · 11/09/2026 18:54

Holidaymodeon · 10/09/2026 11:07

Yep she just smoothed everything over for mm to feel more comfortable even though mm knew exactly what she had done and her motives for doing so

That is how they have to deal with her I think. It’s a shame as I would like to see someone verbally take her apart and expose her for the nasty racist bigot that she is

YourAmplePlumPoster · 11/09/2026 19:42

I think she has dementia. Her agents need to be looking out for her.

Lomonald · 11/09/2026 19:52

Anarchy99 · 11/09/2026 18:54

That is how they have to deal with her I think. It’s a shame as I would like to see someone verbally take her apart and expose her for the nasty racist bigot that she is

Sadly it is fluffy day time TV smoothing things over was probably for the best.

Anarchy99 · 11/09/2026 20:05

YourAmplePlumPoster · 11/09/2026 19:42

I think she has dementia. Her agents need to be looking out for her.

Then she has had dementia for years. She’s always been offensive

AquamarinePearlGold · 11/09/2026 23:21

CarbonArtist · 08/09/2026 07:14

Miriam’s comments to Andi Peters were tasteless and unnecessary, but I suspect the reason she is being targeted with such ire is because she spoke up about the genocide.

Erm no, it’s because she was very racist.

AquamarinePearlGold · 11/09/2026 23:22

YourAmplePlumPoster · 11/09/2026 19:42

I think she has dementia. Her agents need to be looking out for her.

I think this could be true.

Anarchy99 · 12/09/2026 08:11

AquamarinePearlGold · 11/09/2026 23:22

I think this could be true.

She has always been an offensive arsehole - why are people trying to excuse it now? It’s not like she was a pleasant person in interviews previously.

Telling stories about farting and wanking off men has always been her ‘thing’.

Holidaymodeon · 13/09/2026 00:10

Anarchy99 · 11/09/2026 18:54

That is how they have to deal with her I think. It’s a shame as I would like to see someone verbally take her apart and expose her for the nasty racist bigot that she is

Me too, these feckers need to start getting the message, they just think they can say whatever repulsive things they like and then cry woke snowflakes when people complain . I despise them

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