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Famous people you dislike but everyone love…?

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Tinks15 · 07/01/2023 20:38

I mean there is a few I don’t like but there’s this particular person who just really grates on me i’m going to wait to tell you all to see if anyone mentions their name first 😂

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WestBridgewater · 08/01/2023 07:27

WestBridgewater · 08/01/2023 07:26

Floella Benjamin

Unlikeable? She’s a goddess and I think I would faint if I met her.

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My mistake 🫣

Dollyblue123 · 08/01/2023 07:31

Katherine Ryan
Paddy McGuinness
Stephen Mulhern

FitAt50 · 08/01/2023 07:33

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I'm not a fan but it's wrong to call him a paedo.

BellePeppa · 08/01/2023 07:37

Some of these people are definitely not ‘loved’ by the public, which is the point of this thread - celebrities most people love but you don’t. It’s not just a list of people you don’t happen to like. Rosie Jones for instance, obviously not liked on here but I’ve no idea who she is - is she ‘well loved’ is it unusual that people would dislike her? I’ve no idea, I’m going to have to google who she is.

HereIfYouNeedMe · 08/01/2023 07:38

I have to turn the radio/tv off if kylie comes on

AclowncalledAlice · 08/01/2023 07:41

David Attenbourough....there I've said it.

BrokeAsABone · 08/01/2023 07:44

Lol @WestBridgewater....she's amazing. There isn't anyone on TV now who can hold a candle to the presenters from the 70s and 80s.

Andi Peters, Schofield, Willoughby, Lorraine Kelly, Bradley Walsh, Allison Hammond, Kate Garraway - awful. And they keep appearing over and over and over on different programmes.🙄

ortonym · 08/01/2023 08:15

Dollyblue123 · 08/01/2023 07:31

Katherine Ryan
Paddy McGuinness
Stephen Mulhern

Excellent choice. I'd be a bit more enthusiastic but I've been de troped.

I'm going to add
Neil Diamond
because he's just ruined Sweet Caroline on Freeview 65

Dollyblue123 · 08/01/2023 08:30

Agree with Neil diamond!

BellePeppa · 08/01/2023 08:40

IcakethereforeIam · 07/01/2023 23:41

Joe Biden
Keir Starmer

They’re much loved? Well I never knew that.

CatWorm · 08/01/2023 08:44

Lisa Faulkner. Patronising, disingenuous and smug. If that cooking show with Torode comes on when I’m in the room, I actually shout “NO”.

NotAnotherBathBomb · 08/01/2023 08:44

RawrMeow · 08/01/2023 01:01

Emma Thompson. Sorry, Em. It's just that they keep putting you in things that are bad or that you aren't suited to.

Mrs Potts peaked me for you. Why not Angela Lansbury? She was in the new Mary Poppins absolutely bossing it.

Oooob yeah she was a horrible Mrs Potts, the accent was so much painfully contrived

BellePeppa · 08/01/2023 08:45

HereIfYouNeedMe · 08/01/2023 07:38

I have to turn the radio/tv off if kylie comes on

I like Kylie (or rather, I don’t dislike her) but her voice is awful, so nasally with little range. She’s certainly been able to make a little go along way.

Thighlengthboots · 08/01/2023 08:56

WestBridgewater · 08/01/2023 07:26

Floella Benjamin

Unlikeable? She’s a goddess and I think I would faint if I met her.

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Me too- Floellla Benjamin is wonderful and she hasn’t aged AT ALL. I love her

Solonge · 08/01/2023 10:33

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 08/01/2023 00:21

Could it be argued when Prince Philip and James Lovelock had children although they were aware of climate change knowledge and global warming it wasn’t as clear and the earth’s temperate as increased as more recent decades, so having a lot of children then wouldn’t have been seen as environmentally harmful as it is known in more recent times?

Possibly, but they were still relatively young men when they started working in their fields of interest. Even so, expert or not, it isn't difficult to work out the consequences to the world and impact on resources after a few generations if every couple 'replaces themselves' twice over.

I don't know about Lovelock, but Philip never seemed too bothered in retrospect about the impact of his family on world resources - yes, once the children were here, there was no way of 'sending them back'; but going on to have the whole family live in luxurious opulence was no means obligatory. In fact, imagine how powerful the message could have been if they as the RF had taken a lead in making big sacrifices to save the planet.

At any rate, it's the easiest thing in the world to tell younger people that they mustn't do something that you personally happily benefited from. Thinking also of all the MPs, nearly all of whom had enjoyed free university education and thought nothing of it, who decided - some of them frothingly - that young people were completely unreasonable to expect it without ending up in a massive amount of debt. I can't remember any of those MPs offering in retrospect to make any contribution to repay what they had had.

Regarding Attenborough, his aim was to educate people about wildlife and the effect humanity had on the depletion of the earths resources. I think you have to accept as a given that his travel has been wiped by the degree of education he has provided to us all.

Solonge · 08/01/2023 10:37

Mugcake · 07/01/2023 21:14

Henry cavill

Carol vordeman

Noooo….Cavill is divine!

Alaldlccmemsjzja · 08/01/2023 10:40

Tickledpickle · 07/01/2023 20:39

Alexa Chung

I have an irrational hatred of Alexa Chung

I find her really haughty, unfunny and miserable

I also cannot stand maya jama - she’s too extra
gary Neville makes my skin crawl - so patronising!
weirdly enough joe Biden - I feel like he looks like rice pudding and it weirds me out
jim Carey and Lee evans both have animated faces that frighten me
kyle Richards from the real housewives of Beverly Hills because she’s a phony but doesn’t realise it

Virgo1958 · 08/01/2023 10:40

Luckily my pet hate James Cordon is disliked by most other people. How does he keep on working though?

Alaldlccmemsjzja · 08/01/2023 10:40

And Adele these days

shes so up her own arse!!

Consufed · 08/01/2023 10:41

Rob Brydon and his twin Anton du Beke
Anna Maxwell Martin
Lucy Worsley
Michael Mackintyre - walks like a chicken
Alan Carr

A certain male presenter who is tall, with light skin and very dark hair, and very white teeth. Wears colourful suits. Can't remember his name though!

aonbharr · 08/01/2023 10:43

Lovebeingamummy2 · 08/01/2023 04:06

😱😱 I can't believe it 🤣 Love him!!

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me too! How could he be hated?

Orangefir · 08/01/2023 10:45

Victoria Coren. Ultimate…I’m not like the other girls kinda girl

aonbharr · 08/01/2023 10:47

kateandme · 08/01/2023 03:59

IIm pathetic because I too have a few.its very human to obviously.but I feel bad.thinking that do people just hate me for no reason?
But alot of the people I often think " how are people who love them NOT seeing how they are being manipulated by them!
Or how are they not seeing they are a brand and selling you what they need to in order for you to buy into their shit.

I get you, but there is always a reason Kate and there are different triggers for different people.

Solonge · 08/01/2023 10:47

itsnotmeitisactuallyyou · 07/01/2023 22:01

Mary Berry for me too i just cant like her, no idea why

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I met Mary Berry a few years ago. Was around her for a couple of days filming, she is sweet, kind and easy to like. Doesn’t complain and when meeting people shakes your hand and asks about you. A national treasure.

Lostthewilltolive1970 · 08/01/2023 10:48

Cliff Richard
Catherine Jenkins
Sheridan Smith