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Who does everyone like but gets on your nerves

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wossgoinon · 19/02/2024 14:46

I’ll start

Georgia Tennant. I don’t know why. Is it jealousy? I dunno 🤷‍♀️

And yes I know I’m being mean.

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lovemycbf · 19/02/2024 20:48

Caroline Quentin.
Cannot stand her,
No reason why other than she irritates me to my very soul
I'm sure she's a perfectly lovely woman

Mrsgreen100 · 19/02/2024 20:50

Ruth and amond
make me cringe , just the thought of them

LittleBearPad · 19/02/2024 20:51

AffIt · 19/02/2024 17:04

Katherine Jenkins, the opera singer.

I have absolutely no idea why - I'm sure she's a perfectly lovely person who rescues old ladies and helps stray kittens cross the road etc - but something about her makes me grind my teeth.

I cannot stand her!! She makes me grit my teeth - DH finds it very funny.

Mikki77 · 19/02/2024 20:51

Holly Willoughby

ItsVeryHyacinthBucket · 19/02/2024 20:51

Chris Martin and actually just the whole of Coldplay. Bunch of wankers

Calicobritches · 19/02/2024 20:52

Feel guilty posting this but …

Kate Silverton gets no.1 position from me as smugness personified but also Julia Bradbury and the sainted Kate Humble and Fiona Bruce.

To me they also come across as terribly insincere.

(I feel badly for anyone suffering from cancer though but JB to be fair was v smug before!)

And Anita Rani on Countryfile is starting to irritate too.

They are all in a particular mould of BBC female presenters who are all a bit “me, me, me” . Whether they have to be like that to get ahead I don’t know but why can’t we have more “normal” low key presenters like Charlotte Smith who don’t make everything about them?

Notchangingnameagain · 19/02/2024 20:54

I agree with everyone’s posts, with the exception of Katie Piper & Harry Styles

FancyJapflack · 19/02/2024 20:54

wossgoinon · 19/02/2024 14:46

I’ll start

Georgia Tennant. I don’t know why. Is it jealousy? I dunno 🤷‍♀️

And yes I know I’m being mean.

I used to like her and then her and DT started on the trans train and DT wore that creepy TShirt and I went right off the pair of them. Muppets.

Lovelyjubbbly · 19/02/2024 20:54

Loubelle70 · 19/02/2024 17:08

Claudia the fringe winkleman. I cant stand her.....or davina shriek McCall.

Davina shriek McCall?

Calicobritches · 19/02/2024 20:54

lovemycbf · 19/02/2024 20:48

Caroline Quentin.
Cannot stand her,
No reason why other than she irritates me to my very soul
I'm sure she's a perfectly lovely woman

She didn’t really come across as particularly lovely on Strictly to be fair. I’m sure she’s a trooper and all of that but the best thing about Strictly is that your true character will out eventually! You just can’t hide it after week four or so onwards!

alwaysatthebusstop · 19/02/2024 20:55

Stephen Mulhern! Cannot stand the man and he's bloody everywhere!!

Lovelyjubbbly · 19/02/2024 20:55

David tenant

AutumnCrow · 19/02/2024 20:57

Yes to the melted waxwork that is now David Tennant.

Hector95 · 19/02/2024 21:01

Lenny Henry - used to be quite funny, now just boring
Naga Munchetty - not sure that she’s that popular with anyone though?

plus everyone else already mentioned (with the exception of Tom Hanks and Terry Wogan)

Calicobritches · 19/02/2024 21:02

Notchangingnameagain · 19/02/2024 20:54

I agree with everyone’s posts, with the exception of Katie Piper & Harry Styles

Me too! I like both of them! I thought everyone loved our Harry 😀. Have a search on Google for NPR Tiny Desk Concert where you will see him unadorned playing a simple acoustic set with his band. He really is genuinely talented I think and a nice bloke.

Loubelle70 · 19/02/2024 21:02

Lovelyjubbbly · 19/02/2024 20:54

Davina shriek McCall?

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Always shrieking and gob horning

Loubelle70 · 19/02/2024 21:03

Hector95 · 19/02/2024 21:01

Lenny Henry - used to be quite funny, now just boring
Naga Munchetty - not sure that she’s that popular with anyone though?

plus everyone else already mentioned (with the exception of Tom Hanks and Terry Wogan)

I love nana lol ....shes straight up, takes no bull, i like that

medianewbie · 19/02/2024 21:08

ShipshapeShore · 19/02/2024 20:16

Carved from ominous ham 😂😂

Oh please write a book, it would be magnificent.

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@ Voowoo - Oh, THANK YOU! You've got them both to a (hilarious) 'T' !!!
'the pomposity of a castrated walrus'
& 'carved from ominous ham' are Fab!

Namechange666 · 19/02/2024 21:10

Voowoo · 19/02/2024 19:33

@medianewbie I'll give it a shot.

Fry makes me think of those lecherous old uni lecturers who would regale the (boys in the) room with their pseudo bullshit about why god isn't real, with the pomposity of a castrated walrus swirling a glass of red. I don't think god is real either but I had all those revelations when I was about 13 😅 And most people can refrain from the "this is so deep" faux intellectualism which pervades his every utterance. He didn't need to question why god created a worm specifically to live in a kids eyeball or whatever he said, because if that were the case then god also created Stephen bloody Fry too...and that's arguably worse than the eye worms.

Walliams. Man carved from ominous ham. Another one who is clearly a macabre black hole wearing a reptile suit with a man suit precariously stretched over the top of the reptile suit. Almost certainly drinks ovaltine nightly, sipped out of a drinking horn carved from an elderly lady's femur.

Are you a writer? Hilarious.

clockworklime · 19/02/2024 21:12

Graham Norton. ERRRRRM

Calicobritches · 19/02/2024 21:13

Loubelle70 · 19/02/2024 21:02

Always shrieking and gob horning

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For me she’s teetering on the brink of irritating. She can be quite real sometimes caught on a good day.

I think she has issues though so don’t want to be too critical of her.

The programme I have to turn off though is the one where she tells people about their long lost birth families … I’m sure she’s trying to come off as genuinely empathetic … but it just makes my toes curl.

There’s no quiet dignity anymore is there? It’s all “and how did that make you feel?” done to death ad nauseam, turning us the viewers in to uncomfortable voyeurs.

Salaaaaaaaah · 19/02/2024 21:14

Voowoo · 19/02/2024 19:33

@medianewbie I'll give it a shot.

Fry makes me think of those lecherous old uni lecturers who would regale the (boys in the) room with their pseudo bullshit about why god isn't real, with the pomposity of a castrated walrus swirling a glass of red. I don't think god is real either but I had all those revelations when I was about 13 😅 And most people can refrain from the "this is so deep" faux intellectualism which pervades his every utterance. He didn't need to question why god created a worm specifically to live in a kids eyeball or whatever he said, because if that were the case then god also created Stephen bloody Fry too...and that's arguably worse than the eye worms.

Walliams. Man carved from ominous ham. Another one who is clearly a macabre black hole wearing a reptile suit with a man suit precariously stretched over the top of the reptile suit. Almost certainly drinks ovaltine nightly, sipped out of a drinking horn carved from an elderly lady's femur.

😂....more more!

You've got this dismantling folk down to an art form.

2in13 · 19/02/2024 21:17

Ricky Gervais.

CountTo10 · 19/02/2024 21:21

Stacey Soloman. That awful voice and that 'I'm mad me' (and a bit thick) persona. I can't watch any programme she's in.

Dymaxion · 19/02/2024 21:21

David Jason.