Don't You Know Who I Am?! A real-life Ronnie Pickering?!

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We were just watching BBC Points Of View a few hours ago and they featured a very disgruntled viewer who had had her comment read out the previous week. Her beef was with the fact that they'd used a male in-house voiceover to read out her (very short and rather underwhelming) comment (it reminded me of Mick's extremely short and nondescript TV 'interview' shown on Gavin & Stacey)

Cue lots of OTT apologies (maybe intended in a slightly PA way?!).

Her first name (presumably as she submitted it to them) is Robbie and she berated them, assuring them that, had they done a little research, they would have known instantly that she was a woman and thus used a female voiceover artist to read her comment on air.

I'm baffled as to what research she expected them to do. Does the programme normally stop and think that everybody who writes in might be famous, and so spend time researching them, just in case?

The weirdest thing of all is that, having searched for her online by her full name, I could only find one single hit - a short comment that she made on another TV show's FB page, saying how much she liked the programme; but even then, there was no indication of her sex at all.

Am I missing something here? As a control test, off the top of my head, I just searched for Jack Monroe and Lionel Shriver - two other women with names that are almost exclusively used for males - and it instantly brings up their Wikipedia pages and loads of relevant pages that would instantly make their sex clear, if you didn't know already. Is one short online comment about a TV show you enjoy enough to render you famous enough for people to instantly know who you are?! Maybe she put (Ms) after her name when submitting the comment (she didn't with the comment I found online), but she didn't say "if you'd read my name" - she said if they'd done "a little research", which to me, suggests 'a quick Google'.

This is in no way intended as a witch-hunt or to be mean to her personally (maybe a little good-natured teasing) - I just found the situation very funny! Did anybody else see it?!

I've just realised that I said 'a real-life Ronnie Pickering' - that was clearly very dim of me, as RP, however well-known or not, is undeniably a real-life person

For 'a real-life', just read 'another' !

She will have probably done it deliberately so she could kick off. If Hilary Benn wasn't well known and had written in they'd likely have used a female voice over.