Clever people you find sexy

[StormyDaniels]

They can be good looking too, but that’s not the main reason you find them attractive. Or they have a good voice on the radio and you have no idea what they look like.

I have gone off him a bit now, but mine used to be Ian Hislop.

No shaming!

James O’Brian

society fails to truly appreciate a clever and attractive woman. Look at Carol Vordeman for example.

Nah - if you'd said Alice Roberts or Janina Ramírez or Suzy Dent - but not Carol.

Mary Beard is best of all, though.

Don't get me started on Carol Vorderman. She has a THIRD in Engineering. She went to Oxford, and got a third. Words fail me.

What is wrong with Carol Vorderman then?

She actually went to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

“Benedict Cumberbatch”

Is he clever?...

I saw a programme he presented about Terence Rattigan. He seemed fairly intelligent in that.

Alice Roberts is incredibly engaging. We're also fans of Lucy Worsley.

Anyway, DH is very very clever and I suppose I found him sexy when I met him! Still fancy him 20 years later.

I love Lucy Worsley. She's got a new programme starting soon.

Cynara

I am not sharing! I am stamping my feet and tantrumming!

Ok, point taken re Vorderman. But she still got a third.

Which means that she is far from bright.

Robert Rinder

I second questioning whether Benedict Cumberbatch is clever too. He has never said anything freely that has required much grey matter power.

He has an accent, he is tall and blond, but again his attractiveness is seriously questionable.

Benedict Cumberbatch is posh, that should not be confused with clever. Watch MIC to confirm this. He's also not blonde.

Rachel Riley. Richard Ayoade. Peter Snow. Emily Lakdawalla.

Aleks krotoski
Charlie Brooker
David Mitchell
Reece sheersmith
That physicist who isn't Brian Cox, whose name I can never remember, who often seems to have about 5p in budget to make his programs so uses random stuff like gym balls to illustrate.

Ebearhug, I read that as Mary berry, and was a bit hmm

Ooh yes Miles Jupp. And Hugo Rifkind on the news quiz.

Dara O’Briain.

Germaine Greer too

I agree! He's definitely not blonde

Re Cumberbatch, and pretty much everyone on TV: they are reading someone else's lines. They are actors and presenters! This includes Fry! Shock horror!

Oh very yes to Mark Carney!

I feel like I'm missing someone obvious. There is certainly something about Robert Peston, he reminds me a bit of Tennant's doctor with his long hair.

Paul Laidlaw from Bargain Hunt/Antiques Roadshow. Really clever and super cheerful man.

“Benedict Cumberbatch is posh, that should not be confused with clever.”

He seems to play clever characters but I kind of assumed it’s because of the poshness tbh, anytime I’ve seen him being himself he doesn’t seem particularly clever... and he can’t say penguin...

@xsquared , I don't think you understand how degree classification works. It's not like 'A' levels where everyone in the country takes the same exam. Cambridge degrees are much, much harder than, say, an institution near the bottom of the rankings. Loads of people get thirds from Cambridge. It just means they passed a bloody hard course, but less well than others on the course who got higher grades.